After the 10 A.M. High Mass  this morning offered by Fr. Wegner, the District Superior, the Sacred Heart Novitiate in Browerville, Minnesota the faithful (about 300 plus) began their annual Corpus Christi procession through the streets of Browerville.  A member of the Todd County Sheriff's Department assisted in uniform by blocking off streets including State Highway 71 with his vehicle's lights flashing.  No other priests besides Fr. Wegner appeared to be present in the procession (or so I am informed).

When the procession arrived in front of the local Novus Ordo Catholic Church, Christ the King, it filed up the steps and into the Church where many candles were ablaze on the Novus Ordo table in the center of the sanctuary.  The bells of the church were ringing loudly and continuously as the procession approached the church and filed in.

After some prayers in the church, the faithful filed out in procession and continued on until they made their way back to the Novitiate where there was an altar of repose set up in front of a house in front of the Novitiate.  More prayers were said there and after that the procession continued into the Novitiate's chapel for the concluding prayers.  Only a part of the faithful could fit into the chapel.  After the prayers concluded in the chapel there was socializing in the street in front of the chapel followed by a picnic at the priory just around the corner from the Novitiate.

As far as I know this was the first time that the annual SSPX Corpus Christi procession had ever entered into Christ the King Church, although that church would regularlyl be ringing its bells out of respect for the passing of the Blessed Sacrament in years past.

After the procession Fr. Wegner and the pastor of Christ the King Church could be seen speaking amiably in front of the Novitiate.

I have looked up and included a photo of Christ the King Church below with a description of same taken from this site:
http://highwayhighlights.com/2017/04/top-25-most-beautiful-churches-in-minnesota/

13.  Christ the King Catholic Church, Browerville – Although Browerville technically is not in Stearns County, it certainly falls within the heavy concentration of Catholic churches built by the Polish immigrants who settled in the area in the late 1800’s.  It stands tall and impressive on Browerville’s main drag through town, displaying the Baroque Revival style of architecture with its copper onion domes and ornate steeple.
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Here is a photo of the interior of Christ the King Church found on the Internet:


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Finally, here's a historic photo I found of the Church.  It was actually taller then, but at some point in time the steeple had got blown over in a tornado and when it was rebuilt, it was not as tall due to concerns about a possible reoccurence.



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I don't think I am at liberty to make any further comments or speculate on any of the above.  I am informed that everything above is quite accurate, however.  I hope anyone else with further credible and substantive info might consider posting.  Thanks.

Some pics of and text about the Novitiate found here: http://archives.sspx.org/chapel_news/2012/sspx_sisters_10-2012/sspx_sisters_10-2012.htm

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SSPX Sisters: helpers  of the priesthood BROWERVILLE, MN  10-5-2012 The SSPX's Sisters' Sacred Heart Novitiate in Browerville, Minnesota provided us with some beautiful images of their religious life. We present them along with a text from the District Superior of France, Fr. Regis de Cacqueray, about the vocation of the SSPX's sisters: helpers of the priesthood (Letter on Vocations, #20) which was published on the website, La Porte Latine, on April 20, 2012. It is first and foremost out of gratitude and admiration for the religious vocation of the Sisters of the Society St. Pius X that I want to consecrate to them this editorial of the latest “Letter of the Crusade for Vocations”. I have the intimate conviction that their hidden life, their prayers, their sacrifices as well as their entire apostolate does a great deal of good for the priests and for priestly vocations. Their presence in the Society’s priories (for those who have the grace to have a community of sisters), is a great blessing for the life of these houses. We must pray that all our priories will one day be favored with their religious presence. The purpose of this present article is to make their beautiful vocation better known because I consider it as being still too unknown. It will not be irrelevant for us to begin by recalling the fact that both the priests and the sisters of the Society St. Pius X have the same founder. Archbishop Lefebvre turned toward one of his own blood sisters, Mother Mary Gabriel, a religious in the same Congregation as his, to help him found the society of sisters, and so she became its co-foundress. It suffices to mention but their origin in order to show the depth of the family ties which exist between the priests and the sisters of the Society of St. Pius X. To better understand the reasons which motivated the Archbishop to found the Society of Sisters after having erected the Priestly Society, we must remember that from the beginning the Archbishop desired that the priests themselves live in small communities. It is a fact that the Society St. Pius X has indeed carried out his plan. By promoting this way of life, the Archbishop was responding to an important solicitude of the Church: that priests termed as ‘seculars’ rediscover the community life, which had been practiced by them during the more fervent centuries of the Church. Especially nowadays, when the world has again become so hostile to the Catholic priesthood, the common life allows priests to mutually help and support one another. Henceforward, foundations of sisters, next to the priories where our priests live a common life, fails not to present itself as a most advantageous solution. The priests assure daily Mass for the sisters. The sisters are able to lead their own community life, sustaining the priests by their prayers, helping them in their apostolate and relieving them of domestic tasks, in order that they may more freely consecrate themselves to their ministry. Indeed, does not this manner of life recall to mind the ancient monastic tradition of establishing convents of nuns near those of the monks? However, we need to open the Gospels in order to understand what the vocation of the Sisters of the Society St. Pius X really is. In the Gospels we find a discreet but efficacious presence around our Lord Jesus Christ of the holy women, and especially of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Certainly, they did not follow Him on all His apostolic journeys, but they always accompanied Him with their prayers. We can, without doubt, imagine that they offered many little services to our Lord and His Apostles which are not mentioned in the Gospels. The life of the sisters of the Society St. Pius X is very similar to the example given us by the holy women in the Gospels. Truly, their vocation makes them ‘helpers of the priesthood’. Archbishop Lefebvre did not hesitate to use this very beautiful expression to describe the sisters own apostolic end. ‘The sisters will be helpers of the priesthood in the the various apostolic works confided to our priests. If we stop to reflect for a moment on these words of the Archbishop, we can easily perceive all the greatness of this feminine vocation which resembles so much the life of the Blessed Virgin Mary, she who was the perfect ‘helper’ of her Son in the work of the Redemption. Consequently, their vocation as helpers of the priesthood is essentially realized by their daily assistance at the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, following the example of the Blessed Virgin Mary, whose whole life was turned toward the sublime Oblation at the foot of the Cross, united to her divine Son. Being under the protection of Our Lady of Compassion, their holy patroness, the sisters’ primary devotion consists in their participation in the Sacrifice of the Cross, renewed on our altars. click images to enlarge  A sister before  her Divine Spouse    Sacred Heart Novitiate    Teaching at St. John Vianney Academy in Long Prairie, MN    Sorting tomatoes    The novitiate community in 2012    Sacred Heart Novitiate chapel   Here we find the very heart of there daily existence. Their life consists in nothing other than going from Mass to Mass. Like the tireless waves of the ocean, they go up to the communion rail every morning, and return slowly, only after having received the Eucharistic food into their hearts. From this they receive all the strength they need, all their joy, consecrating to our Lord all the love that their souls are capable of giving to Him. Even if the sisters are a precious help for the domestic life of the Society’s houses, and even if they devote themselves to numerous apostolic works, it is nonetheless, only by their spirituality, permeated with the spirit of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, that they merit their name of ‘helpers of the priesthood’. Their life is a continual self-oblation in union with the divine Victim of the altar. In likeness of our Lord, Who offers Himself as a h0Ɩ0cαųst to His Father, they immolate themselves day after day, out of love, through the different circuмstances and difficulties of daily life. This is the reason why their entire life, interwoven as it is with its pious exercises and different activities to help and sustain the priesthood, is motivated ever more intensely by the spirit of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. The sisters of the Society never leave the chapel the same as when they entered it. Urged therein by a hunger for the Holy Eucharist, they go forth satisfied by the heavenly nourishment given them. Then throughout the entire day they remain in an attitude of profound gratitude, thankful for this proof of love received from the Spouse of their souls, their only desire being to return love for love by means of their various daily duties which are dedicated to the priesthood. And so they are able to truly understand these words of our founder which are so humble yet so profound: ‘When I am asked what is the spirit of the Society, I answer that it is not a special spirituality, it is the spirituality of the Church, it is the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.’ And in reality, what more beautiful spirituality can one look for than that of the Mass, which is the unbloody renewal of the Sacrifice of Calvary, the perfect masterpiece of Christian life?    St. Maria Goretti Camp      Trinity Sunday 2012 at Browerville Herein we find the key to understand their way of life and, once understood, we would just like to remain ‘there’ because all has been said. Their whole life is unified by daily Mass. The Constitutions, which intermingle pious exercises with the other works they do, helps to promote an ever closer union of the soul with God. Whether they give catechism classes to children, or prepare meals, or make liturgical vestments or practice Gregorian chant for the next High Mass, they learn how to do everything for the love of our Lord thus rendering the priests’ apostolate fruitful and helping to save souls. It is not difficult to see; or rather to hear, that their way of life brings them the Fruit of the Holy Ghost called Christian joy, so true it is that their recreations are marked by bursts of laughter, leaving nothing to envy of the legendary cheerfulness of the sons and daughters of St. Francis! Let us not be mistaken! This habitual good humor is the result of many daily self renouncements, where one learns how to forget self and personal difficulties so as to be able to always communicate to others the charity which consists in rendering community life agreeable for all, never being a burden to others. In asking you, dear crusaders, to pray with fervor so that God send many vocations to our sisters, you realize that, in reality, it is for the benefit of the Catholic priesthood that you are laboring. Photos courtesy of Sacred Heart Novitiate, Browerville, MN. To contact the novitiate for vocational info: Sacred Heart Novitiate  Sister Superior  540 W. 8th Street  Browerville, MN 56438  320-594-2944 tel

Maybe the local N.O. Parish (Christ the King) will be looking for another resource to own the parish property after the May 31st release of the Bad Fruit of Vatican II conciliar NewChurch:

St. Paul-Minneapolis archdiocese reaches $210 million settlement with sex abuse survivors

http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/crime-and-courts/4453996-st-paul-minneapolis-archdiocese-reaches-210-million-settlement-sex

A beautiful painted church that may have to be sold due to the sex abuse settlement.

Will the N.O. faithful wake up!!!!

Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us.  Stay tuned, Our Lord is cleaning up the mess!

LKCTexas

I don't think anyone is immune to these types of scandals. 

The Topic descriptor should be shocking, not "stunning".

Here's a clearer view of the "abomination of desolation", standing in the sanctuary.

Stunning as in stun gun Icred!.  Every got hit by a stun gun?  It's pretty shocking!  :)

Thanks for the better pic and excellent commentary!

Back when the SSPX WAS the SSPX we always stopped at the local NO parish.  We knelt on the front side walk (or inside when we could) and prayed the Rosary.  The priest made it VERY clear that we were there to offer reparations to Our Lord for the many blasphamies and sacrilege’s committed against the Blessed Sacrament in that church.

My bet is this was NOT the case for Fr Wegner

You can’t offer reparation for it when you cuddle up with those who spearhead the sacrilege.