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Traditional Catholic Faith => SSPX Resistance News => Topic started by: BrJoseph on January 25, 2021, 06:57:30 AM
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Fr. Gregory Hesse, S.T.D., J.C.D., S.T.L., J.C.L., Canon Lawyer, Doctor of Thomistic Theology, lifelong friend and personal secretary of Cardinal Stickler at the Vatican from 1986-1988 has provided us with many talks and conferences where he gives a no-nonsense, intelligent, learned, and witty exposition and explanation of relevant topics facing contemporary faithful Catholics. Fr. Hesse got to know approximately 45 cardinals while studying and working in Rome for 15 years and he has an uncanny and substantial knowledge of many things. You would be hard-pressed to find another theologian quite like him.
Canon Hesse was related to the Hapsburg royal bloodline. He was born in Vienna in 1952, ordained by Cardinal Marella in St. Peter's Basilica on November 21, 1981, and earned doctorates in Canon Law and Theology from the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (Angelicuм) in Rome. He worked as a personal secretary of Cardinal Stickler at the Vatican from 1986 to 1988. He passed away on January 25, 2006. A breath of fresh air in today’s widespread climate of many weak, ignorant, and naive clerics and theologians, he was affectionately called by several of his friends during his life “the bull in the ƈhıną shop.” His example, testimony, and insights no doubt played and will play an important role in Catholic thought and development.
For those of you who are new to Tradition, talks given by Fr Hess can be found at:
https://spideroak.com/browse/share/Hesse/MP3-Remastered/Fr.%20Gregory%20Hesse%20Audio%20Files%20%28Remastered%29/ (https://spideroak.com/browse/share/Hesse/MP3-Remastered/Fr.%20Gregory%20Hesse%20Audio%20Files%20%28Remastered%29/)
Father also had a great sense of humour and often quoted the two poems below:
Heretics All by Hilaire Belloc
Heretics all, whoever you may be,
In Tarbes or Nimes, or over the sea,
You never shall have good words from me.
Caritas non conturbat me.
But Catholic men that live upon wine
Are deep in the water, and frank, and fine;
Wherever I travel I find it so,
Benedicamus Domino.
On childing women that are forelorn,
And men that sweat in nothing but scorn:
That is on all that ever were born,
Miserere Domine.
To my poor self on my deathbed,
And all my dear companions dead,
Because of the love that I bore them,
Dona Eis Requiem.
Hilaire Belloc
The Song of Right and Wrong by G.K. Chesterton
Feast on wine or fast on water
And your honour shall stand sure,
God Almighty’s son and daughter
He the valiant, she the pure;
If an angel out of heaven
Brings you other things to drink,
Thank him for his kind attentions,
Go and pour them down the sink.
Tea is like the East he grows in,
A great yellow Mandarin
With urbanity of manner
And unconsciousness of sin;
All the women, like a harem,
At his pig-tail troop along;
And, like all the East he grows in,
He is Poison when he’s strong.
Tea, although an Oriental,
Is a gentleman at least;
Cocoa is a cad and coward,
Cocoa is a vulgar beast,
Cocoa is a dull, disloyal,
Lying, crawling cad and clown,
And may very well be grateful
To the fool that takes him down.
As for all the windy waters,
They were rained like tempests down
When good drink had been dishonoured
By the tipplers of the town;
When red wine had brought red ruin
And the death-dance of our times,
Heaven sent us Soda Water
As a torment for our crimes.
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For those of you who are new to Tradition, talks given by Fr Hess can be found at:
https://spideroak.com/browse/share/Hesse/MP3-Remastered/Fr.%20Gregory%20Hesse%20Audio%20Files%20%28Remastered%29/ (https://spideroak.com/browse/share/Hesse/MP3-Remastered/Fr.%20Gregory%20Hesse%20Audio%20Files%20%28Remastered%29/)
Father also had a great sense of humour and often quoted the two poems below:
His talks were essential for me to get on the right track when I started realizing that NO is one big illusion. What a great intellect, in depth knowledge and desire to learn the truth.
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Besides many talks now available on YT, I found his most complete source https://archive.org/details/FatherHesse of audio tapes. And of course his official site in German https://gregorius-hesse.at. BTW, the above link did not work for me.
His talk "Man in the Image of God" when he directly challenges st. Thomas is a masterpiece.
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May the angels lead thee into Paradise; may the martyrs receive thee at thy coming, and bring thee into the holy city, Jerusalem. May the choir of angels receive thee, and with Lazarus, who once was poor, mayest thou have eternal rest.
Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord; and let perpetual light shine upon him. May he rest in peace. Amen.
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Fr. Hesse was instrumental in my coming to Tradition. Here are two playlists from my YT channel (which has backups on Odysee and BitChute), one of which contains clips from his conferences and the other an attempt of mine to put the monthly letters from his site into English:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXNfDm6PrfACF3ina9-bHAChVteNVxRDD
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXNfDm6PrfADGs1SSDO1wvXRdp3GMBbc-
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Today January 25th 2021 is the 15th anniversary of his death.
May Almighty God grant him eternal rest :pray:
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PS I would love to put my hand on the original audio and video tapes. If anybody has them and is willing to sell, please PM.
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PS I would love to put my hand on the original audio and video tapes. If anybody has them and is willing to sell, please PM.
You can find some of them here:
https://catholiccounterpoint.org/ROMAN-CATHOLIC-c34191172
Here's one of those tapes that has footage with restored audio:
https://gloria.tv/post/KuFfFykK92Sg4mvm3fKycqfpJ
That channel also has some of those videos.
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Today is another aniversary of the death of Fr Hesse. Please pray for him in gratitude for his talks and sermons.
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Some really great links here. Thanks all.
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Here is an IPFS file that contains a lot of Fr. Hesse recordings, primarily my readings of his letters and his remastered conferences:
https://ipfs.io/ipfs/Qmf6QnUwEqa7cGXQMYLrUxvncaD2YRLwZ8MusrCrQZYofA
https://tinyurl.com/2p834ca8
Here is a playlist of Fr. Hesse videos I have put up on Odysee, these are backups of what I have on YT:
https://odysee.com/@PromotorFidei:d/frhessegsreduced:4?r=5Lq91ppyZJKrsNFuYYEvN8AyjT1FDv3S&lid=f3e43d0de4d079320a70175553323bef7245cd50
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