The praise of fidelity to the SSPX seems like a mantra. But it becomes downright bizarre when you know the whole history of the SSPX and ask yourself where this loyalty to the combative Archbishop Lefebvre of the 70s and 80s has gone.
It is also pretty bold to present one's own inactivity with regard to episcopal consecrations as cooperation with providence.
Yes, that is what is really striking about this eulogy.
We can all thank God for Bishop Tissier who has given us so much. I pray for him and I pray to him.
Yet for the love of God and the salvation of souls, in the interests of truth and for the defense of the Faith, we can only lament that we no longer hear the SSPX preach this ever increasingly urgent doctrine, because the Bishop who once taught it stopped teaching it and in practice denied it: There can be no greater testimony than to repeat these words of Bishop Tissier, words that he would undoubtedly, from eternity, want to resound throughout the Society and the Church today:
This project of "officialization" of the SSPX leaves me indifferent. We have no need of it, and the Church has no need of it. We are already on the pinnacle, as a sign of contradiction, that attracts those noble souls, that attract lots of young priests, despite our pariah status. One would wish to place our lamp under the bushel for our integration in the Conciliar world. This status that is proposed to us, of a personal prelature, analogous to that of Opus Dei, is a status for a state of peace. But we are currently in a state of war in the Church. It would be a contradiction to wish to "regularize the war"...
The irregularity is not ours. It is that of Rome. A Modernist Rome. A Liberal Rome that has renounced Christ the King. A Rome that had been condemned in advance by all Popes up until the eve of the [Second Vatican] Council. On the other hand, the experience of the priestly societies that have joined current Rome is that all, one after the other, including Campos and the Good Shepherd, have been constrained to accept the Vatican II Council. And we know what has become of Bishop Rifan of Campos, who now has no objection to celebrating the New Mass and who has forbidden his priests from criticizing the Council!...
Despite his favorable gestures [Benedict XVI], his real intent by integrating us into the conciliar orb cannot be other than to lead us to Vatican II....
It is true that the SSPX is a "stumbling block" for those who resist the truth (cf. 1 Petr 2, 8) and this is good for the Church. If we were "reinstated", we would, by that very fact, stop being a thorn in the side of the conciliar church, a living reproach to the loss of faith in Jesus Christ, in His divinity, in His kingdom...
Faith comes before legality. We cannot accept a legalization without the problem of the faith being solved... I would like us to produce a text that, renouncing diplomatic subterfuge, clearly affirms our faith and, consequently, our rejection of the conciliar errors. This proclamation would have the advantage, first, of saying the truth openly to Pope Benedict XVI, who is the first to have the right to the truth, and second to restore the unity of the Catholics of Tradition around a combative and unequivocal profession of faith...
According to the project of prelature, we would not be free to create new priories without the permission of the local bishops and, additionally, all our recent foundations would have to be confirmed by these same bishops. It would thus mean subjugating us quite unnecessarily to an overall Modernist episcopate...
It is a new religion that is not the Catholic religion. We do not want any compromise with this religion, any risk of corruption, not even any appearance of conciliation, and it is this appearance that our so-called "regularization" would give us. May the Immaculate Heart of Mary, immaculate in her faith, guard us in the Catholic faith.
Taken from Bishop Tissier's interview with Rivarol, 1st June, 2012
Topic: Funeral of Mgr Tissier de Mallerais - Ecône 18th of October 2024 (Read 4874 times)