Pockets of resistance

In the Eleison [Comment] number 277 on Sunday November 4, 2012, Bishop Williamson provides concepts about realities and situations which are convenient to distinguish without confusing them, since it is given the impression that they are mixed, which may confuse and paralyze the reaction (strong resistance). One thing is trying to regroup a parallel fraternity, which in my opinion, is completely unworkable in the current theological-historical juncture; and quite another one, very different, is the resistance or "pockets of resistance" as he [His Excellence] calls it, which does not depend on what was previously mentioned.

But this resistance must be overt, active and not crouching nor passive, for each and every one of the priests, who, with or without a bishop —but much better if there is one—, want to stand firm in the faith, without compromise, without collaborating or participating in anyway, in the “light” capitulation, soft and anesthetic, which is resulting from the acts of both, the modernist apostate and antichrist Rome, as well as that of Bishop Fellay and his henchmen.

A resistance which is already late, (although it is better late than never), but which tomorrow would be too late, and therefore ineffective and useless.

The expulsion of Bishop Williamson is a fact which ought to serve as a trigger to open everybody’s eyes [allowing to see] the critical situation in which the Society of St. Pius X with is bishops, priests and faithful is now.

I fully agree to talk about pockets of resistance, dispersed throughout the world, as pusillus grex (small faithful flock) keeping every priest around him —wherever he is—, the faithful who they can attend.  And all those pockets of resistance [should] remain united by the Faith’s bond, that unites us and reconnects to Christ and to His Church, since it is precisely the Antichrist, as Saint John defines well: "qui solvit Iesum" (who dissolves Christ), what destroys and dilutes the Faith and divides the Church separating us from Christ.

I think if we had all this in mind, we all would strongly know what to do, energetically, promptly, diligently and expeditiously; without doubt or hesitation, because faith is beyond question, so is the defense of the faith, and we could accomplish the mission to which Divine Providence has destined us. To doubt is to falter, understand this well, men of little faith!  For that is what unfortunately it seems, that is what is happening, both in the priestly field of the Society and in the Episcopal one, as the fish rots from the head down.

Then, it is clear and evident, that if Bishop Williamson is a true man of God as worthy successor of the Apostles, he must distinguish things and act accordingly, otherwise, he would make us to think that he is taking advantage of the confusion to mask a policy to dissolve the real and outright resistance. Things are to be called by their name and Bishop Williamson has no alternative but to define himself by his actions, because every tree is recognized by its own acts (fruits).

Many priests have been disheartened by not being backed by Bishop Williamson, just when they were about to react and act; for having been given the encouragement at first, then came the slowdown, leaving them hanging, since all this only favored, dialectically and subtly, the work of destruction that modernist apostate and antichrist Rome has always pursued: to dilute any real resistance, and thus annihilate the Sacrosanct Infallible Church’s Tradition.

Fr. Basilio Meramo

Bogotá, November 7, 2012

Translated from here.