The mistakes that God allows us to make are only disastrous to us if we do not learn from them. Learning from other peoples mistakes, of course is far better.

My experience in life has proven to me that the vast majority of persons do not learn from their mistakes, and that is most unfortunate.


Now, the mistakes made by the superiors of the SSPX during the last year, offers to us an opportunity to learn from other persons mistakes. We know what they have done, and said, so I will not dwell on the details, but will only offer here what should have been done. What would have been done by a saintly leader and his assistants, the district superiors and the pastors of each chapel? The answer is something supernatural that would have edified the faithful. Something totally out of this world, something one does not ever see in the world today,  something that Our Lord would have done.

A saintly hierarchy would not have done anything to any of the so-called resistance priests, and if any priest would have resigned, they would have bent over backward to bring them back, like our Lord would have done. A  leader graced by the supernatural like a St. Peter, knew that you have to win the respect of great men. The greatest generals (St. Paul) are the ones that the other side will call "recalcitrant", it is precisely those men that a great leader (St. Peter) must rally to the cause. The great leader (St. Peter) does not feel threatened by any of his great generals, the great leader does not care about himself or his self-esteem, he KNOWS who he is. The great leader has only one goal and that is to accomplish his objective, and he knows that the most efficient and best way to do that is to surround himself with great men, the men that lessor leaders can't handle, the stallions, the champions (like St. Paul and the apostles).

The SSPX hierarchy on the other hand is the complete opposite of what I just described. The leader has no self-esteem, and thus he purposely surrounded himself with men that he perceives are no threat to his authority. Unfortunately you can't fight a battle with people like that. In effect, he has fired St. Paul, the 11 apostles, and anyone else (even parishioners) that might be perceived a challenge. He is left with no one with a  fight.

I do not expect anything from the SSPX, the leadership is not there.