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Offline MaterDominici

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Fr Pfeiffer Letter
« on: September 14, 2013, 04:44:50 AM »
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    Sept. 8, 2013
    Nativity of Our Lady

    Dear Friends and Benefactors,

    “To write I am not able, to blog I am ashamed, therefore I know what I shall do, that when I am removed from my Priestly Fraternity I may yet be received into everlasting dwellings. . . and the Lord commended the unjust steward forasmuch as he had done wisely: for the children of this world are wiser in their generation than the children of light. And I say to you: make unto you friends of the mammon of iniquity; that when you shall fail, they may receive you into everlasting dwellings.” (c.f. Lk. 16: 3-10)

    Let the Wise, the Elders, and the just debate, discuss, blog, until they have informed the world, their friends as also themselves of their own wisdom, justice and uprightness of soul justifying their own positions with wise words and counsels, councils and meetings until. . . until . . . ? ? ? a better blog reduces their Neilson ratings or until. . . until. . . ??? the good lord of the Deists comes down to rewind the wrist watch of time. Meanwhile. . . Every man for himself, fighting a balanced, “guerrilla (Kuala bear) war.” Certainly the old wise man knows the impor-tance of not overstraining oneself, and taking one’s meds on time—avoiding addiction of course. We need more information—its an in-formation age—more truth on the web etc. The wise and just will weigh all things in the balance, such as the Truth of Christ’s Faith on the one side and its steady abandonment on the other by the neo-Traditionalists of the neo-SSPX and its new friends in the Ecclesia Dei Com-munities. Wherever you are, there remain so long as you don’t worry but keep yourself informed. As long as you know the Truth, speak to your friends of it over moderate balanced proportions of non genetically modified, moderately priced decent quality alcohol with some Tradition behind it, that’s the key to preserving your wisdom untainted until. . .??? better times chosen by God, of course. The Wise do not rush Providence, but wait for the Good Gods Divine welfare check.

    Enough for the wise. Many blogs and forums are available to feed their wisdom and keep them informed. What are the unjust stewards, the simple foolish, sinful souls to do in their plight? What are those who lack the wisdom to decipher all the newspeak of the SSPX from the former Truespeak of its Founder? What future is there for young sinners who need clear unequivocal, unambiguous teaching in order to preserve the Faith of their Fathers that holy Faith which they must keep unstained, untainted until death in all too stained, tainted and sin-ful souls? What is to be done with old sinners who in their poor excessive simpleness see only a repetition of the Vatican II of their youth in their present SSPX chapels? What are the ostracized and rejected to do—souls of simple, all too ignorant sheep untrained in the art of eating “life-giving” internet grains of wheat? These simple souls don’t know which credit card to use in order to have overnighted from Amazon.com absolution for sins, Holy Communion, a living voice to teach them the Faith they don’t know well how to read.

    The Church founded by Jesus Christ, the Incarnate God is an Incarnational Church. This Holy Mother cannot be without “other Christs” incarnationally going about with His blessings, Sacraments, publishing Him who is The Truth. Perhaps the wise can live without these things, since their wisdom supplies. Perhaps the rich need not live without these things since their money can always pay a priest to live with them and provide for their personal needs—but what of the rest of men? What of the poor whom our Divine Founder so Loved? What of the Lost Sheep Our Divine Shepherd sought? What of prodigal sons Our Divine Father eagerly awaited and captured for a feast? What of the weak and cowardly Apostles that Our Divine Risen Lord sought and healed? What of the doubting Apostles, Our Divine Lord and Most Divine God showed His scars that their doubts may be gently washed away?

    Is the Good God only going to save the wise, the strong, the good souls that have to prove themselves first? If this is true, then our un-changing God has changed. If He has changed, he was not God to begin with, or maybe, the Modernists are right and God has evolved. Let those who believe such, either convert or be damned in God’s unchanging fire of Divine Justice in Hell.

    Most of us, Shepherds and sheep alike, are unjust stewards or poor sinners who wish only to pour their tears on the feet of the Divine Lord of infinite Merciful love. Surely, that Lord who is more technical than modern technology can send us shepherds--even if they be unjust stewards that forgive others (since they also are in need of great forgiveness themselves) and teach the Truth so that they may be received in everlasting dwellings. As some wise commentators have recently said “things are worse now than in the days of the Holy Archbishop” then it is indeed more urgent that we apply the remedy of the Holy Archbishop founder of the SSPX and continue his work of forming priests, weak in their humanity but strong in unbending Faith in Jesus Christ the King of Our universe, King of all Societies whether of Angels, men or ants, King of all Truth and in a word King of all things great and small.

    We do not need especially intelligent, or strong men, but rather men aware of their ineptitude, sinfulness, etc. and who at the same time are willing to abandon their frail minds, hearts and bodies to the God of all Creation, that God who formed each thing perfectly in an in-stant over 6 days of His Creative Work. That God who rested from the work of Creation on the 7th Day. That God who took up the work of re-creating (Mirabilius Reformasti) Man, due to his tragic fall, on the Day called Good Friday, where God through blood and sweat Re-Created, re-stretched, and reformed man “more wonderfully” upon the Cross.

    Man has fallen again, and The Lord God wants “Other Christs” Apostles of Creation and Re-Creation who will go out clothed as was Adam in Grace and Faith to wounded and abandoned souls, crying for help. These Apostles of Creation must go to a devolving demonic world preparing for the Anti-Christ in order to speak the words of God believing with unflinching Faith in their power and unequivocal Truth and ready to bleed and sweat stretched out on the Crosses of Airplanes, Trains, Automobiles, hotel Rooms, and rented halls to confess Souls in stairways, to encourage souls in garages, telling them that “the Kingdom of God is at hand, yeah it is even at the doors.” The day is far advanced the night is at hand, we must work to save souls. Souls cannot be saved with half-truths and mediocre teaching. Christ told us “where I am there also my minister shall be.”(Jn. 12:26) What an exciting time to be a priest of God. We go where the faithful call, not knowing whom we shall meet in the way. Pray that The Lord God send weak ministers who will confound the strong, men of Charity who will be the terror of the Cruel wicked spirits of this world, Men of Simplicity who will confound the latest and greatest high-tech ways of Gods enemies, Men whose only weapon is The Truth stretched out on a Cross, Whose only enemy is Lies and the Father of Lies, whose only hope is their Mother the Mother of all those who want to love Her Son in His Crucified Physical and Mystical Body.

    On October 20, 2013 We will begin, by the grace of God, a Seminary under the protection of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, under the Guidance of Our Lady of Good Success, with all hope and confidence in Our Lady of Fatima, to form young men of unflinching Faith, Apostles of Creation, warriors against the Satanic enemy of all Creation and its Good God. These Apostles must have an uncompromising Supernatu-ral Faith as did our ancient forefathers in the Church. Over the last year I have visited more than 120 priests of Tradition. More than 30 of them are priests of “the Resistance” another 60 or so are either fully or partially supporting “the Resistance.” More than 20 young men from around 10 different countries have expressed interest in joining this Seminary of “the Resistance.” Others have requested brother-hood as well. Many old Warrior priests have told us “you must begin, the situation is too grave, we can no longer recommend our young men to enter the theologically devolving Seminaries of the SSPX.”
    We don’t have a 50million dollar facility, but a Spartan dilapidated one in need of great repair. We begin anyway in the same place where Fr. Cyprian began Our Lady of Guadalupe Monastery back in 1989 in the midst of “the Holy Land of Kentucky” where between 1808 and 1848 the early Missionaries of the United States were formed. Within 20 Miles of our little Seminary and Novitiate are the bones of more than 100 of those early pioneer priests.

    God bless all of you, please keep us “unjust stewards” in your prayers,

    in Christ,
    Fr. Joseph Pfeiffer

    We must continue the vision and work of our Founder Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. A new vision has replaced his in the neo- SSPX. We remain with the vision, Faith and spirit of our Founder.

    Young men interested in a vocation to the Priesthood or Brotherhood please contact us at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, 1730 N. Stillwell Rd. Boston, KY 40107

    frjpfeiffer@ymail.com or 303-549-3047
    fr.d.hewko@gmail.com or 315-391-7575
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    « Reply #1 on: September 14, 2013, 06:07:41 AM »
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  • The new Kentucky seminarians can learn to be builders as well as priests! The Virginia seminarians will fit in with the new pseudo architecture and have manicured fingernails


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    « Reply #2 on: September 14, 2013, 12:12:33 PM »
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  • Quote from: Wessex
    The new Kentucky seminarians can learn to be builders as well as priests! The Virginia seminarians will fit in with the new pseudo architecture and have manicured fingernails


    That is an ill-informed comment if ever there was one. Apparently, you do not know

    about the Virginia "labor camp" that has been going on all summer long. The young

    seminarians have been clearing the land, fighting snakes and black widow spiders

    suffering heat and humidity while living in far less than average quarters and eating

    less than average food.


    Wessex, you do an injustice to each and every one of those young men who are

    doing their best to glorify God. What have you done this summer?

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    « Reply #3 on: September 14, 2013, 01:21:31 PM »
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  • What a turgid style of writing.

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    « Reply #4 on: September 14, 2013, 04:03:15 PM »
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    Quote from: Wessex
    The new Kentucky seminarians can learn to be builders as well as priests! The Virginia seminarians will fit in with the new pseudo architecture and have manicured fingernails


    That is an ill-informed comment if ever there was one. Apparently, you do not know

    about the Virginia "labor camp" that has been going on all summer long. The young

    seminarians have been clearing the land, fighting snakes and black widow spiders

    suffering heat and humidity while living in far less than average quarters and eating

    less than average food.


    Wessex, you do an injustice to each and every one of those young men who are

    doing their best to glorify God. What have you done this summer?




    For a moment there I thought you were serious. Though I am sure there will be a labour camp of black widows to do all that cleaning. The snakes will come in the form of a batch of programmed professors now being cultured somewhere in zee France.

    Meanwhile, a Kentucky seminarian has just hit his thumb with a hammer and has uttered a rude word. Did I see Fr. Pfeiffer disguise a smile?





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    « Reply #5 on: September 14, 2013, 04:10:51 PM »
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  • A labor camp shaped like a swastika with underfed men suffering in the heat...is this a bad Spielberg film?

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    « Reply #6 on: September 14, 2013, 04:27:25 PM »
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  • It took me a while to figure out what he was getting at, but now that I've figured it out I heartily agree.

    There are too many young, unmarried men that won't even consider a vocation. "After all, I feel an attraction towards women. (Optional: I have even struggled with certain sins.) I believe I am called to be married. It's not as though I'm after lust; I want to marry a nice modest Catholic woman and raise a big family of beautiful children."

    1. So you think the seminarians and priests are all ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ or feel no attractions at all?

    2. "I am called to be married." Has God already sent you a suitable spouse? If so, congratulations! He hasn't? For 15 years and counting? Hmm...

    3. Are you confident about the career God made you for? Or are you struggling to figure out what you want to do for a living? Have you discovered A) your main interest/talent B) If it's feasible as a career and/or how to monetize it and C) have you made any progress in that direction? You don't have to make a mint; just enough to support a family.

    4. Yes, it is natural to want to marry. It's the default calling for most men. And yes, God designed marriage and it can be beautiful. And of course raising children is a higher and noble calling than getting rich, etc. However, none of that changes the fact that countless generous souls have willingly given up all those legitimate, good things to serve God more perfectly. And there are still such souls today, though Abp. Lefebvre said that each vocation is "a miracle" in this messed-up modern world.

    5. Many men are, objectively speaking, damaged goods to a greater or lesser extent. I realize that. However, you have to do SOMETHING with those damaged goods. Depending on the damage, it might be true that some aren't cut out for the high calling of the priesthood. Maybe some should try a monastic or religious vocation as a brother. At least try it out. But marriage is a serious calling with grave responsibilities as well. If you mess that vocation up, you might end up creating souls for hell. Remember that God judges parents based on how they raised their children, and a lost soul under your charge better not be your fault at all! (to be extremely blunt, and I can be, since I'm not talking to anyone in particular! *grin*)

    Meanwhile, I know what Fr. Pfeiffer is talking about. How many single and/or young people respond to a call for Resistance help with, "I can make you a website."

    The Resistance has ENOUGH websites and fora already! Plenty for the task. What we need to move forward is PRIESTS and lay assistants who can help people -- the online as well as the offline -- spreading the true doctrine of the Faith anywhere and everywhere, offering holy Mass and the Sacraments (or helping with such), and guiding souls to heaven.

    Only a certain % of the population is even online. And even if you could reach 90% of people -- then what? How will they get to Mass and the Sacraments? How will their children be brought up in the Faith? It's dangerous to try to do that without attending Mass somewhere. Adults might be able to keep the Faith, but it's too hard to practice an invisible religion with no ceremonies, no regular practices, no attendance requirements, etc. Even most Protestants have given up on that idea.

    Like the classic line offered by the unchurched: "I can pray to God just as easily in a fishing boat as I can in a silly church building." Sure, you can theoretically pray to God in your boat while fishing, but you won't. You'll live your workaday life and never take time to pray or think about God. When you're married and have kids, life starts getting busy. That's why Holy Mother Church requires us to take at least 1 day in 7 to stop and pray, think about God and our souls, and take stock of our actions. It's a good minimum to stop us from falling down too low.

    Religion is meant to be at the level of "society" as opposed to "family" or "the individual".

    One saint believed that 1/4 of men (the race, not the gender) have an objective vocation to the priesthood or religious life.

    I know way more than 4 single men (online as well as off) -- seriously, I could probably name 25 -- but only one of them has given even a passing thought to a vocation. I'm not picking on any one of them in particular, but I must say: what gives?

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    « Reply #7 on: September 14, 2013, 04:31:11 PM »
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  • I think it is impressive that there are twenty young men interested in the new seminary. Do they have enough buildings to house them?
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    « Reply #8 on: September 14, 2013, 04:31:23 PM »
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  • My impression of Traditionalism, in general, is that rather a lot of young men discern a vocation and give it a try for a few months or a few years in a seminary or monastery.

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    « Reply #9 on: September 14, 2013, 04:35:58 PM »
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    My impression of Traditionalism, in general, is that rather a lot of young men discern a vocation and give it a try for a few months or a few years in a seminary or monastery.


    A large number do, but remember the size of Tradition worldwide. There are still plenty that don't.

    And like I said in my above post (just now), it seems that none of them are known by me :)

    Actually of the roughly 25 single guys I refer to, only one of them has been to the seminary.
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    « Reply #10 on: September 14, 2013, 04:55:22 PM »
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  • I am in hope of making a visit to Kentucky to see the seminary sometime next year, to see if they can make use of an old very well theologically educated and English grammar nutsi at some point in their endeavours. I spoke with Fr. Pfeiffer, and right now more priests are needed to cross over to the Resistance.

    I am too old for a vocation at this point, having exhausted every possible prospect, but in truth the prospects all failed on their end.

    Praying this seminary and related projects will take root. I would gladly thrown in my sword and quill behind the effort.

    Young men...if you perceive and discern you have a vocation, then by all means make the effort to investigate it, and delve deeper into discernment. :pray: :pray: :pray:
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    Qui non est alius
    Qui pugnet pro nobis
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    « Reply #11 on: September 14, 2013, 05:13:20 PM »
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  • I'm glad you figured it out because I was really having trouble with it! I've read it, or tried to read it a couple of times now and my eyes get to a point where they just gloss. I think he is writing exactly as he would speak, I can hear him saying this, but it isn't necessarily the best when on paper.


    Quote from: Matthew


    4. Yes, it is natural to want to marry. It's the default calling for most men. And yes, God designed marriage and it can be beautiful. And of course raising children is a higher and noble calling than getting rich, etc. However, none of that changes the fact that countless generous souls have willingly given up all those legitimate, good things to serve God more perfectly. And there are still such souls today, though Abp. Lefebvre said that each vocation is "a miracle" in this messed-up modern world.




    When I was discerning, I never forgot what the Prioress said to me which was that she had never wanted a family more than when she made the decision to enter the convent. It stuck with me because in that moment I understood beyond the word, in action, that religious life is a sacrifice. Not that I hadn't known that or heard it before but it somehow was a bolt of a deeper understanding. Wanting to have a family is so good and natural but it doesn't necessarily mean one has no vocation. In fact the desire for a family can become even stronger since God wants you to realize and feel the sacrifice. It's truly magnanimous and inspiring.

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    « Reply #12 on: September 14, 2013, 05:21:58 PM »
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    I am in hope of making a visit to Kentucky to see the seminary sometime next year, to see if they can make use of an old very well theologically educated and English grammar nutsi at some point in their endeavours. I spoke with Fr. Pfeiffer, and right now more priests are needed to cross over to the Resistance.

    I am too old for a vocation at this point, having exhausted every possible prospect, but in truth the prospects all failed on their end.

    Praying this seminary and related projects will take root. I would gladly thrown in my sword and quill behind the effort.

    Young men...if you perceive and discern you have a vocation, then by all means make the effort to investigate it, and delve deeper into discernment. :pray: :pray: :pray:


    I am glad to hear it!

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    « Reply #13 on: September 14, 2013, 05:35:18 PM »
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    The new Kentucky seminarians can learn to be builders as well as priests! The Virginia seminarians will fit in with the new pseudo architecture and have manicured fingernails


    That is an ill-informed comment if ever there was one. Apparently, you do not know

    about the Virginia "labor camp" that has been going on all summer long. The young

    seminarians have been clearing the land, fighting snakes and black widow spiders

    suffering heat and humidity while living in far less than average quarters and eating

    less than average food.


    Wessex, you do an injustice to each and every one of those young men who are

    doing their best to glorify God. What have you done this summer?






    Put your backs into those chairs boys!
    Pssst... they be takin our photo for the seminary fundraiser.
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    « Reply #14 on: September 15, 2013, 10:27:25 AM »
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    What a turgid style of writing.


    I'd rather read the "turgid style"d writing of a holy priest, than your drivel.
    Matthew 5:37

    But let your speech be yea, yea: no, no: and that which is over and above these, is of evil.

    My Avatar is Fr. Hector Bolduc. He was a faithful parish priest in De Pere, WI,