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28 Febbraio 2025
2025, Messaggi
For the obsequies of Bishop Williamson
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The land of Canterbury was consecrated to Christ by the blood of Saint Thomas Becket, martyred on the 29th of December, 1170, in the Cathedral which has now become Anglican. At that time, Archbishop Thomas opposed the Constitutions of Clarendon, with which King Henry II attacked the liberties and independence of the Catholic Church. He paid with his life for this courageous defense of the Catholic Church, and today the Saintly Bishop looks down on us from heaven as we celebrate the suffrages of another Bishop, Richard Nelson Williamson, whom we consider a witness to the Faith and Catholic Tradition in times no less troubled and hostile.

Bishop Williamson was not killed by four assassins of Henry II. He did not shed his blood by being struck while celebrating the Holy Sacrifice at the altar of his Cathedral. The Cathedral in which he would have celebrated was denied to him by a Hierarchy that is now allied and complicit with the same enemies of the past, which excommunicates not the enemies of the Papacy, but those who denounce the betrayal of a usurper. Bishop Williamson also was betrayed: not by four assassins, but by those who wounded him in the heart, betraying the legacy of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre.

I hope that the heroic example of Saint Thomas Becket and the testimony of white martyrdom given by Bishop Richard Williamson may awaken in us the feelings that they both shared: first and foremost, the love of God; the love of the God-Man, Our Lord Jesus Christ; the love of the Holy Roman Catholic Apostolic Church; and the love of man for the sake of the love of God, from which flows the apostolic zeal of true Shepherds toward their sheep, who recognize in them the voice of the divine Shepherd.

This earthly life is a battlefield, in which we fight without quarter against a mortal enemy. This enemy has already been defeated by Our Lord, on the Cross, the Via Regia, the Royal Road to the eternal glory of Heaven. This is what the prophet Hosea meant when, referring to Christ, he pronounced these words: O mors, ero mors tua; morsus tuus ero, inferne. Giving one’s life, giving all one’s life and all one’s energy for Our Lord Jesus Christ and for the Holy Church, and doing so in a daily crucifixion, allows us to be cooperators in the Redemption. Our human weakness, when placed at the service of the Gospel, allows Grace to accomplish great things; it allows us to face each day, even the last day, without giving up fighting the bonum certamen and repeating, with the Prophet: O death, I will be your death; I will be your mortal blow, O hell.

Tempora bona veniant. Pax Christi veniat. Regnum Christi veniat.
 
+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop

May Bishop Williamson rest in peace.  

Thank you, Archbishop Vigano. 

A nice letter by Abp. Vigano.  We must pray for the conversion of the "usurper," as death seems to be approaching him.   I am reminded of the story of Fr. Feeney, when he would preach at the corner of Bow and Arrow Streets the Jews would spit on him and say, "Tear down that wretch from the cross and we will crucify him again."  Any opposition that the enemies have against Bp. Williamson, is, once again, due to his denial of the gas chambers and his bucking against Israel.