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Unofficial Translation.
Sermon of Fr. François Chazal on November 9, 2013 (Feast of the Dedication of the Archbasilica of the Holy Saviour): "Why we should act like dogs, not like cats".
Recorded at Beaumont (Lévis, Québec).
English Transcript
YouTube - Filii Mariae ,Posted Nov 11, 2013
French video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Msb1GKdF8fg
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In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
My very dear brothers,
Today we celebrate the Feast of the Dedication of a great Basilica, and the Gospel speaks to us of a house – the house of Zacheus... because all churches started in houses, so let us not be very surprised if we start again celebrating Mass in houses and not in churches. They have the churches – we have the faith because of which these churches were built.
So our destiny is not to behave like cats but like dogs; that is to say – when everything is fine, the cat is in the house with its master, so the cat purrs on its master's knee and the cat doesn’t stink, it doesn’t smell bad; it grooms itself, it is easy to take care of. When the master is in the house, the cat can leave, it doesn’t bother him to abandon his master even if the master is at home. Whereas the dog, on the other hand, it smells a bit bad, it is not very discreet, it has plenty of faults, but when the master leaves the house the dog follows the master, and that is how we must behave.
This year, I was in Canterbury; by chance, I wanted to pay a little visit to Mgr. Williamson, and along the way, we visited the beautiful church in Canterbury, with its peculiar architecture from the Middle Ages and all that etc.; the Anglicans kept the walls, they preserved everything. There wasn't much destruction by Calvinists because it is the High Anglican church; and when one visits these beautiful English churches - you see these beautiful churches have fallen into the hands of the adversary, just like the progressive churches.
Saint Peter's in Rome, the great cathedrals in France, this Church whose dedication we celebrate today, it's a Church where truth no longer has any right. Truth has been expelled from these churches - not only that, but I remember that Paul VI, on the occasion of Aldo Moro's death, delivered a scandalous sermon!... in this church of Saint John Lateran: having (...) some reproach towards God. Let's say to God: [...] * What arrogance on the part of Paul VI, brushing blasphemy. It was towards the end of his life, and he died not long after this way of expressing himself towards God, at St. John Lateran!
So these are the buildings that no longer have a purpose, that no longer serve to uphold the TRUTH; except in the sense that, like the Jews of the Old Testament who were in Babylon, the Jews always had this longing for Jerusalem (as it is written in several places)? : 'O Jerusalem!' So these beautiful churches that we have lost also remind us that our spirit, our soul, must always yearn for another dwelling - the dwelling of heaven, just as, when we have triumphed and find ourselves in these beautiful churches, one can say like King Clovis did; he said on Christmas Day: 'Ah, it's magnificent! I have already arrived in Paradise!' Clovis, he was straightforward, (so I don't know...), he did not hide his emotions, so when he with his Franks were in the Church of Saint Remi, he frankly felt like he was in Paradise.
And that's why we build the churches - will continue to build until the end of the world, even if tomorrow morning is the end of the world, tonight I will continue to build a beautiful church, to buy beautiful priestly ornaments, a beautiful chalice, and all that, even if tomorrow morning is the end of the world. Since the idea is what our Lord does with Zachaeus, that is: He settles in his house— He comes to settle in the house of a poor sinner, to save him.
And if, if the good Lord deigns to come to us like that, then it is up to us to take care of Him as much as we can and to share our goods, to spend our resources, to expend our efforts so that the good Lord is well established, essentially through virtues, through maintaining the state of grace. But also externally; this is the Catholic spirit—it is how we will rebuild each time.
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Somewhat like little ants trying to carry something up to the anthill. And she goes, the ant goes on, will keep going as long as the thing has not reached the top of the anthill. So we will, we will start again, we will start again because it is not for the walls that we fight, it is not for institutions, it is not for a religious order, it is not for a company that we fight – it is not for an organization. No! It is for the TRUTH, the Truth of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ...
That is to say, if we are told other things contrary to the Gospel of Our Lord Jesus Christ, for example: the Second Vatican Council (which is an anti-Gospel), if we start to accept an anti-Gospel, well, we are obliged to no longer be faithful to the walls… since it is not, we did not, we did not commit at baptism to be faithful to the walls of the Church in which we are baptized... that is not true!! We are not attached to an institution.
The Revolution, it develops through institutions; it's a phenomenon where - there are revolutionary thinkers that we maybe all haven't studied... Antonio Gramsci who says: 'It's useless to follow the Trotsky method... or the Trotsky method, massacring the opponents of communism and socialism, it's useless, (or is a certain counter-measure to some extent), because it only creates martyrs for the anti-communist cause. Gramsci says: 'Go through the institutions, infiltrate the institutions, take control of these institutions and turn these institutions against themselves and you will achieve much better results.'
I'm not the only one speaking like this, because at his time there was also the Fabian Society, on the Masonic side of things, and it does well (to infiltrate) - it comes from Fabius Cunctator, - a Roman general. Like Hannibal, who was always winning his battles, one couldn't stop him - he kills 70,000 legionaries at the Battle of Cannae, he destroys the Roman army at Trasimene, and he cuts down the other legions at the Battle of Trebia. There is no solution to defeat Hannibal...so we will introduce usury. So this is the theory of Fabius Cunctator. "In the end we'll get those (elders?)"; that's what members of the Fabian Society say. A long infiltration from within will yield much better results.
You also have the docuмents (...) that were revealed by the police of the Papal States and published by Pius IX, and then you have the Masonic infiltration from the very beginning — to the point that Queen Marie-Antoinette said: 'Here at the French court, everyone is one (a mason).' Even her father... Emperor Francis of Austria was a Freemason. So these are not things that date back only to yesterday.
And we were taught this in school, in the seminaries of the Society of Saint Pius X, it was constantly repeated to us. And why would such a scenario be incapable of repeating itself in the Society of Saint Pius X. By what right can one say that we are not susceptible to infiltration, while the Church, the holy Catholic Church, Apostolic, and Roman has been infiltrated by its adversaries? Why would we exclude that for the Society of Saint Pius X? For the world of tradition? Are we above the Catholic Church? No! We are not above it. If we rule out the fact that Almighty God prevents the world of tradition from being infiltrated, then the revolution would not have occurred 40 years ago, and yet it did happen 40 years ago. Such infiltration, such dismantling of the entire edifice of the Catholic Church, which has been built over centuries.
The Catholic Church continues through us… this is what Monsignor says. The conciliar church does not have the four marks of the Catholic Church; it is not the Catholic Church! Monsignor. said: 'It is you who continue.'[or my dear faithful] Even if we are part of the Church, it's not the whole Church.
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...We are not going to follow this conciliar church, we are not going to follow the walls, we are not going to let ourselves be deceived once again by the institutions since we just experienced it 40 years ago. We have the experience before our eyes, so we cannot accept the change in the message of our Lord Jesus Christ. So this change is evident through the words of bishop Fellay, through the Declaration of April 15 of last year, and the other errors he continues to accuмulate as well; as the errors he accuмulated previously. But no! We are not going to be faithful to a limited organization; we must be faithful to the message, to the master. We must behave like dogs, not like cats.
So ask the Blessed Virgin precisely to have this sense, this sense of divine inspiration (?)), this sense of truth, She who is the house of gold, this house of charity,... the place where our Lord Jesus Christ wanted to dwell in an intimate way for 9 months and also for 30 years in His life. He only spent three years in His public life - only the span of three years, whereas He gave ten times more, ten times and a third more, to His Most Holy Mother.
So we must seek, let us ask Him exactly, to understand under what conditions we should dwell with our infinite God, and the beautiful walls will return just as in the history of the Church there are periods of great numerical abundance - the beautiful walls will return, but it's not... our religion does not depend on them. Sometimes the good Lord asks us to build beautiful walls to express faith, sometimes the good Lord asks us to express our faith by putting our faith above the walls that have been built because of faith, making a sacrifice of them. This is what we see, we see it very clearly in the lives of the saints. In the saints who are cast out the door on various occasions, or they start a new branch of their order - this was done with the Franciscans, we see this repeated with the Benedictines, we even see saints like this: St. John Baptist de La Salle, Saint Alphonsus Liguori - even while being the founders of their orders, they are expelled from the order they founded!... Imagine!
A bit like Monsignor Lefebvre himself - who was expelled from the Order of the Holy Spirit... there was a revolution! He was shown the door (well, he resigned, yes, but he knew very well that they were going to kick him out of his own establishment). Instead of staying... In fact he was expelled. Just as Monseigneur Lefebvre was rejected - he was a pariah in his lifetime; he was not, not a man accepted by his era, he was rejected by the bishops of France. That's why he wasn't made a cardinal even though Pope Pius XII liked Monsignor Lefebvre a lot; he even drew inspiration from his ideas to write an encyclical on the missions. He was a great friend of Pius XII; he couldn't become a cardinal because the bishops of France didn't want to hear about him or his ideas on the Catholic City, so Monsignor Lefebvre lived like that... that's how our founder lived.
The essential thing is that you can be certain that we do not present exaggerations regarding the neo-Fraternity—whether or not there is a scandal: the Krahgate; whether or not there was a 're-branding' by your district superior who boasts of having consulted companies with people who do not have faith or who are probably Freemasons, to give advice. Did these things happen? Did Abbé Wall*ez commit identity theft of Abbé Pin*ud? Is Abbé Pin*ud's trial according to the rules? What is this questionnaire from Abbé Ri*ult? This communist-style questionnaire—this communist way where the accused is asked to condemn himself and, on top of that, of denouncing other people? What are these methods, these irregularities? And these doctrinal changes? This liberalism that we see emerging in all centers of the Fraternity, in all districts, there are liberal pustules popping up everywhere!
Like his colleagues who say - a faithful asks them: 'What is the difference between the Fraternity of St. Pius X and the Fraternity of Saint Peter?' and the colleague is not able to answer... he says 'No, there is no difference.' Aargh! Or one of his colleagues who says: 'There are plenty of good things in Vatican II.' Well, certainly! Bishop Fellay said two weeks ago: 'We too have the courage to say there are good things in Vatican II!' But that's not how Monsignor expressed himself! I'm sorry... And he says this is the position of Monsignor Lefebvre! (I will explain that in the talk after the mass) So assure yourselves that the Declaration of April 15 really exists—we are not telling tales.
If this is indeed what it's about, for heaven's sake, my dear brothers, do not behave like cats, which are gentle animals, beautiful creatures of the Lord, who purr very sweetly when all is well. Do not behave like cats; behave like dogs, and maybe prepare yourselves to be treated like dogs... it's not serious.
The dog is a symbol of loyalty. The noble ladies who were buried in the Middle Ages, what did they have depicted on their tombs? They always wanted to have a dog at their feet. Why?... to show the loyalty they always had toward their spouses. The dog is the symbol of loyalty. Let us strive to be like dogs—faithful and also knowing how to bark—bark—this is Isaiah's criticism: "You are dogs not even capable of barking" * (not only do you not bite, you don't even bark! What's this? You are not dogs, you are cats.) And in times of crisis, we don't need cats – cats are not going to...are not going to solve the situation.
That's why when there was the Cathar crisis, the Holy Virgin asked the dogs to show themselves – the Dominicans (Domini Canes), the dogs of the Lord. It's a beautiful allegory – a dog is a loyal animal. Yes, it has plenty of faults, it smells a bit, it stinks, so I don't believe in the perfection and the esteem of the Resistance, but at least let's have some of the qualities of dogs who do not care about walls, who do not care about institutions, and who essentially care about the master, the goodness of the master, especially when we are talking about a master who is Almighty God, the infinite God, Who has loved us so much and Who has given us the Holy Virgin to comfort us and to guide us through this storm.
In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost. Amen.
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* "...And who can hear our complaint, if not You again, O God of life and death? You did not grant our supplication to spare Aldo Moro from death, this good, gentle, wise, innocent man and friend..." (Vatican.va Saturday, May 13, 1978)
Aldo Moro, a statesman and former Italian Prime Minister, was αssαssιnαtҽd May 9, 1978 R.I.P. +
Pope Paul VI died Aug. 6, 1978 AD. R.I.P. +
**Isaiah 56:10