Menzingen issues directive -silence.
In Fr. Pfieffer’s new sermon (Nov. 25)
at 12:40, he says: A new directive from Menzingen was issued a couple weeks ago to all superiors throughout the SSPX –No District superiors-No Priors-and No Priests are to speak about the relations with Rome. Only Menzingen will give the “official” communications. If someone asks you about it, then tell them “nothing”. You will get the “official” communications from above.
Translation = It is Vatican II-B time, so follow the script!
The priests at all levels are totally gagged:
Frankly, based on chapel conversation, I would say that at least three-quarters of the parishioners go there because they like it more than the Novus Ordo, it's the only thing they know, and/or it's just more convenient that the archdiocesan indult or other conservative Conciliar parish.
Before Vatican II, many fallen away Catholics and Protestants were converted after attending a funeral service and hearing a profound sermon.
In the same way, the SSPXers that came because they "like it more than the Novus Ordo" (or the reverence, or smells and bells, etc.), can be instructed by a good priests as to why they are there. A good priest, who cares for his sheep, will grab the opportunity to convert the people.
The problem, as I keep saying, is that the SSPX has changed, and they have consciously decided to control the sermons by removing all militancy from the sermons. They have stopped connecting the sermons to the real world. The Novus Ordo church has been doing it since the 1960's, they could preach each and every day (they have sermons every day, not just Sundays) and still keep the people dumb by not tying it to how it applies today. I could preach all day about faith, hope, charity, love, peace, the Ten Commandments, if however, I don't connect them to how they apply today, they are all useless sermons. This is what the SSPX has been consciously promoting among the priests for like at least 10 years now. NO militancy and no direction.
You see, it does not matter why a person initially comes to an SSPX chapel, unless they are left that way, and if they are left that way, it is the fault of the SSPX. In the long run, nothing happens in politics by chance. If the SSPX faithful go to mass at a chapel because they like the music, then, they are ignorant because the SSPX wants them that way.