The Resistance is so loyal to Abp. Lefebvre that they insist on repeating his mistakes.

It is very good for a religious community to be loyal to its founder, but this loyalty cannot be an impediment for growth and developlement.

Accepting the validity of the Novus Ordo sacraments, insisting on the 1962 liturgical books. These things do no good at all.

Some progress is necessary. It is as though Traditionalists are afraid of any progress, even if it is for good.

St. Pius X is a good example. He was strongly anti-Modernist, but he was not against progress and reform if it was for a good reason.

When you say "our personal preference" do you mean, me and you as individuals, or the SSPX as a whole, or SAJM as a whole?
It seems that Rome "gave permission only to the Eccleisa Dei traitors" is because only the Eccleisa Dei groups are submissive to Rome in that these groups are bound to ask for permission, whereas the SSPX is in the process of trying to determine at what level to be submissive (thus the SSPX would not be asking for permissions yet), and the SAJM has a rule not to accept any agreement (not even a unilateral agreement) until Rome converts, plus there is no dialogue between Rome and SAJM, so it is unlikely Rome had them in mind.

I think they know that we as individuals have strong sympathies towards the older liturgies.  By giving permission to the Ecclesia Dei traitors to use the older books, they hoped to add another incentive for us to abandon the true fight and join the conciliar 'church'.  If they could induce enough leaders of an organization, they could even catch a whole society.  I'm guessing that's a large part of the reason they gave that permission at all.  Not all Novus Ordo priests who also offer the True Mass belong to those groups.  It would have been easy enough for the wolves to give a 'general permission' to use the older books.  Instead, they specified certain congregations.

The Resistance is so loyal to Abp. Lefebvre that they insist on repeating his mistakes.

It is very good for a religious community to be loyal to its founder, but this loyalty cannot be an impediment for growth and developlement.

Accepting the validity of the Novus Ordo sacraments, insisting on the 1962 liturgical books. These things do no good at all.

Some progress is necessary. It is as though Traditionalists are afraid of any progress, even if it is for good.

St. Pius X is a good example. He was strongly anti-Modernist, but he was not against progress and reform if it was for a good reason.

That is because we in the Resistance, unlike you, do not believe Archbishop Lefebvre was mistaken in these matters.
The Good God, in His unsearchable Providence, brought Marcel Lefebvre into this world to be the guiding light in the greatest of crises that His Church had ever seen. All that He does, He does well. God fitted him out with all the necessary attributes he would need to fulfill his mission, and he found a soul uniquely faithful. If you believe you have found a better guide, it is you who are mistaken. Ours is a holding position until the Roman authorities return to their Catholic senses.

Fine. No one is forced to agree with me.

But it is a dangerous thing to hold a person infallible. Any person.

Even the good Archbishop changed his mind about somethings during his lifetime.

This is a very important post. And sums up today's error on bob/bod and invincible ignorance.

That is because we in the Resistance, unlike you, do not believe Archbishop Lefebvre was mistaken in these matters.
The Good God, in His unsearchable Providence, brought Marcel Lefebvre into this world to be the guiding light in the greatest of crises that His Church had ever seen. All that He does, He does well. God fitted him out with all the necessary attributes he would need to fulfill his mission, and he found a soul uniquely faithful. If you believe you have found a better guide, it is you who are mistaken. Ours is a holding position until the Roman authorities return to their Catholic senses.

Guiding light, pillar of truth, principle of unity, unfailing faith, sure guide. You've mistaken Lefebvre for the Pope.

I should share with you something I learned at the Seminary. There are two extremes, which should be avoided.

LEGALISM
and
(it's opposite) - being blown about by every wind, "the spirit", which is usually our own inclinations and/or temptations

There are two types of Catholic study we can fill our heads with:

Doctrine
Lives of the Saints

But can one substitute for the other? NO!

If we neglect Doctrine, we forget the ORDINARY: we end up all over the place, expecting exceptions and miracles constantly and everywhere, ignoring the normal, common paths.
If we neglect Lives of the Saints, we forget the EXTRAORDINARY: God is Master, makes exceptions, miracles happen, visions occur, God intervenes and raises up individuals at times for this or that mission, and in general there is the world of the extraordinary.

It seems to me that to stay balanced Catholics grounded in the truth, we need to feed our mind from BOTH these sources, so we end up neither free-wheeling PENTECOSTAL nor legalist PHARISEE. Because I can attest that I've seen both in the couple of decades since I learned this.



SUMMARY
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It's like we have to remember this phrase:

Usually life is by the book, but sometimes God gets personally involved.

If you don't read enough Doctrine (Catechism, Church definitions, rules, etc.), you need this version:
Usually life is by the book, but sometimes God gets personally involved.

But if you've read too many Lives of the Saints but not enough books on Doctrine, you need THIS version:
Usually life is by the book, but sometimes God gets personally involved.

Nobody said "infallible", here or ever that I know of.

What I'm saying is, if I have to choose between Archbishop Lefebvre and self-appointed doctors of the Church, I don't need much time to decide.

"The Good God, in His unsearchable Providence, brought Marcel Lefebvre into this world to be the guiding light in the greatest of crises that His Church had ever seen. All that He does, He does well. God fitted him out with all the necessary attributes he would need to fulfill his mission, and he found a soul uniquely faithful. If you believe you have found a better guide, it is you who are mistaken."

Someone who is THE guiding light, UNIQUELY faithful and has ALL the necessary attributes is infallible.

PV makes it even more clear by assing that it's impossible to find a better guide than Lefebvre which, of course, implies perfection, since only perfection can't be improved upon.

This kind of superlative language ascribing supernatural gifts to Lefebvre is quite indicative of where most Lefebvrites derive their theology from. Their proximate rule of faith is Lefebvre, not the Pope.

Compliments to the exceptions who dare challenge Lefebvre on the '62 missal for example. Still a ways to go but it's a start.