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Offline ElwinRansom1970

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Favourite Bishop Williamson Expressions
« on: July 20, 2024, 09:16:04 AM »
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    • I was viewing recently some older lectures by Bishop Williamson. The turns of phrase, the vocabulary, the facial expressions transported back 35 years to STAS-Winona.

    Truth. Humility. Honesty. Sobriety. Wit.

    My favourite expression of Bishop Williamson:  His use of "slush" when referring to the content of modern education and modern minds.

    Which is your favourite Williamsonism?
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    Re: Favourite Bishop Williamson Expressions
    « Reply #1 on: July 20, 2024, 10:26:37 AM »
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    • I like it when he talks about feeling all "chocolate, or chocolatey in your chest"- funny
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    Re: Favourite Bishop Williamson Expressions
    « Reply #2 on: July 20, 2024, 03:13:20 PM »
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    • Quote from: ElwinRansom1970 on July 20, 2024, 09:16:04 AM
    His use of "slush" when referring to the content of modern education and modern minds.
    @2:14:

    Quote from: +Williamson
    A lot of people today don't want the Truth. They like their slush and their mush and their lies.
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    Re: Favourite Bishop Williamson Expressions
    « Reply #3 on: July 20, 2024, 03:29:03 PM »
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    • Luv!

    But in justice they must agree to let us Romans have our Conciliar truth, and if they cannot make that concession, then they are insufferably arrogant and intolerant, and we cannot allow such divisiveness within our Church of luv.
    Eleison Comments 252

    Modern man does not need to be told about luv, luv, luv. He hears it all day long !
    Eleison Comments 212

    In principle Catholics believe in original sin, but so seductive is Disneyworld that many hardly take original sin seriously in practice. After all, ith not at all nithe to believe we are all thinnerth. We are all thwimming in luv, luv, luv, ar’n’twe!
    Eleison Comments 373

    Then let us show that this error has its roots in our age’s almost universal undervaluing of the mind and overvaluing of the will, resulting even unconsciously in a scorn for doctrine (except for the Beatles’ doctrine of “All you need is luv”).
    Eleison Comments 474


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    Re: Favourite Bishop Williamson Expressions
    « Reply #4 on: July 21, 2024, 04:32:39 AM »
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    • "Don't be a PLAAAASTIC person, be a REAL person!" 
    (As he described modern man living in a fake reality...plastic being fake..)
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    Re: Favourite Bishop Williamson Expressions
    « Reply #5 on: July 21, 2024, 11:52:18 AM »
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    • He taught me "Nemo dat quod non habet". No one gives what he doesn't have.

    A man can't pass one something he doesn't have, a mother can't teach her sons to be a man, etc.
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    Re: Favourite Bishop Williamson Expressions
    « Reply #6 on: July 21, 2024, 02:58:55 PM »
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    • Quote from: Matthew on July 21, 2024, 11:52:18 AM
    He taught me "Nemo dat quod non habet". No one gives what he doesn't have.

    A man can't pass one something he doesn't have, a mother can't teach her sons to be a man, etc.
    Sums up the belief in evolution to a T. 
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    Re: Favourite Bishop Williamson Expressions
    « Reply #7 on: July 21, 2024, 04:26:56 PM »
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    • Quote from: Matthew on July 21, 2024, 11:52:18 AM
    He taught me "Nemo dat quod non habet". No one gives what he doesn't have.
    Did he teach any other scholastic principles?
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    Re: Favourite Bishop Williamson Expressions
    « Reply #8 on: July 22, 2024, 03:10:24 PM »
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    • http://www.archbishoplefebvre.com/blog/bishop-williamson-greatest-quotes

    "For inside the home, any priest worth his salt will tell them to start by firmly establishing the family Rosary in the home, and to continue by throwing out that television set which is a tabernacle of the world, the flesh and the Devil. From the youngest age, let children's hearts and ..... because by the time children are of an age to go to 'university', the die is usually cast, for good or ill, so that if a boy has grown up in a real live home, lifted towards Heaven by prayer, the worst of 'universities' may not do him too much harm, whereas if he has been raised as a televidiot
    the best university may not help him too much towards Heaven." (Bishop Williamson, Eleison Comments, Issue CLX, 2010)

    May God bless + W.




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    Re: Favourite Bishop Williamson Expressions
    « Reply #9 on: July 22, 2024, 04:08:02 PM »
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    • An oldie but a goodie!

    “Do whatever you need to nourish your faith. Some Novus Ordo priests are nourishing and building the faith in the Novus Ordo parish.” There have been eucharistic miracles with the Novus Ordo Mass. They are still occurring.”

    “While the new religion is false, is dangerous, and it strangles grace, and it’s helping many people to lose the faith, at the same time there are cases where it can be used and is used to build the faith.”


    “Do whatever you need to do to keep the faith. You make your own judgements. I’ve got to make my own decisions in my own circuмstances.”


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    Re: Favourite Bishop Williamson Expressions
    « Reply #10 on: August 18, 2024, 08:56:09 PM »
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    • Quote from: 51:55
    like a good little boy
    of his recent interview (when refusing to discuss "one [lie] from our modern times which would get you banned from YouTube").
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    Re: Favourite Bishop Williamson Expressions
    « Reply #11 on: August 18, 2024, 09:26:09 PM »
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    A lot of people today don't want the Truth. They like their slush and their mush and their lies.


    Obscure reference, but it reminds me of David Owen using those words:

    @31:18

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    Re: Favourite Bishop Williamson Expressions
    « Reply #12 on: August 18, 2024, 09:32:51 PM »
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    • I like when Bishop Williamson occasionally goes off on the usual suspects, mainly in his Eleison Comments. He earned a lot of street cred when the crypto coaxed him into talking about the holohoaks. And he didn't back down and cry and apologize.

    Still I do wonder why he invited a rabbi to speak to seminarians. We're all jdaized to some degree. Even holohoaks revisionists exhibit extraordinary naivete about the jws.
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    Re: Favourite Bishop Williamson Expressions
    « Reply #13 on: August 20, 2024, 03:53:07 PM »
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    • Not exactly a full quote/expression, but my favorite Bishop Williamson experience happened many decades ago. He was presiding over a confirmation ceremony/Mass at an independent chapel "under the umbrella" of the SSPX.

    At the end of the Mass, the choir began to sing the hymn "Come Holy Ghost, " as a recessional, but right after starting, they faltered, slowed down, then completely "crashed" in a sour dissonance, and everyone stopped singing. I'm not sure to this day if it was because they realized they were singing the wrong hymn and stopped, or they just couldn't sing, but the result was a moment of awkward silence.

    Then Bishop Williamson broke the silence by exclaiming  "NAUGHTY, NAUGHTY!" slowly, loudly, and deliberately, in the most British way imaginable. He then started singing himself, perfectly on pitch and with great power and precision that echoed throughout the church: "Holy God, we Praise Thy Name!...." at that point all the laypeople joined in, and the befuddled choir only found their places at the second verse. Even though I was young, I was impressed by the way he took command of that situation and turned it around.
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    Re: Favourite Bishop Williamson Expressions
    « Reply #14 on: August 20, 2024, 05:17:48 PM »
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    His recital of The Walrus and The Carpenter.

    minds have turned to mush

    At a talk given in London to some sort of upper crust forum, a man in the audience began to heckle him.
    “Enough!  If you don’t like it, pick yourself up and get out!  Here’s the door!”
    The man got up and ran out like a naughty boy caught raiding the cookie jar.
    His Excellency went swiftly back to his lecture, putting an immediate stop to the beginnings of laughter from the rest of the audience. 

    I don’t recall where I heard this, but when he was head of the seminary in Winona, there was a young man with terrible penmanship.  It was so bad that Bp. Williamson required him to sit like a young schoolboy for a half hour per day in his office, copying the Catechism of Trent!  
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