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Title: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: SeanJohnson on June 25, 2023, 03:04:42 PM
Please be patient, as this sermon is 10 pages long.  I will have to post it in installments.  It is worth hearing. and says much that needed to be said in the wake of the +Huonder farce.
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: SeanJohnson on June 25, 2023, 03:04:58 PM
Priestly ordination sermon at the Seminary of the Apostles of Jesus and Mary
June 24, 2023
+Gerardo Zendejas, SAJM


Dear Superior General of the Society of the Apostles of Jesus and Mary, Your Excellency Mgr Faure,

Your Excellency Bishop Williamson,

My dear confreres in the priesthood, dear religious,

Dear friends:

We have all come here, to Avrillé, to witness today this Catholic ceremony for the continuation of the true  royal and propitiatory priesthood, that priesthood which Our Lord Jesus Christ ordered His Apostles to pass on to their apostolic successors, under the Primacy of St. Peter, Vicar of Christ, throughout the centuries to the end of the world. The eleven disciples," says St Matthew, "went out into Galilee, to the mountain Jesus had told them about. When they saw him, they adored him, some doubted. Then Jesus came and spoke to them: All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Teach them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always until the consummation of the end. (St Math. 28, 16 -20)

We are here, therefore, to pay tribute to Archbishop Lefebvre, our venerable founder, for the great example he set in preserving the Catholic priesthood expressed in the Roman rite, despite the the leaders of the Vatican II Church. This conciliar church continues to wage a relentless war against Our Lord Jesus Christ, true God and true Man, and against anyone who wants to be a soldier of Christ and fight for God's Kingdom to come on earth as it is in heaven.

In fact, Archbishop Lefebvre, as successor to the Apostles, did not fail to do what he was commanded to do. Lefebvre is par excellence the prelate who has preserved the  the essential magnitude of the Catholic priesthood at the end of the 20th century, not only by transmitting the authentic character of the Apostolicity of the Church through the Episcopal Consecrations of June 30, 1988, but also by safeguarding in all its integrity the deposit of the Faith, principally expressed in the doctrine of the Holy Mass, where Christ, crowned with thorns and enthroned on the Cross, offers the propitiatory atonement for our sins.

Thus, my simple words today are intended to be like the repercussions of an echo in a valley, so that they only serve to recall the heroic witness left by Archbishop Lefebvre. I would like recall in particular the words of three of his sermons:

The first took place on the occasion of ordinations in 1976. In it, Archbishop Lefebvre explained how the priest participates in the grace of Union in Our Lord Jesus Christ, and how the Holy Mass must be monarchical, not democratic.

The second sermon is the one that accompanied the celebration of his golden jubilee as a priest in 1979, when he launched a Crusade for clergy and laity to perpetuate the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.

The third sermon took place in Lille on August 29, 1976, when Archbishop Lefebvre asserted that the Devil is the Father of Lies, the Father of error, and that error and truth are not compatible. In the same sermon, he also denounced three errors of the conciliar church: the fact that it had entered into a dialogue with Protestants to produce a bastardized new Mass and bastardized sacraments; the fact that it has undertaken abominable talks with the Freemasons and Communists, who are against Our Lord Jesus Christ, with a view to building a new Church based on equivocation and confusion; and the fact that it has rejected the social reign of Our Lord Jesus Christ on the pretext that it is no longer feasible.

We would also like to congratulate His Excellency Bishop Richard Williamson on the 35th anniversary of his episcopal consecration, and we wish him many years to come - Ad Multos Annos! Thank you for sharing this marvellous gift of knowledge, composed in masterly strokes of the pen which, when read sound like a harmonious melody flowing down a natural waterfall. Thank you for transmitting this immense love for eternal Truth, for the world's only Saviour, Jesus Christ, with uncommon eloquence throughout your conferences, speeches and sermons. Perhaps for some some, your words may have sounded scandalous, for others they may have seemed foolish, but for many, many others, they are a voice crying out in the wilderness of this godless modern world.  What May the Mother of God, the Madonna who watched over you from the entrance of the school in Winchester, England, keep you always under her maternal mantle to preserve you from any attack by evil-doers. We are therefore delighted to be here with Your Excellency for this celebration - Deo Gratias! As St. Paul said: "Let men look upon us as ministers of Christ and dispensers of the mysteries of God. Now, what is required of dispensers is that they be found faithful." (1Cor. 4, 1-2)

And finally, we are here - my dear Fr. Blanchet, to rejoice with your whole family, and to commend the generosity of your beloved parents for your perseverance in saying the evening prayer as a family. Truly, "a family that prays together stays together". It goes without saying that the presence of your friends who came to attend your ordination to the priesthood, is proof of the trust and and charitable support you've received on your journey to the Catholic priesthood. All the teachers Divine Providence has placed at your side, such as your music teacher, will enhance the ceremony, and all the members of the Dominican community here present, we all want to give thanks to God for the merciful gift of your priestly vocation. May you be found faithful to your vocation to the last breath of your life.


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So, dear friends, just as before Our Lord's Ascension into heaven "some [bishops] had doubted", since then, many other bishops have also doubted their duties over the centuries. More bishops today have lost objective faith, so that they allow themselves to be lulled by the false comforts of the modern, materialistic, atheistic world, adopting its electronic fashions with a gnostic understanding of life and death.

There are many Christian families torn apart; the homes, the children, are torn in their hearts by divisions in the Church, by this new religion being taught and practiced for the conciliar church. Certainly, charity has grown cold and people have lost their love of the truth. The whole world believes more in the Internet than in the Bible, which is why Saint Paul said: "...with all the deceitfulness of iniquity to those who perish, because they have not received the love of the truth in order that they might be saved. Therefore God will send them an operation of error, that they may believe lies." (2 Thess. 2, 9-10)

In a world convulsed by war, famine and pestilence, it's unheard of for the synodal church to preach a "new evangelization" that focuses on everything but Christ's sacrifice on Calvary. When will the Vicar of Christ return to lead all nations back to Tradition as it was believed everywhere, always and by everyone?

(to be continued)
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: SeanJohnson on June 25, 2023, 03:26:57 PM
(Continued):

Archbishop Lefebvre answered this question, "[...] when Rome re-crowns Our Lord Jesus Christ. We cannot agree with those who disparage Our Lord. The day they recognize King of peoples and nations, it is not us they will have joined, but the Catholic Church in which we dwell. (Archbishop Lefebvre, Flavigny December 1988, Fideliter 68, March 1989, p. 16)

Pending the conversion of modern pagan Rome and the abolition of human slavery, the fruit of the Globalist agenda, what can the Catholic priest do in today's world?

Let's listen to the preaching of His Eminence of Poitiers, the venerable Cardinal Pie, who is well known for having taught the perennial doctrine of the rights of Jesus Christ to govern individuals, families and nations, and for proclaiming His royal primacy over the international law of nations. We should read and reread the abundant wisdom of the writings of Cardinal Pie, who is the Master and Doctor on the doctrine of the Royalty of Christ:

"The principal benefit to be derived from error, heresy, and all the oppositions which truth encounters among men, is the exposure and glorification of the very point of doctrine that is especially denied and opposed. [...] On what subjects should religious writers, and especially the spiritual guides and teachers of the people concentrate their controversies, their demonstrations, their teachings? [...] Look at where error directs its attacks, its denials, its blasphemies. That which is is attacked, denied, blasphemed in every century, is mainly what that same century must defend, must affirm, must confess. Where offense abounds, grace must abound. To darkenings of the mind, coolings of the heart, we must oppose a surfeit of light, a recrudescence of love.
(Mgr Pie, Troisième instruction synodale sur les erreurs du temps présent, July 1862 and August 1863)

It's obvious that, in their fight against Our Lord Jesus Christ and Christianity, the enemies have concentrated their fight on what constitutes its foundation: Truth, Authority and the Priesthood. Let's briefly summarize what the priest can do to defend truth against error, to support Authority against anarchy and chaos, and to preserve the sacred priesthood against the profane ministry promoted by the Second Vatican Council.

The Catholic priest is a principle of order. A good priest recapitulates everything in Christ the King. In so doing, he promotes the common spiritual and temporal good of families and the country, for he is the salt of the earth and the light of the world. But when a priest fails in his duties, when he compromises with the enemies of the soul: the world, the flesh, the devil, then, more than ever, that terrible maxim comes true: Corruptio optimi, pessima! (The corruption of the best is the worst!)

That's why Don Bosco used to say that when a priest dies, he will never go alone, but with many people, either to heaven or to hell.

On the day of his ordination, the priest becomes a principle of order in Spiritus Veritatis (the Spirit of Truth), as Our Lord Jesus Christ commanded the Apostles to do so.

Allow me, then, to say a few words about the triple power: The first is the power to teach - potestas docendi. This power commands the unity of doctrine in the Faith of priests and faithful - we must believe in this deposit of faith, which has been believed everywhere, always and by all, "quod ubique, semper, et ab omnibus" (Commonitorium Primum, St. Vincent Lerin).

The second is the power to govern - potestas regendi This power requires unity in the hierarchy - Jesus Christ is the head of the Church, the Pope is the Vicar of Christ, the Bishops are the apostolic successors, the Priests are other Christs, and the Faithful are the witnesses of eternal redemption.In this hierarchical scale, all power comes from God: "omnis potestas a Deo", says Saint Paul (Rom. 13, 1)

The third is the power to sanctify - potestas sanctificandi. This power is linked to the unity of liturgy in the Church's official worship, as practiced by clergy and faithful alike. For the law of prayer is the expression of the law of faith. Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi.

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Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: SeanJohnson on June 25, 2023, 03:52:02 PM
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1. The Power of Teaching: the Faith that has always been believed everywhere and by all

“The lips of the priest - says the prophet Malachias - shall keep knowledge, and they shall seek the law at his mouth, because he is the messenger of the Lord.” (Malach. 2, 7)

“Because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will reject thee that thou shalt not do the office of priesthood to Me,” said the prophet Osee. ( 4, 6)

Almighty God wants men to help Him save souls. He could have done this by other means. However, Jesus Christ became man Himself, and He willed that some men become priests through the grace of the Sacrament of Holy Orders (like His Apostles, who were ready to convert the whole world, or like any one of the priests here present, who are willing to convert the modern world for the greater glory of God and the eternal salvation of souls).

The Sacrament of Holy Orders constitutes the imposition of the bishop’s hands upon the head of the deacon as the Matter of the sacrament. For the sacramental Form, is required the words of the Preface in the Rite of Ordination, which clearly express the bishop’s intention to do what has always been done in the Catholic Church, believed everywhere and by all.

Among his functions, a priest must faithfully teach the very Word of God to those who wish to be the children of God, instructing them by the Church Magisterium. Hence, he must believe in the two sources of divine Revelation, namely, the Holy Scripture and the oral Tradition transmitted by the Apostles to their apostolic successors.

As the meaning of the word “apostle” requires, the priest must be sent to preach under the authority of a bishop. Archbishop Lefebvre said that “In consecrating his life to the apostolic ministry, and since he continues the mission which Our Lord Jesus Christ fulfilled on earth, he is essentially sent as missionary. ” (AL, June 29 1978). So, the priest is sent by God, under the authority of the Catholic Church in order to preach the Apostles’ Creed, the Ten Commandments, the Seven Sacraments, the Our Father and other prayers, in order to lead his flock for their eternal salvation.

During this ceremony, the Catholic Church says through the mouth of the bishop: “Agnosce quod agis, imita quod tractis,” that is, “Realize what you are doing. Imitate what you operate”. The priest must therefore believe that he dispenses God’s graces through the Sacraments which are the ordinary channels, instituted for that purpose by Our Lord Jesus Christ Himself. It is the priest’s duty to provide the proper MATTER, the correct FORM, and the right INTENTION of the sacraments, in order to validly administer them to his flock, and when needed to receive them himself. It would be a serious negligence, if a priest would not provide all that is needed for such a purpose, as it would be a negligence for a bishop who would not provide to his priests all that is needed for them to properly administer the sacraments to the faithful.

The most important duty is to re-actualize by his priestly ministry the same Sacrifice that Our Lord Jesus Christ made on the Cross at Calvary, in an un-bloody manner, under the species of bread and wine, so that he is bringing God from heaven down onto the altar for the eternal salvation of souls.

It is imperative to meditate on the grace in which this young priest is going to participate in the Catholic priesthood. It is not by the sanctifying grace which Our Lord Jesus Christ gives us through Baptism. It is by the grace of union – that grace of union unique to Our Lord Jesus Christ. For it is by His grace of union with the divinity of God, with the divinity of the Word, that Our Lord Jesus Christ became Priest, that Our Lord Jesus Christ is King, and by that Our Lord Jesus Christ is Judge. Truly, Our Lord Jesus
Christ ought to be adored by all men because of this grace of union, which is a sublime grace! This grace from the divinity Itself, in a unique manner descended into His humanity in the fullness of time, anointing Our Lord Jesus Christ in a special manner, as the holy Oil descending on the head of the recipient anoints the one who receives its unction. Our Lord Jesus Christ’s humanity was penetrated by the divinity of the Word of God, and thus He was made Priest and became Mediator between God and men.

Participating in that grace, the priest is a real mediator between God and men. In receiving the priestly ordination, a priest is not any longer like any other man; he is consecrated for God and separated from men. At Mass, for example, before turning to say “Dominus vobiscuм”, the priest must kiss the altar in order to express his function of mediator between God and men, as a bridge between heaven and earth, uniting the prayers of the faithful to the sacrifice of the altar.

Also, it is important to note some of the accessory ceremonies of the priestly ordination in the Roman Rite:

Firstly, the bishop clothes the priest with a stole, crossing it over his chest to remind him of the Cross of Our Lord, and with a chasuble which symbolizes the submission a priest must have to the binding yoke of God’s Law through a life of sanctity and purity.

Secondly, the bishop anoints the priest’s hands with the holy Oil of catechumens, binds them together, and in presenting him the chalice and paten, he says these words: “Receive the power to offer to God the Sacrifice, and to celebrate Mass for both the living and the dead.”

Thirdly, at the end of the ceremony, the bishop confers on the new priest the divine power to forgive sins when saying: “Receive the Holy Ghost, the sins you forgive, they will be forgiven, and the sins you retain, they will be retained.”

The aforesaid said priestly ceremonies are not contained in the new Rite of Ordination implemented after the Second Vatican Council. Perhaps these blessings are not by themselves necessary for the validity of the new Rite of Ordination, but their omission and the absence of any other liturgical expression do not clearly manifest the intention by which the bishop is ordaining the priest. Otherwise, the functions assigned to the priest in the new Rite could signify the bishop’s intentions, namely, to preside at the assembly of the people of God; to face the people when saying the New Mass; to remove the tabernacle from the center of the altar; to give Communion on the hand, etc. These expressions are absolutely consistent with the fundamental mentality of modern man. The New Mass is not a hierarchical Mass instituted from above; on the contrary, it is a democratic Mass instituted from below, by the people, for the people and with the people. It is the expression of a man-centered cult, created by man who wants to make himself god.

Archbishop Lefebvre said concerning the New Mass: “The ideology of modern man has been brought into our most sacred Rites. This is why we think that we cannot accept the new Rite, which is the work of another ideology, or a new ideology.” (AL, June 29, 1976).

And again: "May seminarians, priests and bishops find the understanding of their priesthood in these few fundamental truths about the grace of union in Our Lord, and appreciate the sublimity of the heritage bequeathed to them, which must be the source of their sanctification and the source of their apostolate: the act of sacrifice.

Our Lord’s act of Sacrifice being the act which constitutes the Sacrament of the Eucharist – the life of Christ, Priest and Victim – must be the foundation of our interior life as well as of our ministry in giving Jesus to souls. This indissoluble union of the Sacrifice and the Sacrament which the Word Incarnate in His wisdom willed, is precisely what the Protestants reject, and the innovators of Vatican II have in practice made it disappear by Ecuмenism!” (AL, Spiritual Journey, p. 35)

“It must be understood immediately that we do not hold to the absurd idea that if the New Mass is valid, we are then free to assist at it. The Church has always forbidden the faithful to assist at the Masses of heretics and schismatics, even when they are valid. It is clear that no one can assist at sacrilegious Masses or at Masses which endanger our faith.” (AL, November 8, 1979)

God never abandons His Church, and so the number of priests will be always sufficient for the needs of the faithful, provided that worthy priests remain faithful to the deposit of the Faith, and that those who profess heresy and who un-repentantly transgress the moral laws are removed from the ministry. As the fourth Ecuмenical Lateran Council said, should it ever become impossible to maintain the present number of priests "it is better to have a few good priests than a multitude of bad ones." (decree 27, De instructione ordinarum).

This is why, dear Abbé Blanchet, you must always celebrate the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, knowing what you're doing and understanding what you're saying. Never celebrate Mass in a hurry, in less than 20 minutes, because that would scandalize the faithful, as Father Prümmer says, and it would also be a matter for confession. Beware of never saying the new Mass. Be faithful to the Breviary. Preach the evangelical counsels of chastity, obedience and poverty. Be faithful to your consecration to the Blessed Virgin Mary, pray your daily rosary, and beware of private revelations.

Consequently, the priest is a principle of order. He must always preach the truth. faithful to his priesthood; then he can give eternal life to all those entrusted to him.  Saint John tells us: "But eternal life is that they should know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. (St John, 17, 3).

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Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: SeanJohnson on June 25, 2023, 04:04:58 PM
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2. The power of governing: All power comes from God.

There cannot be priests without bishops, and no bishops without apostolic succession, and no Vicar of Christ without a successor of Saint Peter, and no Catholic Church without Jesus Christ, true God and true Man. “Let every soul be subject to higher powers: for there is no power but from God: and those that are, are ordained of God.” (Rom. 13,1) The superiors must provide for the doctrinal formation of their subjects, and not otherwise. How can priest pretend to hold authority in himself, if he would break the chain of command? At his ordination, the priest becomes "the lieutenant of Christ the King” for the purpose to establish the Kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven.

Is the traditional movement a rebellion to Authority? Was Archbishop Lefebvre against Church Authority? Resisting in the spirit of Truth, Archbishop Lefebvre preserved the Deposit of the Faith including the Papacy itself from the destructive danger formulated by the innovations of the Second Vatican Council. Archbishop Lefebvre himself explained the reasons for which one should resist a higher authority. “ […] What is the first principle to know what we must do in this circuмstance, in this crisis in the Church? What is the principle? This doctrine is expounded by Saint Thomas Aquinas. So what does Saint Thomas Aquinas say about the authority in the Church? When can we refuse something from the authority of the Church? PRINCIPLE: ‘Only when the Faith is in question.’ Only in this case. Not in other cases… Only when the Faith is in question... and that is found in the Summa Theologica (II II Q.33, a.4, ad 2m) […].” (AL, St. Them Aquinas Seminary, Ridgefield, 1983)

“We resist and shall continue to resist, not in a spirit of contradiction or rebellion, but in a spirit of fidelity to the Church, of fidelity to God, to our Lord Jesus Christ, to all those who taught us our holy religion; by a spirit of fidelity to all the Popes who maintained Tradition. That is why we are determined quite simply to continue, to persevere in the Tradition which sanctified the saints who are rendering an immense service to all the faithful who wish to keep the faith and truly to receive the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.” (AL, Écône November 1, 1980)

Certainly, most traditional Priests and Bishops might agree on many doctrinal points. Perhaps we might have the same doctrine about the Catholic Church, about moral theology; and we might be ready to follow Saint Thomas Aquinas in his objective philosophy and in dogmatic theology… But when it comes to interpreting the present crisis in the Church today, and the future collapsing of the world… we might not have the same interpretation, the same thinking and understanding… Indeed, it is a big problem in which Divine Providence wants us to survive, as it was in that time when three Popes at the same time claimed to be the reigning pope, and whom Kings, Bishops, Priests and Faithful defended and believed… and Christendom was divided. The history of Tradition today is a history of divisions! And today we Catholics are at risk to falling into error, either by heresy or by schism. But as Archbishop Lefebvre said, we want to be neither heretics nor schismatics!

On the other hand, the Father of Lies is at work, coming again and again to divide in order to conquer. That’s why Pope Pius IX, wanting to warn us, allowed the publication of a book entitled The Roman Church and the Revolution, written by Crétineau-Joly (on February 25, 1861). Here is an interesting excerpt recording a conversation between two Freemason leaders: “…You want to establish the kingdom of the elects on the throne of the prostitute Babylon, in which the clergy follows under your standards, believing always that they walk under the standard of the apostolic keys… If you do not precipitate, we promise a catch more miraculous than his.’ The fisherman who catches fish becomes a fisherman to catch men. You will be surrounded by friends of the Apostolic Chair. You will preach a revolution in [Papal] Tiara and Cope walking under the banner and the standard of the cross, a revolution that needs nothing else but a spark to kindle a fire throughout the four corners of the world.”

Under the same circuмstances, let us remember the words of Our Lord to Saint Peter: “Simon, Simon, behold Satan has desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat. But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not, and thou, being once converted, confirm thy brethren.” (St Luke, 22, 31-32)

On this subject, Archbishop Lefebvre enlightened us with some wisdom:

“In reality it is an extraordinary gift that God has made us in giving us the Pope, in giving us the successors of Peter, giving us precisely this perpetuity in truth communicated to us through the successors of Peter, that just be communicated to us through them. And it seems inconceivable that a successor of Peter could fail in any way to transmit the truth that he is obliged to transmit. Indeed, without virtually disappearing from the line of succession he cannot fail to communicate that which the Popes have always transmitted – the Deposit of the Faith which does not belong to him alone.  […] And we cannot follow error nor change truth, just because the one, who is in charge of transmitting it, is weak and allows error to spread around him. We don’t want the darkness to encroach upon us. We want to live in the light of truth. We remain faithful to that which has been taught for two thousand years. The same things that have been taught for two thousand years, and which is inconceivable, that what is part of eternity could be changed!  Because it is eternity which has been taught to us. It is eternal God, Jesus Christ eternal God, and everything which is centered on God is centered on eternity. The Blessed Trinity can NEVER be changed. The Redemptive work of Christ through the Cross can NEVER be changed, and the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass can NEVER be changed. These things are eternal. They belong to God. How can someone here below change those things? Who is the priest who feels he has the right to change those things, to modify them? It is impossible!” (AL, Écône, September 1977)

Dear Fr. Blanchet, when you celebrate Holy Mass, you may be asked whether you [accept] all the rubrics of your ordination missal, i.e. the 1962 Roman Missal. Your answer should be: YES.

You may be asked if you pronounce the Pope's name at the Canon of the Mass. Your answer should be: YES.

Because the priest is a monarchical principle of order, he is the lieutenant of the Royal Reign of Our Lord Jesus Christ on earth, and according to his rank of authority, the priest is sent by his bishop to proclaim the Christ's kingship at the cradle. On the contrary, he will [not] be a democratic priest preaching his own little kingdom.

The reason for this and other questions is why, in many of the liturgical books of 1955, there are some priests who omit the heading "una-cuм-Francisco" at the beginning of the Roman Canon of the Mass and during the Holy Week ceremonies. One might ask why the deliberate omission of the Pope's name Pope's name, as Protestant ministers and schismatic clergy do?

More than ever, all Catholics must pray to the Good Shepherd, Our Lord Jesus Christ, to have mercy of his sheep who want to believe in the integrity of his evangelical message of eternal salvation, who want to believe in the the Mystery of Redemption in Jesus Christ, the only Saviour of the world, who want to believe in the ark of salvation that is the Catholic Church, outside of which there is no redemption. This Church is also the Ark of Saint Peter.

(To be continued)
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: SeanJohnson on June 25, 2023, 04:11:57 PM
I will come back to this in a couple hours; there's about 2.5 pages left.
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: Stubborn on June 25, 2023, 04:25:18 PM
I will come back to this in a couple hours; there's about 2.5 pages left.
Excellent, thanks Sean!
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: SeanJohnson on June 25, 2023, 06:01:03 PM
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3. The power of sanctifying: the law of prayer is the law of belief. 

“We know the axiom, the law of belief is fundamental to the law of prayer. In order to comprehend the dogma, it is important to keep the words and deeds performed by the Liturgy throughout all times. It is through the Liturgy that the Spirit who inspired the Holy Scripture, still works. The Liturgy is Tradition to its highest degree in power and solemnity in the Church.” (Dom Guéranger, Institution Liturgiques, part I, chapter 1, p.18) 

It is very important to follow a principle of public and official prayer approved by the Tradition of the Catholic Church. The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and the recitation of the Divine Office (Breviary) are not private personal prayers for a priest because they are codified. The deliberate omission to pray the Breviary incurs the penalty of mortal sin(Canon 135). When a Catholic Priest prays the Breviary, as Dom Marmion says, by his lips he continues the praising of Our Lord Jesus Christ to His heavenly Father. We know that Our Lord constantly recited the 150 psalms attributed to King David, because it was the official prayer, under the Law of Moses, before the coming of the Messiah. Following that Tradition in the Catholic Church, we continue to recite the 150 Psalms as well as other prayers which commemorate the dogmas and mysteries of our Faith: These prayers were put together in particular by Saint Gregory the Great. 

Nevertheless, There are some discrepancies among Traditional priests and faithful in regards to the law of praying and the law of believing, since the 1960s. From the very beginning, Archbishop Lefebvre took his decision in installing the 1962 Liturgy at Écône. The rejection of the 1962 Liturgical books has been the occasion of separations within the Society of Saint Pius X: three times these separations occurred in Écône (1975, 1979, 1981), twice in the USA (1983, 1984), once in Germany (1984), and once in Argentina (1989). And there are stil several separations due to lack of unity on the official public prayer of the Traditional Church. 

Here are some words from Archbishop Lefebvre on this subject: 

“The liturgy of Écône is the liturgy that I myself have been using now for 20 years. It is a liturgy we use, more or less, everywhere in the Society. […] 

So, these priests condemned it… and they condemned me… and they condemned Écône… How is this possible? […] That they condemned the bishop who gave them their ordination? When these priests were at Écône they accepted this liturgy; when they were ordained, they accepted during the years they were at Écône. When they left, they changed, and took another orientation. […] 

Now, not only they dispute the liturgy but also about the Pope. They are in their hearts, against the fact that there is a Pope in Rome. […] 

Certainly, we agree on many doctrinal points, these priests and I. We have the same doctrine about the Church, about theology, we follow Saint Thomas Aquinas in philosophy, in theology… But to interpret the situation of the Church now, we have not the same meaning, not the same thinking… This is very dangerous. […] 

We must now do an application of the principle. For me I think that the liturgical reform of Pope John XXIII has nothing against the Faith. You can take the Pontifical, the Rituale, the Breviary, the Roman Missale, and what is in these books of Pope John XXIII against the Faith? Nothing! […] 

In reality, this reform was done by Pope Pius XII, not Pope John XXIII. When I was Apostolic Delegate in Rome, they asked me to have Episcopal Conferences in Madagascar, in Cameroon, and in French speaking Africa, to ask the bishops about the reform of the breviary. […] 

But these seven young priests said that seven men did this reform, and they were the same who did the reform of Paul VI. That is not true! Perhaps in the commission, it is possible that some of these men were there… Perhaps Bugnini was a member of this commission of Pius XII. 

But you know that during the Pontificate of John XXIII, this Pope removed Msgr. Bugnini from his teaching post in the University of the Lateran. Pope John XXIII was against Bugnini. I knew the president of the Commission who did this reform, it was Msgr. De Matto, who was the Abbot of St. Paul outside the Walls… I know him very well and I spoke with him many times. He was the president of the Commission of reforming the liturgy under the Pontificate of John XXIII. It was under Paul VI that he was removed because he was traditionalist, and they replaced him by Msgr. Bugnini… that is true. But it is not true to say that this reform of Pope John XXIII is the beginning of the reform of Pope Paul VI. […] 

So, I have said concerning this reform [1962] we must obey the Pope, especially since we have no reason to refuse it!” (AL, April 24, 1983, at St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary, in Ridgefield, CT) 

After many discrepancies and departures of several priests from the Society of Saint Pius X, Archbishop Lefebvre required that all the candidates to Holy Orders should sign The Declaration of Fidelity, from April 11, 1981 until his death. In addition to the Declaration, there were required to say the Anti-modernist Oath and the Profession of Faith declared by Pius IX. Certainly, I myself signed and complied with these requirements throughout the reception of the major orders of subdiaconate, diaconate, and priesthood. 

The Declaration of Fidelity contains the UNITY OF THE THREE POWERS which a Priest receives on the day of his Ordination: it affirms one Faith, one Head, one Liturgy – it confirms the Truth, the Authority and Public priestly Liturgical Prayer under which the candidate is ordained priest in the Catholic Church. 

Here is the Declaration of Fidelity in its entirety: 

“[For unity of government] I, the undersigned, __N.N._______ recognize _Pope’s name_ as Pope of the Holy Catholic Church. That is why I am ready to pray publicly for him as Sovereign Pontiff. 

[For unity of faith ] 

I refuse to follow him when he departs from the Catholic Tradition, especially in the questions of religious liberty and ecuмenism, as also in the reforms which are harmful to the Church. 

I grant that Masses celebrated according to the New Rite are not all invalid. However, considering the bad translations of the Novus Ordo Missae, its ambiguity favoring its being interpreted in a Protestant sense, and the plurality of ways in which it can be celebrated, I recognize that the danger of invalidity is very great. I affirm that the New Rite of Mass does not, it is true, formulate any heresy in an explicit manner, but that it departs “in a striking manner overall as well as in detail, from the Catholic theology of the Holy Mass”, and for this reason the New Rite is in itself bad. That is why I shall never celebrate the Holy Mass according to this New Rite, even if I am threatened with ecclesiastical sanctions; and I shall never advise anyone in a positive manner to take an active part in such a Mass. 

[For unity of Liturgy] 

Finally, I admit as being legitimate the liturgical reform of John XXIII. Hence, I take all the (1962) liturgical books from it to be Catholic: the Roman Missale, the Breviary, the Pontificale and the Rituale; and I bind myself to make exclusive use of them according to their calendar and rubrics, in particular for the celebration of Mass and for the recitation in common of the Breviary. In doing this I desire to show the obedience binding me to my superiors, as also the obedience binding me to the Roman Pontiff in all his legitimate acts.”

CONCLUSION
Dear Fr. Blanchet, if you celebrated Mass and prayed your breviary according to the liturgical rubrics of 1955, it would certainly be a valid Mass, and you would conform to the recitation of the Breviary, the spirit and attitude that Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre conceived of the crisis of the Faith in the Catholic Church, and also of the aim he had of ordaining priests for Tradition to perpetuate the Mass of All Times through a Crusade of priests. May the Good Lord give you the grace of the priest as the principle of order in the public prayer of the Holy Church. 

It's true that we're not schismatics. We are not heretics. We are not rebels. We are resisting the wave of modernism, of secularism, of progressivism, which has unduly invaded the Church and is trying to suppress all that is sacred, supernatural, divine, and to reduce it to human dimensions.  

May the Blessed Virgin intercede for us so that we maintain the crusade launched by Archbishop Lefebvre to the glory of the Holy Trinity and the exaltation of the Catholic Church, through the recapitulation of all things in Jesus Christ, so that Christianity may once again proclaim Christ's kingship, "He must reign". 

In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. So be it.
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: Texana on June 25, 2023, 09:21:41 PM
The Bishop is quoting Alta Vendita and proceeds to suggest to the new priest to say the altered Canon of the Mass promulgated by suspected Free Mason Roncalli, and afterwards asks him to insert the name of the Pope who organizes the Human Fraternity extravaganza into the same Canon. Are we all marching under the keys of Peter? Kyrie Eleison!
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: SeanJohnson on June 26, 2023, 06:22:02 AM
The Bishop is quoting Alta Vendita and proceeds to suggest to the new priest to say the altered Canon of the Mass promulgated by suspected Free Mason Roncalli, and afterwards asks him to insert the name of the Pope who organizes the Human Fraternity extravaganza into the same Canon. Are we all marching under the keys of Peter? Kyrie Eleison!

The non-una cuм is a sedevacantist position, so no problem with a Resistance bishop condemning it.

However, I was disappointed to read the bishop’s stringent adherence to the 1962 missal and 1955 Holy Week (which seems to be dying a natural death everywhere)  and the erroneous arguments advanced in their defense, such as:

1) “The 1962 Missal was used by Lefebvre from the beginning.” 

This was obviously not the case, as it is well known that Lefebvre used the 1965 Missal at Econe in the early years.

2) “We must obey unless the faith is in question.” 

This is undoubtedly Lefebvre’s principle regarding the 1962 missal (ie., “It was the last traditional missal, and is not in se against the faith, therefore we must use it.”).

This then begs the question:

On what basis could Lefebvre move away from the 1965 missal, if it was not against the faith, without violating his own principle?  If it was against the faith, then why was he using it?

Lefebvre’s move from the 1965 to 1962 Missals implicitly acknowledges that there can be other justifications for rejecting a missal (or, we must all go back to the 1965).


3) Zendejas quotes Lefebvre as denying that the 1962 missal was a transitional strategy of Roncalli en route to the Novus Ordo, whereas the general consensus even among conciliar liturgists since Lefebvre’s time is the opposite.

The truth of the matter is that the 1955 experimental Holy Week Triduum rites had only a 13 year existence in the history of the Church, appeared out of nowhere to destroy the organic development of the liturgy, and reset it upon a trajectory toward the Novus Ordo. 

It is therefore disappointing to see the uncritical yet determined defense of a rite and missal which even the indult groups are moving away from.
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: Mr G on June 26, 2023, 07:37:33 AM
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1) “The 1962 Missal was used by Lefebvre from the beginning.” 

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I remember listing to Fr. Hesse explain that the Archbishop used the 1962 Missal to show Pope Paul that they (the Archbishop and SSPX) does recognize Pope John and Pope Paul as a legitimate Popes. As at that time, early 1970's, the SSPX and Rome were in discussions to find a resolution. Many years later, the SAJM are not in communication with Rome, so there is no need to prove to them that the SAJM is not sedevacantist , plus Rome gives permission to use Pre-1955 liturgy. Thus, even Rome does not equate pre-1955 with being sedevacantist. 
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: NIFH on June 26, 2023, 10:36:48 AM
On what basis could Lefebvre move away from the 1965 missal, if it was not against the faith, without violating his own principle?  If it was against the faith, then why was he using it?

Lefebvre’s move from the 1965 to 1962 Missals implicitly acknowledges that there can be other justifications for rejecting a missal (or, we must all go back to the 1965).
Archbishop Lefebvre initially complied with the '65 from his default of obedience.  After some use, he realized that the changes in the '65 were chipping away at his own faith.  It was then that he understood the '65 was a danger to the Faith, and therefore not to be obeyed.  This is what +Williamson said had happened regarding this question.

The Archbishop was almost feeling his way around in the dark.  And he had almost no one to help him with these difficult prudential decisions.  It would have been superhuman to have understood the unacceptability of the '65 right at it's release.
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: NIFH on June 26, 2023, 10:52:18 AM
I remember listing to Fr. Hesse explain that the Archbishop used the 1962 Missal to show Pope Paul that they (the Archbishop and SSPX) does recognize Pope John and Pope Paul as a legitimate Popes. As at that time, early 1970's, the SSPX and Rome were in discussions to find a resolution. Many years later, the SAJM are not in communication with Rome, so there is no need to prove to them that the SAJM is not sedevacantist , plus Rome gives permission to use Pre-1955 liturgy. Thus, even Rome does not equate pre-1955 with being sedevacantist.
Although accepting the '62 does show that we presume the popes are valid, he did not accept the '62 in order to show his presumption that the pope was valid.  He accepted it because the pope is the boss concerning the liturgy.  Unless of course his orders are a danger to the Faith.

As much as you and I might prefer older liturgies, the '62 and the new Holy Week are not in themselves a danger for the Faith, and the pope is the boss, not us.

I personally suspect the wolves in Rome have noticed our personal preferences for the older books, which is why they gave permission only to the Ecclesia Dei traitors to use those books.  It's like dangling another juicy carrot for us, "Just sign the Novus Ordo and Dignitatis Humanae and you can have this nice carrot too!"

Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin.
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: SeanJohnson on June 26, 2023, 01:12:57 PM
Archbishop Lefebvre initially complied with the '65 from his default of obedience.  After some use, he realized that the changes in the '65 were chipping away at his own faith.  It was then that he understood the '65 was a danger to the Faith, and therefore not to be obeyed.  This is what +Williamson said had happened regarding this question.

The Archbishop was almost feeling his way around in the dark.  And he had almost no one to help him with these difficult prudential decisions.  It would have been superhuman to have understood the unacceptability of the '65 right at it's release.

The question being begged here is: By what objective criteria are we to judge something is against the Faith?

Certainly, there is no heresy in the 1965, so that can’t be it.  Neither can saying the Goapel and Epistle in the vernacular at the altar, since the SSPX does that in parts of France almost since the beginning of its existence.  Nor could it be the elimination of the Judica Me, since that is also done in the 1962 on penitential feasts, without complaint by the SSPX.  Nor does the Society have any problem dialoguing with the faithful.

So what, precisely, was objectively against the faith in the 1965 Missal??

Your answer seems to unwittingly hint at the answer, where you began by stating the 1965 was dangerous to “his” faith (ie., subjective)  then quickly transformed the argument to being a danger to “the” faith (objective), but what such a criteria/objective danger is, is not readily apparent.

So, if we are simply to reject rites which are subjective dangers, all those who did not feel threatened in the faith by the 1965 Missal would have been trapped into disobeying him, and maintain its use.

Heresy is an objective danger for every man, but short of that, how one can dictate what is a danger for someone else amidst all these transitory and extinct Missals is not readily apparent.

Suffice it to say that the advent of the experimental 1951-1955 rites (much of which are founded upon condemned antiquarianism) destabilized the faith of many, such that Cardinals and archbishops were writing to Rome to express their concern, and the faith of many of the faithful was shaken (eg., the well known lament of author Evelyn Waugh).  

So contrary to what you say in reply to Mr. G, there is much more evidence to support the existence danger to the faith in the new Holy Week rites, stemming from the archaeologism, than in the 1965 Missal, and the changes much more radical in the former than in the latter.
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: Mr G on June 26, 2023, 01:36:11 PM
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I personally suspect the wolves in Rome have noticed our personal preferences for the older books, which is why they gave permission only to the Ecclesia Dei traitors to use those books.  It's like dangling another juicy carrot for us, "Just sign the Novus Ordo and Dignitatis Humanae and you can have this nice carrot too!"

....
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. 
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: NIFH on June 26, 2023, 01:38:05 PM
I myself don't have the training decide the objective reasons for rejecting the '65.  I do remember +Williamson mentioning all the genuflections and Signs of the Cross being scratched out starting in '65.  Standing in front of the appearances of bread and wine, it sure is easier to believe in the Real Presence when the rite has you genuflecting and crossing yourself often.  I would love to have asked the Archbishop himself for the specifics.  Surely they were well-pondered.
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: Giovanni Berto on June 26, 2023, 01:44:34 PM
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.
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: SPelli on June 26, 2023, 06:27:51 PM

In it, Archbishop Lefebvre explained how the priest participates in the grace of Union in Our Lord Jesus Christ, and how the Holy Mass must be monarchical, not democratic.

Hmmm.  Priests don't participate in the grace of union. The grace of union is the personal union that exists between Christ's human nature and the Person of the Word.  It is what makes Christ God - one divine person with two natures. 

What priests receive is not the grace of union, but an indelible character that allows them to act in the Person of Christ.
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: NIFH on June 26, 2023, 06:39:34 PM
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.
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: Plenus Venter on June 26, 2023, 08:27:55 PM
Archbishop Lefebvre initially complied with the '65 from his default of obedience.  After some use, he realized that the changes in the '65 were chipping away at his own faith.  It was then that he understood the '65 was a danger to the Faith, and therefore not to be obeyed.  This is what +Williamson said had happened regarding this question.

The Archbishop was almost feeling his way around in the dark.  And he had almost no one to help him with these difficult prudential decisions.  It would have been superhuman to have understood the unacceptability of the '65 right at it's release.
Great posts, NIFH. The voting rules on this forum will not allow me to up-vote you. 
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: Plenus Venter on June 26, 2023, 08:28:23 PM
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.
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: Giovanni Berto on June 26, 2023, 09:06:28 PM
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.
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: AnthonyPadua on June 26, 2023, 10:09:16 PM
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.
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: Ladislaus on June 27, 2023, 12:11:19 AM
Nor was the Archbishop himself averse to changing his mind.  While some criticize him as being erratic, I view that as a sign of someone who is sincerely seeking the truth and not "stuck" on one or another position.
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: Marulus Fidelis on June 27, 2023, 02:27:41 AM
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.
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: Matthew on June 27, 2023, 06:06:40 AM
Here is the sermon in French/English in docx format.
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: Matthew on June 27, 2023, 06:13:03 AM
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
======
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.
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: NIFH on June 27, 2023, 09:41:31 AM
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.
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.
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: Marulus Fidelis on June 27, 2023, 11:31:43 AM
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.
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: NIFH on June 27, 2023, 07:11:22 PM
Catholic dogma is the rule of Faith, not Archbishop Lefebvre.  It is a historical and demonstrable fact that +Lefebvre and +De Castro Mayer were the only two bishops who heroically defended the infallible truths.  As far as created persons go, no one is a better guide in this crisis.

Stand at a mirror in your best hat.  Take a breath and slowly start to say, "I know better than Archbishop Lefebvre which Missal we must use".  I don't think you will finish that sentence!
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: SeanJohnson on June 27, 2023, 07:54:22 PM
Stand at a mirror in your best hat.  Take a breath and slowly start to say, "I know better than Archbishop Lefebvre which Missal we must use".  I don't think you will finish that sentence!

Many of the questionable judgments (I want to say “errors“) +Lefebvre made with regard to the missal are mentioned in the very sermon of +Zendejas.  Here are several of them:

#1: “The 1955 Holy Week was not a preparation or groundwork for the Novus Ordo.” The consensus of liturgical scholars today recognizes it was.

#2: “The same people who revised the Bugnini Holy Week rites were not the same people who created the Novus Ordo.”  In fact, there’s a good deal of overlap in personnel, as one might expect, given that only 13 years separated the 1956 experimental rites, and the 1969 Novus Ordo.

#3: “There is nothing harmful in the Pian Rites.”  On the contrary, most of the changes are based upon condemned archaeologism, and were destabilizing enough to the faithful that the Archbishop of Dublin and New York wrote to Rome of their concerns, papal MC, Mgr. Gromier called them an act of vandalism, and faithful like Evelyn Waugh felt threatened in their very faith.

#4: Being oblivious to the aims and errors of the preconciliar modernist liturgical movement (of which we were all taught in the SSPX seminary, with Matthew as my witness in my liturgy class!), which served to condition him to believe the aberrations only occurred after the Council: Dialogue Mass and Pian Holy Week changes are therefore considered “traditional” (despite the dialogue Mass existing nowhere in the world prior to 1915 (+/-), and the extinct Pian Holy Week rites having only a 13 year history in the Church).

#5: Inconsistency in the application of his principle that, “If it is not against the faith, we must accept.”  We’re this true, +Lefebvre would not have been able to regress from the 1964 missal to the 1962.  Also, all priests of the SSPX would logically be compelled to recite the revised Psalter of Pius XII in their daily breviaries, rather than the pre-Pian traditional psalter: Far from being against the faith, the Pian Psalter is a more accurate translation, though it has lost the poetic aspect of the traditional one.

What I do appreciate in the defenders of +Lefebvre’s liturgical decisions, is their honesty in acknowledging their fidelity to them is based mostly (not completely) on human respect, rather than the merits of the missals themselves.

I note in conclusion that Vigano has called for a reversion to the traditional Holy Week rites and missal, as he does not labor under the impediment of the 1962 missal.

As +Williamson once said to me, “Jesus and Mary once walked the earth, but since then nobody has been perfect.”  Implicitly, that truism includes even my here, Archbishop Lefebvre.
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: Plenus Venter on June 27, 2023, 08:07:58 PM
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.
Thumbs up, NIFH! That's it, precisely. God clearly chooses certain souls for special extraordinary missions in His Church, and when it comes to choosing between following the God-given guide and some self-appointed theologian, as you say, the decision should not be difficult. What we have seen in the Church since Vatican II is a profound crisis in the 'ordinary' Authority in the Church, leading to a corresponding crisis of Faith, and with it, the priesthood. God, in His mercy, gave us an 'extraordinary' authority to guide us in preserving the Faith and the priesthood, until such time as the ordinary Authority is restored.

Our Lord said to Sr Mary of St Peter, the apostle of devotion to the Holy Face, "It is to use you as the instrument in My plans for this Work of Reparation that I have created you". We could imagine similar words of an extraordinary mission addressed to this extraordinary Churchman who was Archbishop Lefebvre for a work of even greater importance - the very survival of the Chruch. His mother, who was rumoured to have been a stigmatist, and whose life was written by her spiritual director, prophesied after he was baptised "this one will have an important role in the Church close to the Pope". 

Surely Archbishop Lefebvre was not absolutely infallible, just as surely as he was given to us by God to lead us in the greatest crisis in the history of the Church, the Faith and the Papacy.
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: Cornelius935 on June 28, 2023, 02:50:10 AM
The sentimentalism is deplorable. Stop using the late Archbishop as an excuse to stick to the 1962 Missal & Breviary and impose it on others, and stop trying to make people feel guilty for (gasp!) disagreeing with the Archbishop.

We are in 2023 and we can now see many things clearer than he did in the 70s and 80s. Just as he could see the reality of the 1965 Missal clearer in the 70s than say, in 1967.

He did not choose to abandon the 1965 Missal because it had errors, his own reason was something along the lines of “I noticed my faith getting diminished...” which was an entirely subjective (but not invalid) reason. Paul VI could have said to him, “Your Excellency, you may have found your faith diminishing, but many bishops and priests around the world found their faith growing since using the Missal of 1965. You should practice humility, ignore your personal sentiments and keep using this authorized Missal, do not disrupt the unity among us, perhaps in a few years you will come to appreciate it like the rest of us...” (By the way, this sounds like something Menzingen/an SSPX District Superior would say to someone with regards to the 1962.)

If one wants to be loyal to the 1962 Missal & 1955 Holy Week, then do what it prescribes with exactitude, don't “embellish” it with older rubrics and practices. By doing so, you admit that it's a deficient missal. Offer the best to God like Abel and Abraham did.

I say, good on the younger Resistance priests for wanting to use the pre-Pian Missal & Breviary. They should not feel any guilt for it, it's simply their Catholic sense telling them to do the right thing. May God grant them fortitude.
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: SeanJohnson on June 28, 2023, 07:10:47 AM
Much more could be said about the reasons behind +Lefebvre’s regression from the 1965 to 1962 Missal.

One narrative says he belatedly formed a conviction that the 1965 was dangerous to the faith (although seemingly based upon subjective considerations?), and hence, he was still consistent with his principle of “only when the faith is in danger,” at least subjectively.

Another narrative says he was practically forced to make this change by his seminarians and faculty.  I have not (yet) made inquiries of those priests still living, who could attest to, or refute, the veracity of that narrative, but supposing it were true, it would show a violation in the application of the principle.

The question being begged is: Are tgere other legitimate reasons one could reject a liturgical rite?  Looked at differently, we could ask whether St. Thomas Aqunas would have insisted that  the 1951-1955/1962 was compulsory?

That’s where the heart of the argument lays.

Would St. Thomas require fidelity to experimental, transitory, and extinct rites, founded upon condemned principles, and with revolutionary aims?

Or, would he consider fidelity to the aforesaid rites a danger to the faith (at least to those burdened with the perspicacity to perceive what was happening/happened)?

What should be obvious to all, is that abrupt imposition of the Novus Ordo could never have happened without the incremental changes ushered in by the transitional missals (which reveals their purpose).

Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: blueman on June 28, 2023, 07:20:17 AM
The sentimentalism is deplorable. Stop using the late Archbishop as an excuse to stick to the 1962 Missal & Breviary and impose it on others, and stop trying to make people feel guilty for (gasp!) disagreeing with the Archbishop.

We are in 2023 and we can now see many things clearer than he did in the 70s and 80s. Just as he could see the reality of the 1965 Missal clearer in the 70s than say, in 1967.

He did not choose to abandon the 1965 Missal because it had errors, his own reason was something along the lines of “I noticed my faith getting diminished...” which was an entirely subjective (but not invalid) reason. Paul VI could have said to him, “Your Excellency, you may have found your faith diminishing, but many bishops and priests around the world found their faith growing since using the Missal of 1965. You should practice humility, ignore your personal sentiments and keep using this authorized Missal, do not disrupt the unity among us, perhaps in a few years you will come to appreciate it like the rest of us...” (By the way, this sounds like something Menzingen/an SSPX District Superior would say to someone with regards to the 1962.)

If one wants to be loyal to the 1962 Missal & 1955 Holy Week, then do what it prescribes with exactitude, don't “embellish” it with older rubrics and practices. By doing so, you admit that it's a deficient missal. Offer the best to God like Abel and Abraham did.

I say, good on the younger Resistance priests for wanting to use the pre-Pian Missal & Breviary. They should not feel any guilt for it, it's simply their Catholic sense telling them to do the right thing. May God grant them fortitude.
Good post.

I'm always suspicious of this push to impose 62 on us.

Clergy who we don't know anything about, who are assiduous in controlling the information written online about them, are also suspect in my book. When you see these individuals and how they treat their fellow clergy, it makes me wonder about their true intentions.  It certainly displays a moral weakness, which is long-term the road to liberalism.
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: OABrownson1876 on June 28, 2023, 08:35:46 AM
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.
Once again, this is an exaggeration because of an overly-devoted attachment to a person who did much good in his life, but unfortunately had some mishaps.  We can say of very few people in history that "they did all things well."  We can say this of Our Lady, St. Joseph (as I maintain that he never committed a venial sin), St John the Baptist, and perhaps St. John the Evangelist, and a few others.  To say that anyone fighting present-day modernism has done "all things well" is absolute nonsense.  
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: Pax Vobis on June 28, 2023, 09:44:42 AM

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As +Williamson once said to me, “Jesus and Mary once walked the earth, but since then nobody has been perfect.”  Implicitly, that truism includes even my here, Archbishop Lefebvre.
Correct.  +ABL didn't work in a vacuum, on his own, especially in the crazy, chaotic days of the 70s.  He had all kinds of advice from other Trads in Europe and America.  Traditionalism didn't start because of one, single man. 



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The sentimentalism is deplorable. Stop using the late Archbishop as an excuse to stick to the 1962 Missal & Breviary and impose it on others, and stop trying to make people feel guilty for (gasp!) disagreeing with the Archbishop.
Right.  There is no place for 'hero worship' in Catholicism.  The only 'hero' is Our Lord.  All others are fallible and we can't have some cult following of them.  (Even though, in our days, with no hierarchy to speak of, I understand that Trads search for leaders.  Humanly speaking, it's understandable, but we must rise above human inclinations.)
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: NIFH on June 28, 2023, 09:51:46 AM
Once again, this is an exaggeration because of an overly-devoted attachment to a person who did much good in his life, but unfortunately had some mishaps.  We can say of very few people in history that "they did all things well."  We can say this of Our Lady, St. Joseph (as I maintain that he never committed a venial sin), St John the Baptist, and perhaps St. John the Evangelist, and a few others.  To say that anyone fighting present-day modernism has done "all things well" is absolute nonsense. 
The word "He" referred to God.  God did a good job providing the faithful remnant with a shepherd who got just about everything right.
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: NIFH on June 28, 2023, 09:59:05 AM
I think the erasing of genuflections and Signs of the Cross is an objective danger to the Faith in the '65.  I'd love to have asked the Archbishop for other specific problems.

We can conjecture about what St. Thomas might have said, but what we know is what he did say.
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: NIFH on June 28, 2023, 10:08:28 AM
Offer the best to God like Abel and Abraham did.
It is dangerous to imagine yourself as judge of what liturgy is best.  Some people will come to conclusions that St. Pius X's reform cannot be accepted.  Then perhaps they will look at St. Pius V's reform of 1570 and denounce how he discarded the beautiful sequence of St. Augustine or the magnificent Preface of St. Dominic.  Leave these questions in the hands of people like +Lefebvre.  He was no fool.  "The best" we can offer to God is our obedience.  By obedience, we give Him our closest attachment: our very wills.
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: Giovanni Berto on June 28, 2023, 10:26:12 AM
It is dangerous to imagine yourself as judge of what liturgy is best.  Some people will come to conclusions that St. Pius X's reform cannot be accepted.  Then perhaps they will look at St. Pius V's reform of 1570 and denounce how he discarded the beautiful sequence of St. Augustine or the magnificent Preface of St. Dominic.  Leave these questions in the hands of people like +Lefebvre.  He was no fool.  "The best" we can offer to God is our obedience.  By obedience, we give Him our closest attachment: our very wills.

I think the erasing of genuflections and Signs of the Cross is an objective danger to the Faith in the '65.  I'd love to have asked the Archbishop for other specific problems.

We can conjecture about what St. Thomas might have said, but what we know is what he did say.

The word "He" referred to God.  God did a good job providing the faithful remnant with a shepherd who got just about everything right.

You sound very strange, like some kind of SSPX agent among us.

Do you also support blind obedience SSPX-style and the "trust your superiors" mentality?
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: SeanJohnson on June 28, 2023, 10:38:01 AM
I think the erasing of genuflections and Signs of the Cross is an objective danger to the Faith in the '65.  I'd love to have asked the Archbishop for other specific problems.

We can conjecture about what St. Thomas might have said, but what we know is what he did say.

The reduction in genuflections and/or the number of signs of the cross, deplorable as it might be, would not constitute an OBJECTIVE danger to the faith (as, for example, would be heresy, doubtful form, etc), but SUBJECTIVE (ie., it might unsettle the faith of some, but not others).

And how could a subjective threat be made compulsory upon those who were not so threatened?  Such a subjective standard would force those not subjectively threatened to resist +Lefebvre’s change to the 1962 missal (which they could not obey because THEIR faith was not in danger).

I think that dilemma demonstrates that the threat must be objective (ie., a danger for all, whether they realize it or not).

Although I would support +Lefebvre’s change from the 1965 to 1962 as an improvement, it’s not immediately clear to me what objective danger it would be based on, or, as previously mentioned, whether St. Thomas would have agreed that there was no threat in the transitional and experimental rites.

That point is at least debatable.
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: Marulus Fidelis on June 28, 2023, 10:58:05 AM
It is dangerous to imagine yourself as judge of what liturgy is best.  
You attend the Novus Ordo?
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: NIFH on June 28, 2023, 11:11:23 AM
The liturgy is the school of our Faith.  It teaches by words, but mostly by actions and gestures.  When the priest genuflects to the Blessed Sacrament throughout Mass, the Church is teaching the simple faithful that those appearances are in reality God Himself.  By omitting those genuflections, the rite is at least lessening the perceived importance of this fundamental dogma in the minds of the faithful.  That is danger.
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: Pax Vobis on June 28, 2023, 11:17:48 AM

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It is dangerous to imagine yourself as judge of what liturgy is best.  Some people will come to conclusions that St. Pius X's reform cannot be accepted.  Then perhaps they will look at St. Pius V's reform of 1570 and denounce how he discarded the beautiful sequence of St. Augustine or the magnificent Preface of St. Dominic.  Leave these questions in the hands of people like +Lefebvre.  He was no fool.  "The best" we can offer to God is our obedience.  By obedience, we give Him our closest attachment: our very wills.
Both Sts Pius V and Pius X were popes and saints.  +ABL may at some point be canonized, but he wasn't a pope, and neither was he a roman authority on the liturgy.  So, yes, his opinion/actions can be questioned.  The actions of popes', in the case of liturgical reform, cannot be questioned.  Your comparison is nonsense...apples-to-peanuts.
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: NIFH on June 28, 2023, 11:33:31 AM
Both Sts Pius V and Pius X were popes and saints.  +ABL may at some point be canonized, but he wasn't a pope, and neither was he a roman authority on the liturgy.  So, yes, his opinion/actions can be questioned.  The actions of popes', in the case of liturgical reform, cannot be questioned.  Your comparison is nonsense...apples-to-peanuts.
If the Preface of St. Dominic lasted until the 1960's and the modernists got rid of it, I would have assumed it to be another unfortunate alteration.  What I'm saying is, it is not as easy as you may think to judge liturgical reforms.  The best guide we have is undoubtedly Archbishop Lefebvre, not self-appointed doctors of the Church, whether on the Internet or in the other 49 states of this country.
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: Pax Vobis on June 28, 2023, 12:10:47 PM

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The best guide we have is undoubtedly Archbishop Lefebvre
Nope.  +ABL was one of many orthodox clerics who started, organized and grew Tradition in the 1970s.  +ABL does not own the Traditionalist movement, nor does the original-sspx.  
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: SeanJohnson on June 28, 2023, 12:23:48 PM
The liturgy is the school of our Faith.  It teaches by words, but mostly by actions and gestures.  When the priest genuflects to the Blessed Sacrament throughout Mass, the Church is teaching the simple faithful that those appearances are in reality God Himself.  By omitting those genuflections, the rite is at least lessening the perceived importance of this fundamental dogma in the minds of the faithful.  That is danger.

In so construing your argument, all you have really done is tried to objectify that which, nevertheless, remains a subjective argument:

The "danger" comes not from something intrinsic to the reductions themselves, but from an extrinsic consideration (i.e., it is the intentions of the reformers behind the reductions which creates the "threat," and not the change itself).

This realization demonstrates that the "danger" is still a perceived one, and therefore subjective, since, but for the knowledge of the secret intentions of the modernist reformers, none would feel threatened in their faith by said reductions.

More simply:

Everyone's faith is threatened by an objective danger (e.g., heresy; invalid form).  Not everyone's faith is threatened by a subjective or perceived danger (e.g., not ringing the bell at the elevation; fewer signs of the cross).

If the reductions were an objective threat to the faith, then reducing the number by even 1 sign of the cross would have constituted a danger (just as 1 heresy would), but I doubt anyone wants to make that argument.

PS: Exagerrating the educational aspect of the Mass was one of the errors of the modernist liturgical reformers.



Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: Cornelius935 on June 28, 2023, 02:27:04 PM
It is dangerous to imagine yourself as judge of what liturgy is best.  Some people will come to conclusions that St. Pius X's reform cannot be accepted.  Then perhaps they will look at St. Pius V's reform of 1570 and denounce how he discarded the beautiful sequence of St. Augustine or the magnificent Preface of St. Dominic.  Leave these questions in the hands of people like +Lefebvre.  He was no fool.  "The best" we can offer to God is our obedience.  By obedience, we give Him our closest attachment: our very wills.
No pre-1955 supporter here claims to know “which liturgy is best” (it's a silly question anyway), but it does not take any scholar to see that the pre-1955 liturgy is better than the post-55.

Even the Archbishop recognises this fact, by his decision to keep some of the old practices, e.g. the door-knocking on Palm Sunday and the Second Confiteor at all Masses, which do not exist in the rubrics of the Pian Holy Week & 1962 Missal.

Those who insist on the 1962 Missal and want to impose it on others, are in actuality the ones who think they are qualified to judge “which liturgy is the best”, since they neither defer to the Pope and use the latest missal, nor defer to truth and Catholic principles by rejecting the Pian Reforms laden with novelties and strange changes. They like to blame it on the deceased Archbishop so they seem less ridiculous and tyrannical.

Appealing to authority is one of the weakest tactics you can use here, because even if the Archbishop had any real authority to choose a missal to use and impose on priests, the Pope and Rome has more authority than him. If obedience is “the best we can offer to God” (nonsense, goes against Scripture and the Catechism), then all sedeplenists ought to offer the New Mass and stop saying the Old Mass.

This is precisely the sentimentalism I was talking about, very pathetic (from ‘pathos’), effeminate, and unCatholic. Leave the false humility and false piety to be practiced by Menzingenites, who like to cite these virtues as an excuse to avoid the truth and avoid doing the right thing.
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: Cornelius935 on June 28, 2023, 03:29:48 PM
I think the erasing of genuflections and Signs of the Cross is an objective danger to the Faith in the '65.  I'd love to have asked the Archbishop for other specific problems.
If the reductions (not erasing) of genuflections and Signs of the Cross are *objective* dangers to the Faith, then exactly how many genuflections and signs of the cross make the liturgy NOT dangerous to the Faith? If it's objective and not subjective, there should be an exact number. But there is no answer to this question.

Eastern Christians keep the Faith without making any genuflections. So the lack of genuflections endangering the Faith is not universal, it's subjective, not objective. I'm sure there are Eastern rites that prescribe substantially fewer Signs of the Cross than the Roman Rite - it seems that Malankara rite priests make less than 20 during each Mass. So it's also subjective.

The 1962 Missal removed many Collects that petitioned God for important graces. Sunday Masses used to have multiple Collects. This reduction may not have endangered the Faith of the Archbishop, but others could easily say otherwise, and argue that “the Faith is very much in question.”

For many who left the Novus Ordo, it's clear how similar the Pian Holy Week is to the N.O. Holy Week. In some aspects, the Pian is worse than the N.O. (e.g. the N.O. restored some Easter Vigil prophecies that were removed in 1951/55). Many of us find the Pian HW quite offensive, once we learned about the traditional HW. Imagine leaving your parish to commit to a traditionalist chapel only to find the HW liturgy more-or-less the same, and made by the same crooks.

It's too subjective to use this qualifier (“we must use the latest missal that does not endanger the Faith”) to decide which missal to use. The better and more consistent principle to follow, is to reject all products and experiments of the Consilium, which from its foundation was made up of enemies of the Church.
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: Kazimierz on June 28, 2023, 03:57:36 PM
I see the 62 Missal as a starting point for the reclamation of Tradition - at the time when Tradition was re-establishing itself/fighting to keep itself from disappearing totally during the conciliar deformations. At this stage, after sixty plus years of doctrinal and liturgical devastation, with greater knowledge of the liturgical changes instituted and seeing the comparative studies of one set of liturgical usages versus another - specifically the pre 1955 liturgies and Divine Office versus that of the 1962 changes - would it not be in the best interest to fidelity to return to what we now know is the better form - the pre 1955 forms - thus restoring a great deal of what was lost when the 62 changes came? One can always keep going further back and back, but the question arises whether that really serves the what is the most important heart of the matter? 

Simply put  yes, the 1962 was/is better than the 1965 that was available. The 62 Missal et al represents at least a better start for returning to the doctrinal and liturgical treasures of Holy Mother Church. Can we know at this time in the time of post conciliar Tradition, now move to what is the better of the two, the pre 1955 rites? Posts made here on Cathinfo not long ago, delineating the differences between the pre55 and the 62 arguably do provide objective evidence to show why we should return to the pre55. We DO know it is better, for the reasons that were outlined.

Unfortunately, because of the present bent of the neosspx and its ongoing mission to seek embrace with Roman apostasy, the return to the pre55 usage is "boldly going nowhere." It is up to the Resistance and other groups to forge ahead with the "Restore the 54, 62 no more!" enterprise.
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: Angelus on June 28, 2023, 06:06:52 PM
The 1962 Missal is an outlaw Missal. Without proper authority it changed the Missal of Pius V promulgated by the Papal Bull Quo Primum by inserting a change in the Roman Canon. The change (adding St. Joseph to the Communicantes) was based on a temporary CURIAL decree that originated from a papal wish to add St. Joseph's name to the canon at Masses said during the Vatican II Council at the Vatican. The decree uses the phrase motu proprio, which is a low-level decree of a diocesan bishop aimed at making changes in a single diocese. By contrast, a Papal Bull signed by the Pope himself, like Pius V's Quo Primum, has the highest and most universal authority. 

An infallible pronouncement by a previous Pope cannot be overturned by the Curial decree motu proprio signed by a Cardinal Prefect. God would not allow John XXIII to change the Roman Canon with authority, so he snuck it in. All who fall for his deception deserve what they get.

Here is the evidence. I've attached the proof from the AAS, which can be checked on the Vatican website.

   
Decretum 

De S. Ioseph nomine Canoni Missae inserendo

Novis hisce temporibus Summi Pontifices non unam nacti sunt occasionem ut ritibus sollemnioribus cultum S. Ioseph, inclyti Beatae Mariae Virginis Sponsi, augerent. Prae omnibus autem Pius Papa IX eminet, qui votis Concilii Vaticani I annuens, Ecclesiae universae castissimum Deiparae Virginis Sponsum, die octava Decembris anni 1870, caelestem Patronum designavit. Praedecessorum suorum vestigia persequens Santissimus D. N. Ioannes Papa XXIII eundem Sanctum Ioseph non tantum Concilii Vaticani II, quod Ipse indixit, "Praestitem salutarem" constituit, sed motu proprio etiam decrevit Eius nomen, tanquam optatum mnemosynon et fructus ipsius Concilii, ut in Canone Missae recitaretur. Quod consilium die 13 Novembris proxima superiori per Cardinalem suum a Status secretis, Concilii Patribus in Vaticana Basilica congregatis publice apperuit iussitque ut praescriptum inde a die octava proximi mensis Decembris, in festo scilicet Immaculatae Conceptionis Beatissimae Virginis Mariae, in praxim deduceretur. 

Quapropter haec S. Rituum Congregatio, voluntatem Summi Pontificis prosecuta, descernit ut infra Actionem post verba: "Communicantes ...Domini Nostri Iesu Christi..."  haec addentur:  ”...sed et beati Ioseph eiusdem Virginis Sponsi...” et deinde prosequatur:  “...et beatorum apostolorum ac Martyrum tuorum.”

Statuit etiam ipsa S. Congregatio ut huiusmodi praescriptum diebus quoque observetur in quibus peculiaris formula "Communicantes" in Missali praescribitur. Contrariis non obstantibus quibuscuмque, etiam speciali mentione dignis. 

Die 13 Novemberis 1962.

A. Cardinal Larraona, Prefect



Decree

To insert the name of Saint Joseph into the Canon of the Mass

In recent times, the Supreme Pontiffs have taken advantage of not one occasion to increase the more solemn rites of worship of S. Joseph, the illustrious bride of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Pope Pius IX stands out above all, who, agreeing to the vows of the First Vatican Council, designated the most chaste spouse of the Virgin Mother of the whole Church, on the eighth of December 1870, as the heavenly patron. Following in the footsteps of his predecessors, His Holiness, Pope John XXIII did not only establish the same Saint Joseph as the "Saving Advocate" of the Second Vatican Council, which he himself indicated, but he also decided, on his own initiative [motu proprio], that his name, as a desired memorial and fruit of the Council itself, should be recited in the Canon of the Mass. On the 13th of November, next to the superior of his Cardinal Secretary of State, he publicly opened the Council to the Fathers gathered in the Vatican Basilica, and ordered that the provision be put into practice from the eighth of the next month, that is, on the feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

For this reason, this Sacred Congregation of Rites, following the will of the Supreme Pontiff, decides as follows below: Action after the words: "In communicating with our Lord Jesus Christ. and then let them follow them: "...and your blessed apostles and martyrs."

The S. Congregation itself has also determined that this prescription should also be observed on the days where the special form of "Communicating" is prescribed in the Missal. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary whatsoever, even worthy of special mention.

November 13, 1962

A. Cardinal Larraona, Prefect
[Sacred Congregation of Rites]
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: NIFH on June 28, 2023, 08:37:30 PM
In so construing your argument, all you have really done is tried to objectify that which, nevertheless, remains a subjective argument:

The "danger" comes not from something intrinsic to the reductions themselves, but from an extrinsic consideration (i.e., it is the intentions of the reformers behind the reductions which creates the "threat," and not the change itself).

This realization demonstrates that the "danger" is still a perceived one, and therefore subjective, since, but for the knowledge of the secret intentions of the modernist reformers, none would feel threatened in their faith by said reductions.

More simply:

Everyone's faith is threatened by an objective danger (e.g., heresy; invalid form).  Not everyone's faith is threatened by a subjective or perceived danger (e.g., not ringing the bell at the elevation; fewer signs of the cross).

If the reductions were an objective threat to the faith, then reducing the number by even 1 sign of the cross would have constituted a danger (just as 1 heresy would), but I doubt anyone wants to make that argument.

PS: Exagerrating the educational aspect of the Mass was one of the errors of the modernist liturgical reformers.
Communion in the hand while standing is a liturgical action that is definitely an objective danger to the Faith, whether or not the person knows the intentions of the reformers.  By not having the communicant kneel in the rite of Communion, the innovators are depriving the faithful of a valuable lesson of What they are receiving, and what they are in relation to It.  The educational aspect of the liturgy is not to be despised either.  Humans learn from how they are taught to comport themselves.

How many genuflections can one delete before you objectively endanger the Faith?  I'll defer to the Archbishop for that judgement.
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: NIFH on June 28, 2023, 08:46:50 PM
would it not be in the best interest to fidelity to return to what we now know is the better form - the pre 1955 forms - thus restoring a great deal of what was lost when the 62 changes came?
St. Thomas does not say to refuse an order because you judge a previous order to be better.  He says 'do what your told unless the Faith is in danger.'
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: jdfaber on June 28, 2023, 08:59:20 PM
No genuflections were removed in 1965. The genuflections were lessened in 1967.
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: SeanJohnson on June 28, 2023, 09:01:02 PM
Communion in the hand while standing is a liturgical action that is definitely an objective danger to the Faith, whether or not the person knows the intentions of the reformers.  By not having the communicant kneel in the rite of Communion, the innovators are depriving the faithful of a valuable lesson of What they are receiving, and what they are in relation to It.  The educational aspect of the liturgy is not to be despised either.  Humans learn from how they are taught to comport themselves.

How many genuflections can one delete before you objectively endanger the Faith?  I'll defer to the Archbishop for that judgement.

On the contrary, Communion in the hand was the practice of the Church for centuries, and is only evil, once again, because of extrinsic circuмstances (ie., the intentions of the reformers), and not in se.

PS: This is now the second time you copy the error of the innovators, who wanted to use the Mass as a catechism.
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: SeanJohnson on June 28, 2023, 09:02:23 PM
No genuflections were removed in 1965. The genuflections were lessened in 1967.

Good catch (and so much for that argument).
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: Kazimierz on June 28, 2023, 09:54:44 PM
St. Thomas does not say to refuse an order because you judge a previous order to be better.  He says 'do what your told unless the Faith is in danger.'
Judging what is happening with the neoSSPX there is cause for concern. Slow death by increments. When I am in doubt I turn to clerics whom I trust to answer queries and dispel erroneous notions.the 1962 is all most of have, so that is what we use. 
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: NIFH on June 28, 2023, 10:20:04 PM
PS: This is now the second time you copy the error of the innovators, who wanted to use the Mass as a catechism.
"Our liturgy is the school of our Faith.  And it is the first school of our Faith for all people.  I was in Africa as a missionary and bishop during 30 years.  And I know that the liturgy was the best school of our Faith for the people.  They cannot read.  They have no pictures, nothing.  But they can see what the priest does.  They can see when the priest adores the Body and the Blood of Jesus Christ, and they know that Jesus Christ is really present on the altar by the attitude of the priest.  They know it.  That is very important."
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: NIFH on June 28, 2023, 10:25:59 PM
"...no more genuflections, no more Signs of the Cross!  Appalling!  The Sign of the Cross showed that it indeed concerned the sacrifice of the Cross.  Let us not say that these are merely details.  These are not details; these are gestures that have meaning and value."
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: NIFH on June 28, 2023, 10:31:07 PM
Above was a quote concerning the '69.  Now you tell me the genuflections were reduced in '67.  I really wish I had asked the Archbishop for specifics regarding the '65.
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: SeanJohnson on June 28, 2023, 11:38:22 PM
"Our liturgy is the school of our Faith.  And it is the first school of our Faith for all people.  I was in Africa as a missionary and bishop during 30 years.  And I know that the liturgy was the best school of our Faith for the people.  They cannot read.  They have no pictures, nothing.  But they can see what the priest does.  They can see when the priest adores the Body and the Blood of Jesus Christ, and they know that Jesus Christ is really present on the altar by the attitude of the priest.  They know it.  That is very important."

Fr. Schmidberger-

“Meanwhile, the objection is raised that the faithful would thus not understand the Sacred Action. In response to these objections, we answer the Holy Mass is not in the first place instruction or catechesis, but sacrifice offered to God. The content of an action is understood much more in its outward gestures than by the words used. Besides, the Holy Mass concerns an unfathomable mystery of the Faith that will never be grasped fully by our sense of reason.”

https://sspx.org/en/theology-and-spirituality-mass 
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: NIFH on June 29, 2023, 09:38:55 PM
Fr. Schmidberger-

“Meanwhile, the objection is raised that the faithful would thus not understand the Sacred Action. In response to these objections, we answer the Holy Mass is not in the first place instruction or catechesis, but sacrifice offered to God. The content of an action is understood much more in its outward gestures than by the words used. Besides, the Holy Mass concerns an unfathomable mystery of the Faith that will never be grasped fully by our sense of reason.”

https://sspx.org/en/theology-and-spirituality-mass
"In the first place".  Correct.  The educational aspect must not be exaggerated nor despised.  It has it's importance.

Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: NIFH on June 29, 2023, 09:45:38 PM
I don't want to put words in your mouth.  I get the sense that you are suggesting the Archbishop insisted on the '62 over older books, citing St. Thomas' principle, but contradicted himself by refusing the '65 for no good reason.  Either he was a hypocrite (a serious accusation!), or somehow it hadn't occurred to him.  Just because you and I don't know his specific objections to the '65 doesn't mean he didn't have any.  He has amply proved that his decisions were made after serious deliberation and prayer.

Anyway, all of this tangent we've gone off on is a discussion whether St. Thomas would have us use the '62 or the '65.  The older books are out of the question according to his principle.
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: NIFH on June 29, 2023, 09:49:03 PM
Judging what is happening with the neoSSPX there is cause for concern. Slow death by increments. When I am in doubt I turn to clerics whom I trust to answer queries and dispel erroneous notions.the 1962 is all most of have, so that is what we use.
Correlation does not mean causation.  The Church has been on the retreat for centuries while every priest was using the old books.
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: SeanJohnson on June 29, 2023, 09:58:49 PM
The older books are out of the question according to his principle.

The older books are compulsory, according to his principle.
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: NIFH on June 29, 2023, 11:08:45 PM
I am confronted with a choice:

The '62 is not a danger for the Faith.
- Archbishop Lefebvre, student of Fr. LeFloch, Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor of Theology, God's chosen instrument to found and lead the numerically most significant organization of Catholic resistance in the Crisis of the Church

-or-

The '62 is a danger for the Faith.
- Sean Johnson

Nothing personal, please understand.  You have an excellent grasp of many issues.  Your contributions around here are generally magnificent.  I often find myself rooting for you from behind the keyboard.
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: Marulus Fidelis on June 30, 2023, 02:21:00 AM
I am confronted with a choice:

The '62 is not a danger for the Faith.
- Archbishop Lefebvre, student of Fr. LeFloch, Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor of Theology, God's chosen instrument to found and lead the numerically most significant organization of Catholic resistance in the Crisis of the Church

-or-

The '62 is a danger for the Faith.
- Sean Johnson

Nothing personal, please understand.  You have an excellent grasp of many issues.  Your contributions around here are generally magnificent.  I often find myself rooting for you from behind the keyboard.
Yes, it's obvious to everyone you can't separate the man from the argument. You believe in man and man only. The human respect is palpable.

------

Fr. Cekada said in the early days they had weird hybrid rites which indicates Lefebvre didn't do a thorough examination of the missals and decide which one was best but wanted a more diplomatic solution.

Even today the priests modify the '62 during Holy Week. If you have to change it, why are you using it? Ridiculous.
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: SeanJohnson on June 30, 2023, 06:46:26 AM
I am confronted with a choice:

The '62 is not a danger for the Faith.
- Archbishop Lefebvre, student of Fr. LeFloch, Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor of Theology, God's chosen instrument to found and lead the numerically most significant organization of Catholic resistance in the Crisis of the Church

-or-

The '62 is a danger for the Faith.
- Sean Johnson

Nothing personal, please understand.  You have an excellent grasp of many issues.  Your contributions around here are generally magnificent.  I often find myself rooting for you from behind the keyboard.

Hello NIFH-

I do not take your critiques personally, so no worries there, and I appreciate you taking the time to say so.  I would like to clarify a few points, however, simply in the interest of making sure I am properly understood (rightly or wrongly):

Firstly, let me state that I share your admiration for Archbishop Lefebvre.  Like you, it is clear to me that God did in fact use him to "keep the pilot light burning," so to speak.  And if I may go even further, considering the enormity of what he accomplished, moreso than any other (i.e., forming a resistance to the deliberate extinction of Tradition), I believe he may posssibly be the greatest Churchman since the days of Athanasius...and possibly ever.

But in the domain of liturgy, I believe he could have made a better choice, and it is clear to me from some of the statements you yourself havee quoted, that his broad ranging perspicacity either did not extend to the liturgical issue (i.e., he appears to have beeen oblivoius to the per-conciliar destruction of the liturgy already in process by the time of Vatican II), or he chose to ignore it for political reasons, and advanced untenable arguments in defense of that political decision (e.g., "the Pian Holy Week was not a preparation for the Novus Ordo;" or "The people on the liturgical commisssion were not the same as those who made the ovus Ordo;" etc.).

The truth of the matter is, one does not need to be a doctor off theology, or philosophy, or even ever have spent a day in a seminary, to assess the significance and gravity of the changes ushered in by Pius XII.  

One only needs to be an objective historian.

Was it not Fr. Carlo Braga (Collaborator of Bugnini, and Secretary of Consilium under Paul VI) who acknowledged that the Holy Week "reforms" were "the head of a battering ram which pierced the fortress of our hitherto static liturgy?"

Here is what I am willing to concede:

On most days and/or Sundays of the year, the differences between, say, the 1950 missal and the 1962 missal are imperceptible (which is not to say minor, for example, is adding St. Joseph to the Canon a "minor" change?), and I myself attend the 1962 missal -more by necessity than by preference- which I could not do, were it in se an objective danger to the faith.

But I do not atend the Pian Novus Ordo of Holy Week, and this brings us to the heart of the matter:

The 1962 Misssal naturally uses the 1956 Novus Ordo of Holy Week. 

But prescinding from the argument about whether those changes were great or small (you already know my opinion on that), the 1962 transitional misssal did not occur in a liturgical vaccuum, but was the spearhead of far wider reaching liturgical and related disciplinary "reforms," such as:

1) Overturning liturgical fasting laws (1957);
2) Permitting evening Masses (1953);
3) Eliminating most of the Octaves (1955);
4) Eliminating the proper Last Gospels (1955);
5) Various rubrical changes, such as permitting incense without deacon/subdeacon; bowing to the book instead of bowing the the Crucifix; eliminating the 2nd confiteor; etc, etc;
6) Permitting laymen (i.e., "capable readers") to read certain readings;
7) Permitting the congregation to recite prayers audibly (1958);
8) The priest quietly "duplicating" the Gospel, Epistle, Reproaches, Holy Saturdayprophcies, etc;
9) When Holy Communion should be distributed;
10) Modification of the ancient Canon (1962).

Many more "reforms" could be listed, but the point is this: Everything in that list also applies to the 1962 Missal; it does not stand independent of thm, but is in fact a product of them.

So back to +Lefebvre's use of St. Thomas Aquinas's principle (i.e., only when the faith is in danger): It seems clear to me that any application of that principle will depend upon one's apprehension of that "danger."

And it seems equally obvious to me that, based upon +Lefebvre's comments, he was largely oblivious of the "battering ram" (to use Fr. Braga's description) which had already been destroying and reconstituting the Catholic liturgy (and accessory liturgical praxis) for more than a decade prior to 1962.  In truth, one would have to go all the way bacy to the novelty of the dialogue Masss, but that is a digression for another time.

For this reason, I could easily concede Aquinas's principle, and simply acknowledge that +Lefebvre wrongly applied it, for lack of a broader historical view of all that the "reforms" entailed.

Alternately, I could deny that Aquinas's principle even applies to the 1962 Missal, because as some (e.g., Fr. Cekada) have observed, a transitional missal lacks the stability required to bind.  All the more so when it is already abrogated ex post facto.

All of this is to say that I am not persuaded, as you are, that the1962 is obligatory, nor that just because +Lefebvre was God's primary instrumet to combat modernism, that we must be wedded to his every decision, nor that one must match or exeeed his clerical credentials and bona fides.  One need only be an historian of the liturgical movement, and view the 1962 missal within that context.  To +Lefebvre's everlasting glory, he gets the credit for putting the brakes on the revolution.  But there's no convincing reason why we can't or shouldn't back the car up a bit.
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: Pax Vobis on June 30, 2023, 08:27:57 AM

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Just because you and I don't know his specific objections to the '65
Any objective observer can know the problems with the '65 missal.  We don't need +ABL to tell us everything about our Faith.  Plenty of Trad priests in the 60s knew the 65 missal was garbage and avoided it accordingly.  That why, when +ABL waffled on the topic, there was pressure.  Because many, many Trads had already rejected it.
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: AMDGJMJ on June 30, 2023, 08:54:37 AM
Archbishop Lefebvre was in Africa when the Pian Holy Week came out.  He was there from 1948-1959 and REALLY helped the Catholic Faith to grow there.

If I had to guess...  He was more focused on being a missionary than on the changing liturgies.  The 1962 Missal came out only three years after he was back in Europe.
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: SeanJohnson on June 30, 2023, 09:22:33 AM
But prescinding from the argument about whether those changes were great or small (you already know my opinion on that), the 1962 transitional misssal did not occur in a liturgical vaccuum, but was the spearhead of far wider reaching liturgical and related disciplinary "reforms," such as:

1) Overturning liturgical fasting laws (1957);
2) Permitting evening Masses (1953);
3) Eliminating most of the Octaves (1955);
4) Eliminating the proper Last Gospels (1955);
5) Various rubrical changes, such as permitting incense without deacon/subdeacon; bowing to the book instead of bowing the the Crucifix; eliminating the 2nd confiteor; etc, etc;
6) Permitting laymen (i.e., "capable readers") to read certain readings;
7) Permitting the congregation to recite prayers audibly (1958);
8) The priest quietly "duplicating" the Gospel, Epistle, Reproaches, Holy Saturdayprophcies, etc;
9) When Holy Communion should be distributed;
10) Modification of the ancient Canon (1962).

Many more "reforms" could be listed...

11) The re-ranking of feasts;
12) The elimination of ancient and/or major feasts (e.g., the Vigil of Pentecost);
13) The abrogation of certain vestments (e.g., Broadstoles and folded chasubles);

etc.
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: Angelus on June 30, 2023, 01:06:41 PM
On a fundamental "first principle," Archbishop Lefebvre was factually incorrect and this causes Bishop Zendejas to give bad advice.

In Section 2 of his Ordination sermon, Bishop Zendejas quoted Abp. Lefebvre:

"What is the first principle to know what we must do in this circuмstance, in this crisis in the Church? What is the principle? This doctrine is expounded by Saint Thomas Aquinas. So what does Saint Thomas Aquinas say about the authority in the Church? When can we refuse something from the authority of the Church? PRINCIPLE: Only when the Faith is in question.’ Only in this case. Not in other cases… Only when the Faith is in question... and that is found in the Summa Theologica (II-II Q.33, a.4, ad 2m) (https://aquinas.cc/la/en/~ST.II-II.Q33.A4) […].” (AL, St. Them Aquinas Seminary, Ridgefield, 1983)"

Lefebvre was quoting from Aquinas where the Saint was speaking about "Fraternal Correction," not obedience to the authority of the Church. The specific question Aquinas was answering in that Article was "Whether a man is bound to correct his Prelate?" In other words, Aquinas's statement must be understood in the following context,

Does a man have a duty to correct his Prelate under the virtue of Charity of which Fraternal Correction is part of?

In his reply to an objection, Aquinas said:

"Reply Obj. 2: To withstand anyone in public exceeds the mode of fraternal correction, and so Paul would not have withstood Peter then, unless he were in some way his equal as regards the defense of the faith. But one who is not an equal can reprove privately and respectfully. Hence the Apostle in writing to the Colossians (4:17) tells them to admonish their prelate: Say to Archippus: Fulfill thy ministry. It must be observed, however, that if the faith were endangered, a subject ought to rebuke his prelate even publicly. Hence Paul, who was Peter’s subject, rebuked him in public, on account of the imminent danger of scandal concerning faith, and, as the gloss of Augustine says on Gal. 2:11, Peter gave an example to superiors, that if at any time they should happen to stray from the straight path, they should not disdain to be reproved by their subjects."

So, Aquinas absolutely DID NOT SAY what Lefebvre claims he said, specifically, that we may "refuse something from the authority of the Church...'only when the Faith is in question." Aquinas's comment was not even about obedience to authority specifically. It was about "publicly rebuking" a religious superior who was in verifiable error. And the context was the example of St. Paul's correction of St. Peter.

In Aquinas's actual answer to the main question about correcting a Prelate, we see the following:

"I answer that, A subject is not competent to administer to his prelate the correction which is an act of justice through the coercive nature of punishment: but the fraternal correction which is an act of charity is within the competency of everyone in respect of any person towards whom he is bound by charity, provided there be something in that person which requires correction. Now an act which proceeds from a habit or power extends to whatever is contained under the object of that power or habit: thus vision extends to all things comprised in the object of sight. Since, however, a virtuous act needs to be moderated by due circuмstances, it follows that when a subject corrects his prelate, he ought to do so in a becoming manner, not with impudence and harshness, but with gentleness and respect. Hence the Apostle says (1 Tim 5:1): An ancient man rebuke not, but entreat him as a father. Wherefore Dionysius finds fault with the monk Demophilus (Ep. viii), for rebuking a priest with insolence, by striking and turning him out of the church."

So Lefebvre fails to understand Aquinas's meaning. Aquinas actually says that fraternal correction of a Prelate "is an act of charity." But it must be done "in a becoming manner" when possible. Not something, as Lefebvre says, only to be done "when the Faith is in question." Aquinas is saying, rather, one DOES HAVE the duty of admonishing a Prelate always. But if the Prelate is not "an equal" is should be done "privately and respectfully." However, it should be done "even publicly if the faith were endangered" or in the case where there is "danger of scandal concerning the faith."

Is it not "scandalous" to claim that the Roman Canon in the Missal of Pius V (promulgated perpetually by a Papal Bull) can be changed willy-nilly? Is it not scandalous to say the name of a "Pope" in the Mass who daily undermines the orthodox teaching of the Catholic Faith?

But Bishop Zendejas uses that mistaken "first principle" of Lefebvre to bind the priest he is ordaining to actually promote scandal, rather than avoid it:


"Dear Fr. Blanchet, when you celebrate Holy Mass, you may be asked whether you [accept] all the rubrics of your ordination missal, i.e. the 1962 Roman Missal. Your answer should be: YES.

You may be asked if you pronounce the Pope's name at the Canon of the Mass. Your answer should be: YES."


I love Bishop Zendejas, but on these points he is wrong. So, in the spirit of what Aquinas actually taught us to do in Summa Theologiae (II II Q.33, a.4) (https://aquinas.cc/la/en/~ST.II-II.Q33.A4), I respectfully admonish Bishop Zendejas for his error and gently request that he consider amending his statement, because I sincerely believe, after having done my due diligence, that the use of the 1962 Missal and the belief that Jorge Bergoglio is a true Pope are scandalous to the faithful.
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: SeanJohnson on June 30, 2023, 01:25:55 PM
On a fundamental "first principle," Archbishop Lefebvre was factually incorrect and this causes Bishop Zendejas to give bad advice.

In Section 2 of his Ordination sermon, Bishop Zendejas quoted Abp. Lefebvre:

"What is the first principle to know what we must do in this circuмstance, in this crisis in the Church? What is the principle? This doctrine is expounded by Saint Thomas Aquinas. So what does Saint Thomas Aquinas say about the authority in the Church? When can we refuse something from the authority of the Church? PRINCIPLE: Only when the Faith is in question.’ Only in this case. Not in other cases… Only when the Faith is in question... and that is found in the Summa Theologica (II-II Q.33, a.4, ad 2m) (https://aquinas.cc/la/en/~ST.II-II.Q33.A4) […].” (AL, St. Them Aquinas Seminary, Ridgefield, 1983)"

Lefebvre was quoting from Aquinas where the Saint was speaking about "Fraternal Correction," not obedience to the authority of the Church. The specific question Aquinas was answering in that Article was "Whether a man is bound to correct his Prelate?" In other words, Aquinas's statement must be understood in the following context,

Does a man have a duty to correct his Prelate under the virtue of Charity of which Fraternal Correction is part of?

In his reply to an objection, Aquinas said:

"Reply Obj. 2: To withstand anyone in public exceeds the mode of fraternal correction, and so Paul would not have withstood Peter then, unless he were in some way his equal as regards the defense of the faith. But one who is not an equal can reprove privately and respectfully. Hence the Apostle in writing to the Colossians (4:17) tells them to admonish their prelate: Say to Archippus: Fulfill thy ministry. It must be observed, however, that if the faith were endangered, a subject ought to rebuke his prelate even publicly. Hence Paul, who was Peter’s subject, rebuked him in public, on account of the imminent danger of scandal concerning faith, and, as the gloss of Augustine says on Gal. 2:11, Peter gave an example to superiors, that if at any time they should happen to stray from the straight path, they should not disdain to be reproved by their subjects."

So, Aquinas absolutely DID NOT SAY what Lefebvre claims he said, specifically, that we may "refuse something from the authority of the Church...'only when the Faith is in question." Aquinas's comment was not even about obedience to authority specifically. It was about "publicly rebuking" a religious superior who was in verifiable error. And the context was the example of St. Paul's correction of St. Peter.

In Aquinas's actual answer to the main question about correcting a Prelate, we see the following:

"I answer that, A subject is not competent to administer to his prelate the correction which is an act of justice through the coercive nature of punishment: but the fraternal correction which is an act of charity is within the competency of everyone in respect of any person towards whom he is bound by charity, provided there be something in that person which requires correction. Now an act which proceeds from a habit or power extends to whatever is contained under the object of that power or habit: thus vision extends to all things comprised in the object of sight. Since, however, a virtuous act needs to be moderated by due circuмstances, it follows that when a subject corrects his prelate, he ought to do so in a becoming manner, not with impudence and harshness, but with gentleness and respect. Hence the Apostle says (1 Tim 5:1): An ancient man rebuke not, but entreat him as a father. Wherefore Dionysius finds fault with the monk Demophilus (Ep. viii), for rebuking a priest with insolence, by striking and turning him out of the church."

So Lefebvre fails to understand Aquinas's meaning. Aquinas actually says that fraternal correction of a Prelate "is an act of charity." But it must be done "in a becoming manner" when possible. Not something, as Lefebvre says, only to be done "when the Faith is in question." Aquinas is saying, rather, one DOES HAVE the duty of admonishing a Prelate always. But if the Prelate is not "an equal" is should be done "privately and respectfully." However, it should be done "even publicly if the faith were endangered" or in the case where there is "danger of scandal concerning the faith."

Is it not "scandalous" to claim that the Roman Canon in the Missal of Pius V (promulgated perpetually by a Papal Bull) can be changed willy-nilly? Is it not scandalous to say the name of a "Pope" in the Mass who daily undermines the orthodox teaching of the Catholic Faith?

But Bishop Zendejas uses that mistaken "first principle" of Lefebvre to bind the priest he is ordaining to actually promote scandal, rather than avoid it:


"Dear Fr. Blanchet, when you celebrate Holy Mass, you may be asked whether you [accept] all the rubrics of your ordination missal, i.e. the 1962 Roman Missal. Your answer should be: YES.

You may be asked if you pronounce the Pope's name at the Canon of the Mass. Your answer should be: YES."


I love Bishop Zendejas, but on these points he is wrong. So, in the spirit of what Aquinas actually taught us to do in Summa Theologiae (II II Q.33, a.4) (https://aquinas.cc/la/en/~ST.II-II.Q33.A4), I respectfully admonish Bishop Zendejas for his error and gently request that he consider amending his statement, because I sincerely believe, after having done my due diligence, that the use of the 1962 Missal and the belief that Jorge Bergoglio is a true Pope are scandalous to the faithful.

Not sure why you chose to bring the non-una cuм into the discussion, and muddy the waters.

That issue seems not to be pertinent to a discussion regarding the permissibility of the 1950 missal.

The non-una cuм is only an isssue for sedevacantists, and Zendejas is not a sede.

Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: Angelus on June 30, 2023, 01:37:38 PM
Not sure why you chose to bring the non-una cuм into the discussion, and muddy the waters.

That issue seems not to be pertinent to a discussion regarding the permissibility of the 1950 missal.

The non-una cuм is only an isssue for sedevacantists, and Zendejas is not a sede.

Sean, Bishop Zendejas brought up the non-una-cuм issue in his Sermon. He said:

"You may be asked if you pronounce the Pope's name at the Canon of the Mass. Your answer should be: YES."

I am morally certain that Jorge Mario Bergoglio is not "the Pope" for two reasons: 1) he was not canonically-elected according to the law of papal elections, and 2) is a manifest, obstinate heretic, proven by his refusal to answer the Dubia, which causes him to automatically lose the papal office according to Canon 194 (1983 Code).
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: SeanJohnson on June 30, 2023, 02:05:13 PM
Sean, Bishop Zendejas brought up the non-una-cuм issue in his Sermon. He said:

"You may be asked if you pronounce the Pope's name at the Canon of the Mass. Your answer should be: YES."

I am morally certain that Jorge Mario Bergoglio is not "the Pope" for two reasons: 1) he was not canonically-elected according to the law of papal elections, and 2) is a manifest, obstinate heretic, proven by his refusal to answer the Dubia, which causes him to automatically lose the papal office according to Canon 194 (1983 Code).

Zendejas brought up the non-una cuм, but that is not what is being debated.

The issue here is whether the Resistance should adopt the traditional Holy Week, not whether it should adopt the non-una cuм.

You are trying to turn this thread into a sede vs Resistance debate.  

Why not just start another thread on the non-una cuм?
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: Angelus on June 30, 2023, 03:04:16 PM
Zendejas brought up the non-una cuм, but that is not what is being debated.

The issue here is whether the Resistance should adopt the traditional Holy Week, not whether it should adopt the non-una cuм.

You are trying to turn this thread into a sede vs Resistance debate. 

Why not just start another thread on the non-una cuм?

Sean, the title of this thread is "Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas," not "Should the Resistance adopt the traditional Holy Week." True or not true?

And I am not "trying to turn this thread into a sede vs Resistance debate." I am trying to get at the truth.
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: NIFH on June 30, 2023, 09:15:34 PM
The Archbishop did address some of the items on your list that I can recall.  I remember him applauding the elimination of some octaves, saying there had been too many.  He also approved the reorganization of the Breviary in '62.  The permitting of evening Masses and the changing of liturgical fasting rules (which later went too far!) were true adaptions to the new circuмstances of life following the Industrial Revolution.  Fr. Hesse said he saw no problem with inserting St. Joseph into the Canon, in view of Pius IX recently declaring him 'Patron of the Church'.

+Lefebvre was quite aware of the items on your list, and none of them are a danger for the Faith.  He may not have known what the reformers were aiming towards, but in '62 they surely had not yet succeeded in introducing anything you could call 'danger' in itself.  Their intentions were indeed danger, but the books themselves are not.  We cannot refuse them.

I would bet if the Preface of St. Dominic was only removed in the '60's, it would have made your list.  I also would have thought it obvious.  Yet that was a reform of St. Pius V.  It's not so easy to judge these things for ourselves.
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: NIFH on June 30, 2023, 09:20:51 PM
I am morally certain that Jorge Mario Bergoglio is not "the Pope" for two reasons: 1) he was not canonically-elected according to the law of papal elections
Deviations from the laws of elections does not make a papacy invalid.  Examples abound in Church history.

Particularly amusing is the history of the papacy during the 1040's:

1044: Benedict IX (who obtained the Papal office through bribes in 1032) is chased from Rome by its citizens.

Jan. 1045: Sylvester III is elected.

March 1045: Benedict IX returns to Rome and deposes Sylvester III.

May 1045: Benedict IX sells the office to Gregory VI.

1046: Gregory VI resigns and is replaced by Clement II.

1047: Benedict IX again seizes the throne upon the death of Clement II.

1048: Benedict IX is driven from Rome by the German emperor, to be replaced by Damasus II.

Plenty of material is here to raise doubts about the validity of the beginnings and endings of various pontificates, yet each one is recognized by the Church and is listed in the Annuario Pontificio, including all three reigns of Benedict IX.
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: NIFH on June 30, 2023, 09:23:58 PM
2) is a manifest, obstinate heretic, proven by his refusal to answer the Dubia, which causes him to automatically lose the papal office according to Canon 194 (1983 Code).
These terms have precise definitions that I don't think you are aware of.  Silence is not 'manifest.'
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: Matthew on June 30, 2023, 09:56:53 PM
Deviations from the laws of elections does not make a papacy invalid.  Examples abound in Church history.

Particularly amusing is the history of the papacy during the 1040's:

1044: Benedict IX (who obtained the Papal office through bribes in 1032) is chased from Rome by its citizens.

Jan. 1045: Sylvester III is elected.

March 1045: Benedict IX returns to Rome and deposes Sylvester III.

May 1045: Benedict IX sells the office to Gregory VI.

1046: Gregory VI resigns and is replaced by Clement II.

1047: Benedict IX again seizes the throne upon the death of Clement II.

1048: Benedict IX is driven from Rome by the German emperor, to be replaced by Damasus II.

Plenty of material is here to raise doubts about the validity of the beginnings and endings of various pontificates, yet each one is recognized by the Church and is listed in the Annuario Pontificio, including all three reigns of Benedict IX.

When you read Church History, it's clear that the survival of the Church as a viable institution after 2,000 years is miraculous, and must be of God.

The weakness and extreme flaws -- to say the least -- of the men involved (see quoted post!) is a testament to how God has preserved the Church over the centuries.
Title: Re: Ordination Sermon by +Zendejas (6/23/23)
Post by: SeanJohnson on June 30, 2023, 10:43:48 PM
The Archbishop did address some of the items on your list that I can recall.  I remember him applauding the elimination of some octaves, saying there had been too many.  He also approved the reorganization of the Breviary in '62.  The permitting of evening Masses and the changing of liturgical fasting rules (which later went too far!) were true adaptions to the new circuмstances of life following the Industrial Revolution.  Fr. Hesse said he saw no problem with inserting St. Joseph into the Canon, in view of Pius IX recently declaring him 'Patron of the Church'.

+Lefebvre was quite aware of the items on your list, and none of them are a danger for the Faith.  He may not have known what the reformers were aiming towards, but in '62 they surely had not yet succeeded in introducing anything you could call 'danger' in itself.  Their intentions were indeed danger, but the books themselves are not.  We cannot refuse them.

I would bet if the Preface of St. Dominic was only removed in the '60's, it would have made your list.  I also would have thought it obvious.  Yet that was a reform of St. Pius V.  It's not so easy to judge these things for ourselves.

I don’t wish to argue with you further.

Pax tecuм.