My church was run by Father Hector Bolduc before he died. The SSPX descended like vultures onto the Church, and took it over. First they brought in Father Duverger, who lied about the missal that was being used, and the lie was continued by Father Rostand when he confirmed it. Now, they've put Father Themann as the parish priest there, and I cannot subject myself to the continual dangerous arguments he poses to defend the Society. There is absolutely no way I am going to Mass there anymore. There is an indult mass here, and I will not go to that either, because Father Bolduc advised us not to. The place where the indult is said is also a place where the Novus Ordo is said, and it is right on the very grounds of the Bishop's residence. The only reason that church was put there in the first place was to drag people away from Saint Michael's which WAS the second oldest independent Traditional Catholic church in the country. The only older one is Saint Athanasius.
I feel like I'm going into an enemy warcamp when I go into that Church. So much is different, and my husband doesn't "want to make a scene" by walking out on the sermon, et cetera. I cannot go there. To go there would endanger my soul, and the souls of my children. I absolutely refuse to compromise.
Father Bolduc was going to GIVE the Church over to Father Pfeiffer, but he refused it, because he had too many other places to be, et cetera, at the time. So, now, the SSPX has taken it over. I am sad that he didn't say yes, but I understand that Father Bolduc wanted him to promise something he couldn't-- to make sure there was Mass here every Sunday, as he had promised Henry Beemster when it was entrusted to him.
The people here can't wrap their minds around having mass once or twice a month I suppose, being that we were spoiled all those years when Father was alive. Now, the neo- SSPX has it, and they really don't care to hear the arguments as to why things are wrong with it. I've been met with so much hostility from certain of the board members, and I will not compromise my principles. It is -entirely painful- not being able to go to that place which I've been going since I was 16 years old, but I know how serious this is, and Father warned us about times getting worse. He said it would be better for families to just come and pray together at the Church on Sundays rather than have the SSPX take over, but the board members he chose were easily manipulated by the likes of Fr. Duverger and Fr. Rostand, and now Fr. Themann, that I feel like all of them (save one) have gotten lobotomies the way they're thinking. It's like all those years they didn't listen to one thing Father said.
Yes, I take what you're saying gravely. Every single point I've gone through in my head, and it all comes down to this: "Obedience to God first," and that is always as it will be.