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I too agree I appreciate the way this forum runs.  

The sad part is, seeing people come and go sometimes, but that is the way it is on the internet.
I also come and go!  You may or may not realize it, but I feel my time here on earth is almost over, not quite yet, I know I still have a few years left.

God is not finished with me yet, sometimes my insights are growing very vivid and I don't know why!

I love life and have had a very good life.  My non-Catholic husband back in the '80s would sit and listen to me complain as I was led into the Novus ordo.  I would go to church and he would sit and read the paper.  One day when I came home from a NO mass, he handed me a clipping he tore out of the paper. It was about a priest who was coming to our area to explain why the changes in the Catholic church.  
Things like this don't happen to me, never, but I had this strange force come over me, pushing me strongly to go to the lecture.

It was about the great apostasy and sedevacantism. I knew instantly it was true.  For one thing, in Catholic school back in the late '40s early 50's the old, elderly nuns teaching there in Chicago, were already warning us, that we are the generation that would see the Mass taken away from us.

Sorry, I didn't know I would be writing a book about my story! However, I must end by telling you my husband died but before he died he was baptized and died united to the Church Christ founded.  He even had the apostolic blessing hours before his death and prayed the name of Jesus at the proper time during that blessing. I believe he was given this great grace because he brought me back to the church resulting in both my parents dying united to His Faith, plus my children are also Traditionalists.  "By their fruits, you will know them."


Perhaps Matthew might start a thread where we could all go and write our journey to Tradition.  Did I say thank you, Matthew!   ♫    

What a great story!

Sean, I really hate to disagree with you, but your level of aversion to Sedevacantists puts you at odds with +Williamson and probably +Lefebvre as well. You seem to lack these prelates' charity, compassion, and mercy towards the lost sheep (Catholics) who are trying their best to survive in this time of unprecedented crisis and confusion (i.e., a level never before seen in the Church, from 34 AD to the present!)


Bishop Williamson:

That is my position.

You, on the other hand, seem to get bent out of shape at their very existence. They really bother you on some deep level.

I've been trying to tell Sean this for a long time but he won't listen.  [Someone from] Avrille said that, given what's going on, sedevacantism is an understandable and tenable position.  Bishop Williamson said that same thing, that he understands it, though doesn't agree.  Archbishop Lefebvre has a history of making statements where at times he even leaned sedevacantist himself.  Father Chazal agrees with a lot of the sedevacantist propositions ... and I had been hoping he could be a bridge of unity between Resistance and sedevacantists.

Whenever I brought these quotes up, Sean gratuitously dismissed them and then cited something from the early 1980s where Archbishop Lefebvre was somewhat hostile toward sedevacantism due to 1) the Nine and 2) hopes regarding the papacy of Wojtyla.  But he was disillusioned by Wojtyla at Assisi and nearly came out sedevacantist as a result.  In fact, the neo-SSPX cite quotes from that same era, when the Archbishop was seeking an agreement with Rome, refusing to acknowledge that he changed his mind and then remained firm in his rejection of any attempts to reconcile with Modernist Rome.