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Re: "No honest Catholic should attend an SSPX Mass"
« Reply #10 on: October 21, 2019, 09:45:52 AM »
Holy Communion is the Bread of Life, that Daily and Super-Substantial Bread which we ask for daily in Our Lord's Prayer, and which His Holiness Pope St. Pius V, the Catechism and Council of Trent, and His Holiness Pope St. Pius X in a special decree says we should strive to receive daily, and strive to live in such a way as to profit from such daily reception. "These words declare plainly enough the wish of the Church that all Christians should be daily nourished by this heavenly banquet and should derive therefrom more abundant fruit for their sanctification." Link

Our Lord Jesus seems to connect final perseverance in grace with regularly eating of His Flesh, and threatens those who neglect to do so with reprobation and eternal loss. "The Communion is called the bread of heaven; because as the body cannot live without earthly food, so the soul cannot live without this celestial bread. Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you (John, vi, 54).

But on the other hand, to those who frequently eat this bread, is promised eternal life. If any man eat of this bread he shall live forever (John, vi, 52). Hence the Council of Trent calls the Communion a medicine which delivers us from venial, and preserves us from mortal sins (Sess. 13, cap. 2)." Link

The SSPX is by far and away the best place in the Traditional Catholic world to assist at daily or at least weekly Sunday Mass, and receive Holy Communion after Sacramental Confession as often as possible, especially in these godless times. Please do not so much wish to harm your own soul that you stay away from Mass and Holy Communion at SSPX chapels/parishes when you can easily assist. But at the very least, if you do so, then learn how to make Spiritual Communions, and begin to do so frequently. It may well take a 1000 Spiritual Communions to reach that degree of grace which a single Sacramental Communion would effect in a disposed recipient.

"The Blessed Angela of the Cross, a Dominican nun, was accustomed to make a hundred Spiritual Communions every day and a hundred more every night, and she used to say: "If my confessor had not taught me this method of communicating, I could scarcely live." If you ask how she could make so many, I answer with St. Augustine: "Give me a lover, and he will understand; give me a soul that loves nothing but Jesus Christ, and she will know how to do it." Source

Spiritual Communions are important, and should be made hourly or even more frequently. But always go to receive Sacramental Communion as often as possible, if you love the souls of yourselves and your families, and truly desire to save them. That's all I can say. Saying we should stay away from Traditional Catholic Masses, as if we could easily obtain Sacramental Graces without them, is a mistake imo. Every time we receive Holy Communion with love and devotion, not only are our venial sins forgiven, but we are preserved from falling into mortal sin in future. Why would we not go all the time, and daily if possible? We surely should imho.

Re: "No honest Catholic should attend an SSPX Mass"
« Reply #11 on: October 21, 2019, 05:19:32 PM »
Citation please?

Pretty sure you are mistaken.

Ps: As regards the OP, this person obviously endorses the “red light” position (which is not endorsed by the Resistance bishops).

This position was cooked up by Fr. Pfeiffer in order to get his apostolate off the ground, and he will have to offer an explanation to God for it.

To reject a perfectly orthodox local Mass because the SSPX is going bonkers elsewhere seems insufficient to dispense one from fulfilling his obligation (and I am living proof that it does not endanger your faith).

I fear the bar is set very high in measuring how serious and proximate/immediate tge threat must be to justify robbing God of our duty to him, and I fear many zealous but simple types have been led astray by the arguments adduced in favor of the red light position.
"The golden rule is this.  Do whatever you need to nourish your faith". Bishop Richard Williamson

I can see that the new mass might not nourish your faith, (I would not attend one myself), but I do not see how an SSPX TLM would not nourish your faith, unless, you allowed your personal views of the priest or the sect of Traditionism to override your obligation to attend mass.


Re: "No honest Catholic should attend an SSPX Mass"
« Reply #12 on: October 21, 2019, 05:50:40 PM »
"The golden rule is this.  Do whatever you need to nourish your faith". Bishop Richard Williamson

I can see that the new mass might not nourish your faith, (I would not attend one myself), but I do not see how an SSPX TLM would not nourish your faith, unless, you allowed your personal views of the priest or the sect of Traditionism to override your obligation to attend mass.

This is not an example of BW saying “You can go to the Novus Ordo Mass if you cannot get to the TLM.”

If it was, you would have quoted him saying it.

He is simply acknowledging what Archbishop Lefebvre acknowledged:  That grace can pass even at a NOM, and in exceptional circuмstances, one might attend it if not attending it would cost you your faith/soul (eg., necessity).

Also, I am not arguing against attending SSPX Masses (I regularly attend one).

Re: "No honest Catholic should attend an SSPX Mass"
« Reply #13 on: October 21, 2019, 08:21:20 PM »
Bishop Williamson is no Father Wathen.

Re: "No honest Catholic should attend an SSPX Mass"
« Reply #14 on: October 21, 2019, 08:32:11 PM »
Bishop Williamson is no Father Wathen.
Deo gratias for that!