Used AI to translate and voice over. But it sounds natural enough. Feedback welcome.
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AI transcribed and translated text:

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, amen. We know the Gospel well. Joseph and Mary, mother of Jesus, marvel at what was said about him. And we have Simeon, this old man, who blessed them and said to Mary, his mother, behold, this is finally here for the fall and the rising of many in Israel as a sign of contradiction. And you yourself, a sword shall pierce your soul. Thus the thoughts of many hearts will be revealed. And I am going to insist on this: a sign of contradiction. That is to say, there will be those who are for and those who are against. And that is why we should not be surprised that there are people against us, and people who support us. Why do you do a Mass in Latin? In Latin, no one understands it. Well, yes, but why do they turn their backs to the people? Well, why don't girls serve? Well, why don't we dance? Why is there no tam-tam? Why this and why that? A sign of contradiction. Well, as Simeon says, for the fall and the rising. There is someone who says, "Ah, this is what I am looking for."

And our Nigerian priests all come from the moderns. Notably the one who joined us recently, who was a religious. He told us when he discovered us, he said, "Ah, there, I felt peace." That is to say, I saw this Mass. And none of them were aware. They did not know the Tradition. They did not know this Mass. It wasn't [before]. It was already after. They were already in the ministry, in the parishes. It was after that they heard about it, that they discovered it, that they said, "This is it, this is what we want." And why? It is as I say, the child who does not know his father or his mother, what will he do? He will search. Yeah, Papa, yeah, Mama. He will search. We could hide it from him as much as we want. He will search. We always search for our roots. So they, they saw that. They said, "But these are our roots. These are the roots of Catholicism." Well, this is what we want. They had to lose everything. You know it, when you make that choice, you are put out. And I told you, they started in a room. There were only two of them. And you see, after six years now, they have four Mass centers. and they are now four plus one seminarian.

But, you imagine that not having grown up in the Tradition, they are still learning. And that is part of the things that impress me with them because they went to the seminary. Among the moderns, it's true. It's the seminary [not] in the Tradition. They spent six years. Sometimes more. Because they have the year of... what do we call that? Pastoral. For one year, they are in a parish. They have done at least seven years. But they do not know the Tradition. They do not know Saint Thomas Aquinas. They do not know Aristotle. They do not know the great encyclicals of the popes before Vatican II. They decided humbly to learn, to go back to school. It is extraordinary. It is extraordinary. When I am often [listening] at the school, I said to myself, but well, how is this? What color is it? Finally, which Mass is it? And then this, and then that. Because they did not grow up in it. It is extraordinary.

For the rising, there will be people who will be for it. So they say, no, but I am ready to make all sacrifices for that. We should not be surprised. A sign of contradiction. It is the same, even for being here. Some criticize you. They criticize. Why do you go far away over there? What is over there? Etc. Etc. But there are some also who encourage you. There are some also who encourage you. There are people who say, you must not abandon the priest who is there. I am not talking about people who are already with the community. There are several people who do not set foot here, who do not come to Mass here. But some of them say, you must not abandon the priest who is there, do not let him down. There are some who say it. And yet, you do not see them here. They do not come to Mass here. Ah yes, sometimes, they see the Mass elsewhere, but sometimes, they don't even go to Mass anywhere anymore. But they learn and say, you must persevere there, you must not leave him. You must support him. For the love of the saints, you must support him. A sign of contradiction. There are pros and cons. Nothing surprising.

And you see, he says to the Virgin Mary that a sword will pierce your soul. So, it is normal that in the face of these contradictions, we sometimes have pains, that it hurts us. Yes, it is not always funny that we are criticized, and sometimes, harshly; there are terrible words that are even used [like] that sword. Especially when it comes from the family; it can be our father, it can be our mother, it can be our sister, it can be our brother. There is a person I know well in our community who really suffered that. But there is not just one person [facing] that sword. It is very close. It is the mother, it is the father, it is the sister, it is the brother. Sometimes, it is all of them [wielding] that sword.

And I finish by saying, you see, we are not the first. Jesus suffered it, others suffered it. After December 27th, we celebrated the 26th, it was Saint Stephen. You know how he died, the first deacon, martyr. And there are those who like to say, ah yes, the Catholic Church, always with the power, etc. Forgetting that for 300 years, the Roman law said that it is forbidden to be Christian. Non licet esse Christianos [Mistranscribed in original as "Néfaste christianum esse"]. It is illegal to be Christian. It is illegal. It was the law for 300 years. That is why you have heard of the famous persecutions. It is as if the Gabonese state said that you do not have the right to come to Mass here. It is forbidden by law. And if we catch you, too bad for you. We will put you in prison, we will take your goods and sometimes even we will kill you. It was like that. It was like that for 300 years. That is why you have heard of the catacombs; we hid ourselves. We did not tell people that we were Christian because they could denounce us. The neighbor could denounce us just like that. You know, those who denounced, they had a share of the confiscated goods. Well, if they wanted to settle scores with us because last time we refused him this, we refused him that. For 300 years, a sign of contradiction. Well, afterward, the Roman Empire, as you know, would convert. But after the Roman Empire, there were other places where it was like that. And you know, for example, in Nigeria, there are Christians who are massacred. In Africa, where we are, in Nigeria, there are Christians who are massacred only because they are Christians. They say, no, no, no, you do not have the right to be Christian. And there you go. Either you leave that, or it is over for you. So there, we are not the first, we are not the last. We must persevere in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.