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Another example how SSPX has lost it
« on: October 03, 2018, 02:41:59 PM »
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  • St. Joseph's Chapel
    Established 1975
    200-250 parishioners
    Church Property paid off, worth at least $500K (the School District will happily buy it at any time)
    Several million in the bank and building fund (at least before a bunch of funds were diverted to covering debts in Phoenix, AZ)
    2 Sunday morning Masses, same time every week, plus Friday and Saturday Masses, going back decades
    2 Masses (morning and evening) on every Holy Day of Obligation, again going back for decades
    Has bookstore, parish hall
    Used to have school for brief period (in the 1990s?)

    NO WEBSITE

    They used to have a half-hearted attempt at a website, never updated.
    Now they link their Google account to "www.sspx.org/en" as if they don't even have a website.

    They seem to be "perpetually in between websites" now. Kind of like a chronically unemployed man is "between jobs" for 10+ years. According to the Wayback Machine, this "work in progress" has been the St. Joseph's website since February 8, 2018 (possibly earlier).

    http://alanamato.com/sspxsatx/

    Nice domain name, BTW. (in case you couldn't tell, I'm being sarcastic). With the money they have, the chapel should be able to register its own domain name for the next 100 years.

    I blame the chapel's leadership (not interested in getting a larger chapel to accommodate more people, no apostolic zeal, insistence on going along with the neo-SSPX line, etc.) for this particular example of apathy. They once again have Fr. Stephen Zigrang for a pastor, who seems to be towing the Party Line now. He infamously backpedaled in a April 2015 sermon, apologizing for any past criticism of the Pope -- even the charitable, necessary and praiseworthy kind (which is the only kind I had ever heard him utter during his sermons before 2015). But in April 2015, Fr. Zigrang basically said we can't criticize anything the pope says or does. This coming from a priest who left the Novus Ordo himself. He should know better!

    They wouldn't even have this website if it weren't for a certain layman offering the web hosting and a bit of website expertise.

    They have all kinds of money in the bank, but they put it to good use about as well as Smaug, the dragon from The Hobbit. (in Tolkien's world, dragons just sit on gold and don't do anything productive with it)

    Almost no one at the entire chapel has an apostolic spirit, concern for expanding the reach of Tradition, or expanding their capacity to seat more parishioners. In fact, the leadership DOES actively discourage attendance at the local Resistance chapel, which was the first (and only) expansion of pew space for Traditional Catholics the area has seen in decades.

    But you know the neo-SSPX -- completely self-centered and in it for themselves. If they had a choice, they would rather have 2 more parishioners at their chapel than see 15 parishioners added to a "competitor's chapel". That's how they see it: a competition. They don't rejoice for souls finding the truth, finding and maintaining Sanctifiying Grace, saving their souls. No, unless it bolsters their organization in some way (numbers, more money, more political pull when visiting Rome) they don't care one whit.
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