An SSPX-J supporter friend of mine recently described the SSPX-Resistance priests as "zealots".

....and the Neo-SSPX are "sellouts".  

How long does Msgr. Fellay and Father Rostand think they can keep their Barnum & Bailey circus running ?

They'll keep flogging it until either everyone believes it's "The Greatest Show on Earth!" or until people quit because they're so burnt out on the same dozen+ clowns spilling out of the little Menzingen car.

Adding to this saga...on the point of the cross bearer no longer being in the (bulletin) serving schedule, I was just given, via fax, the last 3-Post Falls bulletins showing/confirming (on the back of it), what the head M.C. had said to my friend about the cross bearer (C.B.) being cancelled from the serving schedule -"it is no longer written on the serving schedule for the last two Sundays".

So let me get this straight:

Three weeks ago  
24th and Last Sunday After Pentecost (26th S.a.P.) .....  Cross Bearer

Two weeks ago
First Sunday of Advent ......................................... no Cross Bearer

This past week
Second Sunday of Advent ........................ ............ no Cross Bearer

And no announcement, but questions are answered confirming the
decision to omit CB is intentional, not a mistake.

 
Someone in a position of "authority" was looking forward to making some
changes this Advent season, that could apply to the whole year ahead,
and perhaps beyond (it seems to me).  And now that the "new" 1962
missal is nowhere to be seen, it appears that his hankering for change
has taken the form of this unwarranted innovation.  At best it is a "trial
balloon" to see if he can get away with it, and at worst it is a "test case"
assigned by the Menzingen-denizens to foist progressiveness on an
otherwise traditional community. IMHO.

I suspect they are not counting on the faithful being vigilant.  

This is why they hate the Internet.

A recent sermon distributed on the Internet has:  the bishops are
supposed to be the watchmen, and when the watchmen do not do
their job, the next line of defense is the guard dogs.  It is a dog's
duty to bark.  

We are the dogs.


In my experience, one of the features common to Novus Ordo parishes
is that they no longer use the Crucifix Standard in processions.  

This is a Novus Ordo innovation, do not be mistaken.  It is the kind of
thing that will be commonplace if a 'deal' is signed.  So you need to
decide if this is the kind of thing you'll tolerate, or, will you do something
about it?   How about a protest in front of the Church?  Liberals get their
voices heard that way, maybe it's worth a shot!  

Take note of Fr. Pfeiffer's sermon for 2nd Sunday of Advent at Post Falls:

http://www.cathinfo.com/catholic.php?a=topic&t=21975#p3

In this sermon, he talks about the cross-bearer to be discontinued,
in context of the larger meaning of all the little changes like this
that are going on in the SSPX..

It's a different sermon than the one in Denver on their main site,

but it is very similar.  Both given the same day, apparently.  

Here is an update on the Post falls –cross bearer (crucifix) being removed from the sanctuary.

I just spoke to someone who lives there and attends that chapel.  He said:

•   Since Dec. 2, except for Christmas day, there has not been a cross bearer in any of the (normal) Sunday processions they regularly have.
•   That the Prior, Fr. Vassal, is continuing his stance...amongst opposition.
•   That a number of people have written letters to him…still awaiting a response.

Didn’t the Vat. II, New Order Church, also get rid of the crucifix -the standard of Christ- from the sanctuary, and from the mind’s eye of the faithful…?

Here is an update on the Post falls –cross bearer (crucifix) being removed from the sanctuary.

I just spoke to someone who lives there and attends that chapel.  He said:

•   Since Dec. 2, except for Christmas day, there has not been a cross bearer in any of the (normal) Sunday processions they regularly have.
•   That the Prior, Fr. Vassal, is continuing his stance...amongst opposition.
•   That a number of people have written letters to him…still awaiting a response.

Didn’t the Vat. II, New Order Church, also get rid of the crucifix -the standard of Christ- from the sanctuary, and from the mind’s eye of the faithful…?

I mentioned this issue to a friend and suggested that having parishioners
gather in front of the Church before Mass, using a procession with a
cross-bearer in front of protesters carrying signs might get the Prior to
re-consider his "stance."  My friend told me that "Mother Theresa was
opposed to participation in protests." Now, holding a Rosary rally might be
acceptable.  

This is a great example of the kind of problems that will become every
day problems once the 'deal' is done.  Can you imagine a year down the
road, someone saying, "Man, can you believe it?  When we were told
that the cross-bearer would be discontinued, we thought we were
having problems then!  If only we could have known what was coming
down the pike!"

It seems to me that Fr. Vassal needs something more than gentle
"prodding" from the real men in the congregation.  Keep in mind, he was
probably put up to this by Fr. Rostand, to become a test case.  They're
trying to get ready to make a 'deal' with Rome, bottom line.  

In a more general sense, the laity are being forced into a kind of religious
persecution by the clerics of the SSPX, for this situation of having to beg
their pastors to remain faithful to tradition and not succuмb to the
unclean spirit of Vatican II is something that is an inversion itself of the
proper order of things.  For it is not the place of the subjects to form the
superiors. Yet, you may notice that this is precisely what the Menzingen-
denizens would have us anticipate in the 'deal' they propose would take
place with Modernist Rome.  It is not the place of the SSPX operating
from under the authority of the local bishops and subject to them, to
effect any "conversion" of the Roman apostates from the "inside out."  That
would not happen, but rather quite the opposite would take place.

It is up to us to learn these principles of reality and keep them in mind,
such that when we hear things contrary to this in the Sunday sermons,
we will know what we are hearing is not in harmony with objective truth,
and therefore is not of God.  The writing is on the wall.  

Bishop Williamson addresses this topic in the recent conference Q&A after
the confirmations in Toronto December 15th, the Octave Day of the
Immaculate Conception.  

Our Lord said: "Watch ye and pray" (Matt. xxvi. 41).  Our first duty is to
watch.  And while we watch, we should have our wits about us, so as to
take notice of irregularities, such as the cross-bearer missing in the
procession, which is an objective departure from the tradition which has
been handed down to us, the tradition we have received...

                TRADIDI QUOD ET ACCEPI

Update:

This issue of removing the Cross-Bearer from the sanctuary is really BIG for the whole Catholic world.  Little by little the Devil is trying to kick out Jesus Christ.  As a baptized Catholic, I am not giving up without a fight!

Remember the two “reasons” Fr. Vassal gave to remove the Cross-Bearer?  According to the Head M.C. (who by the way, as I am told, is the President of the St. Stephen’s Archconfraternity at that Chapel, and the one who does the serving schedule for both ICC and the Carmelites), he said:

•   Fr. Vassal, the Prior, decided to remove the cross bearer because it was not in the “rubrics” to have one without a procession.
•   And, that there was not enough room for the cross bearer in the sanctuary.

If that lame excuse of Fr.Vassal doesn’t make your hair stand on end…!  

The second one, “that there was not enough room for the cross bearer in the sanctuary”, is pitiful enough given to know that the Post Falls sanctuary is really BIG (see the other posts that describe this).  

However, this first one of, “Fr. Vassal, the Prior, decided to remove the cross bearer because it was not in the “rubrics” to have one without a procession”, is a clever tactic.  Firstly, I do not know the specific “rubric” that he wants to state; however, if Fr. Vassal wants us to believe “his new change” to submit to a rubric, then objectively, if this is true, then the superiors all of these years, and in many different countries have got it wrong.  If so, then it stands to reason, objectively, it should be removed throughout the country in all chapels and seminaries…  I do not see it!  Therefore it is -subjective.  Of course we knew that!

So in this case let’s describe what a liturgical Procession is.  Simply, a liturgical procession is any procession with Cleric(s) that originates “outside” of the sanctuary (the Holies’), which is divided by the communion rail, and proceeds/enters into the Sanctuary.

So the update:

•   As I have been told, there have been 7- High Masses in Post Falls since Dec. 2 up to today Dec. 30, 2012 (includes Immaculate Conception and Christmas).
•   All of these High Masses did have processions that originated “outside” of the Sanctuary with the Cleric.  3- Of the High Mass processions started from the side door of the faithful’s area, then into the Sanctuary, through the opening in the middle of the Communion rail.  4- Of the High Mass processions started from the back of the Church, down the aisle, then into the Sanctuary, through the opening in the middle of the Communion rail.
•   Therefore, all 7- of these High Mass processions originating “outside” of the Sanctuary with the Cleric, and preceded into the Sanctuary, are in definition -real Processions!!!
•   So what High Masses had, and what High masses had not the Cross Bearer?  Fr. Vassal only allowed the Cross Bearer to be in the Christmas procession; which is only one of the four High Mass processions that originated from the back of the Church!  The other 6- High Mass processions were denied regardless where the procession had originated –the Cross bearer was KICKED OUT!  Also, the Thurifer was not allowed in all of these times to carry the thurible with incense; whereas, both the Cross-Bearer and the Thurifer were ALWAYS apart of the High Mass in the Post Falls Parish since its years of existence – until Fr. Vassal came!!!
•   Additionally, as I found out, Fr. Vassal removed -KICKED OUT- the Cross Bearer from the Carmelite's High Masses also!!!

Remember…  No Prior or priest, can make any liturgical changes without permission coming from the top.

To KICK OUT the Cross-Bearer from the Sanctuary, coming from our own SSPX priests, is really a GROSS fight!  What would Archbishop Lefebvre say to you?  

How are we to teach the Faith...without the STANDARD of the Cross?

I was a boy when Vatican II was going on.  The Faith and (SSPX) Mass that I go to now, someone else fought for, and was given to me.  It is my turn now to fight these battles…to pass it on to the next generation.

To all souls with good will, do we not fight for the Faith, and for our Lord and Lady, or do we cower in a corner under the cult of false obedience?  

The Saints and Angles in heaven -always cry out to fight- the world, the flesh, and the Devil!!!

This Cross-Bearer issue is not going down without a fight!

There is a line in the sand…and my blood will be on it!!!