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Offline StonewallCatho

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Fr. Girouard acquired a property for real Priory: Deo Gratias!
« on: May 21, 2019, 03:58:12 AM »
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    • EMAIL SENT ON MAY 20TH 2019 BY FR. GIROUARD TO RESISTANCE CLERGY AND PARISHIONERS AND FRIENDS AND BENEFACTORS

    FatherGirouard@outlook.com
    Mon 2019-05-20 2:16 PM


    Dear Excellencies, dear Fathers, dear parishioners from Aldergrove and Post Falls, and dear friends from elsewhere,


    This is to let you know that I am moving out tomorrow from my apartment, which has been my home since June 1st 2013.


    Providentially, I found a nice manufactured home in a 55+ Adult park, where I will have a really big yard, and no neighbours on the left and in front. The home is a double-wide and has 1159 Sqf, with a detached 12x 20 feet workshop/storage shed. The house has three bedrooms, a bathroom, a kitchen, a dining room, a foyer, a living room, a laundry room, and a porch. One bedroom will be transformed into a chapel for week-day masses.


     It is in a very beautiful place (Cultus Lake), except it is about 40 minutes further East than where I am now, so it will take me about 50 minutes to get to the hall we rent on Sundays.


    Therefore, be all advised that, starting this coming Sunday, Sunday Mass will be half an hour later than actually. So Mass will start at 10:30AM, with confessions and Rosary half an hour earlier. I will open and prepare the hall at 09:15AM, with the usual helpers.


    When I do the Post Falls trip, I will not be able anymore to stop home after I travel back from the Bellingham airport. I will therefore go directly to the hall. This means that on these Sundays (2nd Sunday of each month), I will reach the hall about 30 minutes earlier than actually, and we will therefore have Mass on these days at 05:30PM instead of 6PM (confessions/rosary 1/2 hour before).


    You understand that I will not have internet access for the next few days, and I will be too busy to answer emails anyway. I will send you another email when all systems are operational, and you will then get more information. I am attaching a few pictures now.


    Thanks be to God, I was able, with your generous support over the years, to buy this property without having to get a loan from the bank. The idea of making banks more wealthy than they already are is repulsive to me. Nevertheless, I had to borrow some money from some people (without interests) and I have to start paying back on June 16th. I also have some extra expenses due to repairs and construction work (for a second bathroom for people coming to week-day Masses), and to buy the furniture needed (I don't have much now).


    If you could find it in your hearts to help me financially, it would be much appreciated. Please also pray that all goes well with this move and new installation, and for the continual spiritual benefits our presence brings to the Northwestern part of America. Whether you are helping financially or spiritually, or both, you will all remain in my daily prayers for benefactors.


    If you want to support me, you can mail your cheques (made at my name) to my actual address, and it will be automatically forwarded to my new address for the next 12 months. You can also make electronic money transfers. I can receive both American and Canadian currencies, but not the others, as the fees for exchange are too high.


    My actual address is:
    P.O. BOX 1543
    Aldergrove, BC
    V4W 2V1

    Thank you all, and God bless you!

    Fr. Girouard
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    Offline Kolar

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    Re: Fr. Girouard acquired a property for real Priory: Deo Gratias!
    « Reply #1 on: May 27, 2019, 04:20:54 AM »
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    • This is indeed good news. May this mission be for an increase of faith and holiness in BC
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    Re: Fr. Girouard acquired a property for real Priory: Deo Gratias!
    « Reply #2 on: May 27, 2019, 07:47:07 AM »
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    • Father Girouard's email is touching.

    It's that of an independent Shepherd who has sacrificed almost everything to take care of his flock.

    If he had only kept quite about Menzingen's "Dutch branding", he could have been the head of a cushy SSPX priory, drinking gourmet coffee and cruising through the week.

    Father Girouard is so detailed, considerate and organized, he's a model for fighting the Resistance battle.

    His letter also reflects how poor and desperate the Resistance's situation is :pray:



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    Re: Fr. Girouard acquired a property for real Priory: Deo Gratias!
    « Reply #3 on: May 27, 2019, 11:52:36 AM »
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    • Quote from: Incredulous on May 27, 2019, 07:47:07 AM
    His letter also reflects how poor and desperate the Resistance's situation is :pray:

    Not to worry. The sedevacantists and Plinio/Guimaraes devotees will fill in the gaps. The Resistance in the U.S. doesn't really care if the situation is poor and desperate. Easy pickins' for the fringe trads to take up the slack (obviously), which has already been done. Effectively, there is no Resistance in the U.S.
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    Re: Fr. Girouard acquired a property for real Priory: Deo Gratias!
    « Reply #4 on: May 27, 2019, 12:25:56 PM »
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    • Fr. Girouard has emailed the parish that he is back on line at his usual address (fathergirouard@outlook.com).

    He doesn't have much sleep, with all the unpacking and the things to attend to, but he is very happy, and all is so peaceful and quiet where he now lives!

    We are all thanking the Good Lord for His help.

    For the next year, his mail will be automatically forwarded from the old address to his new location.

    (Old address: P.O.Box 1543, Aldergrove, BC, V4W 2V1, Canada).

    Thank you for helping him out with your prayers and sacrifices!
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    Re: Fr. Girouard acquired a property for real Priory: Deo Gratias!
    « Reply #5 on: May 27, 2019, 12:48:39 PM »
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    • Quote from: Meg on May 27, 2019, 11:52:36 AM
    Not to worry. The sedevacantists and Plinio/Guimaraes devotees will fill in the gaps. The Resistance in the U.S. doesn't really care if the situation is poor and desperate. Easy pickins' for the fringe trads to take up the slack (obviously), which has already been done. Effectively, there is no Resistance in the U.S.

    More or less true:

    The Resistance only exists in concreto in France, where they have 25-30 priests in a country 1/10th the size of the USA.

    After France, the drop off is precipitous.

    In fact, if you leave out the independents and NUC’ers, I can’t think of a country that has more than 5 Resistance priests, except Brazil.

    Independence neutralized the Resistance.

    And the new “congregations” which sprung up after they figured that out missed the opportune time:

    Most of the priests who had already left (or were expelled from) the SSPX had already bought into that suicidal vision (or pretended they did), and/or fell in love with their independence.

    I was tempted to say that I don’t blame them, since it was not until after the consecration of Bishop Faure that there was even a seminary (and another year after that, that there were any congregations), by which time many priests had been on their own for 4+ years, and had no choice but independence (Bishop Williamson refusing to organize anything, and preaching against any such attempts).

    But what stops me short of doing so, is that all these priests have preferred to remain independent even after the creation of these congregations (despite the FACT that every single one of them, objectively speaking, has been called to a hierarchical community life in virtue of their SSPX ordinations).

    Those who have persisted in their independence are setting their faithful up for a rerun of Fr. Nelson’s Powers Lake.

    And of course, dispersed, slowly dissolving enclaves is hardly a blueprint for restoration (a concept which is antithetical to hunkering down/vacating the battlefield).
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    Re: Fr. Girouard acquired a property for real Priory: Deo Gratias!
    « Reply #6 on: May 27, 2019, 01:07:07 PM »
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    • Quote from: SeanJohnson on May 27, 2019, 12:48:39 PM
    The Resistance only exists in concreto in France, where they have 25-30 priests in a country 1/10th the size of the USA.
    How many of those (appx) are Dominicans?
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    Re: Fr. Girouard acquired a property for real Priory: Deo Gratias!
    « Reply #7 on: May 27, 2019, 01:20:11 PM »
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    • Quote from: SeanJohnson on May 27, 2019, 12:48:39 PM
    More or less true:

    The Resistance only exists in concreto in France, where they have 25-30 priests in a country 1/10th the size of the USA.

    After France, the drop off is precipitous.

    In fact, if you leave out the independents and NUC’ers, I can’t think of a country that has more than 5 Resistance priests, except Brazil.

    Independence neutralized the Resistance.

    And the new “congregations” which sprung up after they figured that out missed the opportune time:

    Most of the priests who had already left (or were expelled from) the SSPX had already bought into that suicidal vision (or pretended they did), and/or fell in love with their independence.

    I was tempted to say that I don’t blame them, since it was not until after the consecration of Bishop Faure that there was even a seminary (and another year after that, that there were any congregations), by which time many priests had been on their own for 4+ years, and had no choice but independence (Bishop Williamson refusing to organize anything, and preaching against any such attempts).

    But what stops me short of doing so, is that all these priests have preferred to remain independent even after the creation of these congregations (despite the FACT that every single one of them, objectively speaking, has been called to a hierarchical community life in virtue of their SSPX ordinations).

    Those who have persisted in their independence are setting their faithful up for a rerun of Fr. Nelson’s Powers Lake.

    And of course, dispersed, slowly dissolving enclaves is hardly a blueprint for restoration (a concept which is antithetical to hunkering down/vacating the battlefield).

    I have been thinking something similar - that the Resistance really only exists in France. And that's only because Bp. Faure and the Dominicans of Avrille cared enough to keep it going (God bless them for that). I agree that after France, the drop off is precipitous. The United States is a HUGE, HUGE country, and yet the number of Resistance priests can be counted on one hand. Or maybe two at the most. That is miniscule.

    It's no wonder that the sedevacantists, sedewhatevers, and Plinio/Guimaraes devotes have taken over the forum - since there are few who care enough about the Resistance to defend it. Well, let them have it! It reminds me of when I used to post a lot on the Catholic Answers forum, in order to try to defend Tradition.
    But the system there was rigged against such a defense, just as defending the Resistance here is rigged, too. There's no use in trying to spend time here defending the Resistance when the forum could care less about such a defense. It's futile.

    I must say, however, that I admire the zeal with which the sedevacantists, sedewhatevers, and Plinio/Guimarares devotees defend their goofy causes. They care far more about their cause than the Resistance does about theirs.

    You may be right in that independence is the root of problem. But then...that's what the U.S. is all about: independence; hence the large number of sedevacantists and sedewhatevers.
    I'm not familiar with Fr. Nelson's Powers Lake, or NUC. Can you explain further?

    I agree that dispersed and slowly dissolving enclaves is hardly a blueprint for Restoration, but I think that Restoration does not seem to be the goal. I'm not sure what the goal is exactly.  


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    Re: Fr. Girouard acquired a property for real Priory: Deo Gratias!
    « Reply #8 on: May 27, 2019, 01:36:57 PM »
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    • Quote from: Meg on May 27, 2019, 01:20:11 PM
    There's no use in trying to spend time here defending the Resistance when the forum could care less about such a defense. It's futile.

    Perhaps, if you are so unhappy here, you can find somewhere else to post your negativity? Every post is a swipe at the forum. Why do that to yourself?  
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