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Death of Mgr Williamson

Divine Providence remembered its good and faithful servant, His Grace Mgr Richard Williamson, yesterday Wednesday January 29 at 11 pm. We will let you know when we receive the information about the ceremonies and tributes that will be paid to him. Tonight at 6:15pm a mass will be celebrated in Paris, please contact Father Marcel de la Croix 07 87 23 32 40.


HE was not just a successor to Archbishop Lefebvre, but a continuator. Less great in appearance, but no less necessary. All the more necessary because, like him, he was alone for a long time before Archbishop Viganò also came forward heroically. The only bishop to publicly refuse to rally to modern Rome. The only bishop to maintain and restore not only faith, but also hope, every week with his simple words.

In the face of those who seek the solution to the crisis in the Church in an agreement with apostate popes and complicit bishops, he placed himself much higher, in fidelity to the Holy Spirit. He dared to assert that the Holy Spirit was working in the midst of the modernists, because it is His Church and they are not the Church. For this, he was widely misunderstood and criticized by those who saw him as endorsing the new rite of mass and modernism. On the one hand, the “ralliers” submit to the modernist hierarchy so as not to leave the Church; on the other, the “sedevacantists” leave the Church - whatever they may say - so as not to submit to its modernist hierarchy. But Monsignor Williamson was above them all, seeing the Holy Spirit at work, trusting him and urging us to put our trust in him and not in a human organization. He had to insist and insist again, such is the human tendency to cling to visible institutions, organizations, structures, leaders and so on. But he was right, and we can never thank God enough for giving us the grace to understand him. That's why he was a continuator of Archbishop Lefebvre and not a mere successor.

In fact, we can see that the Church is not dead under the modernist umbrella. Bishop Viganò is proof of this, and other bishops, encouraged by him and, above all, faithful to the Holy Spirit, will rise up. We are seeing priests shaking off the cloak. The faithful going their Christian way in faith, without worrying about what or what not, opening their eyes and, by letting themselves be guided by the truth, finding God who speaks to men, who guides them, who sustains them.

The secret? The rosary. Not just the rosary, but the fifteen mysteries. It's the God-given means for our confused times, and it's the means that led Bishop Williamson to the heights above the backwash of modernism.

Thank you, Monsignor!


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Ok, so a couple of things come to mind right off the top,

It is actually MORE necessary than ever for him to "attack sedevacantists". +Williamson was THE bastion of the Resistance, which was built on the foundation of being against all the things he mentions; Modernist Rome, SSPX Modernizing, and sedevacantism.

OK, but he could have waited until His Excellency was buried, etc.  There's no need RIGHT AWAY, in a tribute offered within hours of His Excellency's passing, to go on the ideological / theological warpath.  There will be plenty of time for that later.  Even the "Trad Inc." and Conciliar types kept away from the polemics in their tributes to Bishop Williamson.