Sermon Minor Ordinations 2023
March 4, Avrillé, France
In the name of the Father, of the Son, and the Holy Ghost,
Your Excellency, Priests, seminarians, brothers and sisters,..
Dear Brethren, and to all who have offered his own life for Christ the King’s sake, for His Kingdom on earth as it is in heaven.
Oportet Illum Regnare! Says Saint Paul (1Cor. 15,25) He must reign, until He has put all enemies under his feet. And Saint John says, “My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, my servants would certainly strive that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but Kingdom is not from hence.” (John 18, 36) Truly, Our Lord’s Kingdom is transcendent beyond this world. Since His Nativity when He still was in the manger at Bethlehem, the three Wisemen looked after him asking where is he who is born the King of the Jews? (Mt 2,2) And before His sublime sacrifice, Pontius Pilate asked Him: Are you then a King? Jesus answered, You say that I am a King. For this I was born, and for this I came into the world, that I should give testimony to the truth; everyone that is of the truth, hear my voice (John 18,37) As it was then Pilate’s answered, today nations and people are still questioning: What is truth? (18,38) Our Lord has already responded: “This is life everlasting, that all whom they may Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent…..; He continues - While I was with them, I kept them in thy name…; He concludes - I do not ask that Thou take them away out of the world but that Thou preserve them from evil…. Sanctify them in truth. Thy word is truth.” (John 17)
It is to you, my dear Militants of Christendom, whom I address these words under the patronage of Saint Joan of Arc’s words - Ours is the struggle, God’s is the Victory! As we know there is fight between GOOD and EVIL, between the children of the Woman and the children of satan. So, we should be aware of how to avoid evil. But, what is evil? It is the absence of good. Indeed, Catholic families belong to the Woman, to the Mother of God, the Blessed Virgin Mary. Your families are the salt of earth and the candle stick where the light of world, Our Lord Jesus Christ, shines from in the midst of the darkness and confusion. In your families there should be men wanting to install the law of the Gospel at home; and women convenience in rooting the evangelical counsels of poverty, chastity and obedience by practicing the virtue of religion. YES! Your families are nests of Christendom. From where will vocations come to the religious life? From where would boys and girls like to be the children of God who believe in creation and not in evolution.? From where will young men and women want to believe that there is no salvation outside of the Catholic Church? From where Militant Catholics will want to believe that Our Lord Jesus Christ is the only Savior of the world working out the Mystery of eternal Redemption? Certainly from these families who proclaim Our Lord Jesus Christ as a King and Master of Christendom; but we should ask Him to preserve us from Evil. That’s why, my dear parents, do not let evil come into your home. Therefore, in this perspective let me put three points to your considerations.:1) Our fight against practical Modernism; 2) Let’s be aware of today’s Cultural Revolution; 3) Let’s restore the Social and Royal Kinship of Christ.
1) Practical Modernism:
Needless to say that Modernism is not a theory that we should have to learn in abstract; otherwise it is a subtle teaching, real and concrete, so that it reflects the way we think and believe because compromises the principles of our Catholic Church in Faith and morality. It is a dialectic mental structure pursuing to divide people’s mind that makes us free to an independent attitude of oneself towards the duties of our state of life. Truly, as one of the milestone of Vatican II Council, Religious Liberty teaching is a principle in action which divides individuals and families or countries.
In this sense, the Modernist churchmen still are in control of the levers of powers in Rome since 1960’s; the actual regnant Pope today is a crystal clear application of this Modernist teaching, not only for his protestant and liberal inclination but also for his romantic pagan and humanistic dysfunction. Sister Lucy of Fatima was given special light from heaven to warn the world in the 1950’s of a terrible crisis that would almost overwhelm the Church in the 1960’s. In fact, this was the Second Vatican Council, the Modernist Triumph; certainly a “Diabolical Disorientation” is a very good two-word description of how the Devil succeeded in confusing the minds of the leading churchmen that they completely changed the direction of the Catholic Church. Instead of teaching to souls how to get to the eternal salvation in heaven by Our Lord Jesus Christ, the “Church of Christ subsistent in the Catholic Church” would from now on, like Communism, seek to build Paradise on earth. The result was such a complete falsification of the Catholic Church that one needs a new name for it - the Newchurch.
The Modernists look after a reconciliation between God and the absence of God, like darkness is the absence of light, once a dialectic spectrum is evolved, then several different concepts are formulated from one extreme opposed to another having as many compromising opinions in between them, like it is a gray color in the spectrum between black-and-white. This is the scenario displayed concerning the celebration of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass by Pope Benedict XVI 2007 Motu Propio: an Extraordinary Latin Mass Rite (never abrogated) referred to the Ordinary Newmass Rite (never promulgated) as an expression made by the Hermeneutic of Continuity in the Catholic Faith. This has been a trap in order to speak the same terminology of the Modernist in Rome in which many bishops, and priests, and faithful are caught in the spectrum created by to the Newchurch. Actually, it has been the downfall of today’s Superiors of the SSPX among many others. Once accepted together with the lifting of the excommunications, it was smooth way to accept other concessions like the universal jurisdiction to hear confessions and the delegated faculties by the Local Newchurch bishops to celebrate Matrimonies, and so forth.. In fact, on March 3rd, 2012, the SSPX general Superior publicly announced his purpose to change the dealing policies between them and the Roman Authorities into a Practical Agreement an first instance, instead of a Doctrinal Agreement towards the teaching of the Tradition of the Catholic Church.
Another practical example has been the function of a spontaneous independent priest wanting to celebrate the Latin Mass throughout any venue like the Thuc-Line, or Menendez-Line, or Indult/Motu Propio line or SSPX or Resistance, and any other case it might be. From the Apostolic time the Catholic Church is known to be visible church and for that purpose to give a guarantee in the administration of valid sacraments in order to receive the sacramental grace instituted by Our Lord Jesus Christ. Since Vatican II Council there have been numerous independent priests surviving to say the Latin Mass; some of them were ordained in pre-vatican II time, others come from the sedevantis line, some others after 2007 motu propio, others from Novus Ordo into Tradition or those who left any Eclessia Dei Commission group, or SSPX, or Resistance, or you name them…
Dear Faithful, you are presently sharing the Operation Survival of Archbishop Lefebvre, in the sense that many of you are surviving to practice in your Catholic Faith. What priest you suppose to believe? Where to go to Mass and who to receive Sacraments from? Why there are many independent priests? And independent bishops? Does this chaos stem from any practical Modernist principle?
As Archbishop Lefebvre said in his sermon of 1988 Episcopal Consecrations, in order to ordain Catholic Priests, we need Catholic Bishops. And in his conferences afterwards, he mentioned that before the ceremony of June 30th, some bishops and cardinals contacted him asking him the possibility of doing the Episcopal Consecrations in private, keeping photos and records in secret, and after his death the new bishops could unveil the secrecy. The Archbishop responded to them, that the crisis within the Catholic Church is public in such a way that the remedy given must also be publicly, in particular for the sake of the faithful who must be confirmed and supported in the Catholic Faith. He added, “secret things come from devil, public things come from God.”
In regards to an independent priest he said, “Because of the difficult situation in the Church, I have received letters several times from people asking me to ordain them priests yet without asking to enter the Society. I always refuse. It was the case of a deacon who told me, “I have done all my studies, I have completed my formation. Why won’t you ordain me?” And he gave me letters of recommendation from various priests. I said no, that he had to be a member of a religious society. If he wanted to become a member of the Society or of a group which would normally be recognized by the Church, then yes, but otherwise it is not possible. It is absolutely contrary to canon law. And I do not want to act against canon law.” (Priestly Holiness, ABL, Towards the priesthood)
Let’s be aware of independent priests, or independent doctrine, or independent spirit. An independent chapel last until the the independent priest dies and afterwards there is a drama for the faithful to survive in Tradition. More than ever ever, families must learn the catechism of Trent, the catechism against Modernism, or any other catechism which teaches the perennial doctrine of the Nicene Creed, the Ten Commandments (including the Sixth and Ninth Commandments), the seven sacraments, the Our Father with all prayers, the Unbloody Sacrifice of Our Lord Jesus Christ at the altar under the species of bread and wine. Needless to say that this solid Doctrine founded Catholic Civilization. The Christendom in which all of us are still keeping alive.
And certainly is a reason why the Catholic Church uses the suppliant jurisdiction is on order to protect the Common Good of the Church on behalf of the souls and not for a private purpose as for an independent priest. (Canon 209, Capello Vol.1, p 252)
2) Cultural Revolution
There always is a temptation to fall into the spirit of a Protestant sect when practicing Catholic Faith, because we are living in emergent circuмstances provoked by Protestant Revolt and launched by the materialist progress of the Industrial Revolution. And to those who govern our societies and who refused to militate on the Kingship of Christ are still looking for modern solutions, new plans, new techniques to try to take care of the modern problems of humanity…. As Our Lady said in Fatima, Russia will spread its errors… Two essentials errors - Materialism and Atheism.
In one hand, Protestantism was a major change of direction of mankind, because is centered man’s religion on man himself away from God. It was the breakthrough of that subjectivism which has resulted in the universal refusal of objective reality and truth, which today afflicts almost all mankind. It was a mayor revolt against God, and it lies at the root of society today all over the world turning against God. Protestant Revolt works as a driving religious force in the political disorder, as Martin Luther did in Germany, Henry VIII in England, Calvin in France… and Vatican II within the Catholic Church . In this sense Pope Francis had called for a bolt Cultural Revolution that nobody can be against it, he said: “All of this shows the urgent need for us to move forward in a bold cultural revolution. Science and technology are not neutral; from the beginning to the end of a process, various intentions and possibilities are in play and can take on distinct shapes. Nobody is suggesting a return to the Stone Age, but we do need to slow down and look at reality in a different way, to appropriate the positive and sustainable progress which has been made, but also to recover the values and the great goals swept away by our unrestrained delusions of grandeur.” (Si Laudato, # 14 Pope Francis May 24, 2015)
On the other hand, the industrial revolution refers to that tremendous change in human life on this world when, starting with the invention of the print, it spread all over the world, separating men from God’s nature and herding them into big cities to work on machines in factories, man-made and cut off from nature, where they had always lived beforehand. This change from farming the land to working on machines was a huge step in the movement of modern man away from God, and into materialism, namely the worship of matter and things material instead of God.
How essential is the influence of the industrial revolution? It is an effective attitude without reflection for an independent freedom for the sake of novelties. It is to reconcile Christian civilization with modern un-civilization; natural life with artificial virtual life. Indeed, in the Old Testament we learn that Noah’s children rejected to work with natural stone so that they would produce man-made artificial brick to build the tower of Babel, and the end they were confused in their speech for reason of their pride against God. (Gen. 11, 3-4)
So, we are living in a social Godless environment. The American way of life, so to say, remarks in dressing much sensuality, and in musical songs much obscenity and blasphemy form violence to despair, and from romance to seduction. There is no place for virtue nor for honor and honesty. Young men and ladies are sinking into an artificial environment produced by screens and machines. Indeed, there is a cybernetic assault in today’s families separating all family members away from each other. Out of these electronic city of light that the fallen angel Luzbel is tending his snares of malice and vice. On this subject, I want to say that the smartphone in particular is a very dangerous device; certainly it is indifferent per se as an electronic tool. However, as soon as it is online connected into the Internet or any social network, it becomes an occasion of temptation perhaps a remote occasion of sin for some people, but certainly a proximate occasion for many others. I venture to say that to abuse playing on the smartphone it would be a tool to dissipate a religious vocation, and to brake the link of fidelity between husband and wife, and the respect from children to parents.
Why is it too powerful means of corruption? Because preaches Materialism, which is the denial that man has any spirit or free will or responsibility. As you might realize in full conscience, the situation that exists around our countries and within the Church brings chaos in all directions, but certainly almighty God still is in control, in spite that many people have abandoned the notion of eternal life.
So, be aware of the Cultural Revolution. Revolution who are you? Bishop Gaume says, “I am not what is thought. Many people speak of me, and very few know me…. And I a permanent state. “I am hatred of all order which man has not established and in which he is not king and god all together. I am the proclamation of the rights of man without care for the rights of God. I am the foundation of the religious and social State upon the will of man instead of the will of God. I am God dethroned and man in His place. This is why I am called Revolution, that is to say, revolt. (The Revolution, Historical researches, Bishop Gaumme)
3) Conclusion: Public Social and Royal Kingship
We are witnessing today how the civil power claims la sovereignty of the people with all human rights against anything that comes from God. If the Church of Jesus Christ and the society with all its institutions have lost the essential element of Christianity, then what can we do?
Nothing else but to return to God by the resurrection of the principles of the Faith, and by being the salt of earth and the light of the world; to return in our countries the public institutions to profess the rights of God, as well as to return in the individual person the grace instituted by Our Lord Jesus Christ and to cooperate with it. It is true that the Church must return to revere the sacred name of God by a truly Christian conversion.
So, Our Lord says, “You will be My witnesses even to the ends of the earth” (Act. 1,8). Indeed, My dear seminarians and friars, to be a cleric or a religious man is an invitation to be witnesses to the divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the midst and throughout the chaos we live in. Each one of us has placed oneself on the level of the faith, which is a supernatural level. On that same level that our Lord came to bring to us eternal salivation in taking the flesh like one of us by the mystery of the Incarnation. It is HE who we represent. It is HE that we preach both by word, and by example of live in the midst of today’s syncretism which is preparing the great chastisement.
We all have a vocation here on earth, and must be always subject to Our Lord, in everything we do, in all our acts and consequently in the acts of our profession too, and duties of state as Our Lady said in Fatima.There are still people who believe, people who still have faith. They might awake by the example of practicing your Faith and your Catholic convictions. So, let us take our daily responsibilities in a Christian way, and not in the American way of life.
It is necessary that we continue the crusade launched by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, based precisely upon these notions of the atonement of sacrifice, in order to reestablish the same Christendom such as the Catholic Church desires, with the same principles of eternal salvation, with the Sacrifice of the Mass of Redemption, with the same sacraments instituted by Christ Himself, the catechism the same doctrine and same Holy Scripture, saying that at the beginning God created and and woman. We must restore all things in Christ- That is Christendom! It is to you that our Lord Jesus Christ addressed Himself saying: ‘Do not lose the fruit of My Blood, do not abandon My Sacrifice.”
It is His Cross the ferment of Christian civilization and for all that is necessary for salvation. The Catholic city of this world is made for nothing else than for the Catholic City in heaven. As in the past, the Papacy of Saint Leo the Great opposed the politics of Attila; the episcopal power of Saint Remy opposed the paganism by conventing Clovis, King of the Franks; as Saint Joan of Arc, that young girl of seventeen years old, drove away the British political affairs out of France so that France would remain Catholic.
Let’s entrust in Our Lady our life to her who is powerful as an army arrayed for a battle to overcome all heresies, including the pest of Modernism. Saint Anthony Mary Claret said concerning the Immaculate Heart of Mary’s triumph: God wants it, she deserves it, and we need it!
So, This is the faith of my episcopacy which I transmit to you - He must reign!
Bp. Zendejas
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