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Traditional Catholic Faith => SSPX Resistance News => Topic started by: Matthew on April 06, 2015, 03:33:41 PM
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http://www.stdominicschapel.com
We had Fr. Garcia offer us the complete Holy Week liturgy at our small independent chapel!
It was a lot of work, but it went very well. Many people worked hard to make this Holy Week a series of beautiful Catholic ceremonies for those who attended.
I am very grateful for the generosity (time, money, expertise, serving, cooking, etc.) of several individuals.
Father did an excellent job of staying faithful to the Church's liturgy -- keeping everything dignified and rubrically correct -- despite the challenges of personnel, equipment, and very short notice in a humble, relatively new chapel.
Not pictured: the beautiful smell of frankincense, in particular during the midnight Mass. You can see in the picture how hazy it is -- that's the incense!
These pictures are just the tip of the iceberg; I took hundreds of them to immortalize this very special week.
More pictures will follow, after I get a chance to process them, etc.
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Palm Sunday
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Look at Fr. Adrian Garcia. I hope he is well.
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That is awesome!
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Look at Fr. Adrian Garcia. I hope he is well.
Yes, he is doing well. He kept quite busy while he was here, always preparing for the next ceremony. I think he spent several hours before each ceremony. He arranged things very well, and did an excellent job with the Holy Week ceremonies.
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Look forward to seeing more pics. Well done!
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What a blessing!
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I am glad that you were able to have a priest at your chapel for Holy Week. How wonderful.
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What a blessing-- terrific!
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Can someone be so kind to tell me who is Father Garcia? Where is he from? And where is he working, other than this chapel?
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Can someone be so kind to tell me who is Father Garcia? Where is he from? And where is he working, other than this chapel?
He was trained at the SSPX seminary in La Reja, Argentina, and was ordained by Bishop de Galarreta in 2000.
http://elintegristamejicano.blogspot.com.br
He currently resides in Fort Worth, TX.
Knowing where he was trained, I wasn't surprised at all when I met him. All the usual hallmarks were there:
Solid training, professional, serious about his priesthood and the Faith, level-headed, able to think clearly/precisely and make distinctions, zeal and respect for the Church's liturgy, Catholic attitude, etc.
There's a good reason why the SSPX was my first choice for many years...
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If his last assignment was La Salette' boys school, then I met him, I thought I recognized him from the pictures! What great news!!!
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More pictures!
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Is this at your private chapel or is this at another location?
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Is this at your private chapel or is this at another location?
This is at our chapel, yes. It's on our property, so I suppose you could call it a private chapel. But we regularly invite everyone interested to attend, not just friends, so in that respect it's not so private.
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http://www.StDominicsChapel.com
When did Fr Garcia joined the resistance ?
This is a very good news ...
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When did Fr Garcia joined the resistance ?
This is a very good news ...
Has he joined the resistance? I would wait and let him speak about it himself if he will.
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If "Catholic" isn't enough (my great aunt didn't believe in purgatory, and went to a Novus Ordo/protestant service every Sunday, etc. but considered herself "Catholic") then I would at least hope that Traditional Catholic (a Catholic willing to attend illicit Masses outside the official Church structures, in order to keep the Faith and oppose Modernism/Vatican II) is enough!
Am I the only one to think it's ridiculous how many adjectives we're adding to our religion?
I'm a "Pfeiffer Resistance Traditional Catholic"
I'm a "non-Pfeiffer Resistance Traditional Catholic"
When did the Traditional movement become so sectarian that everyone needs/wants to know which "team" you are loyal to?
And on what dark, evil day did "Traditional Catholic" become not good enough?
Actually, we are just Catholics -- we are adhering to the centuries-old Catholicism, which is inherently Traditional, with no new doctrines or changes to practices or doctrine. The non-trad Catholics should have the burden of the adjective: Conciliar Catholic. They are the ones who changed our religion -- the ones who weren't content with our holy religion as it was.
So our only loyalty should be to Catholicism (which is, by its very nature, traditional). All other loyalties to various groups should be contingent upon that group being loyal to Catholicism and the fight against errors opposed to Catholicism.
Are you looking to make a jersey for Father? He respectfully declines your jersey, I'm sure.
Certain questions it is nice to have answered, such as the priest's view on Sedevacantism, or where he was trained.
Fr. Garcia is not a sedevacantist, and he was trained at one of the best places a priest could study in the late 90's -- the SSPX seminary in La Reja, Argentina.
As for the validity of his ordination (another valid question for concerned Trad Catholics), that is beyond reproach: he was ordained by Bishop de Galarreta, one of the 4 bishops consecrated by +Lefebvre in 1988.
As far as I'm concerned, that's all I (or anyone else) needs to know.
If you want to know more, get to know him! Come to his Masses. Don't pigeonhole him based on a "position" or "team".
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I know him very well. He gave me 6 months of pre-marriage classes at the seminary in Winona in 2012, before he was an official priest of the US district. He's a great priest and has a good priestly-training from what I have seen. He knows how to explain the errors of the Council very well. He also knows how to explain the Jєωιѕн problem and the masonic problem in very clear terms. He has been into my home to enjoy a gentlemen's jack with me so I have a lot of respect for him for many reasons.
He doesn't seem to me to be the type of priest to come out in favor of the resistance, and by the resistance I mean the Priestly Union of Marcel Lefebvre, just like the once traditional Priestly Union of St. John Marie Vianney.
I don't see a thing wrong with using these terms to refer to specific groups of priest.
He defended Bishop Fellay's "religious liberty" squabble interview as being the Bishop taken out of context once, and it's no secret that he was excited about a deal in 2012, and even suggested that I shouldn't upload Bishop Tissier's 2012 ordination sermon to the internet, so this is why I don't see him as a supporter of Bishop Williamson. Which begs the question "Why leave the Society, if not for being opposed to a deal with the Vatican?"
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Which begs the question "Why leave the Society, if not for being opposed to a deal with the Vatican?"
Well, the way I see it, words are cheap -- and actions speak louder than words.
If he wanted a deal or looked forward to a deal, he'd certainly want to be part of the group that's about to consummate a deal with Rome, right?
Right now, by leaving the SSPX -- not to join the Indult or diocese, but to become an independent priest -- he's certainly smashed his chances of fame, wealth, etc. he could have had by compromising with modernist Rome.
If he was pro-Rome, he should have
A) stayed in the SSPX, so he could ride in on their coattails, to be part of the great "whatever" that would take place after they re-enter Rome -- he'd have a certain instant fame.
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B) Left the SSPX to make his own deal with Rome -- re-enter the diocese, FSSP, etc. and he could have had his fame, better pay, etc.
But he did neither. Neither the SSPX nor Rome thinks highly of independent priests.
P.S. Some people are slower to move to action than others. Bishop Tissier made an interesting Resistance-sounding speech just a few months ago. Are all current SSPX priests condemned to be "rejected" by Trad Catholics forever, just because they are all current SSPX priests as of April 9, 2015? Is it too late after that to do the right thing? God forbid!
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Which begs the question "Why leave the Society, if not for being opposed to a deal with the Vatican?"
Right now, by leaving the SSPX -- not to join the Indult or diocese, but to become an independent priest -- he's certainly smashed his chances of fame, wealth, etc. he could have had by compromising with modernist Rome.
If he was pro-Rome, he should have
A) stayed in the SSPX, so he could ride in on their coattails, to be part of the great "whatever" that would take place after they re-enter Rome -- he'd have a certain instant fame.
OR
B) Left the SSPX to make his own deal with Rome -- re-enter the diocese, FSSP, etc. and he could have had his fame, better pay, etc.
I wouldn't say that he is on the search for any of those things, just being a Catholic priest.
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Is this at your private chapel or is this at another location?
This is at our chapel, yes. It's on our property, so I suppose you could call it a private chapel. But we regularly invite everyone interested to attend, not just friends, so in that respect it's not so private.
Do you have a regular schedule of masses?