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"It is deeply wrong for the Government to say the Mass 


is 'non-essential'. The Mass is the most essential thing 



on earth."



That was St Anthony Priory Whanganui's Fr Francois


 Laisney SSPX, speaking yesterday. 




"The Eucharist is our food in this desert, as manna was food for God's people in 

their passage through the desert," said Fr Laisney. "If we don't have this food, we 

faint; we fall." 


"We must ask Our Lady to save us from this covert persecution." 

Enter, stage right, Fr Michael Johnson SSPX, at this 


morning's St Anthony's Mass :


"It's time to speak of the elephants in the room - the 


intrusion of politics into the arena of the Church, the 


temptation to replace the spiritual with the secular 


which has always been condemned by the Church, 


specifically by St Augustine in The City of God."


Stand up and take a virtual bow, Fathers, for telling it like it 


is. 


Note that the position of the SSPX in respect to The Lockdown is similar to our diocesan 

priests':  the SSPX recognises the Pope as head of the Church, and therefore the SSPX 

is subject to the NZ Bishops and has obeyed their instruction to lock their churches and 

cancel public Masses.



But what is it that gives the SSPX courage to speak out against this government, while the 

rest of NZ's priests and bishops are silent to a man (if 'man' is the right word)?


It is reasonable to infer that their courage comes from their faith, a faith foreign to 

the Cupiches, the Cuomos, the Graylands of the Church of Nice. And it follows that 

their faith is a product of the Mass of the Ages, the Traditional Latin Mass - and of 

giving Holy Communion only on the tongue, to those who kneel to receive.

I've lost the link to this pic, taken somewhere in South America I believe of a child

praying for an end to Covid-19, but oh, how it shows up the lack of faith evident 

in the rogues' gallery cited above. 

"Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, he is the greater in 

the kingdom of heaven" (Mt 18:4). And further, "He that shall scandalize one of 

these little ones that believe in Me, it should be better for him that a millstone 

should be hanged about his neck, and that he should be drowned in the depth of 

the sea" (ibid, 6.).

It would be fair to say that  this morning Fr Johnson was 


hopping mad. He asked rhetorically if it were 

'political', or 'inappropriate', in a sermon to address the 


question of "our overlords" deeming the Mass to be a non-


essential service while the Ministry of Health has declared 


dog shampooing to be "essential".

To say that raising such a question is 'inappropriate' is a canard, Fr Johnson declared. No 

ifs, buts or maybes. He was obviously feeling for his SSPX congregation in Tawa, 

Wellington, where he would normally have been saying Mass today. "Travelling to Mass 

and congregating for the worship of God is deemed by our overlords to be non-essential". 

Father was pretty mad at Pope Francis too, for blaming Covid-19 on man, for not 

responding to climate crises. "The doctrine which seems to inform Pope Francis' position is 

naturalism, which looks on nature as the first cause of reality and is an error - or a heresy - 

leading to the heresies of pantheism and Pelagianism. 

One can only speculate on what this great saint, founder of the Jesuits, have to say to his

brother in religion, Pope Francis, who opines that this Covid pandemic could be "nature's

revenge" for climate change, when - and if - they meet in "the life which is without

end"?

Guess who Father Johnson put up next in the firing line? That utter cad, Cardinal Blase 

Cupich, who "emphatically agrees" with Pope Francis. To say (as he was reported on this 

blog) that our brains are all we need to deal with this pandemic, and that to pray for more is 

an abuse of religion, said Father, is certainly naturalism, and "amazing". 

Moving right along, Father arrived at none other than New York Governor 'Catholic' Andrew 

Cuomo, for saying (as reported on this blog) that  "we brought the numbers (of Covid-19 

deaths) down. God did not do that. Faith did not do that."

"That is obviously heresy, and it's the essence of the Government's message: we 

don't need God, we can take care of ourselves." 

Then Father fetched up with Queen Elizabeth 1, and her persecution of Catholics in Ireland 

for practising their religion, in her determination to replace Catholicism with Anglicanism. 

"Queen Elizabeth was persecuting Catholics. Today it's more broad than that. Today 

it's persecution of God."

Pelagianism, said Father, is a heresy which maintains all that's needed for salvation is part 

of man's patrimony, and denies original sin and baptism. "It's like some Protestants 

believe, that God is like a clockmaker who makes a clock, winds it up and sets it on its 

way. To this day many Protestants believe that if our wills are right we have no need of 

God's grace."


Father roundly condemned cads +Cupich and Cuomo for their - well, their 

caddishness. No, specifically for their Pelagianism, condemned by St Augustine (Fr 

Johnson is well-read) for denying that grace is essential for salvation. 



"Our source of salvation is Christ on the Cross. We must petition God unceasingly in the 

Sacrifice of the Mass, which is now denied to all Catholics. "What does Jesus Christ say in 

the Beatitudes, in the Sermon on the Mount? "Ask and you shall receive. Seek and you 

shall find. Knock and the door will be opened to you" (Lk 11:9) (as reported on this blog ...).



"This pandemic has not come up to the dire expectations of those who locked us 

down.  We are now realising its effect on the economy. Businesses have gone and 

may never come back.  All to protect a few of the vulnerable. 



"We must depend on our overlords! The Prime Minister will save you! We will be reduced to 

poverty and misery and suicides, but don't go to God, we'll make sure you're ruined. ... 

Their methods of mitigation are creating much more profound problems than they are 

solving. Is that part of what they want???



"We must look for Our Lady at the foot of the Cross. We must stand with her there, lest we 

lose even one drop of this Precious Blood which is pouring down upon us"


Father Johnson, you're a man after Our Lord's Sacred Heart. Where in the La-La Land of 

the Church of Nice will you find such plain speaking? "Let your speech be yea, yea: no, 

no" (Mt 5:37).


Michael Fitzgibbon of Palmerston North - that's right, the chap who 

openly dared to challenge the NZ Bishops to re-open our churches for 

Easter is a rad trad who is not easily deterred by a lack of any 

response, not from even one of the assorted bishops, not even a 

"thank you, Michael".  He has now presented the NZBCB with a plan 

which will allow them do what he asked; a plan so cunning that 

Blackadder would swear you could pin a tail on it and call it a weasel.

Here's Michael's second letter to the Bishops:

"The Prime Minister announced today what Alert Level 3 would look like and how it would work. This has given us hope that the churches can be reopened and the Holy Mass can once again be celebrated as Christ has commanded us to do.

Alert Level 4 lockdown will be in place for at least another week. This gives the Bishops of New Zealand time to put in place safety measures that mitigate the risks and reduce them to an acceptable level, allowing churches to reopen. The Prime Minister used examples of weddings and funerals taking place under level 3, with suitable safety measures such as limiting the number present to 10 people etc. 

I have experience writing Risk Assessment Management Systems, (RAMS) for courses that I've managed at work, and have attached a document and annexes that provide some guidance for how the Church in New Zealand could open under the various alert levels. I have divided the alert levels in two  to keep the process simple and easy to implement. While the government is unlikely to allow religious services under Alert Level 4 I have included it anyway. 

I will continue to pray for you and look forward to your reply.

May God bless you,

(signed)

Michael Fitzgibbon

We eagerly await developments. Like opening the churches forthwith. What excuse is there

for not doing so? 

'Noli me Tangere'
Corregio 

"Noli me tangere" - "Touch Me not", the words spoken 


by Christ to Mary Magdalen when he appeared to her 


after the Resurrection, have stayed with me for a 


week and having "assisted" at the Latin Mass every day, 


and observed the acolyte receiving Holy Communion 


on the tongue, kneeling, I've seen it in a new light.

Christ said those words, said either Fr Laisney or Fr Johnson - I forget which -

to raise the love of Mary, a woman of profound emotions, from the level of the

senses to that of the spirit.  Does that not relate also to the reception of Christ in

Holy Communion? He wishes to raise us from the physical sphere to "the things

that are above" (Col 3;2). That's one thing. The other is that Christ is God, and

as God He is beyond our grasp. We, like the Magdalen, are not to touch Him. Not

in this life.


The courage of the SSPX priests in speaking out against the "covert

persecution" of this Government derives from their supernatural 

point of view, a perspective offered them and all the faithful in the 

traditional Latin Mass and the manner of receiving Communion.

Taking Communion in the hand in the context of the Latin Mass would be - to use

a fairly crass analogy - introducing a bull into a china shop.

Dan Burke, former president of EWTN News, is now calling on Catholics to “stop

desecrating” Christ by receiving the Eucharist in the hand and to start receiving it

on their tongue while kneeling, the “humbler” way to receive it.

Burke has just been discharged from  hospital after nearly losing his 

life to the coronavirus. “I've come out of this with a resolute 

resoluteness,” Burke has told John Henry Westen of LifesiteNews. 


And that is, “to cry out to the laity to repent and to stop desecrating 

Christ. Stop receiving him in a matter that is destructive, that allows

for the stealing of the host, that allows for the dropping of particles, 

and the trampling of the Lord under our feet!”

Burke explained that what “struck” him the most during his illness is that

Catholics have to repent and stop offending God with liturgical irreverence. 

“There are no issues of irreverence in the Latin Mass…there might be internally,

but certainly not externally, as a norm. In the Ordinary Form of the Mass, 

every single day the Lord is desecrated — every single day, grave 

irreverence. Every  single day we commit the most grave sins … 

against God himself in the realm of worship.”

“90 percent of the time, priests are unfaithful to their vows in the way that they

provide the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass because they're making stuff up,” he

continued. The laity too “need to repent for usurping the role of the priest” at

Mass. They also need to repent for “receiving the Eucharist in a state of mortal

sin.”

“I believe that the highest order of demons are concerned with the 

disruption of worship, the proper worship of God,” he said.

Asked what he would do if a priest refused to adminster the Eucharist to him 

while kneeling, Burke said, “I would stay kneeling and see what happens...you 

have to take a spiritual stand.” If he was in a diocese where he couldn’t reverently 

receive the Lord, Burke said he would “leave the diocese.”

Westen brought up how 1 Corinthians 11: 27 warns against 

receiving communion unworthily. Burke responded by saying, “I 

think it's a demonic reality that that passage never appears in the 

Ordinary Form lectionary.”

He added that the  Nigerian Cardinal Francis Arinze once told him that

communion in the hand “has been a disaster.”

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/former-ewtn-news-president-communion-in-the-hand-leads-to-desecration-at-every-mass?utm_source=lsc

Of course it's scary for people to make this change from receiving in the

hand to kneeling to receive on the tongue. It's all very well for certain

types - no names, no pack drill - who have to be 'different' but in NZ they're very 

much in the minority. 

In NZ, conditioned perhaps by those woolly creatures which surround 

us, we follow one another like - well, like sheep - up to our shepherd at 

Communion time, and we all do the same thing, even if it's the wrong 

thing, just like sheep follow one another into a smother and die.  

And that's exactly what EWTN's Dan Burke, following his own near-death Covid-

19 experience, suggests we're doing: in picking up Our Lord in our fingers like a 

potato chip, spiritually we're committing hara-kiri.

The way to break the habit is - like giving up smoking, say - to get someone else

to do it with you. Even better, get several people to do it with you, and present

yourselves for Communion as a group, one behind the other.  

Let's get ready for the day this MsGovernment tells us we can go back to Mass. 

Communicants go down on their knees en masse (get it?) might come as a shock 

to Father, but even the brave reverend who jerked a communicant to her feet 

would be unnerved by group action.  

Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us now and at the hour of our death. 

Go on, be a hero. 

Let's do this!