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Title: LET US PRAY THE NEW SSPX ROSARY CRUSADE
Post by: cantatedomino on January 06, 2014, 10:25:27 AM
Let us refrain from praying separate Rosary Crusades, but let us participate in the new SSPX Rosary Crusade. The reasons for this reside in the fruits of the previous Rosary Crusades:

1. Keep in mind this principle: The Lord is far from the wicked: and He will hear the prayers of the just (Proverbs 15:29); He hath not forgotten the cry of the poor (Psalm 9:13).

2. The prayers offered to God by the little people praying the Rosary Crusades with all their hearts and minds were heard by God and He gave the increase:

a. The covert modernism of the SSPX leadership was publicly unmasked, as was its real agenda.

b. Whatever deal was in the works was trounced.

c. Abdication of BXVI and ascendency of Bergoglio - which ascendance unmasked rome so radically that even the novus ordos are having a hard time denying.

d. Consequences of c) vis a vis the SSPX - it is now out in the open what Menzingen was actually planning to go to bed with, and also how corrupt an idea making a deal with the head of the beast really is.

It is impossible to deny that the protection and righting of the fallen traditional movement - the stated intention of the Crusade - is the absolutely crucial need of the Church right now.

Don't allow yourself to be tricked by the devil into abstaining from this call to public prayer. It is the public nature of the prayer - the public call; the publicly stated intentions; and the public participation - that makes it so powerful. If you focus on who called for the public prayer - and on his private motives, which are impossible for you to know - you will perhaps miss the time of your visitation.

Realize that God gave us many, many graces in response to our generosity over the past decade, REGARDLESS OF THE COVERT DESIGNS OF MENZINGEN, WHICH WERE ROUTED BY GOD HIMSELF! He is ready to give many more - even more powerful and radical - if we do not turn tail and run from this call to prayer.

God is not asking you to boycott this Rosary Crusade. The devil is asking you to. The last thing he wants is for the folk that have been divided from one another and set to war against each other to unite once more under the Banner of the Immaculate to pray for his extirpation.

Do you think yourself too holy to pray a Rosary Crusade called for by Bishop Bernard Fellay? Do you think that your perfect and most pure prayers will be sullied by acquiescing to this man's request for your help? Are you afraid of soiling yourself by praying with him?

I'm not. I'm going to pray with him and for him. If he has secret intentions that are against the Lord and against the Holy Faith, God will not hear him. But God will hear the prayers of the just who pray for the publicly stated - and very necessary - petitions:

1. May God protect, defend, and right the traditionalist counter-revolution.

2. May God convert modernists and make them Catholics.

3. May God finally grant us the Consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Title: LET US PRAY THE NEW SSPX ROSARY CRUSADE
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on January 06, 2014, 10:43:41 AM
I agree with you totally.  We are going to participate in the SSPX Rosary Crusade.

Title: LET US PRAY THE NEW SSPX ROSARY CRUSADE
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on January 06, 2014, 10:45:50 AM
Quote from: cantatedomino
Let us refrain from praying separate Rosary Crusades, but let us participate in the new SSPX Rosary Crusade. The reasons for this reside in the fruits of the previous Rosary Crusades:

1. Keep in mind this principle: The Lord is far from the wicked: and He will hear the prayers of the just (Proverbs 15:29); He hath not forgotten the cry of the poor (Psalm 9:13).

2. The prayers offered to God by the little people praying the Rosary Crusades with all their hearts and minds were heard by God and He gave the increase:

a. The covert modernism of the SSPX leadership was publicly unmasked, as was its real agenda.

b. Whatever deal was in the works was trounced.

c. Abdication of BXVI and ascendency of Bergoglio - which ascendance unmasked rome so radically that even the novus ordos are having a hard time denying.

d. Consequences of c) vis a vis the SSPX - it is now out in the open what Menzingen was actually planning to go to bed with, and also how corrupt an idea making a deal with the head of the beast really is.

It is impossible to deny that the protection and righting of the fallen traditional movement - the stated intention of the Crusade - is the absolutely crucial need of the Church right now.

Don't allow yourself to be tricked by the devil into abstaining from this call to public prayer. It is the public nature of the prayer - the public call; the publicly stated intentions; and the public participation - that makes it so powerful. If you focus on who called for the public prayer - and on his private motives, which are impossible for you to know - you will perhaps miss the time of your visitation.



Realize that God gave us many, many graces in response to our generosity over the past decade, REGARDLESS OF THE COVERT DESIGNS OF MENZINGEN, WHICH WERE ROUTED BY GOD HIMSELF! He is ready to give many more - even more powerful and radical - if we do not turn tail and run from this call to prayer.

God is not asking you to boycott this Rosary Crusade. The devil is asking you to. The last thing he wants is for the folk that have been divided from one another and set to war against each other to unite once more under the Banner of the Immaculate to pray for his extirpation.

Do you think yourself too holy to pray a Rosary Crusade called for by Bishop Bernard Fellay? Do you think that your perfect and most pure prayers will be sullied by acquiescing to this man's request for your help? Are you afraid of soiling yourself by praying with him?

I'm not. I'm going to pray with him and for him. If he has secret intentions that are against the Lord and against the Holy Faith, God will not hear him. But God will hear the prayers of the just who pray for the publicly stated - and very necessary - petitions:

1. May God protect, defend, and right the traditionalist counter-revolution.

2. May God convert modernists and make them Catholics.

3. May God finally grant us the Consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.






I agree totally.  
Title: LET US PRAY THE NEW SSPX ROSARY CRUSADE
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on January 06, 2014, 11:05:08 AM
Ni neart go cur le cheile.  

Viva Cristo Rey

Credidimus caritati.  

Instaurare Omnia in Christo.  

Title: LET US PRAY THE NEW SSPX ROSARY CRUSADE
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on January 06, 2014, 11:17:35 AM
"If my work is of God, He will guard it and use it for the good of the Church.  Our Lord has promised us that the gates of Hell shall not prevail against her. "
-------Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre.  
Title: LET US PRAY THE NEW SSPX ROSARY CRUSADE
Post by: Croagh Patrick on January 06, 2014, 11:20:22 AM
I also have begun the Rosary Crusade but have changed the intention.

My intention is The return to Tradition of the Society of Saint Pius X.
Title: LET US PRAY THE NEW SSPX ROSARY CRUSADE
Post by: True Faith on January 06, 2014, 11:22:04 AM
I wouldn't participate because of what Bishop Fellay has considered to be the answered prayers from the past crusades. Pray the rosary, of course, but not in union with this crusade.
Title: LET US PRAY THE NEW SSPX ROSARY CRUSADE
Post by: John Grace on January 06, 2014, 11:30:25 AM
Quote from: True Faith
Wow, are you serious? You know what Bishop Fellay considered to be the answered prayers from the past rosary crusades. Obviously these have mislead the faithful... Pray the rosary, of course, but not in union with this crusade!


They are serious. The intention varies from District to District. I agree with praying the rosary but not the Menzingen crusade.

I remember the day Fr Loschi announced the results of the previous crusades. There were a few here and there, who opposed Bishop Fellay transferring priests but in general there was 100% support for previous rosary crusades.

Those who did warn were laughed at over on the now defunct Ignis Ardens forum.
Title: LET US PRAY THE NEW SSPX ROSARY CRUSADE
Post by: John Grace on January 06, 2014, 11:35:56 AM
Quote from: True Faith
I wouldn't participate because of what Bishop Fellay has considered to be the answered prayers from the past crusades. Pray the rosary, of course, but not in union with this crusade.


I agree with you and in the past, many opposed previous rosary crusades.
Title: LET US PRAY THE NEW SSPX ROSARY CRUSADE
Post by: John Grace on January 06, 2014, 11:56:44 AM
Lest stbrigidswell hassles me, I based the following on a conversation I had. The context is year 2007. Many challenged Bishop Fellay about transfer of priests.

In the same conversation, the man I spoke to objected to the alleged fact of Fr Angles having a car belonging to Hitler. I would consider it an honour. Having such a car is not an issue. I have no idea  if he does have the car. It's hardly an issue.

My point remains of people being behind previous rosary crusades. Concerns about direction of SSPX are much later.

When Fr Loschi announced the results, there was nothing to suggest to me of a hostile congregation. The SSPX were solid.

There was a greater awareness in recent years.

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There were a few here and there, who opposed Bishop Fellay transferring priests
Title: LET US PRAY THE NEW SSPX ROSARY CRUSADE
Post by: John Grace on January 06, 2014, 12:03:59 PM
A bit off topic but the transfer of priests is rather superficial.  Yes, it is usually a punishment from Menzingen but a greater good will emerge.
Title: LET US PRAY THE NEW SSPX ROSARY CRUSADE
Post by: John Grace on January 06, 2014, 12:07:24 PM
By his own admission, Fr Loschi was kept in the dark by Bishop Fellay. He hadn't a clue. He has wised up and I do commend him for having the courage to challenge "himself" in Dublin. Fr Loschi was very brave to go to Bishop Fellay and resign.
Title: LET US PRAY THE NEW SSPX ROSARY CRUSADE
Post by: SeanGovan on January 06, 2014, 12:54:04 PM
Quote from: cantatedomino
Let us refrain from praying separate Rosary Crusades, but let us participate in the new SSPX Rosary Crusade. The reasons for this reside in the fruits of the previous Rosary Crusades:

1. Keep in mind this principle: The Lord is far from the wicked: and He will hear the prayers of the just (Proverbs 15:29); He hath not forgotten the cry of the poor (Psalm 9:13).

2. The prayers offered to God by the little people praying the Rosary Crusades with all their hearts and minds were heard by God and He gave the increase:

a. The covert modernism of the SSPX leadership was publicly unmasked, as was its real agenda.

b. Whatever deal was in the works was trounced.

c. Abdication of BXVI and ascendency of Bergoglio - which ascendance unmasked rome so radically that even the novus ordos are having a hard time denying.

d. Consequences of c) vis a vis the SSPX - it is now out in the open what Menzingen was actually planning to go to bed with, and also how corrupt an idea making a deal with the head of the beast really is.

It is impossible to deny that the protection and righting of the fallen traditional movement - the stated intention of the Crusade - is the absolutely crucial need of the Church right now.

Don't allow yourself to be tricked by the devil into abstaining from this call to public prayer. It is the public nature of the prayer - the public call; the publicly stated intentions; and the public participation - that makes it so powerful. If you focus on who called for the public prayer - and on his private motives, which are impossible for you to know - you will perhaps miss the time of your visitation.

Realize that God gave us many, many graces in response to our generosity over the past decade, REGARDLESS OF THE COVERT DESIGNS OF MENZINGEN, WHICH WERE ROUTED BY GOD HIMSELF! He is ready to give many more - even more powerful and radical - if we do not turn tail and run from this call to prayer.

God is not asking you to boycott this Rosary Crusade. The devil is asking you to. The last thing he wants is for the folk that have been divided from one another and set to war against each other to unite once more under the Banner of the Immaculate to pray for his extirpation.

Do you think yourself too holy to pray a Rosary Crusade called for by Bishop Bernard Fellay? Do you think that your perfect and most pure prayers will be sullied by acquiescing to this man's request for your help? Are you afraid of soiling yourself by praying with him?

I'm not. I'm going to pray with him and for him. If he has secret intentions that are against the Lord and against the Holy Faith, God will not hear him. But God will hear the prayers of the just who pray for the publicly stated - and very necessary - petitions:

1. May God protect, defend, and right the traditionalist counter-revolution.

2. May God convert modernists and make them Catholics.

3. May God finally grant us the Consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.



No. Prayer is not powerful--what's powerful is the God Who answers prayer. The God Who answers prayer is not pleased by public intentions that are publicly against Him and against the doctrine of His Church. Who cares about private intentions?

Don't say Bishop Fellay's Rosary Crusade. Do a Rosary Crusade for the intention that the Pope consecrate Russia, or for the intention that the Society come back to Catholic doctrine, but not for the intention that the Catholics who have never left the Church return to the Church. No, no, no - not a Rosary Crusade whose stated, public goal is to make Catholics believe that the Conciliar Church is Catholic.
Title: LET US PRAY THE NEW SSPX ROSARY CRUSADE
Post by: John Grace on January 06, 2014, 12:57:49 PM
Quote from: SeanGovan
Quote from: cantatedomino
Let us refrain from praying separate Rosary Crusades, but let us participate in the new SSPX Rosary Crusade. The reasons for this reside in the fruits of the previous Rosary Crusades:

1. Keep in mind this principle: The Lord is far from the wicked: and He will hear the prayers of the just (Proverbs 15:29); He hath not forgotten the cry of the poor (Psalm 9:13).

2. The prayers offered to God by the little people praying the Rosary Crusades with all their hearts and minds were heard by God and He gave the increase:

a. The covert modernism of the SSPX leadership was publicly unmasked, as was its real agenda.

b. Whatever deal was in the works was trounced.

c. Abdication of BXVI and ascendency of Bergoglio - which ascendance unmasked rome so radically that even the novus ordos are having a hard time denying.

d. Consequences of c) vis a vis the SSPX - it is now out in the open what Menzingen was actually planning to go to bed with, and also how corrupt an idea making a deal with the head of the beast really is.

It is impossible to deny that the protection and righting of the fallen traditional movement - the stated intention of the Crusade - is the absolutely crucial need of the Church right now.

Don't allow yourself to be tricked by the devil into abstaining from this call to public prayer. It is the public nature of the prayer - the public call; the publicly stated intentions; and the public participation - that makes it so powerful. If you focus on who called for the public prayer - and on his private motives, which are impossible for you to know - you will perhaps miss the time of your visitation.

Realize that God gave us many, many graces in response to our generosity over the past decade, REGARDLESS OF THE COVERT DESIGNS OF MENZINGEN, WHICH WERE ROUTED BY GOD HIMSELF! He is ready to give many more - even more powerful and radical - if we do not turn tail and run from this call to prayer.

God is not asking you to boycott this Rosary Crusade. The devil is asking you to. The last thing he wants is for the folk that have been divided from one another and set to war against each other to unite once more under the Banner of the Immaculate to pray for his extirpation.

Do you think yourself too holy to pray a Rosary Crusade called for by Bishop Bernard Fellay? Do you think that your perfect and most pure prayers will be sullied by acquiescing to this man's request for your help? Are you afraid of soiling yourself by praying with him?

I'm not. I'm going to pray with him and for him. If he has secret intentions that are against the Lord and against the Holy Faith, God will not hear him. But God will hear the prayers of the just who pray for the publicly stated - and very necessary - petitions:

1. May God protect, defend, and right the traditionalist counter-revolution.

2. May God convert modernists and make them Catholics.

3. May God finally grant us the Consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.



No. Prayer is not powerful--what's powerful is the God Who answers prayer. The God Who answers prayer is not pleased by public intentions that are publicly against Him and against the doctrine of His Church. Who cares about private intentions?

Don't say Bishop Fellay's Rosary Crusade. Do a Rosary Crusade for the intention that the Pope consecrate Russia, or for the intention that the Society come back to Catholic doctrine, but not for the intention that the Catholics who have never left the Church return to the Church. No, no, no - not a Rosary Crusade whose stated, public goal is to make Catholics believe that the Conciliar Church is Catholic.


Personally, I found the post from The Recusant to be excellent.
Title: LET US PRAY THE NEW SSPX ROSARY CRUSADE
Post by: Frances on January 06, 2014, 04:45:18 PM
Quote from: John Grace
...the alleged fact of Fr Angles having a car belonging to Hitler.


 :dancing-banana:  
Huh?  What has this to do with a Rosary Crusade?  BTW, what kind of car did Hitler drive?
Title: LET US PRAY THE NEW SSPX ROSARY CRUSADE
Post by: magdalena on January 06, 2014, 05:29:22 PM
Quote from: Frances
Quote from: John Grace
...the alleged fact of Fr Angles having a car belonging to Hitler.


 :dancing-banana:  
Huh?  What has this to do with a Rosary Crusade?  BTW, what kind of car did Hitler drive?


A Volkswagen?  BMW?  Audi?  Or was it a Mercedes-Benz?  Yes, please tell.      :thinking:
Title: LET US PRAY THE NEW SSPX ROSARY CRUSADE
Post by: John Grace on January 06, 2014, 06:02:54 PM
Quote from: Frances
Quote from: John Grace
...the alleged fact of Fr Angles having a car belonging to Hitler.


 :dancing-banana:  
Huh?  What has this to do with a Rosary Crusade?  BTW, what kind of car did Hitler drive?


Nothing.I concluded with the comment that I agree with the suggestion and analysis of The Recusant.
Title: LET US PRAY THE NEW SSPX ROSARY CRUSADE
Post by: Neil Obstat on January 06, 2014, 06:25:15 PM
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About 20 years ago there were JPII lawn sprinklers called "Let Us Spray"


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(These are no longer available -- a collector item?)

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Title: LET US PRAY THE NEW SSPX ROSARY CRUSADE
Post by: Frances on January 06, 2014, 06:31:09 PM
 :dancing-banana:
When JP2 came to NY, you could buy special bath soap in the shape of the Pope.  It was marketed as "Pope on a Rope." It came in liturgical colors except for black!  I found a picture on Google, but don't know how to post it!
Title: LET US PRAY THE NEW SSPX ROSARY CRUSADE
Post by: Matto on January 06, 2014, 06:51:12 PM
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Title: LET US PRAY THE NEW SSPX ROSARY CRUSADE
Post by: Neil Obstat on January 06, 2014, 06:56:20 PM
Quote from: SeanGovan
Quote from: cantatedomino
Let us refrain from praying separate Rosary Crusades, but let us participate in the new SSPX Rosary Crusade. The reasons for this reside in the fruits of the previous Rosary Crusades:

a. The covert modernism of the SSPX leadership was publicly unmasked, as was its real agenda.

b. Whatever deal was in the works was trounced.

c. Abdication of BXVI and ascendency of Bergoglio - which ascendance unmasked rome so radically that even the novus ordos are having a hard time denying.

d. Consequences of c) vis a vis the SSPX - it is now out in the open what Menzingen was actually planning to go to bed with, and also how corrupt an idea making a deal with the head of the beast really is.

God is not asking you to boycott this Rosary Crusade. The devil is asking you to. The last thing he wants is for the folk that have been divided from one another and set to war against each other to unite once more under the Banner of the Immaculate to pray for his extirpation.

Do you think yourself too holy to pray a Rosary Crusade called for by Bishop Bernard Fellay? Do you think that your perfect and most pure prayers will be sullied by acquiescing to this man's request for your help? Are you afraid of soiling yourself by praying with him?

I'm not. I'm going to pray with him and for him. If he has secret intentions that are against the Lord and against the Holy Faith, God will not hear him. But God will hear the prayers of the just who pray for the publicly stated - and very necessary - petitions:

1. May God protect, defend, and right the traditionalist counter-revolution.

2. May God convert modernists and make them Catholics.

3. May God finally grant us the Consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.


No. Prayer is not powerful--what's powerful is the God Who answers prayer.




I do not agree.  Certainly God is all-powerful, but prayer is too.  It has been precisely the prayer of the Rosary by MANY PEOPLE TOGETHER that has wrought public miracles, such as at Lepanto, and in Brazil when the Communists walked out, and in Austria during WWII, when the communists abandoned Austria, without any explanation.  

The public unity of prayer of the Rosary is a MOST POWERFUL WEAPON against the devil.  Make NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT.  


The public prayer of the Rosary is powerful because Our Lady is powerful.  


For you to say "No. Prayer is not powerful," makes you look not only non-Catholic but non-Christian.  I know protestants with more faith than that, SeanGovan!


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The God Who answers prayer is not pleased by public intentions that are publicly against Him and against the doctrine of His Church. Who cares about private intentions?

Don't say Bishop Fellay's Rosary Crusade. Do a Rosary Crusade for the intention that the Pope consecrate Russia, or for the intention that the Society come back to Catholic doctrine, but not for the intention that the Catholics who have never left the Church return to the Church. No, no, no - not a Rosary Crusade whose stated, public goal is to make Catholics believe that the Conciliar Church is Catholic.



While I agree that this new Crusade is controversial due to the antics and hypocrisy of the Menzingen-denizens,  I'm not so sure that's enough of a reason not to join them in this Rosary Crusade.  I believe Our Lady is capable of sorting out the problems and making the best of it all.  That's her special purpose in all this.  If anyone can make good of it, she can.  It takes a total trust in Our Lady to put aside all animosity and differences and pray the Rosary with others whom you do not agree over WHATEVER it is.  

But they should be praying the Rosary with the proper words, not changing the prayers.  They shouldn't be saying, for example, "...as we forgive those who trespass against us.  And let us not be led into temptation, but deliver us from evil.  Amen."  The words should be, "And lead us not into temptation...."

Their intentions don't have to be your intentions.  You can have your own intentions.  Just because you are praying with the Crusade doesn't mean you agree with the 'official' intentions.  

I believe we should pray the Rosary for the Collegial Consecration of Russia to the IHM, by the pope and all the bishops of the world.  

I think it's edifying that sedevacantists in the main do not pray for this.  And I expect that when the Consecration happens, a lot of those sedes will make their schism official, unfortunately.  The conversion of Russia should be a thing that unifies the faith of Catholics the world over, but it might also be the thing that pushes sedes out of the Church most prominently.   I don't want to do anything that would put me and mine in that same category.  Therefore, I will join with the XSPX in this crusade, including the intention that the XSPX also returns to tradition.  After all, they are a LOT CLOSER to Tradition than Rome is!!!!  

If Rome can do it, certainly the XSPX can do it!!!!


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Title: LET US PRAY THE NEW SSPX ROSARY CRUSADE
Post by: JPaul on January 06, 2014, 11:35:30 PM
 It may not have started out that way but these "Crusades" appears to have become a gimmick and something entirely unbecoming to Our Lady.

It is the purity and humility of prayer that honors God and His Mother.

The Society is at present an unreliable source for the reclaiming of Tradition and one cannot know their true intentions just as one cannot know the true intentions of the Conciliarists.

Pray for the Society and pray for the Conciliarists, not with them.



Title: LET US PRAY THE NEW SSPX ROSARY CRUSADE
Post by: Neil Obstat on January 07, 2014, 01:21:04 AM
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Everyone is going to do what they are going to do.  But in my experience, whenever a group gets together to pray the Rosary, so long as they are using the proper words, Our Lady can deal with it.  

Whether you pray your Rosary alone or with others, still, you are praying your Rosary.  No matter with whom you pray it, you are in union with the Church by praying your Rosary, and the only thing wrong you can do is to not pray your Rosary.  Even if they're praying the "Luminous" mysteries, you don't have to pray them, you can choose to think about the Sorrowful with your Rosary while praying with them, for example.  Just imagine:  you get indulgences for the Sorrowful Mysteries, but they get no indulgence for the 'luminous mysteries' (there were never any indulgences assigned to them).  Maybe they get some indulgences BECAUSE of your prayer that they would NOT get without your Sorrowful mysteries.

For some, joining a crusade like this keeps them regular and they do pray their Rosary, but if they do not join a crusade, maybe they will miss days, perhaps many days, by NOT praying their Rosary.  So it's not right for us to discourage their participation.  In fact, discouraging the prayer of the Rosary borders on being sinful.

Our Lady said, the day will come when all you have left is your Rosary and your scapular.  Are you ready for those days?  

Our Lord said, wherever two or more are gathered in my name, there I am in the midst of them.  Why didn't he say, Wherever two or more are gathered with the same intentions and in opposition to the intentions of others with whom they all disagree together, in my name?  Why didn't He say that?  

When we pray the Our Father CORRECTLY, we ask God not to lead us into temptation.  Maybe that means, when someone tells you not to join a Rosary crusade, it might seem like God is leading you into temptation.  Maybe that means that the one telling you not to join is not giving you God's message.




We used to have the 15 promises of Our Lady.

Now, we're gonna need an amended version........
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    To all those who shall pray my Rosary devoutly, I promise my special protection and great graces.  ~  Is praying the Rosary with +F's crusade not praying it devoutly?


    Those who shall persevere in the recitation of my Rosary will receive some special grace.  ~  Is praying with +F's crusade not persevering?


    The Rosary will be a very powerful armor against hell; it will destroy vice, deliver from sin and dispel heresy.  ~  But not if it's +Fellay who organizes it?  What if a REAL heretic organized it, like Pope Francis -- would you dare pray the Rosary when Pope Francis asks you to?


    The rosary will make virtue and good works flourish, and will obtain for souls the most abundant divine mercies. It will draw the hearts of men from the love of the world and its vanities, and will lift them to the desire of eternal things. Oh, that souls would sanctify themselves by this means.  ~  But these things don't apply to the XSPX and those infected with Menzinenitis, correct?


    Those who trust themselves to me through the Rosary will not perish.  ~  Unless, that is, you trust in Our Lady through +F's crusade, then you're really in for it.  Whooa, boy, are you in for it, buddy!


    Whoever recites my Rosary devoutly reflecting on the mysteries, shall never be overwhelmed by misfortune. He will not experience the anger of God nor will he perish by an unprovided death. The sinner will be converted; the just will persevere in grace and merit eternal life.  ~  Oh, but not if it's a Rosary being recommended by someone who's really mucking things up with his agenda -- Oh, no -- If that's it, then STAY AWAY LIKE THE PLAGUE!!


    Those truly devoted to my Rosary shall not die without the sacraments of the Church.  ~  But if your devotion spills over to prayer of My Rosary with kreeps, rascals, ne'er-do-wells and miscreants, then FUGGEDABOUDIT!


    Those who are faithful to recite my Rosary shall have during their life and at their death the light of God and the plenitude of His graces and will share in the merits of the blessed.  ~  Obviously this EXCLUDES prayer with the XSPX!


    I will deliver promptly from purgatory souls devoted to my Rosary.  ~  But if you  *DARE*  to pray with someone who tries to use my Rosary for their political agenda in opposition to what you think is God's will, then I'll se to it that you COOK for the LONG TERM in Purgatory.


    True children of my Rosary will enjoy great glory in heaven.  ~  But the true children of someone ELSE'S Rosary are in for a pretty unwelcome surprise, you can be sure of that!


    What you shall ask through my Rosary you shall obtain.  ~  UNLESS, that is, you're asking for the conversion of +Fellay, then forget it.


    To those who propagate my Rosary I promise aid in all their necessities.  ~  Make that ALL THEIR NECESSITIES EXCEPT FOR ONE.  If you so much as DARE to join up with criminals who subvert the Faith and pray My Rosary with them, thou shalt be SORRY.


    I have obtained from my Son that all the members of the Rosary Confraternity shall have as their intercessors, in life and in death, the entire celestial court.  ~  Furthermore, be it henceforth and forever known to you that any one of you who joins with others praying the Rosary with tless than the purest of intentions is going to be in serious trouble -- big time.


    Those who recite my Rosary faithfully are my beloved children, the brothers and sisters of Jesus Christ.  ~  However, anyone who recites my Rosary with bad company the ilk of rotten Fellayites, are relegated immediately to the BACK OF THE BUS.  You know, like Rosa Parks.


    Devotion to my Rosary is a special sign of predestination.  ~  And devotion to any of the STUPID IDEAS of the Menzingen-denizens destroys any such predestination stuff.  




Quote from: J.Paul

It may not have started out that way but these "Crusades" appears to have become a gimmick and something entirely unbecoming to Our Lady.

It is the purity and humility of prayer that honors God and His Mother.

The Society is at present an unreliable source for the reclaiming of Tradition and one cannot know their true intentions just as one cannot know the true intentions of the Conciliarists.

Pray for the Society and pray for the Conciliarists, not with them.



If there is going to be ANY HOPE of healing the Society, we would have to be capable of praying the Rosary together.  

Anyone who says I SHALL NOT PRAY THE ROSARY WITH YOU, because I don't agree with YOU, or I don't like YOU, has not the least idea what the Rosary is all about.  

Either such a one has NO FAITH in Our Lady, or else, perhaps such a one has no real faith at all, even in God.  

Did God ever say that we should not pray with other Christians?  

Under what conditions are we told not to pray with someone in all of Tradition, including Scripture or the great works of moral theology or the Fathers and Doctors of the Church?  Where is it?  

Did St. Thomas ever say we should not pray with other Catholics if we don't agree with their intentions?  Which part of which part, which question and which objection?  Or was it in another work somewhere?  Where?  Which work?

Or, are you guys who think we should boycott this crusade saying that the XSPX are now HERETICS?  


Is that what you're thinking but you're afraid to admit it?  


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Title: LET US PRAY THE NEW SSPX ROSARY CRUSADE
Post by: Matthew on January 07, 2014, 01:38:27 AM
This will be my first time NOT participating in the Rosary Crusade.

Oh, I'll be saying my daily Rosary, and I have no problem with the intentions. They are some of the things we pray for anyhow.

If my intention is to honor Our Lady, get the graces and merits of the Rosary, and for my intentions to be granted, then there's no reason to gather them up in a pile in front of Bishop Fellay.

That part is only for SSPX negotiating power, prestige, politics, bragging rights, etc.

But now that I see the pattern -- how the Rosary Crusades are used as a distraction, a publicity tool, a form of "Bread and Circuses" for pious Trads, etc. I don't think I can contribute.

Attending an SSPX chapel for the Mass is one thing. Signing up for Bishop Fellay's Rosary Crusade is almost like an endorsement of him, or a "confidence" vote. At least that's how many are going to see it.

In good conscience, I can't do that.

Now if the POPE were heading up something like this, I would contribute because he's the Pope, and I should follow the pope when he commands something good. But Bishop Fellay isn't the pope :)

He's just the Superior General of a pious union of priests that used to be very solid and uncompromising in its defense of Catholic Tradition (a.k.a. "the Faith") but now is inconsistent and wavering quite a bit. It has cast out some of its best priests (and one bishop), and forces the rest (of the good ones) to remain silent.

As such, +Fellay and his organization no longer have my confidence. I will make use of their sacraments, but I no longer have in them a "rah rah" cause to unequivocally support, as I did in the past. Now I can only support the Resistance that way.
Title: LET US PRAY THE NEW SSPX ROSARY CRUSADE
Post by: Neil Obstat on January 07, 2014, 01:48:29 AM
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I'm going to stick my neck out here.


Everyone please ask every Resistance priest you know, if we should be praying the Rosary with the XSPX, with or without agreeing with their intentions, but with the intention of turning in our tallies to the collection center to be part of the total.   Ask them if we should have the intention of the pope and bishops consecrating Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, as our #1 priority.  


Ask Fr. Pfeiffer, Fr. Hewko, Fr. Chazal, Fr. Ringrose, Fr. Voigt, Fr. Cardozo, Fr. Girouard -- whoever you can find and at the first opportunity.  


Ask Bishop Williamson.  He recommends 15 mysteries every day.  

Is he going to say that none of these should be in cooperation with +Fellay's crusade?  If my hunch is right, H.E. is already counting his for submission when the time comes.  Maybe he'd be willing to collect all of ours too?  It could be via the Internet, on a special web page, with a username and password registration.  

How many of you would reconsider, if +W were to ask you to join him in this?  

If he can overlook his differences with Menzingenitis, can't you?  

I think HE CAN, but whether you can is your decision.


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Title: LET US PRAY THE NEW SSPX ROSARY CRUSADE
Post by: Neil Obstat on January 07, 2014, 02:27:47 AM
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Dear Matthew,

While I think I can see where you're coming from, and I think I know what makes you react this way, it seems to me your approach is something that I can't agree with.


Quote from: Matthew
This will be my first time NOT participating in the Rosary Crusade.

Oh, I'll be saying my daily Rosary, and I have no problem with the intentions. They are some of the things we pray for anyhow.

If my intention is to honor Our Lady, get the graces and merits of the Rosary, and for my intentions to be granted, then there's no reason to gather them up in a pile in front of Bishop Fellay.

That part is only for SSPX negotiating power, prestige, politics, bragging rights, etc.



While it might to us seem to be that way,  I don't think that's how Our Lady sees it.  I think Our Lady sees it as public assembly in the prayer of the Rosary, and that is something that has been working miracles for the past 7 centuries.  Why would it be otherwise now, because of one man's quirky idiosyncrasies?  

How +F chooses to use it is on his head.  The worse he does with it the more accountable he becomes in his particular judgment.  But in the meantime, this encourages people to pray the Rosary, and might get some to pray it more often.  How can that be bad?  

On the other hand, your recommending AGAINST it may easily scandalize some into not praying the Rosary at all, because this is another occasion for DISAGREEMENT among Trads, which is already unbecoming enough.


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But now that I see the pattern -- how the Rosary Crusades are used as a distraction, a publicity tool, a form of "Bread and Circuses" for pious Trads, etc. I don't think I can contribute.



Did Our Lord say, "Pick up your cross and follow me?"  Or, did he say, "Take a look at your cross, spit on it, and walk away, following me without your cross?"


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Attending an SSPX chapel for the Mass is one thing. Signing up for Bishop Fellay's Rosary Crusade is almost like an endorsement of him, or a "confidence" vote. At least that's how many are going to see it.

In good conscience, I can't do that.



While in good conscience, St. Peter drew his sword and cut off the ear of Malchus, was that what Our Lord would have had him do?  


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Now if the POPE were heading up something like this, I would contribute because he's the Pope, and I should follow the pope when he commands something good. But Bishop Fellay isn't the pope :)

He's just the Superior General of a pious union of priests that used to be very solid and uncompromising in its defense of Catholic Tradition (a.k.a. "the Faith") but now is inconsistent and wavering quite a bit. It has cast out some of its best priests (and one bishop), and forces the rest (of the good ones) to remain silent.



And so,

If the priests and the bishop who have been cast out were to agree together and say that we ought to join with the Menzingen-denizens and pray our Rosaries and submit our totals, would you reconsider?  

Imagine this:  Bishop Williamson were to say, "PICK UP YOUR CROSS AND FOLLOW ME -- I AM GOING TO SUBMIT MY TOTALS TO +FELLAY AND I WOULD BE PLEASED TO ADD YOURS TO THEM.  

Would you?  

Imagine this:  We all submit our tallies to +W and at the end of this, before Pentecost Sunday, HE has a total of 499 thousand, 999 Rosaries to submit to +Fellay.............. do you think that +F is going to say, "no?"  

Do you think that +F is going to try to explain to his minions that the Rosaries of the Resistance are not pleasing to God and he refuses to besmirch his crusade with questionable intentions or whatever?  


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As such, +Fellay and his organization no longer have my confidence. I will make use of their sacraments, but I no longer have in them a "rah rah" cause to unequivocally support, as I did in the past. Now I can only support the Resistance that way.



Excuse me for saying so, but I don't see our praying the Rosary as being a  :rahrah: "rah-rah cause."  I don't think Our Lady runs "rah-rah causes."  

In fact, to the extent that +F has announced ANY MANNER of Rosary crusade at this time is a kind of miracle in itself.  

If he is doing this for his own political ends (and he may well be) then it is piling coals upon his own head, and we would be piling MORE coals upon his head by our participation in his crusade.  

But if we just ignore it, and boycott it, then we don't do anything for or against him in this regard.  If he converts because of this crusade (I know it's not likely, but how 'likely' was the outcome of any one of the many Rosary miracles anyway?) then it will be because we were involved, but if we were not involved then his conversion will be in SPITE of us, and will work to our DISCREDIT.  Is that what you want to look forward to?



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Title: LET US PRAY THE NEW SSPX ROSARY CRUSADE
Post by: JPaul on January 07, 2014, 09:48:25 AM
Neil Obstat

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If there is going to be ANY HOPE of healing the Society, we would have to be capable of praying the Rosary together.  

 Anyone who says I SHALL NOT PRAY THE ROSARY WITH YOU, because I don't agree with YOU, or I don't like YOU, has not the least idea what the Rosary is all about.  

 Either such a one has NO FAITH in Our Lady, or else, perhaps such a one has no real faith at all, even in God.  

 Did God ever say that we should not pray with other Christians?  

 Under what conditions are we told not to pray with someone in all of Tradition, including Scripture or the great works of moral theology or the Fathers and Doctors of the Church?  Where is it?  

 Did St. Thomas ever say we should not pray with other Catholics if we don't agree with their intentions?  Which part of which part, which question and which objection?  Or was it in another work somewhere?  Where?  Which work?

 Or, are you guys who think we should boycott this crusade saying that the XSPX are now HERETICS?  


 Is that what you're thinking but you're afraid to admit it?  




Firstly, healing the Society is neither my goal nor is it possible. The Society has been changed and it will not be returned to its former integrity without a wholesale bloodletting and removal of all of the newer priests who have been formed into the mode of modern thinking. The Father Themanns will never become the Father Girouards. That will never happen, and it is the Father Themanns who are the future of the SSPX.

 Your objections that I advocate not praying with other Christians are an incorrect reading of my intent.  

Second, we have seen in the past the manipulation of the intentions and the selective interpretation which presumed that Our Lady was responsible for the devious Summorum Pontificuм and the half baked "lifting" which followed.
Again presuming that Our Lady would facilitate such political maneuvering and manipulation.  How insulting to Her.

Did you see the word heretics in my short post? If it were to be a reason not to align with this group, it would have been there!
It does not matter anyway, they are no longer a reliable source in the defense of Tradition. That is enough if and when one is ready to become firm and brook no compromise or compromisers in the efforts to preserve and restore Truth and Religion to the Church.

And finally, I do not believe that realizing one's petitions to God through a cult like exercise can be any more effective than properly prayed and intended Rosaries which are by the very nature of Christian communion in Christ are indeed joined with all of the Brethren and Saints who pray for the true intentions of the Church and God's honor.

Why involve that which is above the earth with the demonstrated worldliness of Menzingen?
Our Father knows the groanings of our hearts and hears the cries of His faithful children.
Title: LET US PRAY THE NEW SSPX ROSARY CRUSADE
Post by: True Faith on January 07, 2014, 11:50:49 AM
For the people participating in this crusade but changing the intentions:

Are you still filling out the sheets to hand in at the end? Are you going to write on them that you changed the intentions?
Title: LET US PRAY THE NEW SSPX ROSARY CRUSADE
Post by: Wessex on January 07, 2014, 03:23:57 PM
If folk are no longer associating with the SSPX, why should they respond to its antics? The continuing liberal drift of the Society makes a nonsense of genuine rosary and Fatima initiatives and I suspect Menzingen uses them to distract the laity and to support any outcome in its questionable deliberations. Fuzzy intentions are an insult and a confusion of the mind and belong to the new church the Society is bent on joining. With news of its support for indult and EC bodies, its squeeze on the French district and use of external agencies and funding to project a different image, one wonders what Menzingen's real intentions are. I criticised the first crusade all those years ago; this one I know to be a fraud.
Title: LET US PRAY THE NEW SSPX ROSARY CRUSADE
Post by: trento on January 08, 2014, 02:50:56 AM
Quote from: John Grace
By his own admission, Fr Loschi was kept in the dark by Bishop Fellay. He hadn't a clue. He has wised up and I do commend him for having the courage to challenge "himself" in Dublin. Fr Loschi was very brave to go to Bishop Fellay and resign.


What on earth are you talking about? Fr. Loschi is still with the SSPX and is now the Prior of the of Singapore Priory, headquarters of the District of Asia.
Title: LET US PRAY THE NEW SSPX ROSARY CRUSADE
Post by: John Grace on January 08, 2014, 06:23:52 AM
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Firstly, healing the Society is neither my goal nor is it possible. The Society has been changed and it will not be returned to its former integrity without a wholesale bloodletting and removal of all of the newer priests who have been formed into the mode of modern thinking. The Father Themanns will never become the Father Girouards. That will never happen, and it is the Father Themanns who are the future of the SSPX.


The reality regarding the SSPX.
Title: LET US PRAY THE NEW SSPX ROSARY CRUSADE
Post by: John Grace on January 08, 2014, 06:27:24 AM
Quote from: trento
Quote from: John Grace
By his own admission, Fr Loschi was kept in the dark by Bishop Fellay. He hadn't a clue. He has wised up and I do commend him for having the courage to challenge "himself" in Dublin. Fr Loschi was very brave to go to Bishop Fellay and resign.


What on earth are you talking about? Fr. Loschi is still with the SSPX and is now the Prior of the of Singapore Priory, headquarters of the District of Asia.


I never stated Fr Loschi had left the SSPX. It is self evident he hasn't as a CD is being used as an SSPX fundraiser.

My reference is to his resignation whilst in Ireland. Fr Loschi went to Bishop Fellay. Fr Loschi resigned as prior, Fr Angles 'stood down' and Fr Morgan assumed responsibility.
Title: LET US PRAY THE NEW SSPX ROSARY CRUSADE
Post by: John Grace on January 08, 2014, 07:07:24 AM
Quote from: Wessex
If folk are no longer associating with the SSPX, why should they respond to its antics? The continuing liberal drift of the Society makes a nonsense of genuine rosary and Fatima initiatives and I suspect Menzingen uses them to distract the laity and to support any outcome in its questionable deliberations. Fuzzy intentions are an insult and a confusion of the mind and belong to the new church the Society is bent on joining. With news of its support for indult and EC bodies, its squeeze on the French district and use of external agencies and funding to project a different image, one wonders what Menzingen's real intentions are. I criticised the first crusade all those years ago; this one I know to be a fraud.


An excellent post. :applause: The SSPX has become a nonsense. Many others criticised and opposed these earlier distraction rosary crusades. Those who did were not taken seriously and were ridiculed.

What a mockery of Our Lady to use the  rosary in their deceit? NewChurch comes in for valid criticism but here we have the Church of Fellay, the 'pious union' of Archbishop Lefebvre using the rosary as a weapon to distract and beguile. Incredible.

A participant on the forum made the point of SSPX laity not seeming to mind being 'taken for a ride'.  It's very strange.
Title: LET US PRAY THE NEW SSPX ROSARY CRUSADE
Post by: Neil Obstat on January 08, 2014, 11:10:39 AM
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TheRecusant has a page all about this in Latest News, and it ends like this:

http://www.therecusant.com/apps/blog/show/40394286-boycott-the-rosary-crusade-
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For all the above reasons it is clear that any Catholic who wishes to do the Will of God, to please Heaven or to Honour the Blessed Virgin Mary can have no part in this initiative whatsoever. The SSPX has been cursed with disunity and blindness. Its priests do not agree with one another and find themselves having to be careful about what they say to whom, a thing unthinkable until fairly recently. This latest Rosary Crusade is a grave insult to Almighty God and to His Blessed Mother. It will call down from Heaven not a blessing but a curse, it will not delay or soften the chastisement but will hasten it, and although Bishop Fellay as the originator bears the most responsibility, it is incuмbent upon each of us not to participate in such a serious insult to God. Furthermore, it is the clear Catholic duty of each of us to warn as many others a possible. In the meantime, pray for the survival of Tradition through the work of the Resistance and for the frustration of Bishop Fellay's plans and those of his confederates.

Queen of the Most Holy Rosary, pray for us!





Can anyone say for sure if this is what +W is recommending?  
Is this what the various Resistance priests are recommending?


When Our Lady came at La Salette and said that bishops will oppose bishops, etc., did she EVER say that therefore we should not join with certain others in their Rosary prayers, because we don't like their intentions?  

Has there ever been any Church teaching that says you commit some kind of sin by having your OWN intentions different from those of others with whom you pray?


Let me ask a frank question:

When St. Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort spoke of those who DISCORAGE others from the prayer of the Rosary, what did he have to say?  

Did he EVER say that discouraging others from praying the Rosary can be a holy work?

Did he EVER say that there are certain times when telling others not to pray the Rosary is a good idea or something that could be pleasing to God?  

Did St. Louis EVER say that when a group of people are getting together to pray the Rosary that it's possible, due to their intentions alone, that those who 'know better' are ill-advised to participate?  




Quote from: True Faith
For the people participating in this crusade but changing the intentions:

Are you still filling out the sheets to hand in at the end? Are you going to write on them that you changed the intentions?
 

I don't see any problem with putting a note on the sheet that you are, for example, using the intention of the South America district, which is, #2.  For the return of (modernist) Rome to the Tradition of the Church.  

You can even include a personal intention for the conversion of +Fellay from Modernist to the Tradition of the Church.

In fact, you could send your sheets to the South America District for them to include in their tallies, if you like.  Send a scan by e-mail, for free.

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Title: LET US PRAY THE NEW SSPX ROSARY CRUSADE
Post by: John Grace on January 08, 2014, 11:42:59 AM
Quote from: Neil Obstat
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TheRecusant has a page all about this in Latest News, and it ends like this:

http://www.therecusant.com/apps/blog/show/40394286-boycott-the-rosary-crusade-
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For all the above reasons it is clear that any Catholic who wishes to do the Will of God, to please Heaven or to Honour the Blessed Virgin Mary can have no part in this initiative whatsoever. The SSPX has been cursed with disunity and blindness. Its priests do not agree with one another and find themselves having to be careful about what they say to whom, a thing unthinkable until fairly recently. This latest Rosary Crusade is a grave insult to Almighty God and to His Blessed Mother. It will call down from Heaven not a blessing but a curse, it will not delay or soften the chastisement but will hasten it, and although Bishop Fellay as the originator bears the most responsibility, it is incuмbent upon each of us not to participate in such a serious insult to God. Furthermore, it is the clear Catholic duty of each of us to warn as many others a possible. In the meantime, pray for the survival of Tradition through the work of the Resistance and for the frustration of Bishop Fellay's plans and those of his confederates.

Queen of the Most Holy Rosary, pray for us!





Can anyone say for sure if this is what +W is recommending?  
Is this what the various Resistance priests are recommending?


When Our Lady came at La Salette and said that bishops will oppose bishops, etc., did she EVER say that therefore we should not join with certain others in their Rosary prayers, because we don't like their intentions?  

Has there ever been any Church teaching that says you commit some kind of sin by having your OWN intentions different from those of others with whom you pray?


Let me ask a frank question:

When St. Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort spoke of those who DISCORAGE others from the prayer of the Rosary, what did he have to say?  

Did he EVER say that discouraging others from praying the Rosary can be a holy work?

Did he EVER say that there are certain times when telling others not to pray the Rosary is a good idea or something that could be pleasing to God?  

Did St. Louis EVER say that when a group of people are getting together to pray the Rosary that it's possible, due to their intentions alone, that those who 'know better' are ill-advised to participate?  




Quote from: True Faith
For the people participating in this crusade but changing the intentions:

Are you still filling out the sheets to hand in at the end? Are you going to write on them that you changed the intentions?
 

I don't see any problem with putting a note on the sheet that you are, for example, using the intention of the South America district, which is, #2.  For the return of (modernist) Rome to the Tradition of the Church.  

You can even include a personal intention for the conversion of +Fellay from Modernist to the Tradition of the Church.

In fact, you could send your sheets to the South America District for them to include in their tallies, if you like.  Send a scan by e-mail, for free.

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All this is good. Many seem to have misunderstood the points made in the Recusant piece. Nobody objects to the rosary. It would be foolish to ignore the message of La Salette.
Title: LET US PRAY THE NEW SSPX ROSARY CRUSADE
Post by: JPaul on January 08, 2014, 02:29:51 PM
This thread clearly demonstrates the cultish thinking which has been internalized by patrons of the SSPX proper and its resistance spinoff.

On the one hand if we don't want to pray the Rosary with the SSPX then we are discouraging other Catholics from praying and on the other hand we have the resistance telling us what Heaven is going to be up to if folks do pray with the Society. And each side enlisting the Saints and the prophets to their cause. It is silliness, this whole business.
Title: LET US PRAY THE NEW SSPX ROSARY CRUSADE
Post by: Matthew on January 08, 2014, 04:39:32 PM
In the same breath I discourage participation in Bp. Fellay's Rosary Crusade, I strongly encourage traditional Catholics to pray the daily Rosary, for the same or similar intentions.

Re-read the thread -- in one of my early posts I suggested praying for the same intentions, plus a couple other intentions, including "for the faithful priests and bishop who are being persecuted" or something to that effect.

I just don't think we should appear to "fall for" Bishop Fellay's latest distraction. It's bread & circuses for pious trads. It's a political maneuver calculated to make the SSPX look like it's still fighting for Tradition.

Most on here agree we shouldn't throw money in the collection plate for Menzingen. But we should throw Rosaries in? What, do we value our money more than our Rosaries? Are we just withholding financial support because deep down we're stingy?

I'm not saying we shouldn't say those Rosaries, or that we shouldn't pray for Bishop Fellay and the SSPX. What I'm saying is that we shouldn't give them *rosaries to count* as feathers for their cap, that's all.

I'm advocating that we not turn in any Rosaries for their count. Say just as many as you normally would during such a crusade. Send them to Bishop Williamson instead, or Fr. Pfeiffer. Then he can submit them to Bishop Fellay. How's that for a good statement of principle?
Title: LET US PRAY THE NEW SSPX ROSARY CRUSADE
Post by: Neil Obstat on January 08, 2014, 06:29:48 PM
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It seems to me, that you and I are on the same page, but reading it with a difference of emphasis..............



Quote from: Matthew
In the same breath I discourage participation in Bp. Fellay's Rosary Crusade, I strongly encourage traditional Catholics to pray the daily Rosary, for the same or similar intentions.  ---[Good!]

Re-read the thread -- in one of my early posts I suggested praying for the same intentions, plus a couple other intentions, including "for the faithful priests and bishop who are being persecuted" or something to that effect.  ---[I wish it could be in one post instead of spread over the whole 40 posts previous.]

I just don't think we should appear to "fall for" Bishop Fellay's latest distraction. It's bread & circuses for pious trads. It's a political maneuver calculated to make the SSPX look like it's still fighting for Tradition.  ---[Agreed.]

Most on here agree we shouldn't throw money in the collection plate for Menzingen. But we should throw Rosaries in? What, do we value our money more than our Rosaries? Are we just withholding financial support because deep down we're stingy?



As for the collection plates, I recommend putting a pithy note of explanation in there, saying what your grievance is, and the reason you can't support the Menzingen-denizens, or Menzingenitis, or any false pretense of continuity with what we have received from ABL, IN HIS NAME, no less.  

So how's this any different?  When you turn in your Rosary tally, just write on the sheet what's your reason, and that way, THEY WILL KNOW.  The more participants do this, the more the message will be delivered to Menzingen.  The fewer participants do this, the weaker the message becomes.  

What is Menzingen going to think if 20,000 Rosary tally sheets have a message of protest written on them, that they are willing to participate in the graces of a united prayer to Our Lady and Our Lord in hopes of it effecting the Collegial Consecration of Russia and the conversion of both Russia AND Newrome to Tradition, but it's 20,000 Rosary sheets that DO NOT buy into +Fellay's penchant to subvert the Society according to his Modernist schemes?  

Don't think it's going to be 20,000??  --- Well, you could be right about that, especially when the Recusant, CathInfo and all manner of Resistance members are going around recommending that nobody does this! What if it's only 10,000 sheets, or 5,000, or 1,000 --- you don't think that will make any impression?  

If we're praying the Rosaries anyway, all this amounts to is getting our point across, and who knows, maybe a few extra graces from God because we were brave enough to DO something instead of just grumble and whine and moan about it.  

But I think it's more than that.  I think there are people out here who are MORE LIKELY to pray their daily Rosaries if they have an incentive like this, because of the FACT that when multiple people pray their Rosary together, everyone gets more graces.  By being part of this Society crusade, we might be doing our part to convert +Fellay back to the true Faith of Catholics!  

And don't think that can't happen......     WE MUST THINK THAT CAN HAPPEN!


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I'm not saying we shouldn't say those Rosaries, or that we shouldn't pray for Bishop Fellay and the SSPX. What I'm saying is that we shouldn't give them *rosaries to count* as feathers for their cap, that's all.

I'm advocating that we not turn in any Rosaries for their count. Say just as many as you normally would during such a crusade. Send them to Bishop Williamson instead, or Fr. Pfeiffer. Then he can submit them to Bishop Fellay. How's that for a good statement of principle?



Now we're singing the same tune.  Perfect.  I agree 100%.  Turn your Rosary tallies in to Bishop Williamson or Fr. Pfeiffer or Fr. Girouard or Fr. Chazal, or Fr. Hewko, or Fr. Cardozo, or Fr. Iglesias, or Dom Tomas de Aquino, whichever Resistance priest you prefer.  I like it! I can get really excited about that.  




Thank you!!





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It's probably best for each of us to send them in to a priest of our preference in the Resistance, and we should let them know in advance that we are planning on doing this.  I think they won't mind.  In fact, I expect that they will find it spiritually enriching.  Imagine them all getting together at some point, sharing with each other how many of the Faithful are asking them to do this!  What an opportunity!  This is a spontaneous eruption of Catholic action.  They didn't ask for it, but I think they're going to appreciate it.  They might have some kind of message as to how they would like to handle this.  Maybe someone can set up a website, for example, with software that automatically tallies numbers and uses a registration system, like CI does, or any of the various sites with username and password.   TheRecusant has one, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel has one, etc.


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Title: LET US PRAY THE NEW SSPX ROSARY CRUSADE
Post by: JPaul on January 10, 2014, 08:17:41 AM
IMHO,
I don't think that engaging in herd activities in this partisan atmosphere is really worthwhile and it ends up being a symbolic public display with sheets, and tallies, and announcements.
And if you do it with altered intentions and send them to different priests, then you are basically intending to disrupt the SSPX "crusade", so why join it in the first place?
I would suggest saying your Rosaries more devoutly and submitting them to Our Lady and stop entertaining the idea of using what should be a solemn and pious action to make political statements to worldly unworthies.

There is only one tally which matters, and it is not found in Menzingen.
The Lord knows exactly who and how many are joined in prayer with the same intentions and dispenses grace accordingly.
He needs no sign-up sheets and judges prayers according to sincerity not numbers.

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"And when ye pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, that love to stand and pray in the ѕуηαgσgυєs and corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men: Amen I say to you, they have received their reward.

 But thou when thou shalt pray, enter into thy chamber, and having shut the door, pray to thy Father in secret: and thy Father who seeth in secret will repay thee."










Title: LET US PRAY THE NEW SSPX ROSARY CRUSADE
Post by: Neil Obstat on January 10, 2014, 12:22:05 PM
Quote from: J.Paul

IMHO,

I don't think that engaging in herd activities in this partisan atmosphere is really worthwhile and it ends up being a symbolic public display with sheets, and tallies, and announcements.

And if you do it with altered intentions and send them to different priests, then you are basically intending to disrupt the SSPX "crusade", so why join it in the first place?

I would suggest saying your Rosaries more devoutly and submitting them to Our Lady and stop entertaining the idea of using what should be a solemn and pious action to make political statements to worldly unworthies.

There is only one tally which matters, and it is not found in Menzingen.
The Lord knows exactly who and how many are joined in prayer with the same intentions and dispenses grace accordingly.

He needs no sign-up sheets and judges prayers according to sincerity not numbers.

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"And when ye pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, that love to stand and pray in the ѕуηαgσgυєs and corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men: Amen I say to you, they have received their reward.

"But thou when thou shalt pray, enter into thy chamber, and having shut the door, pray to thy Father in secret: and thy Father who seeth in secret will repay thee."





I don't disagree on principle, J.Paul.

It's just that some people get busy and take action when it's part of a group activity, whereas when they're alone, they tend to run out of steam.  Being part of a group effort increases zeal and regular practice.  And when a lot of people are joined together in their prayer of the Rosary, great things can happen.

We have precedents for this.

During WWII in Austria, the communists were in positions of power and were on the verge of making Austria into another Communist country.  But about 10% of the population got together and prayed the Rosary, in public and in private, and the communists walked away.

The same thing happened in Brazil.  Catholics filled the streets, praying the Rosary in public (some stayed home and prayed in private), and the communists just abandoned their posts, without any explanation.  

Don't forget the miracle of Lepanto, which is not dissimilar -- the thing that all these have in common is a public AWARENESS that the Rosary is being prayed by many people, thousands of people.  That is what the SSPX Rosary crusade accomplishes:  public awareness that thousands of people are involved.  

If we all hide in our rooms and pray in secret, maybe we can expect that God will 'repay' us, but is God going to work any public miracle when the public at large have no way of knowing that the Rosary was being prayed by thousands all over the world?


While this rosary crusade of the SSPX isn't exactly like that, for no one is apparently meeting in chapels or walking down public streets in groups praying the Rosary (although that could be set up and done!) nonetheless, these tally sheets are the means by which some idea of how many people have been involved can be imagined or in fact known by people at large.  

Nor do I see the numbers as any expectation of "payment" from God.  Certainly, +F is prone to use it as such, unfortunately.  He has been known to refer to the numbers of Rosaries reported as a kind of 'currency' that he's using for bargaining power.  It's as though he just can't control his urge to spend, spend, spend.  


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Title: LET US PRAY THE NEW SSPX ROSARY CRUSADE
Post by: Neil Obstat on January 10, 2014, 06:03:40 PM
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Reviewing these posts, it seems I missed a nuance here............


Quote from: J.Paul
This thread clearly demonstrates the cultish thinking which has been internalized by patrons of the SSPX proper and its resistance spinoff.

On the one hand if we don't want to pray the Rosary with the SSPX then we are discouraging other Catholics from praying and on the other hand we have the resistance telling us what Heaven is going to be up to if folks do pray with the Society. And each side enlisting the Saints and the prophets to their cause.


It is silliness, this whole business.



Praying the Rosary is NEVER "silliness."  

We have a very limited time to pray the Rosary in this life, and when our time is over, it's OVER, and then we have to be content in eternity with the measly few minutes that we used well in this short life.

If you want to call the cult of Our Lady "cultish" then go ahead.  She won't mind.

The Faith of Catholics is a cult.  Is that a problem?  It's the one cult outside of which there is no salvation.

If one does not want to pray the Rosary with the SSPX, that is one's own choice, but I'm having a hard time seeing any real virtue in it.  It is rather a sign of weakness.  And to say that anyone who does NOT join is thereby avoiding any discouragement toward others from praying the Rosary is FALSE.  And I can prove it.  

I know several people who are much more encouraged to pray the Rosary while joining with the SSPX in this crusade, and are absolutely DISCOURAGED when they hear of opposition to the crusade on whatever principle, including but not limited to what the SG Fellay has been up to lately.  That's not happening to me, but I'd be a fool to ignore the fact that I can see it happening to others around me.  

I can't control how others react.  I can explain to them what I see going on, but by and large, all too many rank-and-file Catholics of the TLM stripe today are UNWILLING to recognize the auto-demolition going on inside the SSPX before our very eyes.  

As +W has explained so many times, it should come as no surprise, because the same thing happened at Vat.II, when the progressivists wormed their way into the Vatican dicastries (placed there by John XXIII), and now, other progressivists have wormed their way into the capitularies' positions in the Society (placed there by XSPXHEBF).  

Our Lady said the day would come when all we have left is our Rosary and our Scapular.  For some, that day has already arrived.  Is this the time to set aside the Rosary and not earn the EXTRA GRACES WE WOULD RECEIVE by joining with the Society in this crusade?  

Is this the time to SCANDALIZE the 'invincibly ignorant' and/or simple-minded pew-sitters who don't want to think anything untoward is taking place in the SSPX?


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Title: LET US PRAY THE NEW SSPX ROSARY CRUSADE
Post by: JPaul on January 10, 2014, 07:36:02 PM
 You have again given my words a wrong interpretation which was never intended.

I will not argue against the cultish or we can say,  conditioned mentality which compels some to feel the need to be involved in the SSPX crusade simply because it has been called by its leaders.

The SSPX is no longer the defender or bastion of Tradition that it was perceived to be in the past. In fact it may never have been.
Regardless, it surrendered even the pretense of this in the last few years.

The use of the Rosary as a public relations club against Rome in the beginning and later as a means of fooling the faithful never sat well with me, and at this point it is being manipulated again to fool trusting souls yet again.

It is too much, and too hypocritical to join with yesterday's betrayers of Tradition to pray with them for its restoration today, and while in the midst of the squabbles among the factions of the SSPX and the fog of confusion which they create for souls.

I see no reason for the knowing or the unknowing to be further involved in these partisan debates and activities further fueling their disillusionment and sullying the purity of their prayers, hopes, and intentions.

One day a faction is dragging at the faithful to avoid the SSPX, "but you must come away from them", and come another day their supporters are saying, "oh but you must pray in their rosary crusade".  It is perhaps another example of the contradictory thinking which is ingrained in the Society and its adherents.

Maybe it is finally time to get serious and pray the rosary to heaven and avoid those who would vacuum up their prayers and store them in their own treasure houses for their own ends.

Title: LET US PRAY THE NEW SSPX ROSARY CRUSADE
Post by: Centroamerica on January 11, 2014, 11:31:45 AM
The most comical observance of this new Rosary crusade, apart from the clear error of intention # 2, is that didn't Bergoglio say something about people counting Rosaries and offering them to him. He made a mockery of them and them called them Pelagians. Let's see how this one sits with him. Is it Bishop Fellay's way of gettimg even? By calling another one.
Title: LET US PRAY THE NEW SSPX ROSARY CRUSADE
Post by: John Grace on January 13, 2014, 03:43:37 PM
The best advice is to pray the 15 mysteries.
Title: LET US PRAY THE NEW SSPX ROSARY CRUSADE
Post by: JPaul on January 13, 2014, 09:05:13 PM
Quote from: John Grace
The best advice is to pray the 15 mysteries.


Indeed, pray the rosary to Our Lady whose intentions are always pure and true.
Title: LET US PRAY THE NEW SSPX ROSARY CRUSADE
Post by: Wessex on January 14, 2014, 04:18:59 AM
As I said elsewhere there are better places for one's trusting nature and limited resources. And associating with the Society with the wrong attitude nullifies any spiritual benefit .... assuming there is some benefit for naive souls. The Church is not a prison to endure; we suffer with the Church because others wish to imprison her using clerical language and practice.
Title: LET US PRAY THE NEW SSPX ROSARY CRUSADE
Post by: Neil Obstat on January 14, 2014, 07:45:34 AM
Quote from: Centroamerica
The most comical observance of this new Rosary crusade, apart from the clear error of intention # 2, is that didn't Bergoglio say something about people counting Rosaries and offering them to him. He made a mockery of them and them called them Pelagians. Let's see how this one sits with him. Is it Bishop Fellay's way of getting even? By calling another one.


Maybe he did say that, but what I recall hearing is that he shunned the principle of repetitious prayer, without mentioning any specific prayer(s).  That could apply to the Rosary, for sure, but it can also apply to the Kyrie Eleison in the Mass, or the Leonine prayers after Low Mass, or the Second Confiteor (before Communion), or the Litany of Loretto, or any other litany, for that matter.  In fact, it pretty much applies to the entire body of Catholic Tradition!  

This pope is an ENEMY of Catholic Tradition.

While I can understand what you're saying about maybe it's +F's way of getting even, but I don't think so.   I think +F is just being himself.  He tries to lead others around by his antics and so he's trying to lead the Pope around, too.  On the surface of it, I don't think there is anything amiss.  Lots of Rosaries offered to this Pope might make some kind of difference.  

It's really sad, however, to see Our Lady's Rosary being used for a political football.

And if +F attempts to WIPE HIS FEET on Our Lady's mantle as if she's his DOORMAT,  it's not going to sit very well with a LOT of Catholics, including the French, where the most conspicuously ambiguous SECOND INTENTION was announced.


Quote from: J.Paul
Quote from: John Grace
The best advice is to pray the 15 mysteries.


Indeed, pray the rosary to Our Lady whose intentions are always pure and true.


That's very good advice.

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Title: LET US PRAY THE NEW SSPX ROSARY CRUSADE
Post by: cantatedomino on January 25, 2014, 08:12:38 AM
On deeper consideration, I think what I might do is withhold turning the tallies in because under no circuмstances would I entrust my prayers to the crypto-Jew currently defiling the Holy Chair of St. Peter; and I absolutely expect that SSPXBrand will employ them ill-wise by laying them at his doorstep.

I’ll give them directly to the Blessed Mother, my Captain and Chief.
 
I do very much want to simply and publicly unite myself with all the sincere people praying the SSPX Rosary Crusade to God to protect – and hopefully unify - Tradition.

I believe that is a very good work.
Title: LET US PRAY THE NEW SSPX ROSARY CRUSADE
Post by: JPaul on January 25, 2014, 09:51:33 AM
Quote from: cantatedomino
On deeper consideration, I think what I might do is withhold turning the tallies in because under no circuмstances would I entrust my prayers to the crypto-Jew currently defiling the Holy Chair of St. Peter; and I absolutely expect that SSPXBrand will employ them ill-wise by laying them at his doorstep.

I’ll give them directly to the Blessed Mother, my Captain and Chief.
 
I do very much want to simply and publicly unite myself with all the sincere people praying the SSPX Rosary Crusade to God to protect – and hopefully unify - Tradition.

I believe that is a very good work.


Wise and well spoken. As I said earlier, we are always united in the one body to all who pray for those intentions of our Holy Church.

God Bless you my dear.

P.S.   Committing our Rosaries directly to our Mother eliminates the possibility of any skimming in between.
Title: LET US PRAY THE NEW SSPX ROSARY CRUSADE
Post by: cantatedomino on January 25, 2014, 10:18:23 AM
Yup.

God bless you, kind sir!
Title: LET US PRAY THE NEW SSPX ROSARY CRUSADE
Post by: Neil Obstat on January 25, 2014, 11:38:18 AM
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The important thing is to pray the Rosary.   You can make your intentions what are important to you.  Our Lady is the one who's on the front lines.  She's the one who will crush the head of satan.  

It seems to me that not turning our tally sheets in to the SSPX is a great idea.

But if we have such a tally sheet, we might consider turning it in to our preferred Resistance priest.  

In the USA, you can send them to Fr. Hewko.  I'm sure he wouldn't mind.

In Canada, you can send them to Fr. Girouard.  I'm sure he wouldn't mind.

In Latin America, you can send them to Fr. Arizaga or Fr. Trincado or Fr. Altamira.  

In Brazil, you can send them to Dom Tomas Aquino.

In Asia, Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, Oceania, you can send them to Fr. Chazal.

In Europe, Great Britain, Iceland, Greenland, you can send them to +Williamson.

In Africa, you can send them to Fr. Pierre-Célestin N’dong (Gabon), or Fr. Rémi Picot (Kenya).

India, Bangladesh, Burma and Sri Lanka -- Fr. Valan Rajakumar.

I'm sure none of these would mind.  

We have recourse.


In France, your options are manifold and manifest.


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Title: LET US PRAY THE NEW SSPX ROSARY CRUSADE
Post by: Stella on February 09, 2014, 09:05:53 AM
Quote from: Matthew
This will be my first time NOT participating in the Rosary Crusade.

Oh, I'll be saying my daily Rosary, and I have no problem with the intentions. They are some of the things we pray for anyhow.

If my intention is to honor Our Lady, get the graces and merits of the Rosary, and for my intentions to be granted, then there's no reason to gather them up in a pile in front of Bishop Fellay.

That part is only for SSPX negotiating power, prestige, politics, bragging rights, etc.

But now that I see the pattern -- how the Rosary Crusades are used as a distraction, a publicity tool, a form of "Bread and Circuses" for pious Trads, etc. I don't think I can contribute.

Attending an SSPX chapel for the Mass is one thing. Signing up for Bishop Fellay's Rosary Crusade is almost like an endorsement of him, or a "confidence" vote. At least that's how many are going to see it.

In good conscience, I can't do that.

Now if the POPE were heading up something like this, I would contribute because he's the Pope, and I should follow the pope when he commands something good. But Bishop Fellay isn't the pope :)

He's just the Superior General of a pious union of priests that used to be very solid and uncompromising in its defense of Catholic Tradition (a.k.a. "the Faith") but now is inconsistent and wavering quite a bit. It has cast out some of its best priests (and one bishop), and forces the rest (of the good ones) to remain silent.

As such, +Fellay and his organization no longer have my confidence. I will make use of their sacraments, but I no longer have in them a "rah rah" cause to unequivocally support, as I did in the past. Now I can only support the Resistance that way.


I am printing out the above and sending to friends who go to the SSPX and know about the SSPX only what they are told by their priest. They are an elderly couple without internet access. In her last letter, she asked if I was praying the rosary crusade (she is), and I am sending her Matthew's reply which echoes my own sentiments.