$50 Million...Trying to grasp what that sort of money could have been spent on instead. Perhaps improving and expanding numerous chapels (mission and otherwise). Our mission chapel attendance has tripled in the past few years meaning some Masses are extremely overcrowded, and the parish hall is unable to seat more than 50-60 people. Many young families are in desperate need of a high quality home school program and some are moving away to locations with SSPX schools (a blessing for those able to move, but a huge loss of good people locally).
Yes, that's how it was at St. Joseph's in San Antonio.
1. It was a mission chapel, not a Priory.
2. A lot of military in this area, but specifically *training bases* which is by its very nature temporary. So those families wouldn't be here long.
3. No school, so every family had to either A) homeschool, B) move to another SSPX chapel with a school, or C) send their kids to public school.
All the good families we became friends with chose B). There was one family that was homeschooled, but they were extremely liberal and ended up at a Motu Mass. They left after a few parishioners raised issues about their daughter wearing scandalously short skirts. Who knows where they go now. They have some real issues in that family, which stems from the husband being a real beta male, and his wife being way too dominant and choleric. I looked them up on Facebook recently. Let's just say their whole family need lots of prayers. The husband is a long-time SSPX-er too, going back several decades. The wife is a convert.
I was surprised, scandalized really, at the number of families who chose C). And this wasn't in the 90's.
In my personal opinion it's a mortal sin to send your kids to public school in current year. You want them to be woke, transgender, degenerate, morally corrupted, get perverted sex ed, receive countless anti-Faith, anti-family, and anti-natalist propaganda, have peers show them porn on their phones, if they're not bullying them at the time? You think that's morally licit?
Our Lord says, in St. Matthew 18:6:
"But he that shall scandalize one of these little ones that believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone should be hanged about his neck, and that he should be drowned in the depth of the sea."
Seriously, if my wife couldn't homeschool, and there was no SSPX school or private school option, I would just keep the kids home and "do my best". Better to live life with a 6th grade education and work a trade/minimum wage/manual labor, and end up going into heaven, than to be cast into hell with a PhD and a million dollars in the bank. Seriously, it isn't rocket science. Our Lord was very clear about this kind of choice too!
There are worse fates than having a poor or inadequate secular education -- such as, I don't know,
going to Hell.
Ask Jonathon Van Maren at LifeSiteNews. The average age kids are exposed to porn -- usually at school and via a smartphone -- is like age 9. It's insane. And refer to Our Lady about what kinds of sins claim the largest number of victims, casting the most souls into hell. It's sins of the flesh.
And this isn't your father's or grandfather's porn either. I will refrain from going into details, but I will say it's most degenerate, perverted, and twisted stuff. It has gone FAR BEYOND "girlie magazines" or "nudes" that were kept hidden in a box under the bed.
It would appear that if you can get "sins of the flesh" under control, your chance of salvation goes up DRASTICALLY. All the other sins are easily overcome by comparison. I remember one story about a man who was prepared to part with all his sins -- except his mistress. The priest at his deathbed was BEGGING him to be reasonable, and give her up. He refused; he died embracing his mistress, in a state of mortal sin. If it weren't for that irregular marriage (adultery), he might very well have saved his soul. That book ("The Sinner's Return to God"; the chapter on impurity) made an impression on me. That, and Our Lady's words at Fatima.
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