Fr. Zendejas hit the nail on the head in his sermon last Sunday.

He taught us that we are creatures and God is the creator, and that there is only one proper relationship of us towards God: subservience, dependence and worship.

We need the Mass, we need God, we need His grace -- but He doesn't need us. It doesn't work both ways.

I think this message is quite timely, with all the bad news coming out of Boston KY right now. Someone asked, "How can you say the Resistance is still the safest place for our Faith right now?"

Um...maybe it would be foolish to back it like a sports team. But to go to Mass there? Of course. As long as it's

A) A valid priest
B) offering the Tridentine Mass
C) opposing Vatican II and modernism

then everything else you get is just a bonus.

Yes, you might have to detach yourself from it a bit. I know it's a foreign concept for Americans to go somewhere, and not buy a T-shirt to wear during the week advertising what you eat/where you work out/what team you root for/etc. But you don't have to be that way! You can go to Mass, talk to the few people you determine are well-balanced or good Catholics, and then leave.

You don't have to tattoo the address of your Mass center on your neck, sign over your inheritance to your Mass center, tithe 30% of your income to your Mass center -- you get the idea. You can GO THERE without acting like it's an all-or-nothing cult.

If THEY give you problems because you fail to show a cult-like commitment and devotion -- then you've found yourself one Mass center to avoid!

Let me throw the question back at you. Where do YOU think the safest place for a Catholic is?

A) Novus Ordo? Don't make me laugh. It should be self-evident why this isn't an option. 50 years of proof of what happens to Catholics when they let themselves be brainwashed by this protestant, Freemasonic product bringing us to the nєω ωσrℓ∂ σr∂єr.

B) Indult? See A). In the Indult, Vatican II isn't portrayed as something evil, nor are all the errors in the modern Church pointed out in all their ugliness. Truth is important as well as the Mass. We need truth to get us to heaven.

C) SSPX? Depends on where you go. But see B). They are fast-becoming the Indult, and they have already stopped militantly fighting Vatican II, the Modern World, and its errors.

D) Independent chapels? Sedevacantism? Your mileage may vary. Some are too cult-like; but at any rate there aren't very many of these, and they carry their own risks (especially sedevacantism, with its problems in the Authority area). Independent chapels can be a very good choice, but it all depends on the priest and how he was formed.

E) Eastern Rite?  I don't think this is a magic bullet either. I was born Latin Rite and that's where I belong. I'm an American male born in America. Also, the number of "traditional" Eastern Rite chapels is very, very small. And the whole "Eastern hemisphere" is a foreign world to most of us reading this. How many of us really know our Maronite from our Greek Orthodox from our Uniate Churches? A few of us, sure, because CathInfo is an educated crowd. But plenty of us wouldn't know where to start. It's all...*ahem* Greek to us.

F) Home Alone? I saved this for last so it would be letter F, as in "Failure". Home Alone is possibly the worst choice of all. You soon watch your Faith slip away, as the Catholic Faith is something lived. Countless truths, experiences, and habits become more and more of a distant memory as the years pass. It all becomes more remote. The Faith is a habit of life. We need the weekly graces from Mass and the Sacraments. We need those constant gentle reminders and encouragements from priests and fellow-Catholics on how to be Catholic. I've seen first-hand what happens to people who stop going to Mass (through their own fault). It's all downhill for them.

The Resistance is basically the heir to the SSPX, which was the most popular Trad position for decades -- and for good reason. It was eminently Catholic.

But that doesn't mean there won't be problems, as this Crisis enters its 50th year. The shepherd is struck, and the sheep will be scattered.

In my opinion, the SSPX has been for some time, is now, and will remain for the foreseeable future the best and safest place for me to (1) attend the true Mass, the Mass of all Ages, (2) receive from the good and faithful priests of the Society the other Sacraments of the Church in their fulness, especially the Sacrament of Penance whenever my weakness makes it necessary, (3) be taught the true Faith in its integral purity, (4) and remain always in indisputable communion with the Holy Father and with the Roman Church. Though currently I regularly attend an SSPX chapel, I would also attend a parish affiliated with the Fraternity of St. Peter if the necessity arose, the Indult is still the true Mass. I would not personally attend a sedevacantist chapel, for reason no. (4).