By now most active forum members know 'the rest of the story.' Let us now post the first part of the story from the letter in Father's own words:
"Pares cuм paribus congregantur.
"When I translated this famous line of Cicero never did I suspect that it would be so significant in my later days of life. But these words have come to mean so much more than simply “birds of a feather flock together.” No, I have realized the deeper meaning of these words in the refrain of my father of late:  “Tell me who your friends are and I will tell you who you are.” Megalomaniacs love megalomaniacs. Holy men love holy men. Religious women love other religious women.
"Now a corollary of this truth is simply that one rotten apple will turn all the other apples rotten as well. If one chooses a friend who is tainted with evil, then he too will become tainted with the same vice. Today we can see that we cannot associate with an apostate Rome lest we too become apostates. How many holy St. Pius X priests will it take to make the rotten Roman apples whole again or will the 500 saintly men simply become rotten in their faith as well.
"Now let me draw some conclusions from the premises above and apply them to my “resistance” community. In this community there is a “boss” and whatever the “boss” says must be done. Isn't that a bit like “Bishop Fellay: right or wrong” and woe to the one who speaks against the superior? When one rises to the position of authority that person must humbly recall the example of the Lord, Who did not come to be served but to serve. Recall the refrain of our Lord as well when He recalled that the greatest must become like a little child. This pride of place was condemned by Pope St. Pius X in Pascendi. When one finds a cleric or anyone for that matter who seeks to dominate that one should be placed in the lowest of positions to avoid the great damage he can do.
"Hence, leadership is a humble service in the mind of our Lord. The saints followed this pattern totally. When leadership is sought after for the power it offers then the leader undergoes a lobotomy and becomes a different person.
How often this has happened in religious orders and in the Church itself. Any man that seeks to lord it over ought to be placed in the menial tasks of cleaning the toilets and thus protect the rest of the community.
"When we find leadership taking itself too seriously and believing that without this person God just will not be able to complete His plan then we are in serious trouble. The strength of the resistance movement of priests is that we are equally trying to save the souls entrusted to our care. Our primary duty is to glorify God and to serve our neighbor. The priest is the key to the sanctity of the flock. If we become saintly priests we will produce a holy people. If we are holy priests we will produce a good people. If we are good priests, then we will produce a wicked people. It is all determined by the “soul of our apostolic life”.
"Eucharistic adoration, vigils of prayer, contemplation of divine mysteries are a few of the actions that can help sanctify the priest..."
Topic: Opening Paragraphs of Fr. Voigts letter to Fr. Pfeiffer (Read 1285 times)