Author Topic: SSPX chapel in the dark (Read 4914 times)

Jovita · « **Reply #20 on:** January 15, 2018, 05:11:37 PM »

Quote from: Ekim on January 15, 2018, 10:25:18 AM

I stumbled onto the SSPX in 1988 when I saw ABC World News Tonight report on the “First Excommunication in Generations” and the “Rebell Archbishop”. It peaked my 17 year old interest so I started writing letters to H. E. Bishop Williamson. I was dumbfounded when he actually wrote back to this 17 year old kid...and continued to write back and answer questions for years.

I want to tell how rare this is, that a priest, let alone a bishop, would respond to a member of the laity. In all my years of writing, calling, emailing, I had one young priest answer my email. He was genuinely concerned. I eventually got to know and befriend his dear mother. His sister is still contemplating a vocation as a nun. He is sadly, attached to the diocese, NO, but he definitely has the spirit of St. John Vianney. I have been writing and calling since 1977.
I did receive a letter, too many years too late, from Archbishop Lefebvre himself, it must have gotten lost in the mail.
http://www.sspxasia.com/Docuмents/Archbishop-Lefebvre/OpenLetterToConfusedCatholics/
I share it with all my 'Christian' friends, all of them 'former' Catholics...the letter never got to them in time, either.

Ekim · « **Reply #21 on:** January 15, 2018, 08:15:22 PM »

Wallflower, the workings of grace, the goodness of God is truly amazing. The only reason I reacted to this news report was because I was predisposed to all the Archbishop had to say.

To make a long story short, my mother was mentally handicapped. She had moments of complete lucidity combined with even longer instances of schizophrenia. This illness put her in a mental time warp. When the modern changes took place in our parish she would just say “Thats nonsense, everyone knows you don’t touch the host. Don’t you touch the host son”. When they ripped out the Communion rail she said “That’s God. You always kneel down in the presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament “. Her simple faith that she learned as a small girl from the old Germany teaching nuns stuck in her mind forever. No matter how many priests rolled their eyes at her, no matter how many sermons they gave about disrupting the Communion line by kneeling, she was truly oblivious to their reactions to her actions.

Her simple explanations to me as a small boy just made common sense. Even with her mental illness it was just impossible to find any error in her childlike responses. I saw her numerous times leave young NO priests just dumbfounded with her childlike responses when they tried to convince her that Communion in the hand was okay as well as receiving Holy Communion standing.

So when I saw this “Rebel Archbishop” on TV standing up for everything my mother did and then received personal guidance from the very Bishop he consecrated, it is easy to see how I was predisposed to this news report.

stgobnait · « **Reply #22 on:** January 16, 2018, 02:52:16 AM »

Your story Ekim, is a mixture of sadness and hope, in some ways your dear Mother's illness can be seen as a blessing in disguise, as it protected her and you from the modernist madness that was sweeping everyone else along...

MyrnaM · « **Reply #23 on:** January 16, 2018, 10:38:08 AM »

One can easily extend this ignorance to the entire world. I don't know the percentages and will not pretend to know but do people really understand that our government the shadow government, deep-state are worshipping Satan and most people are unaware or only think of it as "art". Satanic symbols everywhere, the poor youth of today.

I only hope there are more good people that are concerned than evildoers.

Meg · « **Reply #24 on:** January 16, 2018, 10:53:02 AM »

Quote from: Ekim on January 15, 2018, 08:15:22 PM

Wallflower, the workings of grace, the goodness of God is truly amazing. The only reason I reacted to this news report was because I was predisposed to all the Archbishop had to say.

To make a long story short, my mother was mentally handicapped. She had moments of complete lucidity combined with even longer instances of schizophrenia. This illness put her in a mental time warp. When the modern changes took place in our parish she would just say “Thats nonsense, everyone knows you don’t touch the host. Don’t you touch the host son”. When they ripped out the Communion rail she said “That’s God. You always kneel down in the presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament “. Her simple faith that she learned as a small girl from the old Germany teaching nuns stuck in her mind forever. No matter how many priests rolled their eyes at her, no matter how many sermons they gave about disrupting the Communion line by kneeling, she was truly oblivious to their reactions to her actions.

Her simple explanations to me as a small boy just made common sense. Even with her mental illness it was just impossible to find any error in her childlike responses. I saw her numerous times leave young NO priests just dumbfounded with her childlike responses when they tried to convince her that Communion in the hand was okay as well as receiving Holy Communion standing.

So when I saw this “Rebel Archbishop” on TV standing up for everything my mother did and then received personal guidance from the very Bishop he consecrated, it is easy to see how I was predisposed to this news report.

That's an excellent account of your mother's simple faith and seeing what is right and what is wrong, even though she suffered from mental illness. A child-like simplicity is what we should all strive for (as per Our Lord's recommendation), but it can be difficult to achieve.

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