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Offline MarcelJude

Padre Chazal Speaks About Bishop Bernard Tissier de Mallerais(SSPX)
« on: October 21, 2024, 06:44:01 AM »
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Offline Seraphina

Re: Padre Chazal Speaks About Bishop Bernard Tissier de Mallerais(SSPX)
« Reply #1 on: October 21, 2024, 02:12:22 PM »
Those who criticize Bp. Tissier for not supporting the resistance should keep in mind his poor health. Even ten years ago, he was cutting back on demanding activities.  In the last seven or eight years, he had to carefully ration his energies. He did still perform Confirmations, but only every four to five years, and within the US and Canada.  
He may have wanted to support the resistance but ultimately decided it better to semi-retire.  It’s easy to say what someone else should have done or should be doing. It’s quite another to actually experience it personally.  
I’m saying, let’s cut him a break. Yes, we generally do limit our funeral sermon, if public, livestreamed, to speaking of the good things about the deceased.  Everyone knows he had weaknesses, failures, even sins, like everyone.  This isn’t canonizing him a saint.  Let’s pray for Bp. Tissier’s soul.
Rather than critique him for what could have been, let’s have faith a bishop will be provided.  If the SSPX accepts to be absorbed into Rome, then God will provide some other way.  
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Offline Giovanni Berto

Re: Padre Chazal Speaks About Bishop Bernard Tissier de Mallerais(SSPX)
« Reply #2 on: October 21, 2024, 06:01:27 PM »
Quote from: Seraphina on October 21, 2024, 02:12:22 PM
Those who criticize Bp. Tissier for not supporting the resistance should keep in mind his poor health. Even ten years ago, he was cutting back on demanding activities.  In the last seven or eight years, he had to carefully ration his energies. He did still perform Confirmations, but only every four to five years, and within the US and Canada. 
He may have wanted to support the resistance but ultimately decided it better to semi-retire.  It’s easy to say what someone else should have done or should be doing. It’s quite another to actually experience it personally. 
I’m saying, let’s cut him a break. Yes, we generally do limit our funeral sermon, if public, livestreamed, to speaking of the good things about the deceased.  Everyone knows he had weaknesses, failures, even sins, like everyone.  This isn’t canonizing him a saint.  Let’s pray for Bp. Tissier’s soul.
Rather than critique him for what could have been, let’s have faith a bishop will be provided.  If the SSPX accepts to be absorbed into Rome, then God will provide some other way. 

I was surprised to hear that he was to come to Brazil for Confirmations. It was not meant to be, as he fell on the stairs about two weeks before the date and Bp. Fellay came instead.

Either way, it is admirable that he was disposed to take a 12-hour flight over the Atlantic, considering his health. It seems that he was to go to neighbouring countries too, since Bp. Fellay said a requiem Mass for him from Chile.

I think that he simply could not leave the society that Abp. Lefebvre founded, even if it was rotten. God gave him the grace to die before things get too ugly. May he rest in peace.
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Offline trento

Re: Padre Chazal Speaks About Bishop Bernard Tissier de Mallerais(SSPX)
« Reply #3 on: October 23, 2024, 02:05:03 AM »
Quote from: Seraphina on October 21, 2024, 02:12:22 PM
Those who criticize Bp. Tissier for not supporting the resistance should keep in mind his poor health. Even ten years ago, he was cutting back on demanding activities.  In the last seven or eight years, he had to carefully ration his energies. He did still perform Confirmations, but only every four to five years, and within the US and Canada. 
He may have wanted to support the resistance but ultimately decided it better to semi-retire.  It’s easy to say what someone else should have done or should be doing. It’s quite another to actually experience it personally. 
I’m saying, let’s cut him a break. Yes, we generally do limit our funeral sermon, if public, livestreamed, to speaking of the good things about the deceased.  Everyone knows he had weaknesses, failures, even sins, like everyone.  This isn’t canonizing him a saint.  Let’s pray for Bp. Tissier’s soul.
Rather than critique him for what could have been, let’s have faith a bishop will be provided.  If the SSPX accepts to be absorbed into Rome, then God will provide some other way. 

Indeed, it is rather tasteless for Fr. Chazal to equate Bishop Tissier to Pontius Pilate. This is what I call bitter zeal.
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Offline Meg

Re: Padre Chazal Speaks About Bishop Bernard Tissier de Mallerais(SSPX)
« Reply #4 on: October 23, 2024, 08:58:38 AM »
I accidently posted this on another Bp. Tissier thread. 

Just my opinion, but I think that Fr. Chazal gives a fair and balanced view of Bp. Tissier. He says good things about Bp. Tissier, but the fact is, is that Bp. Tissier was against the Resistance, and when Fr. Chazal went to him to express his concerns about the new direction of the SSPX, Bp. Tissier told him to "just be quiet!" 

Fr. Chazal gives a reminder that Bp. Tissier wrote the best biography of the Archbishop that we have today. I've read it; it's excellent. But the truth is, Bp. Tissier didn't speak up about the SSPX new direction of seeking reconciliation with Rome. 
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