Almost every Sunday, it seems there is some new modernization of the SSPX unfurled, and today was no different:
I had occasion to attend the St. Robert Bellarmine Chapel in St. Cloud, MN (i.e., about 1 hour 15 minutes north of Minneapolis), and noticed they had forgotten to put out the new bulletins.
Or had they?
Before the sermon, the priest stated he wanted to make a few announcements, and he mentioned the bulletins were deliberately withheld.
You see, the SSPX now has (yet another) trendy new website, where going forward all parish announcements will be found!
Moreover, he announced this website will soon contain all the bulletins of the US District, and eventually of all chapels worldwide.
Instead of bulletins in the vestibule, parishioners were treated to the attached docuмent (see below), wherein they are directed to the FSSPX.today website.
It could hardly be more appropriately or symbolically titled!
Now if you old-timers without computers or smartphones still want your hardcopy bulletins, fear not: The priest announced the chapel would be happy to print you one...for a fee!
Meanwhile, if you Google FSSPX.today (i.e., rather than going directly to the website itself), you can still see the Dutch branding language in the results surrounding the link.
Apparently, Menzingen is seeking global domination and worldwide hegemony in terms of "the SSPX message."
No more unauthorized +ABL quotes popping into local bulletins! If anyone should try, the webmasters at FSSPX.today will simply be able to edit the offensive content out.
No more risk of letters to the faithful of priests leaving the SSPX for Tradition.
Just company approved messages (all copyrighted, of course).
Yet somehow I suspect that after a few weeks of the chapel not getting cleaned (after all, cleaning assignments to the families are contained within the bulletin, and without a hardcopy bulletin, "out of sight, out of mind"), they will be forced to make both hard and electronic bulletins available.
But as things stand (at least with regard to the St. Cloud chapel), if you don't have internet, you don't get announcements.
But wait: Weren't we supposed to stay off the internet? Or, weren't all the SSPX internet sites "not for our own people, but for others?"
Apparently not!
See attachment below, and then go to fsspx.today