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Offline Neil Obstat

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Letter of Fellay to 3 SSPX Bishops
« on: May 18, 2012, 12:25:58 PM »
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  • Letter of Fellay to "THE THREE"

    This part at the end got me all choked up... boo-hoo!
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    You cannot know how much your attitude over the last few months - quite different for each of you - has been hard for us. It has prevented the Superior General from sharing with you these great concerns, which he would gladly have brought you in to, had he not found himself faced with such a strong and passionate lack of understanding. How much he would have loved to be able to count on you, on your advice to undergo this so delicate moment in our history. It is a great trial, perhaps the greatest of all 18 years of his being superior. Our venerable founder gave to the Society bishops a task and precise duties. He made clear that the principle of unity in our Society is the Superior General. But for a certain time now, you have been trying - each one of you in his own way - to impose on him your point of view, even in the form of threats, and even in public. This dialectic between the truth and the faith on the one side and authority on the other is contrary to the spirit of the priesthood. He might at least have hoped that you were trying to understand the arguments driving him to act as he has acted these last few years in accordance with the will of divine Providence.

    We are praying hard for each of you that we may find ourselves all together once again in this fight which is far from over, for the greater glory of God and for love of dear Society.

    May Our risen Lord and Our Lady deign to protect and bless you, ...
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    It reminded me so much of Pope Paul VI when he was getting ready to dump his  Novus Ordo pile of refuse on our collective heads. The sentimental nostalgia welled up in my throat in a big lump. Boo-hoo...

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    Offline ServusSpiritusSancti

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    Letter of Fellay to 3 SSPX Bishops
    « Reply #1 on: May 18, 2012, 12:28:32 PM »
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  • Oh yes, boo hoo. Cry me a river.
    Please ignore ALL of my posts. I was naive during my time posting on this forum and didn’t know any better. I retract and deeply regret any and all uncharitable or erroneous statements I ever made here.


    Offline Cristera

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    Letter of Fellay to 3 SSPX Bishops
    « Reply #2 on: May 18, 2012, 01:01:02 PM »
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  • Quote from: Neil Obstat
    Letter of Fellay to "THE THREE"

    This part at the end got me all choked up... boo-hoo!
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    You cannot know how much your attitude over the last few months - quite different for each of you - has been hard for us. It has prevented the Superior General from sharing with you these great concerns, which he would gladly have brought you in to, had he not found himself faced with such a strong and passionate lack of understanding. How much he would have loved to be able to count on you, on your advice to undergo this so delicate moment in our history.


    And what about the SSPX's priests, faithful and even a Bishop who have been exiled, expelled, persecuted and faced a strong and passionate lack of understanding from their own superior? HOW DOES HE THINK THEY FEEL?

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    Letter of Fellay to 3 SSPX Bishops
    « Reply #3 on: May 18, 2012, 01:35:37 PM »
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  • Very good observations, indeed.

    A good priest who's 100% loyal to Archbishop Lefebvre and who knows Bp Fellay from his beginning in the SSPX, told me the following about Bp Fellay a few years ago. I'd put my shirt on that priest by the way:

    Quote from: Good priest
    The poor man (so to speak) is, like so many moderns, wrapped up in his own illusory world, a problem compounded when the illusion can dress itself up as being "holy".
    "Spirituality" justifies unbelievable cruelty!