POSTED WITH FR. GIROUARD'S PERMISSION.
Sermon of August 3rd, 2025.
SERMON SUMMARY FROM FR. GIROUARD:
INTRODUCTION:
With God's grace, we shall study some verses of today's epistle of St. Paul to the Romans, Chapter 8. The great Apostle reminds us that we are not debtors to the flesh, but rather debtors to Christ and the Holy Ghost. He shows us what we need to do if we want to obtain the inheritance promised us. It is a question of eternal Life or Death! So we can ask ourselves: Am I truly in the State of Grace? Are my sins truly forgiven? Am I doing the right thing? (Remember: To feel no guilt doesn't mean we are not guilty). Fortunately, we can obtain a degree of certainty about it.
1- ST. BERNARD GIVES US THREE SIGNS OF BEING IN THE STATE OF GRACE.
A) We recall the story of the paralytic forgiven and healed by Our Lord. "Stand up! Pick up your stretcher, and walk!"
B) St. Bernard, on the spiritual meaning of this story, shows us three signs of the remission of our sins:
a-To aspire to supernatural things, and have a supernatural outlook on everything.
b-To rule over all the inclinations of nature by mortification.
c- To leave the past behind, and move towards our true Home: Heaven! We must always make progress. We are not on a cruise ship, but on a Battleship!
2- OUR NATURE CANNOT BE MORTIFIED WITHOUT THE GREATEST PAINS!
A) Verses 12 and 13 of today's epistle.
B) Mortification is so difficult, because the ennemy is within: The "Flesh" is our "Old Man"! We must battle against our bad inclinations of body and soul.
C) We must mortify ourselves for supernatural motives.
D) Great quote from Cornelius A Lapide: The immense pain we have to endure if we truly endeavour to rule our Nature.
3- FORTUNATELY, THE HOLY GHOST MAKES UP FOR WHAT WE LACK IN STRENGTH.
A) Verse 14 of today's Epistle.
B) Quote from St. Augustine: This help from the Holy Ghost is a sign that we are in the State of Grace!
C) Example of Samson in the Book of Judges: "The Spirit of God rushed into him."
4- BUT THESE THREE SIGNS GIVE US NO ABSOLUTE CERTITUDE OF THE REMISSION OF OUR SINS.
A) Only a Moral Certitude.
B) Quote from St Gregory to his spiritual dirigée Gregoria: We need tears of contrition.
C) Acts of Mortification can be like such tears, if done for supernatural motives.
D) Fear for our salvation is much better than security.
CONCLUSION:
If we want to have a moral certainty that our sins are forgiven, and therefore that we are in the State of Grace, we must follow the advices we have received from Saints Bernard, Augustine, Gregory, and the great Cornelius A Lapide: 1-Be Supernatural in all things; 2-Pray the Holy Ghost to help you truly put to death your "Old Man"; 3-Combat with vigor against error and sins, and aim to make progress in sanctification. Our greatest ally to obtain the help of the Holy Ghost, is Our Lady, who is the Spouse of the Holy Ghost. She is the Seat of Wisdom (Holy Ghost). Let us pray her under this beautiful title, and she will come to our aid!
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POSTED WITH FR. GIROUARD'S PERMISSION.
Sermon of August 3rd, 2025.
SERMON SUMMARY FROM FR. GIROUARD:
INTRODUCTION:
With God's grace, we shall study some verses of today's epistle of St. Paul to the Romans, Chapter 8. The great Apostle reminds us that we are not debtors to the flesh, but rather debtors to Christ and the Holy Ghost. He shows us what we need to do if we want to obtain the inheritance promised us. It is a question of eternal Life or Death! So we can ask ourselves: Am I truly in the State of Grace? Are my sins truly forgiven? Am I doing the right thing? (Remember: To feel no guilt doesn't mean we are not guilty). Fortunately, we can obtain a degree of certainty about it.
1- ST. BERNARD GIVES US THREE SIGNS OF BEING IN THE STATE OF GRACE.
A) We recall the story of the paralytic forgiven and healed by Our Lord. "Stand up! Pick up your stretcher, and walk!"
B) St. Bernard, on the spiritual meaning of this story, shows us three signs of the remission of our sins:
a-To aspire to supernatural things, and have a supernatural outlook on everything.
b-To rule over all the inclinations of nature by mortification.
c- To leave the past behind, and move towards our true Home: Heaven! We must always make progress. We are not on a cruise ship, but on a Battleship!
2- OUR NATURE CANNOT BE MORTIFIED WITHOUT THE GREATEST PAINS!
A) Verses 12 and 13 of today's epistle.
B) Mortification is so difficult, because the ennemy is within: The "Flesh" is our "Old Man"! We must battle against our bad inclinations of body and soul.
C) We must mortify ourselves for supernatural motives.
D) Great quote from Cornelius A Lapide: The immense pain we have to endure if we truly endeavour to rule our Nature.
3- FORTUNATELY, THE HOLY GHOST MAKES UP FOR WHAT WE LACK IN STRENGTH.
A) Verse 14 of today's Epistle.
B) Quote from St. Augustine: This help from the Holy Ghost is a sign that we are in the State of Grace!
C) Example of Samson in the Book of Judges: "The Spirit of God rushed into him."
4- BUT THESE THREE SIGNS GIVE US NO ABSOLUTE CERTITUDE OF THE REMISSION OF OUR SINS.
A) Only a Moral Certitude.
B) Quote from St Gregory to his spiritual dirigée Gregoria: We need tears of contrition.
C) Acts of Mortification can be like such tears, if done for supernatural motives.
D) Fear for our salvation is much better than security.
CONCLUSION:
If we want to have a moral certainty that our sins are forgiven, and therefore that we are in the State of Grace, we must follow the advices we have received from Saints Bernard, Augustine, Gregory, and the great Cornelius A Lapide: 1-Be Supernatural in all things; 2-Pray the Holy Ghost to help you truly put to death your "Old Man"; 3-Combat with vigor against error and sins, and aim to make progress in sanctification. Our greatest ally to obtain the help of the Holy Ghost, is Our Lady, who is the Spouse of the Holy Ghost. She is the Seat of Wisdom (Holy Ghost). Let us pray her under this beautiful title, and she will come to our aid!
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Father, your sermon was moving. It was structured with grace, filled with the wisdom of the saints, and clearly aimed at sanctifying souls. But with all reverence and sorrow, I beg you. This is not enough.
These are not ordinary times. The Church is eclipsed. Vatican II, the New Mass, and the new religion are deceiving millions and taking souls to hell. The wolves are no longer at the gate. They wear the mitre. And when sermons speak only of interior struggle without naming the war around us, the faithful are left unarmed.
This homily could have been delivered in a Fraternity parish or even a well-meaning Novus Ordo chapel. But Father, we remember your voice when it thundered with clarity. You once warned us of the apostasy. You once named the enemy. You once stood where few dared to stand.
Today, that silence is more dangerous than ever. The faithful are not looking for soft encouragement. They are looking for the trumpet to give a clear sound. Not just to pray, but to fight. Not just to be holy, but to reject error. Not just to mortify the flesh, but to resist the conciliar betrayal.
If you do not speak, who will? If even the priests who once stood firm now preach like the reconciled, where shall the sheep go?
We do not need safe sermons. We need fearless ones. You once knew that. I pray you will remember it again.
Subject: A Clarification Regarding Father Girouard and His Parishioners
As a long-standing parishioner and friend of Father Girouard, I am writing to address a recent and misleading allegation.
My commitment to the Traditional Latin Mass dates back to 1978. My path has led me through various chapels and communities, including those served by independent priests, the Indult, the Fraternity of St. Peter, and the Society of St. Pius X. I offer this background not for my own sake, but to establish that my perspective is born from decades of experience and a deepening commitment to my Faith.
This journey has been one of deep spiritual formation, teaching me the necessity of conforming my life to the example of Our Lord: to be meek and humble of heart, to carry my cross daily, and to seek only the will of God the Father. We live in a time of unprecedented trial for the Church, a reality permitted by God's Providence for His greater glory.
It remains a source of profound sorrow to witness fellow Catholics deprive themselves of the Sacraments for reasons that do not pertain to doctrine or the essential fight for our Faith. The spiritual nourishment offered through the Holy Mass and the sacraments is paramount, and we must not let lesser disagreements sever us from it.
It is with this perspective, earned over many years, that I wish to correct the record regarding the claim that "half of his parishioners left him because he stopped preaching against errors." As an impartial observer who has remained, I can attest that this is a misrepresentation of the situation. Below is a detailed account of what has been going on. For the sake of charity, I will not give the names of those who left. We pray they may one day have the humility to recognize their mistakes and come back, and be faithful to their pledge of 2013.
1-In 2012 and 2013, Father Girouard preached many times against the SSPX wanting to go back to Rome. His Superiors warned him to stop. Father also talked to the members of 3 groups he had created (Men, Women, Young Adults) to explain to them what was going on.
After Father was expelled from Langley (March 2013), a group of people came to him, and wanted to start a Resistance parish straight away. He told them this: "No. Right now, you are emotional and you love me. One day, I will say or do something that will upset you, and you will leave me. I don't want to build a parish on emotions. I want to build it on Doctrine. Therefore, I will go away for a while, and send you docuмents that you will study. If you become convinced about these docuмents, and if you can materially support a parish, I will come back, and we will make a parish."
2-And so it happened. On June 2, 2013, before the first Mass of Father's Resistance Parish in Aldergrove, all attendees signed a Mission Statement that explained the errors of Rome and of the Neo-SSPX, with a pledge they would not return to the SSPX until the problems in Rome and Neo-SSPX were fixed. They placed their new parish under the Patronage of "St. Joseph Defender of the Church", and they signed their pledge at the foot of his statue, and he has helped us faithfully ever since!
3-In the sermon of the same day, Father revealed the scandal of the "Branding of the Neo-SSPX". Following this, and up to this day, Father has always preached on the evils of Rome and the Neo-SSPX whenever a new topic came around, like the Confession jurisdiction, the Marriage jusrisdiction, the creation of Neo-SSPX Councillors Generals, the so-called "Consecration of Russia", the NO "bishop" Huonder in SSPX residence, doing sermons, confessions, and then Holy Oils, and so forth and so on.
4-Contrary to the opinions of some priests (Hewko, Pfeiffer, Ruiz...) Father Girouard has never "red-lighted" receiving the sacraments from the Neo-SSPX, as they are not yet officially integrated in the Conciliar Church. He has always explained that it was his prudential judgement that people, who cannot attend regularly a Resistance Mass, could receive the sacraments from the Neo-SSPX if they felt such a need to remain in the State of Grace.
5-However, Father qualified such a permission in the following way:
A-It does not apply to his Aldergrove parishioners, as they have Mass almost every week, and they have signed the pledge of June 2, 2013.
B-For people far from the Resistance centres, Father gives the "Yellow Light" option: Receive the sacraments when needed, but avoid the sermons and publications. Make sure the priest has been ordained or re-ordained by a genuine SSPX bishop. Make sure you keep informed of the errors and changes, etc. And try to make SSPX people to see the problems. And whenever you can attend a Resistance Mass, do so. And support the Resistance materially and spiritually.
C-Because of the many sermons Father preached while in SSPX Langley before he was kicked out, and because Father sent to all SSPX Langley parishioners in June 2013 a letter of explanation and a copy of the Mission Statement, and because in 2014 he also mailed all of them a copy of Fr. Rioult's "Impossible Reconciliaion" book, Father has declared that the SSPX Langley parishioners have a moral obligation to join his Resistance Parish, as they don't have the excuse of ignorance or of the absence of sacraments.
6-About the people who left our Resistance Parish, none of them told Father it was for doctrinal reasons. Here are the real reasons why they left:
A-In 2014, a lady was kicked out by Father because she became "Old Catholic", refusing the Dogma of 1870. The same year, a family moved out across Canada for a job promotion for the husband.
B-In July of 2015, after 4 months of preparation with the parish, Father instituted a strict Dress Code. He said we needed to do more than the Neo-SSPX, and the Dress Code would be stricktly applied, even if it meant all parishioners would leave him. A family and another couple had to go, because they didn't agree with Father's strict dress code. (The family also had unruly children, some hitting other parishioners during Mass, so that played a role too. And the fact that the mother missed her SSPX friends, and had never wanted to come to our parish in the first place, didn't help).
C-In 2016, two young ladies left because they wanted to find men to marry, and there were more choices at the SSPX Langley parish. A young man also left because one of these two girls left, and he had a crush on her.
D-In 2016, a lady left after Father mocked some Q-Anon theories from the pulpit.
E-In 2018, a family who was unable, after many warnings, to keep their children from disturbing the congregation, publicly rebelled after Mass, and accused Father of "having all the characteristics of a Cult Leader". It was so bad that some people were crying. They were subsequently suspended from the parish and given a 3 months delay to repair the scandal and commotion caused. They preferred to go back to the SSPX. Two years later, the mother sent an email to the other parishioners, and she apologized for the scandal, and said that she had been unable to control her temper, and she said Father was "a heroic priest who paid the price for fighting for the Truth." She didn't send it to Father himself, but a parishioner forwarded it to him. Father emailed her, and told her all was forgiven, and they can come back. Unfortunately, they remain with the SSPX.
F-In 2018, a couple who disagreed with Father's advice about how to deal with their sons who lived in concubinage, told him they were planning to leave, and they left (with her daugher) at the same time than the aforementioned family as a show of support.
G-In 2019, a lady who disagreed with her husband left and returned to the SSPX. She later divorced her husband.
H-In 2022, a long-time parishioner was now too old to live on her own, and needed to go live far away with her son who goes to the SSPX. However, she remains a staunch supporter materially and spiritually, and remains a "Long-Distance" parishioner.
I-Finally, in 2023, a couple left for reasons they didn't want to disclose to Father. They remain friendly with him, and continue to support his apostolate financially.
J-CONCLUSION: THE COMMON DENOMINATOR IN ALL THESE DEPARTURES (except for those who had to move away) IS NOT A LACK OF DOCTRINAL PREACHING FROM FATHER, BUT A LACK OF DEPTH IN THEIR SPIRITUAL LIFE. APPARENTLY, THEY DIDN'T PUT HIS SPIRITUAL SERMONS AND ADVICES INTO PRACTICE. THESE DEPARTURES, VERY PAINFUL FOR FATHER AND HIS FAITHFUL PARISHIONERS, SHOW HOW THE DEVIL IS ABLE TO USE MEN'S SHALLOW SPIRITUAL LIFE TO MAKE THEM LEAVE THE "STRAIGHT AND NARROW PATH". YOU CAN HAVE ALL THE INTELLECTUAL KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE CRISIS OF THE CHURCH AND THE NEO-SSPX, BUT IF YOU DON'T ALSO HAVE THE KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICE OF THE SPIRITUAL LIFE, YOU WILL NOT HAVE THE MORAL STRENGTH TO REMAIN FAITHFUL IN TIMES OF TRIALS.