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My original point stands, and is valid. That is, that you confuse/equate (identify might be a better word) SSPX with the CHURCH.
God raises up whoever or whatever He needs for the battle.
Are you fighting to save the Jesuits?
No?
Why not? God raised the Jesuits up for a special purpose in a special place in a special time.
Same goes for many different orders and institutions, including SSPX. I am not saying that SSPX is not worth fighting for. What I am saying is that if it goes under today, God will raise up whoever and whatever He wills to continue the work His work. It may be those priests who have been evicted or ostracised by SSPX heirarchy or an entirely different group or groups.
I just know that when SSPX stops doing His Will they go under, are kaput
Thank you Nadir for your well-conceived posts. Fr. Joseph Pfeiffer recently preached that the SSPX leadership plays with fire, and he added: with the fire of hell. I think that they already caught it, when we consider the strong words of Archbishop Lefebvre against the modernists in Newrome whom the Neo-SSPX wants to join.
I really think you think like our good Bishop Williamson. And I appreciate him a lot, that's why I just
have to quote him so many times, isn't it. This time from 2008, but his words are atemporal and match our current Neo-SSPX situation perfectly. The wrong idea of the SSPX being the "Last Cartridge" of God is in many SSPX heads in my experience, and in particular in the leadership's heads. And it looks like this exaggerated opinion of oneself opened the door to the self-destruction of the SSPX we're seeing today (but which was prepared for years)...
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Eleison Comments XLVII, 24th May 2008
Last CartridgeA priestly colleague of the Society of St. Pius X has just written (or maybe adopted) a parable whereby the Society is the last cartridge of a hunter who must shoot to kill the monster of neo-modernism entrenched within the structures of the Catholic Church. Since it is the last cartridge, the hunter cannot afford to miss! Well, the „hunter“ may be burdened, but let me attempt to assure him that he is not burdened that much!
First and foremost, the Catholic Church belongs to Almighty God who has numerous possible ways of coming to its rescue that we men cannot even imagine. „Is my arm shortened because you men are wicked?“ asks the Lord God (Isaias 50:2). To imagine that the Lord God depends upon the SSPX to deal with the monster of neo-modernism is gravely to underestimate His powers!
Secondly, neo-modernism is surely far too entrenched in Catholics (or former Catholics) for a little Congregation of some 450 priests to be able to dislodge it! Just as the crime of abortion has become more and more normal and accepted over the last 40 years, so too has the heresy of neo-modernism more and more established itself over the same time-period in the hearts and minds of the mass of Catholics (or once Catholics). By the grace of God, the SSPX may still have the Truth, but what grip or leverage does truth still have on diabolically disoriented minds, starting with those of today’s leading churchmen?
Thirdly, what power does the SSPX have other than the – today – powerless Truth? Besides the Faith, the SSPX has neither great numbers nor great theologians nor great writers. It is holding its own all over the world, which is already a miracle, but it is fragile and in worldly terms it is advancing surely no more than one little step at a time, whereas the worldwide Revolution is advancing by leaps and bounds.
No, dear colleague. The humble mission of the SSPX is surely not to kill the storm dead (as only Our Lord could do), but to ride it out. Not to overwhelm the lies, but to sustain the Truth. Not to conquer, but to give witness. Not to be in a hurry, but to wait for God’s good time. It is His Church, and He is certainly looking after it by, amongst other things, sustaining thus far the SSPX. But He is never short of cartridges!
Bishop Richard Williamson
La Reja, Argentina