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Re: Why Fr. Zendejas is a good choice for Bishop
« Reply #15 on: March 27, 2017, 01:39:12 PM »
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  • I really wish people would spend more time praying for the Restoration instead of attacking every other traditional Catholic group besides their own...  

    I am reminded of the four marks of the Church: It is one, holy, catholic (or universal), and apostolic.  Those should be classified as Catholic who believe in One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism; whose primary focus in life is to grow in holiness and become saints; who believe what has been universally taught by the Church, and who practice the faith and Sacraments passed down by the apostles.  I have witnessed or been a part of almost every major traditional group out there at one point or another, and there is not just one of these groups which has the marks of the True Church.

    Indeed!
    The problem is that people let their emotions rule, and their equally human tendency towards "tribalism" or "team spirit". No matter how likely/unlikely you're going to convert someone to your "team" on a given day, humans tend to promote their brand, their team both in and out of season.

    But they fail to distinguish the ESSENTIAL from the OPTIONAL. They fail to distinguish issues of certainty (i.e., we must save our souls; the Novus Ordo Mass is dangerous and noxious to the Faith itself) with issues open for debate, or optional (i.e., the status of the recent Popes).

    To prove it, some people don't understand the difference between Ecuмenism, and Trad-ecuмenism. People actually call me Trad-ecuмenist as a derogatory term! As if there's only "One True Trad Group" the way there is "One True Church"!

    Ecuмenism is only a bad thing when you place the True Church on par with all the false religions. However, it is not just good but REQUIRED to remember that "your group" isn't the only Catholic Trad group.

    Objectively, yes, God might have a favorite Trad group. But He hasn't revealed it to anyone yet, at least not publicly and decisively.

    So, in conclusion: show me a man who grumbles and calls Matthew of CathInfo "a blasted trad-cuмenist" and I'll show you a man who is sectarian, and borderline schismatic (like the Dimond Brothers).
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    Re: Why Fr. Zendejas is a good choice for Bishop
    « Reply #16 on: March 27, 2017, 07:50:14 PM »
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  • Biography of Bishop-Elect Gerardo Zendejas



    Bishop-elect Gerardo Zendejas was born in Mexico in 1963.
    He studied at the Society of Saint Pius X Seminary Nuestra Señora Corredentora, of La Reja, in Argentina.
    He was ordained a sub-deacon in 1986 by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre and a deacon in 1987 by Bishop de Castro Mayer. He was ordained a priest by Bishop Alfonso de Galareta on the 10th of December 1988.
    He spent the first eight years of his priesthood in Colombia. In 1989, he became the prior of Bogota, and in 1992, he opened a school in a poor area which numbered up to 320 students under his direction.
    In 1996, he was appointed collaborator of Father Jean Espi at the San Atanasio priory in Guadalajara and in 1997, collaborator of Father Rafael Navas at the retreat house in Zapotiltic, Mexico.
    He left for the United States in 1998 where he was appointed to the SSPX retreat house in Ridgefield (Connecticut).
    In 2000, he became the prior of Ridgefield where he exercised his ministry for the next nine years. During this time, he opened a school under the patronage of Padre Pio (2006). He also encouraged the pilgrimage to Auriesville, New York, in honor of the North American martyrs, which gathered up to 1,300 pilgrims.
    In 2009, he was named prior of Queen of Angels Church in Dickinson, Texas, and took over the school’s direction.
    He joined Bishop Williamson in 2014 after having been on a thirty day Ignatian retreat in France.
    He is experienced in the founding and directing of schools and the preaching of Ignatian retreats.
    He recently bought a house near Ridgefield, New York, to preach retreats in. Bishop Thomas Aquinas preached the first retreat there from the 7th to the 12th of November 2016.
    He exercises his ministry mainly in the states of Texas, Kansas (St. Mary’s), Connecticut and New York.
    Bishop-elect Zendejas spent two weeks in Europe in 2017 and participated in the ceremony of the taking of the cassock of Bishop Faure’s seminarians, in Avrillé, on the 11th of February. He is an active member of the Society of the Apostles of Jesus and Mary founded by Bishop Faure.
    He speaks Spanish and English and understands French.
    Bishop-elect Zendejas will be consecrated a bishop in St Athanasius Church of Father Ronald Ringrose in Vienna, Virginia, in the United States on the feast of the Holy Apostles Philip and James, on the 11th of May.
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