Oh boy! I'm always excited to read H.E.'s latest EC but this one is very special.
The three paragraphs that STAND OUT from the others are these:
TWO ERRORS
Whether or not the Society of St Pius X survives its present severe trial, liberals will keep coming back with false arguments to persuade it to commit ѕυιcιdє. Let us look at two more of them.
The first has come up constantly in recent debates over whether the SSPX should accept some practical (non-doctrinal) agreement with Conciliar Rome. It is simple: a Catholic leader (or leaders) has graces of state from God, therefore he should not be criticized but automatically trusted. Answer: of course God is offering to every one of us at all times, and not only to leaders, the natural assistance and/or supernatural grace we all need to begin fulfilling our duty of state, but we have free-will to co-operate with that grace or to refuse it. If all Church leaders always co-operated with their graces of state, how could there ever have been Judas Iscariot ? And how could we ever have had Vatican II ? The argument from graces of state is as foolish as it is simple.
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Dear J.L., false doctrine is the basic problem. By the grace of God the SSPX has up till now upheld Jesus Christ’s true teachings, but if it put itself under Church authorities only half-believing them at best, it would soon stop attacking error (as is already happening), and it would finish by promoting error, and with error all the horrors you mention. God forbid !
Kyrie eleison.
© 2012 Richard N. Williamson. All Rights Reserved.
Without question, you omit parts of H.E.'s EC at risk of losing a lot because what
he writes is already extremely condensed.
But it is an exercise to focus on one or two or three aspects of a short list, so as
to more thoroughly comprehend them:
A.) Liberals will keep coming back with false arguments to persuade the SSPX to
commit ѕυιcιdє. (Cf. Fr. Fox's sermon within the Octave of the Sacred Heart of
Jesus RE: the Frog and the Scorpion/ A self-destructive nature is a more powerful
determinant of behavior than any opposing good intentions, expressed or
otherwise.) It's not over till the Fat Lady Sings.
Liberals will keep coming back as
they did after Sacrorum Antistitum, as Pope St. Pius X the Great warned us
at the time that they would; as they did after Our Lady of Fatima came to remind
us and to offer us the keys to salvation in the modern world which Liberals have
not ceased to attack; as they did starting in the early 1950's to overthrow
Tradition by instituting high speed corruption in fulfillment of Fatima's warnings
not the least of which was the suppression of the Third Secret which fortold of this
corruption; as they did by convening Vatican II with NO GOOD REASON to do so
which includes the BAN on condemnation of error which has endured even to
this day; as they did with their "crowning glory" the inadequate, lukewarm, banal
Novus Ordo liturgy, reformed sacraments and ideology which are all an
outgrowth of Vatican II. The Liberals will keep coming back. The devil never
sleeps. We live in a valley of tears.
B.) Catholic leaders, like the Pope, receive graces of state, like jurisdiction, but
we, including the Pope, have the free-will to cooperate with that grace or to
refuse it, which refusal includes our ABUSE of our station and the power that
comes with our state in life.
Just because the Pope has the GRACE of papal
infallibility, doesn't mean he's incapable of refusing to cooperate with it.
C.) Ever since 1962 officially, and probably since 1960, and perhaps as early
as 1958, the Church has had a BAN on the condemnation of error, and has ended
up promoting error. If the SSPX follows suit by adopting this
ABOMINABLE
practice of not condemning error just to make Modernists feel good or to get
better free news coverage in the Masonic-Paganized-Protestant MSM,
the SSPX
will end up promoting error as well. (Some say it is already starting, if you read
the speeches of +Fellay and the "office help.")
Curiously, it's one of the "doctrines" of speed reading to read the first paragraph,
or perhaps two, and the first few words and the last few words of each subsequent
paragraph, and the last paragraph in its entirety. If that technique is used on this
E.C., you can derive all of what I have mentioned, above!
That's not to say the rest is without merit, for it contains very crucial teaching, so
important, in fact, that it tends to overshadow this, that I have focused on. But by
so focusing here first, and grasping the implications, then going back and
re-reading the whole EC 259, it comes alive with
even more power and more
effect than it would have had with a mere, cursory read, alone.
As always, and true to form, H.E. provides us with the SEED of much
contemplation, to our benefit and for our grace: our sanctification: the Will of
God! We are never at a loss carefully reading his EC and taking it to heart.
What a grace His Grace is for us in these troubled times!!
Alleluia! Praise the infinite mercy of God, which we receive hereby in these words.
Topic: Eleison Comments by Mgr. Williamson - Issue CCLIX - 259 (Read 1446 times)