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Offline SperaInDeo

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Re: Bishop (?) Pfeiffer to Ordain First Priests (?)
« Reply #35 on: June 05, 2021, 12:15:45 AM »
Quote from: Matthew on June 04, 2021, 11:59:56 PM
Also from his Facebook page:


4/4/21
Dear Friends, Family, and Acquaintances:
Happy Easter Sunday! 🌞 🐣🙏✝️
For whomever may have been wondering, a lot has happened in my life during this Lent and since I asked for prayers to discern the Will of God.   I will briefly summarize it here.  
As most of you know, I have spent the last five and a half years in a Traditional Catholic Seminary belonging to a "branch" of the Society of St. Pius X, called the "SSPX - Marian Corps" or "Resistance".   I had joined them at the age of 18, easily influenced by their zealous and charismatic mission.   In the last year, I had been having serious doubts and unsettled objections about their purpose, and I came to the conclusion that they are basically an unjustified sect falsely claiming to be essentially the last remnant of faithful Catholic clergy in the World.  
So last February, after concentrated consideration and prayer, I decided to leave their seminary, with the intention of contacting the mainstream SSPX to inquire if I may and should continue my formation with them.   After doing so, I was informed by the SSPX that according to two official docuмents from the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith in Rome in 1976 and 1983 (links below), the lineage through which I had been ordained a Deacon at that seminary was juridically null and void, so I had already been automatically laicized upon my ordination to the Diaconate.   Moreover, after personally explaining to my old SSPX pastor the grave difficulties I have had with my seminary formation, he strongly advised me NOT to continue formation to the Sacred Priesthood, but to explain my case by letter to Rome, and to ask for a particular confirmation of my lay status, whereby I am (already) relieved of the rights and duties of being a Deacon, and also for a confirmation of a dispensation of the private vows I had taken before and recently been dispensed of by my SSPX Confessor.  
Given my particular difficulties with the seminary formation, I do not believe that the religious life of a brother or monk is the Will of God for me either.   So after further prayer, consideration, and consultation, I have decided to prepare for the married state.   This may come as a shock to many of you, but I am sure that this is indeed the Will of God for me, and what will best contribute to my true happiness and my Salvation.  
Thank you all for your prayers, and be assured of my own for you.   May our Risen Savior bless you all and make you Saints!  🙂🙏✝️
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Decrees from the Roman CDF on the Abp. Thuc Lineage:
https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/docuмents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_19760917_illegitimas-ordinationes_en.html?fbclid=IwAR0qbd5QiqzJ9MAcWXCEwrPdiN7nAcNDqrJ25xFJYLp7IXcaVVnGcF1NqJs

https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/docuмents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_19830312_poenae-canonicae_en.html?fbclid=IwAR0ys6KJ_UHQF6OgNxXpQcOa1AgIKazrow8NEfPrT-9AqSaqyp4tflo6Fpk

Very interesting - but why would he call Pfiefferville a  "branch" of the Society of St. Pius X? He should know better, eh?
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Re: Bishop (?) Pfeiffer to Ordain First Priests (?)
« Reply #36 on: June 05, 2021, 01:03:05 PM »
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Given my particular difficulties with the seminary formation, I do not believe that the religious life of a brother or monk is the Will of God for me either.   So after further prayer, consideration, and consultation, I have decided to prepare for the married state.


This part had me scratching my head. What "difficulties"? He does realize that he was not in a real seminary, right? Being turned-off of the whole experience there does NOT mean one doesn't have a vocation.

And how long was he thinking about this? He hasn't tried a single REAL monastery or seminary, and yet he jumps to the conclusion that the married life is the life for him. Usually that's conveyed by God sending the right person. I wonder how he met someone so quickly. Online? Or did he meet her "in his travels" as a seminarian, since I know Fr. Pfeiffer loved to travel the country, often with his seminarians.

Most of all, I've never heard the expression "prepare for the married state". What does that mean exactly? Sign up for CatholicMatch.com? Seriously, it smacks of rashness and impetuosity. When you want to try out a priestly or religious vocation, you run off to the monastery or Seminary. There is no other way to investigate that vocation. But there is no equivalent thing you "do" to pursue a married "vocation".  You just live your life, while praying, discerning, etc. always being docile and open to God's will.

Not saying he DOES have a vocation. But attending a literal joke of a seminary for 5 years doesn't prove it one way or the other. That is a fact.

But while we're talking about facts, it's very possible that Stephen Kaldawi is one more tick mark under "Vocations destroyed by Fr. Pfeiffer".

But let's be real: as soon as a particular girl enters the picture, no young man is going to be objective about other possible vocations besides marriage. That's why you're supposed to investigate/try out a religious or priestly vocation BEFORE you get emotionally involved with The One.
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