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Author Topic: Indifference to the Faith at SSPX Chapels  (Read 6291 times)

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Re: Indifference to the Faith at SSPX Chapels
« Reply #10 on: February 04, 2021, 12:41:27 PM »
Pope St. Gregory the Great was speaking there in the 7th century from a Church in Rome during a pontifical mass, a Catholic city, a Catholic time. The church is packed with Catholics, and yet he wonders "how FEW they are who shall be numbered in that chosen company of the elect".

Yet on this thread we have a poster that is basically saying that his chapel is perfect, none of those things happen at my chapel.  
No one said anything about my chapel being perfect. But its certainly no den of lukewarm adulterers, marginal Catholics, and immoral beasts.

Re: Indifference to the Faith at SSPX Chapels
« Reply #11 on: February 04, 2021, 12:51:38 PM »
No one said anything about my chapel being perfect. But its certainly no den of lukewarm adulterers, marginal Catholics, and immoral beasts.
Everyone would have said the same in the 1960's about the Catholic Church that I went to as a child, way before the Novus Ordo existed, and yet today they have all lost the faith.

Perhaps the writer is someone who does not have children and goes to mass and does not get close to others in the congregation? Perhaps he is one that is impressed by the smells and bells and the few minutes he sees the well dressed congregation during mass? In order for one to know people they have to know them outside of those 2 hours at mass. A single person who's only association with the congregation is during 2 hours of mass is not going to know much about those people. Perhaps the person lives in a cold climate where there are no beaches, short shorts, pencil skirts and such signs of worldliness among the congregation? 


Re: Indifference to the Faith at SSPX Chapels
« Reply #12 on: February 04, 2021, 12:55:26 PM »
Everyone would have said the same in the 1960's about the Catholic Church that I went to as a child, way before the Novus Ordo existed, and yet today they have all lost the faith.

Perhaps the writer is someone who does not have children and goes to mass and does not get close to others in the congregation? Perhaps he is one that is impressed by the smells and bells and the few minutes he sees the well dressed congregation during mass? In order for one to know people they have to know them outside of those 2 hours at mass. A single person who's only association with the congregation is during 2 hours of mass is not going to know much about those people. Perhaps the person lives in a cold climate where there are no beaches, short shorts, pencil skirts and such signs of worldliness among the congregation?
All great points to take into consideration as possibilities, but why assume the worst by default?
You're right that I don't really know too many people in my chapel outside of Mass.

Re: Indifference to the Faith at SSPX Chapels
« Reply #13 on: February 04, 2021, 05:58:14 PM »
I have been observing for some time now that many of the new (since the late 1990’s) parents that go to my SSPX chapel, do so because of their children and not because they are seeking the faith and truth. They believe that exposing their children to “religion” will make them good children (and teenagers).  In my long experience it does not work that way. The parents have to lead by example, really living the faith. Just going to mass for the children will eventually be seen by the children for the hypocrisy that it is. I saw the same exact thing in the 1960’s when the Latin Mass was the only mass and all the sacraments were undoubtable real. It was not long after that time that the children left the Church and took up the cult of free-love, contraceptives, abortion, divorce, and a life of being passed from one man to another.

It is happening again in my SSPX chapel. It is also happening in the SSPX community in St. Mary’s Kansas, the icon of all SSPX communities with schools from K-12 to college. It is happening in the SSPX schools in Syracuse, NY. All the girls from my chapel  that were sent away to SSPX schools in St. Mary’s and Syracuse, all came back wearing immodest clothing (pencil skirts, short shorts, bathing suits, tight jeans) and boy crazy, seeking or having “boyfriends” and “dating”. Setting a bad example for all the younger girls.

The signs are all there for the loss of the faith and the downhill slide to the misery of the 1960’s (“It was not long after that time that the children left the Church and took up the cult of free-love, contraceptives, abortion, divorce and a life of being passed from one man to another”.) It is already happening at a fast pace, three unwed pregnancies, and more to come.
Unless parents and especially priests wake up on see, the downhill slide will continue, it will be the 1960’s all over again.

Re: Indifference to the Faith at SSPX Chapels
« Reply #14 on: February 04, 2021, 06:06:13 PM »
I attend an SSPX chapel and I have never experienced one iota of what you wrote.

You are over-generalizing in your sensational title.

So now we know what you are  :laugh1:

Why are you on this forum a**hole?