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I saw these two posts..............

I had a thought regarding these very young priests.  They have not been tested....The Society flatters them with positions of forming and teaching young seminarians.  This is big responsibility for one so young and it could tend to flatter them and appeal to a sense of pride which would not be a good thing.  Then everyone else can see much confidence BF has in them.....They, after all were chosen...

This is something the NO used and still  uses to flatter people, making them think they are indispensable and valuable.  Making eucharistic ministers, lectors, and members of committees...Everyone recognizes them and they are important....

Just a thought!

Inprincipio, you've hit the nail on the head.  The SSPX has been in the business of promoting young and untried priests beyond their abilities for quite some time.  A young priest (about 30 yrs old) who was ordained four years ago is the USA District Burser.   This young priest came to his former parish, under orders from the USA DS, and delivered a fiery sermon in which he haughtily rebuked the Resistors and ordered them to leave the SSPX. He made quite a spectacle of himself that day.  Needless to say, we "over 50-somethings" were not rebuked; we were outraged! During the time he was our Pastor, many were impressed with his piety and intelligence.  The only thing he accomplished  with his nasty sermon was to be permanently lowered into the "pious fraud" category.  How unfortunate for him and for us.  

These young priests are so flattered by their superiors that they willingly succuмb to behavior that would horrify an older, wiser priest.  No wonder the XSPX loves to promote the young and naive.

And the inescapable parallel is the fact that the young Father Bernard
Fellay had no experience as a pastor, or as a prior, nor even so much
as a professor at any seminary.  He had no regular experience in the
mission field, nor as preaching retreats -- nothing but bursar for ABL.  

And he went from that condition directly into becoming a last minute
add-on for Bishop -- a decision by ABL reportedly due to him having
been recommended by one Mr. Lovey, who was a big financial backer
and who wanted the Swiss to be represented with a new bishop.  

From there, 3 years after ABL passed away, suddenly this new bishop
of only 6 years and still no experience as any kind of pastor or teacher,
was mysteriously elected SG when ABL had made it very well known
that position should always be held by a priest, not by a bishop -- but
he had unfortunately failed to put it into writing!!  

This is reminiscent of the Peter Principle, by which a man in the
business world is promoted to his level of incompetence, and there he
remains, to the detriment of the business.  

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Today's Gospel provides a great model for how vastly different
the ways of Our Lord are from the ways of the modern
Menzingen Fellayites.



WHAT THE GOSPEL DOES NOT SAY:


St. Mark vii. 31-37*:

31 And again going out of the coasts of Tyre, he came by Sidon to the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis.
32 And they bring to him one deaf and dumb; and they besought him that he would lay his hand upon him.
33 And taking him from the multitude apart, he put his fingers into his ears, and spitting, he touched his tongue:
34 And looking up to heaven, he groaned, and said to him: Ephpheta, which is, Be thou opened.
35 And immediately his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spoke right.
36 And he charged them that they should tell no man. But the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal did they publish it.
37 And so much the more did they wonder, saying: He hath done all things well; he hath made both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.

AND WHEN THEY TOLD JESUS THEREFORE how much his works
were being published, he was outraged, and condemned them
for DISOBEDIENCE, and he expelled those who refused to cease
(their weekly Eleison Comments and) such things, from his Society
as a punishment for their disrespect of his authority.  





*(Cf. Isaias xxxv.1-10; St. Matthew ix. 32-34)




And so, with high regard for the post, above, by unbrandable, it is
precisely this lack of the spirit of God that we see rampant today in
the Fellayite Menzingen-denizens, for it is not a work of mercy and
patience as Our Lord made His example known and which the
Apostles handed down to us from generation unto generation (cf.
St. Luke i. 50:  "And his mercy is from generation unto generation
to them that fear him," and Psalm cxi. 10: "...fear of the Lord is
the beginning of wisdom").

The corollary to this principle is:  lack of the spirit of God is for the
superior of a religious congregation as a curse and the beginning
of folly, for such leadership shall not long endure. "21 Woe to thee,
Corozain, woe to thee, Bethsaida: for if in Tyre and Sidon had been
wrought the miracles that have been wrought in you, they had long
ago done penance in sackcloth and ashes. 22 But I say unto you, it
shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment,
than for you" (St. Matt. xi. 21-22).