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The great Fr. Patrick Girouard has emerged with an observation and a message for Catholics during Lent.
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This makes me ask, what do SSPX priests do when the faithful are found watching their cell phones during Mass?
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I saw a woman going from Station to Station (Stations of the Cross) in a chapel, making her own video of them, from 1-14, including the stained glass windows between the stations. Maybe she was going to have a portable "Stations" video she could use when not able to get to Church?
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Parce Domine! (Spare us, O Lord!)
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by Fr. Patrick Girouard | Mar 7, 2018
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Dear faithful,
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You will never believe what the Branded SSPX has come up with for Lent! They have a promotional video proposing a “challenge” for their parishioners. If they click on a special link to accept the challenge, they will receive, on their gismo of choice, a daily reminder that they should limit their use of the gismo, and spend time with friends and family instead. (By the way, it looks a bit contradictory to tell people to limit the use of the gismo, while sending them reminders of this on the very same gismos…).
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The promotional video shows a guy watching tv, who decides to spend time with friends, and then goes out on the deck to have a beer with them. Now, this Neo-SSPX challenge is for Lent… You can take it for 3 days, or 7 days, or, if you truly are strong, until Easter, April 1st. WOW!
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While I agree that the gismos in all their models should be used only in moderation, I lament the fact that this is promoted as a Lent challenge. Why not do it for the whole year? And why not use supernatural motives, instead of a merely natural one (spend time with people)? This message is something that we already hear from a lot of non-Catholic sources.
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Doesn’t the SSPX have more to say to its faithful? Yet, I saw nothing in the video or the article about Christ, Penance, Mortification, Salvation of souls… Just:  Spend more time with friends! Having a beer with them during Lent is better than watching movies! What about giving us some examples of the saints doing penance? What about encouraging people to fast and abstain?
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I cannot believe that we find this on the official SSPX website! Look for yourselves at the link below:
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http://sspx.org/en/news-events/news/take-technology-detox-challenge-unplug-your-life-during-lent
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We, in the Resistance, were afraid that a “normalization” with Rome would transform Tradition and dilute it to become just like the Novus Ordo Church… But since the Branding, which I have exposed in June 2013, it has become clear that the process of liberalisation is already at work, and is already changing the Society and its faithful! Maybe Rome will see that an official agreement will not, in the end, be necessary to destroy Tradition, and that the simple offer of a “regularization” is enough to have the leaders of Tradition destroy it!
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God, please spare us and intervene before it is too late!
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Fr. Girouard

A very good observation from Fr. Girouard, as usual. Indeed, in order to destroy tradition, Rome needn't insist on regularization through a practical agreement, since the process of liberalization is already at work in the SSPX. What was the SSPX thinking with this goofy phone app?  

It seems that Fr. Girouard's website is finally up and running again. I'm looking forward to hopefully more commentary from him in the future.

Parce Domine! (Spare us, O Lord!)
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by Fr. Patrick Girouard | Mar 7, 2018
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Dear faithful,
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You will never believe what the Branded SSPX has come up with for Lent! They have a promotional video proposing a “challenge” for their parishioners. If they click on a special link to accept the challenge, they will receive, on their gismo of choice, a daily reminder that they should limit their use of the gismo, and spend time with friends and family instead. (By the way, it looks a bit contradictory to tell people to limit the use of the gismo, while sending them reminders of this on the very same gismos…).
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The promotional video shows a guy watching tv, who decides to spend time with friends, and then goes out on the deck to have a beer with them. Now, this Neo-SSPX challenge is for Lent… You can take it for 3 days, or 7 days, or, if you truly are strong, until Easter, April 1st. WOW!
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While I agree that the gismos in all their models should be used only in moderation, I lament the fact that this is promoted as a Lent challenge. Why not do it for the whole year? And why not use supernatural motives, instead of a merely natural one (spend time with people)? This message is something that we already hear from a lot of non-Catholic sources.
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Doesn’t the SSPX have more to say to its faithful? Yet, I saw nothing in the video or the article about Christ, Penance, Mortification, Salvation of souls… Just:  Spend more time with friends! Having a beer with them during Lent is better than watching movies! What about giving us some examples of the saints doing penance? What about encouraging people to fast and abstain?
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I cannot believe that we find this on the official SSPX website! Look for yourselves at the link below:
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http://sspx.org/en/news-events/news/take-technology-detox-challenge-unplug-your-life-during-lent
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We, in the Resistance, were afraid that a “normalization” with Rome would transform Tradition and dilute it to become just like the Novus Ordo Church… But since the Branding, which I have exposed in June 2013, it has become clear that the process of liberalisation is already at work, and is already changing the Society and its faithful! Maybe Rome will see that an official agreement will not, in the end, be necessary to destroy Tradition, and that the simple offer of a “regularization” is enough to have the leaders of Tradition destroy it!
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God, please spare us and intervene before it is too late!
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Fr. Girouard

I believe he is loosely associated with the 4 Resistant Bishops.

https://thebastion.faith/the-neo-sspx-is-turning-chinese/

UPDATE from Fr. Girouard:


Dear faithful,

The Neo-SSPX has a Priory in Winnipeg (Manitoba) and missions in Dryden (Ontario), and Welwyn, Regina, and Saskatoon (all in Saskatchewan). I was in that Priory for seven years (2002-2009), so I know these people.

I just received a copy, from a friend, of the Winnipeg March 2018 parish bulletin, and you can have access to it by clicking on its icon on the right side of the screen.

In this docuмent, you will find a picture of a couple (copied below) on their marriage day. She, Monica Green, is a parishioner from our parish in Welwyn. In the old SSPX, we would have married her at our chapel over there, like we did with many others before.

But, no! Not in the Neo-SSPX! Now we had her marriage taking place in a Novus Ordo church in Brandon (MB), located midway between Winnipeg and Welwyn, so two hours away from each place. (Not a very practical location for anybody!)

Moreover, while Fr. Vachon, Assistant priest of Winnipeg Prior Fr. Loren Gerspacher, celebrated the traditional Mass, it was a Novus Ordo priest, delegated by the Novus Ordo bishop, who was the official Church witness receiving the vows!

On the picture you can see Fr. Vachon on the right, and the Novus Ordo priest on the left. Everybody is smiling, of course!
The Neo-SSPX is now all comfy-comfy and lovey-dovey with the destroyers of the Church!

On the same bulletin, you also have a letter from Fr. Daniel Couture (Canadian District Superior) praising Archbishop Lefebvre’s fight against the inversion of the ends of marriage at Vatican II. It is actually a good letter!
So, what should we think of this parish bulletin?

Well, we have here a typical example of the Neo-SSPX tactic: Talk big, and strong, and traditional, but in your actions, walk liberal!
Your talk is there to make people accept your walk!

It also helps make you feel that you are not as liberal as you seem, so you can stiffle your guilty feelings (if you have any) and sleep better at night!
The Neo-SSPX is now consistently mixing up together the liberal and the traditional, the bitter and the sweet! There is nothing else to say but: The Neo-SSPX is turning Chinese!

God bless you dear friends, and hang on to the Truth, because the ride is bumpy!

Fr. Girouard