Thank you Stonewall, and bravo Fr Girouard. This is the post of the week.
This sickening, disingenuous letter of Fr Pagliarani, was read by every SSPX priest to his faithful on Sunday.
The title hits the nail on the head "Fr Pagliarani drops the mask".
How can one not see a sinister intention in all this fake, sentimental, dishonest dramatisation? It reminds me of Bishop Fellay's Rosary crusades where the outcomes had already been agreed on behind closed doors with the enemy. What is the predetermined outcome this time? Surely, it is what they have always been 'preparing hearts' for: a purely practical agreement with the enemy.
"PROFOUND HUMILIATION, IMMENSE HUMILIATION" - what a joke! What fair dinkum Traditional Catholic, who has been excluded from the demonic circus of the Newchurch all his life, who has been persecuted by these infideles, now more immoral than ever, and more transparent than ever, ever since the Second Vatican Council, would feel humiliated by any pretended penalty pronounced by these perverts? Fr Pagliarani speaks as if until this time we have been somewhat friends! No doubt that is what he wants us to believe.
Rather, the humiliation would be to place the Faith in the hands of these agents of satan and give them the opportunity to destroy Tradition all over again, as the SSPX has been officially on course to do ever since the revolutionary general chapter of 2012.
One senses here a desire on the part of this New Society for us to feel humiliated, to feel excluded, so that when their appeal against this 'terrible humiliation' succeeds and we are offered a structure in the Newchurch we will be psychologically prepared to accept it. This is sinister indeed, and this letter convinces me more than anything that this is their plan.
As Bishop Tissier put it so eloquently, the irregularity is not ours but theirs, it is not for us to come back, but for them to come back, come back to the Faith. But it fell on deaf ears then, and Fr Pagliarani continues this modernist crusade to make us feel that we are excluded from something to which we should belong.
"THE SOCIETY WILL NEVER ABANDON YOU". Tell that to Bishop Williamson who was put out on the street. Tell that to the monks from all the monastic orders who were refused ordination until they submitted to the new direction, the direction that was formerly called 'the road to death'. Tell that to all the faithful priests who were excluded for wanting to remain the same. Tell that to Dom Thomas Aquinas who had all material and spiritual support denied because he refused to allow Menzingen to remove him as abbot and have him replaced by an accordist. All his faithful were completely abandoned, only to be rescued by Bishop Williamson who went to confirm them, only to be accused of disobedience and pursuing an independent apostolate. Tell that to the Knights of Our Lady who were effectively banished from the SSPX and punished even by this Fr Pagliarani for not supporting the 'direction to death'. Tell that to all the faithful around the world, who were refused absolution in the confessional, holy communion, and even Exterme Unction simply for wanting to remain as we were. Tell that to all the faithful today who have had doubtful priests from the Conciliar Church thrust upon them and have been refused conditional confirmation. Tell that to the marines!