Many thanks for this sermon!

There is another sermon for this same day, Dec 9th, 2012, Second Sunday
of Advent, found on
 http://www.inthissignyoushallconquer.com/father-joseph-pfeiffer
given in Denver CO.

To a large extent it is the same sermon, with similar announcements at
the beginning, appropriate for the Denver location.  

The Denver recording is higher quality because the microphone is closer
to Fr. speaking, whereas in this Post Falls recording, the microphone is
located on the video camera held among the people seated, and there
are proximate noises, like a child whining, someone bumping and turning
personal items, coughing, foot stomping  -- all of which is obviated by
having a remote microphone close to the priest whose voice alone is
what the listener is interested in hearing.

Someone, some day, may be interested in comparing these two sermons,
for they are extemporaneous as are all of Fr. Pfeiffer's excellent sermons.
And while they cover the same topic, they are not identical.  This is great
for those, like me, who cannot get enough of these most inspirational
sermons of Fr. Pfeiffer.  For that, both transcripts would be most useful.

At approx. minute 16 the volume here suffers a reduction, such that Fr.'s
voice becomes more faint, and the ambient noise softens as well, but it
persists in its interference.  More words are lost than before the volume
was reduced.  Perhaps the person holding the video camera accidentally
bumped a volume control to cause the recording to lose volume.  

For those interested in the Cross Bearer being missing at Post Falls
for High Mass, Fr. mentions this at minute 23:40 in the context of fish
dying in water that is depleted of oxygen content, for that is what the
devil tries to do to the Church, and the SSPX is helping him do it:

...Today we just learned that - we had a cross-bearer this morning
at Mass (motions to the left indicating perhaps he is talking about this
present Mass having had a cross-bearer) and now I guess the past
two days, two weeks the Society at Post Falls they decided to have no
more cross-bearer at Mass...

more later...

23:45

...Today we just learned that - we had a cross-bearer this morning
at Mass (motions to the left indicating perhaps he is talking about this
present Mass having had a cross-bearer) and now I guess the past
two days, or that is two weeks in Post Falls, they decided to have no
more cross-bearer at Mass, except for 'special occasions' - so the
cross-bearer is no longer, they removed the cross-bearer from the
serving schedule..  No more carrying of the cross!..

And then we have also so many other things:  New catechism coming
out, promoted by, apparently promoted by the Dominicans, it's
translated from the French to the English, and it says, "the catechism
for the English speaking dioceses."  Usually we have the Baltimore
Catechism.  Well, what do you mean the English-speaking dioceses??
Is this a catechism for the Novus Ordo?  And then you look it up and
go, "No, no, it's the catechism of the 1940's."  And you look up the
definition of the Catholic Church:  "What is the Catholic Church?  The
Catholic Church is the union of the congregation of the people that
are the followers of Jesus."  That's the definition.  Nothing about
~united in one faith, ~baptized, ~under the Pope..  Not there..  But
when you turn the page, under in the footnotes it says, "Of course, to
be a member of the followers of the congregation of Jesus, obviously
you must be baptized, and you must be under the Pope, and so on.
You must have the same faith.  That's a footnote on page two, but you
memorize:  "The congregation of the followers of Jesus."  It's the
lowering of the water that will lead to a loss of faith.  

There are so many other things:  the little changes that are happening
here and there, the little additions, little subtractions.  Well, what does
it say now on our calendar?  "Traditional day of fast and abstinence."  
Like well, it's telling me now, that fish on a calendar it's like a, it's like
an aquarium.  You've got all the different kinds of fish, you have so
many different kinds of fish!  You look at the calendar, is it a full fish
day or a half fish day?  Is it a day where you can have no meat day or
you can have meat once?  But now there are so many different kinds of
fish.  "Traditional day" of fast and abstinence -- it used to be DAY of
fast and abstinence.

And all these things are adding up and adding up and adding up. And
pope uh, Bishop Fellay says a few weeks ago, remember the first
sermon:  I don't understand what happened with our battle with Rome
because I was working with Rome, I was making a deal with Rome, and
they were working with me, and we agreed to set aside Vatican II..
We agreed to set aside Vatican II..  And they LIED to me!  They wouldn't
set aside the Council (Whimper - tears and crying).  Can you imagine
that?  Roman Wolves lying to us??  But in any case, Bishop Fellay wept
because they lied to him.  

How is it, that he wants to set aside the Council?  It was that very
refusal to set aside the Council that established the Society of St.
Pius X.  They came to Archbishop Lefebvre in 1975 and said, "Set aside
the Council..  Just celebrate, or concelebrate the new mass once.. or, at
least keep silent!  Follow the laws of the Pax Priests of Hungary.  The
Pax Priests were those priests in Hungary who were allowed their
beautiful Latin Masses.. who were allowed their incense.. who were
allowed their parishes, by the Communists.. All they had to do was
not talk about the evils of Communism!  They could tell their people
"Be spiritual!"  They could tell them to be holy.  They could tell them
to be good, they could tell them to be nice.  But they could not
condemn Communism -- and many priests said, well, we're not
promoting Communism.. So what's the probem??  

They were called the Pax Priests.  But the real priests did not accept
this false pax.  It's called "peace."  

What are they trying to do?  First, you lower the waters.  Then, the
living waters are no longer there.  And we start dying..  As Fr. Hannifin,
the old Irish pastor used to say so many times,  "You do not lose the
faith overnight.  You lose it little, by little, by little, by little, by little,
and you don't notice, and one day you wake up and you're not
Catholic.  

But look at the spirit of Isaiah.  Because the earth is filled with the
knowledge of the Lord like the sea covered with waters.  What part of
the sea has no water in it??  where there's no water, there's no sea!
Wherever there is sea there is water.  It is wholly covered with the
waters.  It is wholly filled.  And our faith must fully fill the earth like
the knowledge of the Lord covering the waters.  And the more the
knowledge of the Lord covers the earth like waters, the more it does
this, the world becomes more and more peaceful, it becomes more
and more ordered, it becomes more and more beautiful, it becomes
more and more like God wanted it to be.  And the goal of every
Catholic is to make the world that way.  

When we go into a place where there is not Jesus Christ, we put Him
there.  There's a beautiful saying of St. Francis Xavier:  "Where there is
not love, put love, and there you will find love."  Where there is not
faith, put faith, and there you will find faith.  Where there is not
Christ, put Christ and there you will find Christ.  And this is the Catholic
attitude.  Where there is not love, put love, and there you will find love.

This is the answer.  

But now, rather we are having a different direction.  Now, we are looking
in a different way.  Now, we are saying, well, let's just not preach
heresy.  Let's just not offend anyone.. let's bring people in gently, so
that let's not try to put too many of our customs upon them.. let's
accept whatever customs came from Vatican II which are not directly
heretical..  

Start taking poison:  you will not build an immunity;  you will die.

You do not take the poison.  Do not mix with it.  We follow the
spirit of Isaiah, which is to fill the earth, and in two chapters later, what
is it Isaiah says?   Isaiah says the most beautiful passage about the
Messiah.  Of all the Old Testament, the most beautiful, encouraging
passages come from Isaiah.. and what did he say in chapter 50 or 53,
whichever one it is?  Who hath believed our reports?  To whom is the
mind of the Lord revealed?  Isaiah said so many beautiful things to
the Jєωs and they did not believe him. In fact they killed him.  They
cut him in half with a saw.  They did not want to hear the beautiful
words of Isaiah, just like Saint Stephen, when he preached his first
sermon:  The Jєωs noticed that he was speaking such beautiful
words and he looked up to heaven and he saw the angels appear
and he saw the beauty of heaven, and he spoke of the beauty of
heaven.  He spoke of the beauty of the divine Truth, he spoke of
the beauty of Our Lord, Jesus Christ!  And what did they do??

They stopped up their ears, and they began to scream with a loud
voice, lest they hear what he said, and with haste they dragged him
out of the assembly, they put him outside of the city, and they
stoned him to death.  

The truth is what the world cannot tolerate.  And remember also, as
St. Gregory points out:  The beauty of the Messiah, like the flower
that comes from the Root of Jesse, that beauty is beauty to the friends,
or that beauty is terrifying to the enemies.  And therefore, when we try
to show the beautiful side of our faith to the enemies of God, they
become more angry, they become more violent, and we believe
the nice approach will bring them to God:  it will not!  It is only divine
charity and divine truth that will bring them to God.  Not a false
niceness.. a false bending over backwards for them.. a false [inaudible]
.. it is false ecuмenism that has now pervaded the SSPX.  

Remember after Vatican II?  The original ecuмenism was, "We're going
to be ecuмenical to the Protestants, because they also believe in
Jesus Christ!  

32:30

But we're not going to be ever ecuмenical to the pagans!!  Remember
that in the 60's and 70's??  [I'm older than Fr. but I think he was paying
better attention, or, perhaps he had Fr. Hannifin to listen to, who
explained these things to him in his youth:  God bless Fr. Hannifin!]
And now, it's ecuмenical to everybody!  

So likewise, the neo-SSPX..  it's going to be ecuмenical to the
Fraternity of St. Peter;  it's going to be ecuмenical to the Indult priests,
it's going to be ecuмenical to the indult communities, BUT NEVER to
the Novus Ordo!!  -- And then, it will be ecuмenical to the Novus Ordo.

And then it will be ecuмenical to false religions and Protestants, and
then it'll be ecuмenical to all false religions.  

But why is it that right now, a priest of the Society of the St. Pius X, who
should be beaten to a pulp and burnt at the stake.. the priests of the
Society of St. Pius X right now in fact, are doing marriages that where
the priest of the Society of St. Pius X says the Mass, but then the Indult
priest doe s the exchanging of the vows, a kind of a mixing of rites, as
if to say that our marriages are not correct,  which they are!   Also, to mix

the new with the old..  And these priests are doing this publicly and it
is known by the superiors and they are not corrected and they are not
punished.  

[Fr. prudently does not accuse the Menzingen-denizens of having put
out the requisition form which would contain their instructions to do
things this way, but instead suggests that the mixing of rites would
have been a local innovation without Menzingen's approval -- I would
not be so tender and optimistic as Fr. Pfeiffer, but he is more closely
involved than I am, so he is the credible witness!]

33:33

They are not thrown out.  The only ones that are thrown out are those
who do not do these things;  those who will not tolerate these things!

Each of these things [their opposition to which are the reasons for
which priests like Fr. Pfeiffer have been thrown out of the SSPX!] is

sliding away from the faith.  And it will lead to souls growing away
from God.  And there is economic problems entering the Society,
even with the 80 million Euro donation from the Rothchilds, that
is there in Menzingen:  what are they going to do with 80 million
euros??  But even with that, they have an economic problems!  

Just like in the 1970's:  Take away the Faith and the faithful will take
away their support!  And this is what's happening.  

And our parishes are no longer growing, on a whole -- there are still a
few here and there that are experiencing a small growth, but there is a
departure being experienced throughout the whole Society.. We are
becoming stagnant.  We have more priests than we had 20 years ago.
But we have less zeal, less fire, we have less clarity in our teaching.
And now, the new teaching is confused or confusing, and we are
even talking about setting aside the Council!  

We do not "set aside the Council," we condemn it!

And when Bishop Fellay said, "I thought we agreed to set aside the
council," no one was angry!!  No one was upset!!  No one thought it
was a scandal!!  What has happened??

We have lost the Faith - we are losing the Faith bit, by bit, by bit!!  And
that's what happens!  As Bishop Sheen used to say, "We are living
beings,  and living beings have only two choices:  Grow to perfection,
or die."  You can never remain the same so long as you're alive.  Visit
a rock, after 1,000 years, it may look the same.  But visit your uncle
after 1,000 years and he won't.  The fact is, that living things can never
remain the same.  They're either going to perfection, or going to death,

and
at no point can ever a living thing ever remain the same.  Our society is a
living thing.  It is either going to fill the earth more and more with the
knowledge of the love of God like the sea that is filled with the
waters or it is not.  And if it is not, it is dying.  And the truth is, whether
we like to accept it or not,  because we are no longer filling the earth,
like the sea, with the knowledge of the Lord like the sea is filled with
the waters, we are a dying society.  We are dying.  We must take on the
spirit of Isaias!

36:24

And we must take on the spirit of John the Baptist, and also, St. Gregory
the Great says - Our Lord Jesus Christ says: "What would you have to see,
a reed shaken by the wind?"  St. Gregory the Great says, "What is a reed?
A reed is something that stands, and when the wind blows, it bends,
whichever direction it blows, and so a reed symbolizes the doctrines of
man.  And we become like a reed, when we stand up and see which way
the wind is blowing, we blow that way, then we blow the other way..  this
is happening now in the Society, we're being like a reed.  

READ DICI.org -- you'll lose your faith.  Read the weekly, or the little
blurbs by Fr. Lorans.  They are HORRIBLE.  You would never know that
a Catholic wrote those words!  Much less a priest!   And he speaks
about the things that FOX NEWS would consider bad.  And he speaks
about it in the same way you'd get an editorial from Fox News.

And he doesn't speak about it in a way that a Catholic priest would
speak.  And I've noticed myself in the last several editorials, Jesus
Christ is mentioned zero times.  The Catholic faith is mentioned zero
times.  He was condemning the feminists because they're running around
half-naked, or he's condemning a man because he says he thinks the
Pope shouldn't be in charge of the Church, and their celibacy was
outmoted,  that's the one this week.  He doesn't even say that the man
was wrong.  He doesn't even say that he's a heretic.  He doesn't tell you
he's against God, he simply says, "Well, you can see it's an outmoted,
dying thing."  It's leftovers, like it's leftovers from dinner kind of thing.

No Catholic priest should speak like that!

This is the official organ of the SSPX.  Every week, churning out
something to water down the Faith.

38:23

It has worked.  It has worked.  On of our priests tells me, a priest of our
resistance,  his sisters have lost the Faith because of DICI.org!   They
believe there's nothing wrong in Rome and everything's wonderful and
we have to be balanced in a false kind of way, and we can't stay in a
fight like we used to.. we have a different attitude towards the battle..
of Vatican II.. why?  Because they're listening to the new teaching from
the new pulpits.  

This cannot be tolerated.  

[This reminds me of the pulpits I saw in Germany, historic landmarks
of churches the Lutherans built hundreds of years ago:  the pulpits are
quite beautiful, but I thought:  these are the pulpits where the heresies
of Luther were preached, and it matters not how well made and
longstanding is their physical beauty, for they "supported" heresy!
They were the platform that gave Luther's false doctrines public
attention, and there was the beginning of the Revolution against Holy
Mother Church!]

We must fill the earth with the knowledge of the love of the Lord,
like the sea that is filled with waters.  And if it's not full, we need to
go out and get a hose from the fire truck and fill it up!  If there's no
hose, then grab a bucket, there's no buckets, then get your hand and
start filling the water.  But everyone must bring the water of the faith
and pour it where there is not faith.  

St. Francis Xavier says, where there is not love, put love, and there you
will find love.  Don't make compromises!  Where there is not faith, put
faith and there you will find faith.  Where there is not Christ, put Christ
and there you will find Christ.  For we are waiting for His coming, and
He will come, to judge them who have faithful to Him with equity and
with gentleness, and those that are His enemies, with terror.  

39:49

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end @ 42:04

These two sermons combine to make a total of 1 hr 35 min of
preaching, but there is some duplication and announcements.  If
you reduce it by a few of those things, you end up with nearly
1-1/2 hours of sermon for the Second Sunday of Advent, at least
1:20:00,  I would estimate.

They make a great pair because if you are not quite sure of the
message at one part of one sermon, then you can check the same
part of the other sermon and see:   it's probably a little different,
and when you put the two together, you have no doubts what is
being said.  These are all very good lessons.  The analogies and
examples he is wont to give provide us with everyday context for
the message to help us remember the doctrine and to help us
understand it more solidly.  

It was quite common in days during the great Age of Faith to hear
sermons that used analogy and similitude as Our Lord did in Sacred
Scripture, and as the Apostles therefore did in imitation of Him.  It is
part of our Apostolic heritage and Tradition to do so, but it is one of
the things that have been under assault with the errors of Russia,
and with the new, ecuмenical, false religious liberty agenda, which,
by the way, is what you are getting at your local SSPX chapels
under the iron thumb of the Mezingen-denizens.  

The same thing that happened in Hungary is happening right now
under your noses..  I know a very good priest from Hungary, who
fled there and went to Venezuela, but then he fled from the
same tyranny under Hugo Chavez that he had seen happening in
Hungary during World War II..  So he came to the USA, and found
that the same thing was happening here too!  That is why he had
to depart the Novus Ordo entrapments and flee to become an
independent priest offering only the CTLM.  He uses analogy in
abundance now, whereas he had been prevented from doing so in
Hungary, and in Venezuela and even in America.  

It is coming, friends, it is coming.  And it is already here.  We are
being pressed like flowers in an album, like fossils in clay.  We are
on the verge of becoming relics.  Do not let that discourage you.  
For even the relics of the saints are the means by which God
sanctifies this ungrateful world.  

Neil, thanks!  The transcripts & summaries/commentary are helpful.

You're welcome.  I hope I'm not making any errors in my
commentary.

No one has complained except a few accordistas, so I take that as
an objective mark of confirmation, in general.



Not entirely off topic, I heard a radio broadcast this evening of the
Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra performing in Carnegie Hall.  They
were pounding drums and shouting, as they are wont to do, and
the audience is thrilled, as usual at Carnegie.  

But I can't help but recognize a tinge of something going on.  They
took a few comments from the audience, at break time I guess,
and people from all over North and South America are nearly
speechless with their amazement of the performance.  Meanwhile,
I'm thinking, "Isn't this a little bit like the impressive showing that
the Soviet teams made in the Olympics in the decades after
Vatican II, and also the world champion chess matches during the
same period?  But now, it is Venezuela, another Communist
country, under the legacy of Hugo Chavez from whence we get
this orphan children making music rooted in instinct thing.  

I don't know what the connection is, but it seems too coincidental
somehow, to be unrelated.