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Traditional Catholic Faith => SSPX Resistance News => Topic started by: Plenus Venter on June 10, 2025, 08:36:06 PM
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Fr Onuorah needs to raise USD$25000 in order to purchase the land beside his church under construction, so that the building works can continue.
As Father explains in the video below, the church is right up against the boundary of the neighbouring land, and the side chapels (not yet built) actually project onto the neighbour's land... I guess it can only happen in the third world...
Purchasing the land will also enable them to have processions around the church grounds.
In order to raise the necessary funds, Father is looking for 25 faithful who would be prepared to give a stipend of USD$1000 for either 1. a Gregorian Mass (30 consecutive Masses offered for a departed soul/souls - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_Masses), or 2. 3 Mass Novenas plus 3 single Masses, making up 30 Masses in total.
It really is a golden opportunity for us faithful who are able to afford it, as not many priests are able to accept Gregorians because of the few priests and high demand for Masses. It also gives us the opportunity to acquire friends in Heaven who will be our helpers and advocates to see that we one day join them in Paradise praising God for all eternity.
Fr Onuorah and Fr Chigbata will undertake to offer these Masses within a 2 year period so that they still have about 50% of days during that period when they will be able to accept other Mass intentions. So first in, first served as they say. Father has already been sent intentions for 4 Gregorians, so he needs another 21.
If you want to take advantage of this wonderful opportunity and at the same time support this worthy cause, here is what you should do:
1. Email Fr Onuorah your Mass intention/intentions, and confirm that he can accept: onuorajoe93@gmail.com
2. Send your stipend to Father:
Fr Joseph Emenike ONUORAH
Email: onuorajoe93@gmail.com (onuorajoe93@gmail.com)
Bank name: Access Bank
Account name: Onuorah Joseph Emenike
Account number: 1521958238
Sort code: 185008
Swift code: ABNGNGLA
Address: International Market, Orlu, Imo state, Nigeria
Sending Currency: USD only
RECIPIENT'S ADDRESS:
1 Maryland Avenue, Anaku
Ayamelum LGA, Anambra State, 433109, Nigeria
Alternatively you can use PayPal. Fr Onuorah wrote to me recently:
Greetings in Our Lord Jesus Christ my dear brother... happy first week of Lent. I got a PayPal account of a Nigerian Traditional Catholic faithful who is living in US. I explained to her and she promised to send the money to me in Nigerian currency once any donation is sent to her PayPal account.
Below is the PayPal account details: My PayPal account is @ChinweOparaji
Email: f_chinwefausta@outlook.com (f_chinwefausta@outlook.com)
If any donation is sent to the account for our Church building project kindly write me so that I will inform her to forward it to me immediately in Nigerian currency. Once it reaches me I will inform you...
We have used the Revolut app many times to successfully transfer money to Fr Onuorah.
If you are not familiar with our Nigerian missionaries and want to know more, see these threads:
https://www.cathinfo.com/sspx-resistance-news/urgent-appeal-by-nigerian-resistance-for-financial-help/
https://www.cathinfo.com/sspx-resistance-news/appeal-for-fr-chigbata-eye-surgery/
https://www.cathinfo.com/sspx-resistance-news/resistance-in-nigeria-72685/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oogx_j8H9Rg
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3J5YEe27zdI
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Anyone in Australia who wants to support this initiative can message me if you want me to arrange the international transfer for you.
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Happy feast of Corpus Christi to all! One can imagine a glorious Corpus Christi procession around this church when it is built if Fr Onuorah is able to acquire the neighbouring land.
Disappointingly, and rather surprisingly, there has been absolutely NO RESPONSE to this appeal throughout the entire Resistance world. How is that possible?
I have obtained 5 stipends from our little group here in Australia, that leaves another 20 that we still need in order to purchase the land. This stipend for an Australian is about 155% of the normal stipend for a Gregorian. For those in the US, it is simply the normal stipend suggested for a Gregorian. For those in Europe, I imagine it is somewhere in between. It is as much an opportunity for us faithful, as it is a helping hand for the missions.
So please, I am begging EVERY Resistance member and guest who comes onto this forum to take a PERSONAL INTEREST in helping the mission to obtain the necessary funds. If we don't help them, who will? You may not have a brass razoo, but can you not promote this among you family and friends, even SSPX friends, but especially at your Resistance Mass centres? Ask your priest/bishop to promote this appeal and help our poor brothers in the missions. Perhaps if someone in your congregation has recently passed away, you could take up a collection to have a Gregorian offered for the repose of their soul? Perhaps you are able to team up with two others and each take advantage of the Novenas instead?
I think this is so achievable if only there is the will out there to help these poor priests. There are surely 20 faithful scattered through the Resistance or their contacts who would want to take advantage of this opportunity to have a priest offer a Gregorian Mass.
PLEASE HELP!
THANK YOU!!
https://youtube.com/shorts/3J5YEe27zdI (https://youtube.com/shorts/3J5YEe27zdI?feature=share)
https://youtube.com/shorts/1omtSoQlJCU (https://youtube.com/shorts/1omtSoQlJCU)
https://youtube.com/shorts/SGxISVltKyc (https://youtube.com/shorts/SGxISVltKyc)
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Fr Onuorah needs to raise USD$25000 in order to purchase the land beside his church under construction, so that the building works can continue.
So, they have already begun construction according to a plan that, to be completed, requires the purchase of a neighboring parcel, but they do not yet possess said parcel? Not gonna lie...not well thought out.
Unless I am mistaken, this is connected to the priest who needs/needed money for an eye operation, all of it before they'd even schedule the operation?
Not exactly a solid, reassuring track record.
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So, they have already begun construction according to a plan that, to be completed, requires the purchase of a neighboring parcel, but they do not yet possess said parcel? Not gonna lie...not well thought out.
Unless I am mistaken, this is connected to the priest who needs/needed money for an eye operation, all of it before they'd even schedule the operation?
Not exactly a solid, reassuring track record.
Well thank you for your support GV, you must have a great understanding of the Third World and the missions, not to mention medical procedures. Where in the world can you schedule a medical procedure before you can pay for it? Nowhere is the answer. You would do better to remain silent if you are only here to criticise and undermine our efforts. How about making some reparation and coming up with a stipend? You might have to put up with drinking quaffers for a few months instead of your premium cab savs, but I'm sure you can do it.
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My sister is a doctor who spent close to a decade in both rural Bolivia and rural Tanzania. I have four Tanzanian nephews whom she met as young orphans. They have become part of our family and all have now graduated from colleges in northern Florida.
I know quite a bit about the third world, particularly the medical situation. I also know that a notable part of many problems in such places is a lack of vision and poor planning. Beginning construction before possessing the land necessary to complete the building is unacceptable and indicative of poor planning.
I appreciate a personal attack as much or as little as the next guy, but I see no need to reciprocate.
Godspeed.
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My sister is a doctor who spent close to a decade in both rural Bolivia and rural Tanzania. I have four Tanzanian nephews whom she met as young orphans. They have become part of our family and all have now graduated from colleges in northern Florida.
I know quite a bit about the third world, particularly the medical situation. I also know that a notable part of many problems in such places is a lack of vision and poor planning. Beginning construction before possessing the land necessary to complete the building is unacceptable and indicative of poor planning.
I appreciate a personal attack as much or as little as the next guy, but I see no need to reciprocate.
Godspeed.
There was no personal attack on you at all. Your criticism was unnecessary and undermining our efforts to help Fr Onuorah build his church. As you point out, poor planning is common in the third world, it is part of life. Help us to overcome that by remedying the situation with the land rather than dissuading others from contributing. Even if there were nothing being built, what a wonderful opportunity for the faithful to have a Gregorian Mass offered. Are you with us or against us? If you want a solid reassuring track record, just look at the videos and see the amazing results obtained so far. These good priests are worthy of our praise, not criticism. And as far as Fr Chigbata's cataract surgery is concerned, he was diagnosed, obtained a quote and then successfully raised the funds, nothing improper or poorly planned whatsoever. So jump on board GV, and get the support of that sister and nephews of yours. This is for the glory of God and the salvation of souls.
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Bump!
Become an apostle for our missions!
Please help us by promoting this fundraising effort at your local Resistance chapel, both among the priests and the faithful. It would only take a little determination from each Mass centre to get the help we need for our missionaries:
Disappointingly, and rather surprisingly, there has been absolutely NO RESPONSE to this appeal throughout the entire Resistance world. How is that possible?
I have obtained 5 stipends from our little group here in Australia, that leaves another 20 that we still need in order to purchase the land. This stipend for an Australian is about 155% of the normal stipend for a Gregorian. For those in the US, it is simply the normal stipend suggested for a Gregorian. For those in Europe, I imagine it is somewhere in between. It is as much an opportunity for us faithful, as it is a helping hand for the missions.
So please, I am begging EVERY Resistance member and guest who comes onto this forum to take a PERSONAL INTEREST in helping the mission to obtain the necessary funds. If we don't help them, who will? You may not have a brass razoo, but can you not promote this among you family and friends, even SSPX friends, but especially at your Resistance Mass centres? Ask your priest/bishop to promote this appeal and help our poor brothers in the missions. Perhaps if someone in your congregation has recently passed away, you could take up a collection to have a Gregorian offered for the repose of their soul? Perhaps you are able to team up with two others and each take advantage of the Novenas instead?
I think this is so achievable if only there is the will out there to help these poor priests. There are surely 20 faithful scattered through the Resistance or their contacts who would want to take advantage of this opportunity to have a priest offer a Gregorian Mass.
PLEASE HELP!
THANK YOU!!
https://youtube.com/shorts/3J5YEe27zdI (https://youtube.com/shorts/3J5YEe27zdI?feature=share)
https://youtube.com/shorts/1omtSoQlJCU (https://youtube.com/shorts/1omtSoQlJCU)
https://youtube.com/shorts/SGxISVltKyc (https://youtube.com/shorts/SGxISVltKyc)
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Nigeria has the second largest Catholic population in Africa with 35 million Catholics out of its 230 million inhabitants, the largest Catholic population being in the DR of Congo with 55 million. Imagine the harvest for Traditional Catholic priests among these simple folk. It truly is a worthy cause and our investment in this country may produce a much richer reward than a similar investment in our western countries. Please promote this appeal if you can so that our missionaries will have a beautiful church and land to attract souls.
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Poor Fr Onuorah is living in appalling conditions for a priest. Here is what he wrote me today:
On the appeal for Gregorian Masses you sent in the Cathinfo, nothing yet. Nobody contacted me for it. I only received an email from (...) yesterday that he sent USD 100 to PayPal account as his little donation...
Actually since I joined Resistance, I never bargained to be a burden to anyone in anyway at all, either in building Chapel or in anything, but it is the circuмstances I found myself that unavoidably pushed me to be struggling to build. I know that it is not easy for anyone around the world, everyone is struggling to survive wherever he or she is. Personally I would have preferred to be secluded, just offer my Mass, say my prayers and relax. But I find myself in the midst of poor faithfuls who need Traditional Latin Mass and having new converts from time to time, hence the need to have a permanent place for the worship of God and nurture this growing faith in the Catholic Tradition. So I don't know what is the will of God for the future, growth and spread of Traditional Latin Mass here in Nigeria and the world.
Presently I am still living in a rented apartment paying house rent annually. I am living with the landlord and his family who are not even novus ordo Catholics at all not to talk of Traditional Catholics. They have big poultry farm and dog farm inside the compound with the offensive odours oozing out sometimes. It is difficult to get a house here where the priest will live alone. The commercial houses here are where one must live with other tenants and or with the landlord and his family. It is not funny at all because I face a lot of distractions and unbearable noise from the hotel club near the apartment which are not compatible with the priestly life and formation.
But all the sacrifices are to promote the Traditional Latin Mass and nurture the faith of the people. The chapel we are using now is under temporary condition though our consolation is that even we are chased out today, we can even use palm fronds to make canopy in our new Church building site and offer Mass inside it provided it does not rain.
I thank you most sincerely for your sincere efforts to see us get through...
Please do what you can to help us find another 20 Gregorian Mass stipends to secure this work for Fr Onuorah for the spread of Tradition in Nigeria.
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Just curious ... how much is Father asking for the Gregorian Masses? I will give more than the ask, but I would like to know what he's asking.
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Just curious ... how much is Father asking for the Gregorian Masses? I will give more than the ask, but I would like to know what he's asking.
Father was asking for a loan of USD25000 in order to acquire the vacant land next door to the church construction site.
I told him that I thought the only way we could raise such a sum would be to have this appeal to find 25 faithful willing to give a stipend of USD1000 for a Gregorian Mass with the priests undertaking to offer them within a 2 year period. That would leave about half their Masses free to be offered for other intentions.
So that is the amount we are asking for this appeal. It could also be for three novenas plus three Masses if preferred to a Gregorian.
So far I have found 5 stipends here in Australia, so we are trying to find another 20.
Having said that, Fr Onuorah would be happy to accept your Mass intentions and whatever stipend you can afford. It doesn't have to fit neatly into this appeal!
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Father was asking for a loan of USD25000 in order to acquire the vacant land next door to the church construction site.
I told him that I thought the only way we could raise such a sum would be to have this appeal to find 25 faithful willing to give a stipend of USD1000 for a Gregorian Mass with the priests undertaking to offer them within a 2 year period. That would leave about half their Masses free to be offered for other intentions.
So that is the amount we are asking for this appeal. It could also be for three novenas plus three Masses if preferred to a Gregorian.
So far I have found 5 stipends here in Australia, so we are trying to find another 20.
Having said that, Fr Onuorah would be happy to accept your Mass intentions and whatever stipend you can afford. It doesn't have to fit neatly into this appeal!
Thank you. So he's requesting (or, rather, suggesting) a stipend of $1000 for the Gregorian Masses It's so difficult in the United States to find priests to offer Mass, so I'm surprised that more Catholics would not take advantage of the opportunity. I did not see this appeal myself until this last bump, since I had been out of town for a couple weeks and not regularly looking at the forum.
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Thank you. So he's requesting (or, rather, suggesting) a stipend of $1000 for the Gregorian Masses It's so difficult in the United States to find priests to offer Mass, so I'm surprised that more Catholics would not take advantage of the opportunity. I did not see this appeal myself until this last bump, since I had been out of town for a couple weeks and not regularly looking at the forum.
Thanks Ladislaus. Yes, I really am very surprised too, it is such a wonderful opportunity for us. How often someone dies and it's impossible to find a priest who can accept a Gregorian, such a consolation especially when you lose someone really close to you. I really wish the priests and faithful in our Mass centres would get behind this, I'm sure we could easily raise the funds, and if we don't help the missions, who will?
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Thanks Ladislaus. Yes, I really am very surprised too, it is such a wonderful opportunity for us. How often someone dies and it's impossible to find a priest who can accept a Gregorian, such a consolation especially when you lose someone really close to you. I really wish the priests and faithful in our Mass centres would get behind this, I'm sure we could easily raise the funds, and if we don't help the missions, who will?
It's interesting that we still refer to them as "missions" ... when my feeling is that we're ALL missionary territory now given the crisis in the Church.
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It's interesting that we still refer to them as "missions" ... when my feeling is that we're ALL missionary territory now given the crisis in the Church.
True, and we could get all philosophical about where we should spend our time and resources, or which places should be prioritized.
But something like this I consider "above my pay grade" and I think God's will is best done by letting individual Catholics be moved to donate to whatever "Ecclesiastical causes" they are inspired to.
It's hard to not be biased on something like this, since (as you said) Texas is missionary country as well. Even more so than other US States. In other words, most of the state has *nothing* Traditional Catholic within a 2 hour drive.
A priest getting a Trad chapel going in Texas would be building up from scratch -- just like any other missionary endeavor.
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While all may do with their own money as they see fit, it might be wise to investigate further before doing so. For example, can it be demonstrated that more money/land will not be required just to continue/complete the project?
If you need money to buy land to continue building, how are you going to pay for the continued building itself?
Is this lack of planning a rarity, or is the entire project just a poorly-thought-out black hole?
Modern clerics -- i.e., Traddieland's "heroes" -- are absolutely notorious for being practically clueless and unnecessarily wasteful. I would not give a single dime to any of them without first ascertaining the wisdom of a particular project and the track record of the cleric in charge. They are ALL vagus clerics and, as such, no one is obliged to give them anything.
Do as you see fit, of course, but I would not trust anyone that gets bent out of shape at such inquiries.
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True, and we could get all philosophical about where we should spend our time and resources, or which places should be prioritized.
But something like this I consider "above my pay grade" and I think God's will is best done by letting individual Catholics be moved to donate to whatever "Ecclesiastical causes" they are inspired to.
It's hard to not be biased on something like this, since (as you said) Texas is missionary country as well. Even more so than other US States. In other words, most of the state has *nothing* Traditional Catholic within a 2 hour drive.
A priest getting a Trad chapel going in Texas would be building up from scratch -- just like any other missionary endeavor.
We don't have to make it too complicated, we simply do what we can to help those in need who ask an alms in the name of Our Lord, and what a recompense shall be ours on the Day of Judgement when we learn it was Our Lord Himself that we came to assist.
Widows' mites from all over the world would help these priests labouring in the Third World to do what they could never do with their own resources. Taking advantage of a Gregorian Mass would help even more while helping the poor souls at the same time.
Needless to say, Catholic Tradition that refuses to compromise with the Conciliar church is sorely in need of material support all over the world. However, we are not in opposition, and giving to one won't leave the others any poorer.
Luke 6:38
[38] Give, and it shall be given to you: good measure and pressed down and shaken together and running over shall they give into your bosom. For with the same measure that you shall mete withal, it shall be measured to you again.
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While all may do with their own money as they see fit, it might be wise to investigate further before doing so. For example, can it be demonstrated that more money/land will not be required just to continue/complete the project?
If you need money to buy land to continue building, how are you going to pay for the continued building itself?
Is this lack of planning a rarity, or is the entire project just a poorly-thought-out black hole?
Modern clerics -- i.e., Traddieland's "heroes" -- are absolutely notorious for being practically clueless and unnecessarily wasteful. I would not give a single dime to any of them without first ascertaining the wisdom of a particular project and the track record of the cleric in charge. They are ALL vagus clerics and, as such, no one is obliged to give them anything.
Do as you see fit, of course, but I would not trust anyone that gets bent out of shape at such inquiries.
OK, but they're taking Mass requests. It's nearly impossible to have Masses offered by US based clergy, much less Gregorian Masses. I knew someone who sent the stipend in to SSPX for the Gregorian Masses, and over 2 years later had to keep pestering them to get them said. Also, with SSPX, you have a 50-50 shot that they'd assign them to an NO priest who has not been conditionally ordained.
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OK, but they're taking Mass requests.
Then by all means do as you see fit. I am just advocating for people to think, even if only a little, before they act.
FWIW, do not charlatans take Mass requests/stipends? NO clergy still accept them, too. So what?
Doing a little homework is never a bad idea. Carry on...
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If you need money to buy land to continue building, how are you going to pay for the continued building itself?
Through the generosity of the Catholic faithful who appreciate what these priests are doing for the glory of God and the salvation of souls.
These priests come with the recommendation of Fr Ortiz. They are already well known in the Resistance.
Our group here in Australia has arranged a monthly transfer to these priests so that they have something to rely on and can continue their building work. The amount that we send is in the order of AUD500 each month, with small and large contributions from a good number of faithful. If you would like to contribute it is not difficult, watching the videos, to see what great work they are doing, and what a great return you are getting for your investment, even more so in view of eternity.
You can make your contributions through PayPal or international bank transfer as per the details given in the OP. We use Revolut to transfer our funds which gives a good rate and very efficient service.
But why not have a Gregorian Mass offered for one of your dear departed loved ones?
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Then by all means do as you see fit. I am just advocating for people to think, even if only a little, before they act.
FWIW, do not charlatans take Mass requests/stipends? NO clergy still accept them, too. So what?
Doing a little homework is never a bad idea. Carry on...
But I don't think too much thought is necessary. If I offer a priest a stipden for Gergorian Masses ... if he ends up wasting it, giving it away, gambling, or buying booze, what does it really matter? I'm not interested in what he does with the money, but in the Masses.
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Here is part of the conclusion of Fr Chigbata's and Fr Onuorah's reply (January 2021) to their suspensions etc by their NO Archbishop:
CONCLUSION
Archbishop Viganò's response as published on September 1st by Catholic Family
News (see full text below) is clear: “it is not the faithful Catholics who oppose
the changing of the faith, but those who perpetrate these changes that ought to
be questioned. We need to discuss the position of those who, declaring
themselves Catholic, embrace the heterodox doctrines that have spread over
these decades, with the awareness that these represent a rupture with the
preceding Magisterium. In this case it is licit to doubt their real adherence to the
Catholic Church, in which however they hold official roles that confer authority
on them.”
“If people who hold heterodox views are in positions of authority in the
Church,” he continues, “It is an illicitly exercised authority, if its purpose is to
force the faithful to accept the revolution imposed since the Council.”
Thus, Viganò continues, “it is not the Traditional faithful – that is, true Catholics,
in the words of Saint Pius X – that must abandon the Church in which they have
the full right to remain and from which it would be unfortunate to separate; but
rather the Modernists who usurp the Catholic name, precisely because it is only
the bureaucratic element that permits them not to be considered on a par with
any heretical sect.”
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For more information about the history of the Nigerian Resistance apostolate see these previous posts:
https://www.cathinfo.com/sspx-resistance-news/nigerian-resistance-priests/
https://www.cathinfo.com/sspx-resistance-chapels/resistance-in-nigeria/
This link gives information about Fr Pierre Celestin Ndong who wrote the above account of his visit to these priests:
https://www.cathinfo.com/sspx-resistance-news/apostolate-of-resistance-priest-fr-pierre-celestin-ndong-in-africa/
Also posted on Fr Pivert's site here:
https://abbe-pivert.com/seconde-visite-a-nos-confreres-du-nigeria-par-m-labbe-ndong-ondo/
https://www.cathinfo.com/sspx-resistance-news/nigerian-vocations/
https://www.cathinfo.com/sspx-resistance-news/resistance-in-nigeria-72685/
https://www.cathinfo.com/sspx-resistance-news/urgent-appeal-by-nigerian-resistance-for-financial-help/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/942934312430116/posts/8811740482216087/
https://www.cathinfo.com/sspx-resistance-news/bishop-paul-morgan's-pastoral-visit-to-nigerias-traditional-catholics/msg963469/#msg963469
Can you help them find a Gregorian Mass stipend to support their work?(https://i.imgur.com/3gqJsUg.jpeg)
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Plenus ... perhaps you could provide a brief overview. I know that many here are concerned about the New Rite of Ordination, so assurances about their conditional ordination may help in terms of getting the word out about the Gregorian Masses.
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It here that they were conditionally ordained ...
https://www.cathinfo.com/sspx-resistance-news/bishop-paul-morgan's-pastoral-visit-to-nigerias-traditional-catholics/msg963469/#msg963469
Presumably they received enough training where they are fluent enough in Latin to validly offer Mass.
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If I offer a priest a stipend for Gregorian Masses ... if he ends up wasting it, giving it away, gambling, or buying booze, what does it really matter? I'm not interested in what he does with the money, but in the Masses.
If a priest gambles away the money -- to use your own example -- exactly why would you trust that he offered the Masses? How would you even verify that he did so? Don't get me wrong; God sees your good intention and that counts for something. However, that is not the only consideration.
I know nothing about Bp. Morgan and really don't care one way or another, but perhaps those who know more can rest assured knowing that these priests passed his own litmus test.
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Plenus ... perhaps you could provide a brief overview. I know that many here are concerned about the New Rite of Ordination, so assurances about their conditional ordination may help in terms of getting the word out about the Gregorian Masses.
Thanks Lad.
This is part of Matthew's post from Nov 19, 2022 (https://www.cathinfo.com/sspx-resistance-news/nigerian-vocations/):
From Fr. Ortiz --
I'm in contact with two Resistance priests working in Nigeria, Fathers Chigbata and Onuorah. I formed them giving them Theology classes and they were conditionally reordained by Bp. Tomas Aquinas in Brazil.
Their Apostolate is thriving despite many persecutions from the novus ordo authorities and from political unrest.
I've been instrumental not only in preparing them to be truly Traditional priests, but also I'm permanently in touch with them. I vouch for them.
For those unfamiliar with Fr Juan Carlos Ortiz, he is a native of Columbia who studied and was ordained at Econe in 1984 by Archbishop Lefebvre. He has been with the Resistance from the outset. He authored a very scholarly work "The New Hermeneutic of Bishop Fellay", and he also published a very thorough investigation exposing Ambrose Moran, warning Fr Pfeiffer and Fr Hewko. He was with Fr Ringrose during the early years of the Resistance and has now returned to his native Colombia. You can see him with Bishop Zendejas among his faithful in Colombia in this recent post here: https://www.cathinfo.com/sspx-resistance-news/resistance-confirmations-colombia-28th-april-zendejasfr-ortiz/ Fr Ortiz was formerly a seminary professor at Holy Cross Seminary, Australia, during the tenures of Fr Peter Scott and Fr Vicente Griego as rectors.
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Thank you, Plenus. I sent Father a stipend for Gregorian Masses, and we corresponded a little -- and he authorized me to set up this fundraiser (link below). When I was sharing Bishop Williamson's classes on Substack, I got over 200 subscribers there, so I'm going to send this out to everyone there in hopes of helping raise the funds they need ... in addition to posting this link here of course.
This organization requests an optional donation (that you can zero out of make really small, like $1). There are only one or two totally free ones, but they all require that one has an officially-registered non-profit, which I do not have. They also take 3.2% out for credit card transactions. But after they get their take, every dime of this will be sent to Father Onuorah.
https://giveahand.com/fundraiser/st-michaels-catholic-church-construction
If you can't donate, then perhaps you could please help by sharing the link.
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Thank you, Plenus. I sent Father a stipend for Gregorian Masses, and we corresponded a little -- and he authorized me to set up this fundraiser (link below). When I was sharing Bishop Williamson's classes on Substack, I got over 200 subscribers there, so I'm going to send this out to everyone there in hopes of helping raise the funds they need ... in addition to posting this link here of course.
This organization requests an optional donation (that you can zero out of make really small, like $1). There are only one or two totally free ones, but they all require that one has an officially-registered non-profit, which I do not have. They also take 3.2% out for credit card transactions. But after they get their take, every dime of this will be sent to Father Onuorah.
https://giveahand.com/fundraiser/st-michaels-catholic-church-construction
If you can't donate, then perhaps you could please help by sharing the link.
Ladislaus, you are a champion, God bless you! Please God this will reach a lot more people.
You've done a great job with the presentation. Where did you find those photos of Father's conditional ordination?
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Ladislaus, you are a champion, God bless you! Please God this will reach a lot more people.
You've done a great job with the presentation. Where did you find those photos of Father's conditional ordination?
Father sent me the photos, and quite a few more. I can forward them along and post them here. I really didn't do much ... as it only took a few minutes to put this together based on photos that Father sent me. They don't exactly line up properly in the user interface, but the editing capabilities in it aren't very good.
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Father sent me the photos, and quite a few more. I can forward them along and post them here. I really didn't do much ... as it only took a few minutes to put this together based on photos that Father sent me. They don't exactly line up properly in the user interface, but the editing capabilities in it aren't very good.
Excellent job, thanks a million. Sure, it would be great to have more photos posted.
This just makes donating and sharing with others so easy.
I haven't really promoted this fundraiser locally yet, I will start doing that in about a week.
If you haven't checked out Ladislaus' new crowd funding page for the Nigerian mission, have a look and share it with others:
https://giveahand.com/fundraiser/st-michaels-catholic-church-construction (https://giveahand.com/fundraiser/st-michaels-catholic-church-construction)
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Unfortunately I'm not seeing much activity. Even a little bit, like $5 can add up if enough people throw something in. When I cleaned up and posted those seminary classes from Bishop Williamson, I got over 200 subscribers and I did send an e-mail out to all of them with information ... but not too much of a response yet. I know people have other causes to donate to, but if each of those 200 just gave $5, that would be $1,000 less they need out of the 25K, so anything helps.
As mentioned, I started corresponding with Father after requesting Gregorian Masses ... something that's very hard to come by anywhere else, and I'm surprised no one else has taken advantage of it. Only other place you can get them is through SSPX ... and there not only do they reserve the right to send it to any priest (including ones not conditionally ordained), but one individual here expressed frustrations that he had heard nothing after 2 years and then had to pester them for a long time before those got offered.
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UPDATE:
Fr Onuorah now has received 7 Gregorian Mass stipends (USD7000) out of the goal of 25, that is just past the quarter mark for our fundraiser. We need another 18. Can you help by promoting it among your family and friends who may have lost a loved one and may be looking to have a Gregorian Mass offered?
It is so easy to contribute to the cause now with this crowdfunding page which Ladislaus has kindly set up for us. You can also use this facility to arrange a Gregorian Mass:
https://giveahand.com/fundraiser/st-michaels-catholic-church-construction
Even if we just had a couple of hundred Resistance folk who visit this forum go on and donate $20, what a helping hand for Fr Onuorah. Don't think that any amount is too small. And it's as easy as paying for your coffee!
In addition to this fundraiser, we have started here in Australia a monthly collection for the mission to give Fr Onuorah some regular income that he can rely on to enable him to plan his building works. This month of June we were able to transfer to him just on USD$1000. So we really are making some progress, and with just a little more help we can solve this issue of the land for him so that he can keep going with his construction. Look at the videos if you haven't already done so, it's amazing what he has achieved.
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Two and a half thousand times this thread has been read. That is surely over a thousand souls who have passed by. Yet we only have 3 donors to Ladislaus' crowdfunding initiative. It's so easy to give. Can you lend a hand by shouting the missions a coffee or two?
https://giveahand.com/fundraiser/st-michaels-catholic-church-construction
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Two and a half thousand times this thread has been read. That is surely over a thousand souls who have passed by. Yet we only have 3 donors to Ladislaus' crowdfunding initiative. It's so easy to give. Can you lend a hand by shouting the missions a coffee or two?
https://giveahand.com/fundraiser/st-michaels-catholic-church-construction
I can't speak for everyone but many traditional Catholic families I know are very stretched for funds...
One family I know barely makes enough to put food on the table. We try to help them when we can but this economy and the raised price of everything doesn't help.
I used almost all of the inheritance money my Grandmother left me a few years ago to have Gregorian Masses offered for her and my grandfather after she died. I would not have been able to afford this if it had not been for the inheritance. None of my family are traditional Catholics and so I wanted to make sure I had the Masses take place. There were many other things we could have used the money for...but I have no regrets using it for the Gregorian Masses instead.
So... Some of us might not be able to offer money but we offer what we can...
Prayers for Father Onuorah, the church and the mission over there. :pray:
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I can't speak for everyone but many traditional Catholic families I know are very stretched for funds...
One family I know barely makes enough to put food on the table. We try to help them when we can but this economy and the raised price of everything doesn't help.
I used almost all of the inheritance money my Grandmother left me a few years ago to have Gregorian Masses offered for her and my grandfather after she died. I would not have been able to afford this if it had not been for the inheritance. None of my family are traditional Catholics and so I wanted to make sure I had the Masses take place. There were many other things we could have used the money for...but I have no regrets using it for the Gregorian Masses instead.
So... Some of us might not be able to offer money but we offer what we can...
Prayers for Father Onuorah, the church and the mission over there. :pray:
Thank you AMDGJMJ, I am sure Father values all the prayers very much.
There's no question, many families are struggling to make ends meet and there are many calls on their charity.
But for all those who don't even have to think twice about going to the pub tonight and shouting a round, may they also consider shouting a round or two for the missions!
And even better if everyone who comes upon this thread could make known to their family and friends this great opportunity to assist the souls of their departed loved ones by having a Gregorian Mass offered.
I am certain that if I could only stir up the zeal of a few souls out there in one or two of the Mass centres, we could easily get this church built for Fr Onuorah.
May God bless all for their spiritual and material support.
Lend a hand if you can:
https://giveahand.com/fundraiser/st-michaels-catholic-church-construction
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Do you want to have a Gregorian Mass offered for a departed loved one? It can easily be arranged here, while at the same time supporting our Nigerian missionaries:
https://giveahand.com/fundraiser/st-michaels-catholic-church-construction (https://giveahand.com/fundraiser/st-michaels-catholic-church-construction)
We have now passed the USD$10000 mark in our fundraiser, but we are still about $15000 short of what is required. Please spread the word among your family and friends and at your Mass centre.
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Do you want to have a Gregorian Mass offered for a departed loved one? It can easily be arranged here, while at the same time supporting our Nigerian missionaries:
https://giveahand.com/fundraiser/st-michaels-catholic-church-construction (https://giveahand.com/fundraiser/st-michaels-catholic-church-construction)
We have now passed the USD$10000 mark in our fundraiser, but we are still about $15000 short of what is required. Please spread the word among your family and friends and at your Mass centre.
This is a final plug for Fr Onuorah and his church construction and land acquisition project.
There has been essentially zero interest in the crowdfunding page set up by Ladislaus: four donations, two by me and I suspect at least one by Ladislaus to get it up and running. There is little encouragement from anyone I contact outside of our local group which surprises me. We are close to raising half the money, mostly from local fundraising efforts and a couple of generous Gregorian stipends from overseas. If you can help by circulating it on social media, at your Mass centre, among your Trad friends, or in whatever other way you can think of, it might find a few benefactors who can get us over the line. Please pray for Fr Onuorah and his apostolate in Nigeria.
https://giveahand.com/fundraiser/st-michaels-catholic-church-construction
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This is a final plug for Fr Onuorah and his church construction and land acquisition project.
There has been essentially zero interest in the crowdfunding page set up by Ladislaus: four donations, two by me and I suspect at least one by Ladislaus to get it up and running. There is little encouragement from anyone I contact outside of our local group which surprises me. We are close to raising half the money, mostly from local fundraising efforts and a couple of generous Gregorian stipends from overseas. If you can help by circulating it on social media, at your Mass centre, among your Trad friends, or in whatever other way you can think of, it might find a few benefactors who can get us over the line. Please pray for Fr Onuorah and his apostolate in Nigeria.
https://giveahand.com/fundraiser/st-michaels-catholic-church-construction
I've just received an email from Fr Onuorah which is very edifying:
Thank you so much my dear brother... for the Masses, donations and stipends. I am very grateful. May God bless you and reward you and the donors both now and forever through Jesus Christ Our Lord. Amen.
It is obvious that it is very difficult to get our expected target of $25,000 through 25 Gregorians in order to pay for the land. However, we thank God for the much we have been able to get. Everything is in God's hands. The land is His own, the chapel/Church is His own, the work is His own. Whatever be His divine will, I accept it, we accept it. We can only do the much we can, or the much He permits us to do, and we leave the rest for Him. Sometimes it becomes despairing, but we keep trusting God. I never bargained to build Church, but circuмstances pushed me into it. I know it is a heavy task to carry that's why I became afraid from the beginning, but I don't know what is the will of God for allowing the circuмstances and providing the property to start the building in the first place.
Meanwhile, I remain always eternally grateful to you for your doggedness. You are one in a million. Greet your group for me. You people have been a great source of encouragement to me and to us in Nigerian mission. You have been the pillars carrying the heavy financial loads for us most of the time leaving your own behind. God remains your eternal reward forever. Nobody can reward you except God.
Be assured of my continued prayers for you.
Send my kind regards to everyone.
God bless.
Yours in Jesus, Mary and Joseph,
Rev. Fr. Joseph Onuorah.
https://giveahand.com/fundraiser/st-michaels-catholic-church-construction (https://giveahand.com/fundraiser/st-michaels-catholic-church-construction)
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Fr Onuorah has achieved his goal of obtaining the land neighbouring his church construction. Deo gratias! His letter of appreciation is attached.
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Here is a brief YouTube video of Fr Onuorah blessing the new land:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5WH9srhmCg