Ugh. It's sad how misinformed people are.
Pablo. Father did not die alone. He died while HELPING OUT ANOTHER PRIEST IN ANOTHER TOWN. We were with him in our PRAYERS. WE were his family, he said himself. We all love him, and we all grieve for him. He was a GREAT LOSS to us. There are FEW level headed priests out there, and maybe NONE, if any, with much of the knowledge and the WISDOM he was given.
The day before he died, after he had Mass at Saint Michaels, he was driven to another chapel where the priest there is ill. He was driven there. Someone from that Church came to DePere to pick him up. He had Holy Mass for them, perhaps made some sick calls, if he needed to (he probably wrote in his journal, as to what he did that day, as he wrote in it EVERY DAY OF HIS LIFE since he was very young.) Then he went to sleep, and never woke up. I'm sure no one knew the hour. He seemed fine on Sunday. Despite being very beloved, he was still a very private man. He would have wanted to die by himself, and not surrounded by a bunch of us. During the week, when he was in town, he was visited FREQUENTLY. So for you to say he died "alone" is not only NOT true, but patently absurd, and unbelievably insensitive.
I don't think you realize what Saint Michael's has been through in all the years we've been around. Perhaps before you open your yap, you should ask.
There was one time at least where "da bishop" tried to send his henchmen in here to take control of Saint Michaels, through a priest who ended up being their "indult choice" when they figured out they couldn't bamboozle Mr. Beemster.
This priest, Father Edward Bujarski, went to Mr. Beemster, after being told by "da bishop" "No, you can't have the Latin Mass," and tried to get him to transfer the title of Saint Michael's to him. THANK GOD HE SAID NO, because Saint Michael's would have been DEMOLISHED and in the hands of the "diocese of Green Bay." Meanwhile, this seemingly "traditional priest" was leaving out words in the consecration, and substituting them with the canon of the NOVUS ORDO. When he was found out, a subpoena was sent to "da bishop" and within 24 hours, Fr. B was outta there.
"Da bishop" had another idea. He was going to make another Latin Mass over on the Diocese Grounds, an "indult," to suck people away from Saint Michaels. His plan didn't work out exactly as he wanted. Sure he succeeded in taking some away, but not people that knew better.
You believe that handing over Saint Michaels, which literally BELONGS TO GOD, and not whatever fabricated "board of directors" you are making up in your head, to a priest, will make things all better. The way the trust is written, is that the Church can NEVER be handed over to anyone. Not to a single person, not to the institutional Church, not to anyone. It is God's. That place is for the MASS AND SACRAMENTS until the end of time. It does not belong to a board. It is not even "owned" by a "trust!" It is GOD's. And in God's hands, Saint Michael's is SAFE FOREVER.