« on: February 13, 2025, 12:44:29 PM »
1
0
https://apotresdejesusetdemarie.fr/mgr-faure-hommage-mgr-w-2/Unofficial.
Monsignor Williamson: a friend, a colleague, a fatherby H.E. Monsignor Jean-Michel Faure
Dear friends, Monsignor Williamson was always for me a friend, but also a colleague, since we entered the same day at Econe, the seminary of Archbishop Lefebvre in October 1972, and also a professor (we studied for example the Greek text of the Apocalypse), a master and, finally, my father in the episcopate since he consecrated me in a great ceremony at the monastery of Mgr. Tomas Aquinas situated in the mountains of Brazil at Nova Friburgo, to which a great many faithful participated in 2015. At the general chapter of the SSPX in 2012, we were too few in number to prevent his eviction from the Chapter, and then from the Fraternity; but everything was programmed by the superiors for this purpose and it was especially from there that this society oriented itself towards a practical accord, canonical, with Modernist Rome, the first effects of which were the canonical recognition ("official") of the marriages of the Fraternity and the "official" jurisdiction for confessions by priests of the Fraternity. It is therefore, in fact, the seeking of a practical accord, and not doctrinal, of the Fraternity with Modernist Rome that earned Monsignor Williamson his expulsion. He then found himself in the need to resist the SSPX, which was doing its best to obtain a “practical accord” with the subversive authorities of the Vatican, out of loyalty to the fight of the Faith, which was that of Monsignor Lefebvre. At the beginning of 1972, in Écône, we were thirty-five new candidates while the diocesan seminaries in France and throughout the world closed one after the other, for lack of vocations. By thousands, priests and clerics threw away their religious garb to the nettles, definitively abandoned their vows and opted for marriage, after losing the Faith. It was in this context that the bishops of France declared the Seminary of Monsignor Lefebvre "irregular", a flagrant false-truth since the Roman docuмents established the contrary. The years of Bishop Williamson's seminary were therefore the years that saw Archbishop Lefebvre defend the existence of his Seminary despite the constantly repeated assaults of the authorities in order to put an end to the Tradition of the Church in the name of a false ecuмenical charity and a false obedience which was nothing else than an abuse of power, directed against Tradition and against the Faith, which half a century later, is evident. The tree is recognized by its fruits. Bishop Williamson had therefore only remained faithful, following the example of the saints, resistant against the winds and tides from the pretenses of the innovators installed at the helm, at the ship's tiller to divert it. Bishop Williamson therefore remained faithful to the very end, to that which Archbishop Lefebvre had bequeathed to him: "tradidi quod accepi". Fidelis inventus est, he was found faithful, as his motto said. May we also be in our turn...
Google translate and Td. Feb.13, 2025 AD
Logged
La mesure de l'amour, c'est d'aimer sans mesure.
The measure of love is to love without measure.
St. Augustine (354 - 430 AD)
Topic: Bishop Faure's tribute to Bishop Williamson, (Read 2140 times)