Author Topic: 2016 SSPX Priest Transfers (Read 58069 times)

Wessex · « **Reply #50 on:** August 13, 2016, 05:56:55 AM »

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This apparently has already happened (don't know when), but:

Fr. Mark Stafki is the current prior in Phoenix and Fr. Otto Keiser is one of 4 assistants there. I had thought that Fr. Stafki was the prior in Los Angeles. I don't know when the change was made of either priest. I saw this on the OLS Phoenix website today.

Fr. Stafki used to be an assistant in Phoenix and was the retreat master. I went on an Ignatian Retreat preached by him and it was excellent. He can really put the fear of God into you. Too bad he won't be involved with the retreats as prior.

Fr. Stafki was swept away from Arcadia quite suddenly a month or more ago, the parish was given the news at mass and then he was gone. I thought it was curious, how quickly he left.

In the meantime, the parish has been hanging by a thread while waiting for replacement...

Hello B,

Well, the usual pattern is for new priests to appear in an atmosphere of excitement, replacing those that suddenly disappear in the middle of the night. Those that leave the Society are not supposed to have existed at all!

Is Mel Gibson's chapel still functioning?

I wondered where Fr. Morgan was going to turn up. Losing oneself in the great expanse of Canada is a far cry from surviving the turbulence of trad positions in chaotic London.

bernadette · « **Reply #51 on:** August 13, 2016, 02:00:03 PM »

Hello W,

I believe Mel Gibson's chapel is now defunct! It was not open to just any old trad Catholic by my understanding...nestled somewhere in the arroyos of Malibu...reminded me of the private chapels in the homes of wealthy European Catholics from a bygone era....there was nothing wrong with that!!!

reconquest · « **Reply #52 on:** August 14, 2016, 06:22:33 PM »

Two priests (Fr. Groche and Fr. Vachon) have been transferred to Quebec, bringing the number up to 8. I'm wondering if this is part of a deliberate attempt to beef up the district after Fr. Roy's departure.

Incredulous · « **Reply #53 on:** August 14, 2016, 11:38:57 PM »

Quote from: bernadette

Hello W,

I believe Mel Gibson's chapel is now defunct! It was not open to just any old trad Catholic by my understanding...nestled somewhere in the arroyos of Malibu...reminded me of the private chapels in the homes of wealthy European Catholics from a bygone era....there was nothing wrong with that!!!

Mel Gibson's chapel is the perfect location for the next xSPX mega-Retreat Center.

The plan would be for Father Wegner to negotiate a Chapel lease for ($1/yr.) while simultaneously giving a large, public stipend to the Wilshire Blvd. ѕуηαgσgυє.

It would be a double PR coup for Father. The xSPX would be able to evangelize Hollywood elites on the glitzy Gibson estate, while making good with the L.A. rabbis.

Just think of the media coverage.... and the Sunday collections!

Couple "fashionably-late" to Mass

Wessex · « **Reply #54 on:** August 15, 2016, 02:36:53 AM »

Quote from: bernadette

Hello W,

I believe Mel Gibson's chapel is now defunct! It was not open to just any old trad Catholic by my understanding...nestled somewhere in the arroyos of Malibu...reminded me of the private chapels in the homes of wealthy European Catholics from a bygone era....there was nothing wrong with that!!![/quote

The privatisation of antiquity and religious recreation would seem to be the way forward. All that is required is some appreciation of history and the money to go with it. Maybe a colourful life and the need to balance the excess, too, as in the olden times. We have to speculate that such 'places of worship' were more than just architectural features. Of course, the new reality is that the stock of residual wealth lends itself to heavy amounts of tourism, generating much fascination in a world now given to superficial enquiry.