NEO-CATHOLICS SNARLING AT SSPX 'WATER CARRIERS FOR THE REVOLUTION'

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Ordinations to the priesthood of the SSPX

Spoiled for choice: the Novus Ordo, the 'indult' Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) - or the unspeakable  Tridentine Mass of the SSPX (Society of St Pius X)?

We take the first for granted, every Sunday. The TLM at St Columba's Ashhurst (the only one celebrated in the entire Wellington Archdiocese) has been granted two more Sundays, pending a final decree. But on 3rd Sundays those pariahs of the Church, the SSPX, travel from Whanganui to celebrate Holy Mass in a funeral parlour in Napier.

Most Catholics would summarily dismiss that third option. At best you'd be allowed to attend only if no other Mass were available. And then, what about Communion? Some would say that even if the SSPX Mass is licit, their Communion is not.

So to be on the safe side a reader of this blog, who'd driven alone over the Saddle to St Columba's on the previous three Sundays and could get a ride to the funeral parlour this evening, opted this morning for Holy Communion at her parish NO Mass, kneeling, on the tongue. Last in the queue of course, after the children had all been blessed with the same hand that distributed Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament.

But was it right for her to attend the SSPX Mass this evening? The very fact that it's held at Dunstall's Funeral Services - even though with bells and whistles (altar, tabernacle, prie-dieus, fresh flowers and 'the oldest altarboy in the country') - instead of one of Napier's three churches, implies a hole-in-the-corner status, does it not?

'Pope Benedict states that the SSPX does not possess a canonical status.'

'Its Ministers do no legitimately exercise any Ministry in the Church.'  

'The SSPX is schismatic.'  

'SSPX Priests were ordained illicitly', etc, etc. 

The SSPX does not want for critics. Which, given that Jesus Christ didn't either, is in itself something of a recommendation.

Michael Matt of The Remnant describes such critics of the SSPX as "neo-Catholics". After all, Pope Benedict XVI had lifted the excommunication imposed on the order - but as Matt says, these neo-Catholics just went right on saying they're in schism, and quoting Bishop Robert Morlino of Madison, Wisconsin saying they are "suspended ipso facto from the moment of ordination" dah de dah and "Catholics should not frequent their chapels".

Bishop Robert Morlino (RIP - died in November 2020)

Michael Matt calls such criticism "dangerous, divisive and counter-productive", and counter-quotes the modernist Cardinal Walter Kasper (who at the time had responsibility for the SSPX) as saying "schism is not the right word". 

The Society may lack canonical status, yes, but with the Church auto-destructing around our ears and the globalists leading sheople by the nose to death by vax or starvation, is lack of canonical status for the SSPX something we should be worried about? 

Matt calls such "neo-Catholics who snarl at the SSPX for leading souls to hell" as "water carriers for the revolution."

"They're attempting to undermine the truly Catholic militant counter-revolution. The SSPX is its flagship operation. They're in the Church. They're working on this technicality" (lack of canonical status). And what's more, our gracious God gave their prominent accuser, Bishop Robert Morlino, time to repent before he died in November 2018, to make a startling public apology to the SSPX.  

So our reader of this blog got to compare (all right, comparisons are odious; it's for you to decide for which party this comparison is odious) the Novus Ordo this morning, and the Mass of Ages, the Timeless Mass, this evening. 

This morning for the 'rededication' of our country to the patronage of the Blessed Virgin Mary Assumed into Heaven she watched a video of school children singing a Maori hymn which the congregation knew not, interspersed with brave attempts at the chorus of the Lourdes hymn ("Ave, ave, ave Maria") with help from the organ.

This evening with no organ at their disposal - there's an organ in the funeral parlour but it's kept locked - after the usual prayers at the end of Mass for the conversion of Russia, the congregation prayed with Father Francois Laisney a closely-typed A4 page of reconsecration, specially modified by Father for the occasion, of our nation to Our Lady. 

The language was not monosyllabic by any means and would have been a challenge to many adults, let alone the children in the congregation, especially one eleven year-old boy who shall be nameless. 

As for the homilies at the respective Masses, they were incomparable. Say no more. 

Except that in commenting on the parlous state of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, Father Laisney pointed to two statements made by Peter, the "Rock" on which Christ was to build His Church. 

By divine revelation, Peter had made a solemn profession of his faith of the divinity of Christ: "Thou art Christ, the Son of the living God" (Mt 16:16). Then, Father Laisney said, only minutes later "Peter taking him, began to rebuke him, saying: Lord, be it far from thee, this shall not be unto thee. Who turning, said to Peter: Go behind me, Satan, thou art a scandal unto me: because thou savourest not the things that are of God, but the things that are of men" (ibid, 22, 23). 

The Douay-Rheims translation comments that "The Lord would have Peter to follow him in his suffering, and not to oppose the divine will by contradiction; for the word satan means in Hebrew an adversary, or one that opposes."

Father Laisney went on to say, more or less, that those two statements of Peter's manifest the two faces of the papacy and of the Church: the one filled with grace and fealty to Christ, and the other opposing Him and the Divine Will. 

And as a coup de grace - boom!!! - a letter written by the Superior-General of the SSPX in light of the motu proprio Traditionis Custodes was made available. In view of the delay in deciding the fate of the TLM in the Wellington Archdiocese its publication here might not be politic; however you can read it on the SSPX website: https://fsspx.news/en/news-events/news/letter-father-pagliarani-about-motu-proprio-%E2%80%9Ctraditionis-custodes%E2%80%9D-67623

In this, as in everything, Catholics must try to discern the Divine Will. 

"We ought to obey God rather than men" (Acts 5:29). 

The Assumption by Veronese

O Mary assumed into Heaven
pray for New Zealand

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