Author Topic: Blow In (Read 3921 times)

John Grace · « **on:** June 26, 2013, 07:58:20 AM »

A reason some are hesitant to leave SSPX chapels is because in some case those urging folk to leave are "blow-ins" .ie. folk not long attending Society chapels.

How long one has attended a SSPX chapel seems to be now a factor in one having an opinion or in a decision to leave.

As I don't attend an SSPX, many are annoyed I dare voice an opinion. The cult mentality.

Ecclesia Militans · « **Reply #1 on:** June 26, 2013, 08:17:19 AM »

There are many many people in the Toronto SSPX chapel who have been there for years and they balked at those who voiced their concerns. One person wrote me "you are all a bunch of idiots".

John Grace · « **Reply #2 on:** June 26, 2013, 08:21:33 AM »

There is hostility to the leaving of chapels in Ireland. Only "new comers" or those, who are "emotional" are telling people to leave chapels.

Telesphorus · « **Reply #3 on:** June 26, 2013, 09:13:02 AM »

Quote from: Ecclesia Militans

There are many many people in the Toronto SSPX chapel who have been there for years and they balked at those who voiced their concerns. One person wrote me "you are all a bunch of idiots".

Idiots if we assumed those people actually care about what Archbishop Lefebvre taught. yes, that might be right.

Yes, they've been there for years, which is why they care more about the organization than the principles it is based on.

Matthew · « **Reply #4 on:** June 26, 2013, 11:25:27 AM »

That's ridiculous.

Let the opponents of the Resistance know that I know plenty of fellow Resistance supporters who are long-term supporters of the SSPX.

I have attended their chapels since 2000, but it's not like I was snubbing them before that. We attended an independent chapel 10 minutes from our house instead. It's not like we were going to the Novus Ordo or the Indult.

And 3.5 of those 13 years of attendance were at Winona, MN as a seminarian! Yes, I was willing to donate my whole life to the SSPX. And I've fervently supported them since then. So I think my opinion should carry some weight.

The first time I heard of the SSPX, it was my mother getting upset about how the media was treating Abp. Lefebvre in 1988. She was convinced that he was saving the Church. I was only a boy at the time, so that was basically my opinion as well.

So although we weren't traveling the 75 minutes to the nearest SSPX chapel, we were SSPX supporters as early as 1988.

According to my handy calculator, that was 25 years ago. Hardly a "blow-in".