In 1989, in the Preface to his testament, Spiritual Journey, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre wrote the following concerning the leaders of the conciliar church:
It is because the reign of Our Lord is no longer the center of attention and of activity for those who are our præpositi [our prelates], that they lose the sense of God and of the Catholic Priesthood, and that we can no longer follow them.
Commenting upon the Archbishop’s words in a conference given in 2010, then Superior General, Bishop Bernard Fellay, stated:
The evil of the Council is the ignorance of Jesus Christ. They no longer know who Jesus is. In theory, they may still attribute to Him the Godhead, divinity. In practice, they refuse to draw the conclusions. One of these is His Kingship. He is the Lord. For them, He is no longer the Lord; look at the way they handle the question of society and the State.
Now, ten years later, it is becoming ever more apparent that the Society of St. Pius X, vis-à-vis the attitude of its current leadership, no longer places the Sovereign Rights of Christ the King at the center of their attention and activities. They give every appearance of committing the grave errors identified by Bishop Fellay a mere decade ago:
In practice, they refuse to draw the conclusions that necessarily derive from Our Lord’s Kingship. For them, He is no longer the Lord; look at the way they handle the question of society and the State.
On 23 March, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson issued an order that effectively prohibits the public offering of Holy Mass. It declares:
We’ll stop all social events, including weddings, baptisms and other ceremonies, but excluding funerals … If you don’t follow the rules the police will have the powers to enforce them, including through fines and dispersing gatherings.
In response to this unlawful edict from the State, Fr. Robert Brucciani, SSPX, (above) District Superior of Great Britain, dispatched a letter to Society faithful that reads [emphasis added]:
Dear Faithful,
An announcement this evening by the British PM has left us with no choice but to cancel all public religious ceremonies and close our chapels in Great Britain and Northern Ireland for at least three weeks starting from this moment (Monday evening 23/03/2020). An announcement about the ceremonies and chapels of Ireland will follow.
Tomorrow, our priests will work on a plan to continue our apostolate using every means left to us. We are able to tend the sick and the dying within the government restrictions, but we need to find a way of administering the sacraments of penance and Holy Communion to the rest of the faithful without breaking the law. We will also look to develop the teaching and devotional apostolate by printed, audio and visual media.
There is some real good to be drawn from this evil. In this privation of the sacraments, we might deepen our understand of the loss felt by Our Lady and the Apostles as they all came sorrowfully away from the tomb. De profundis clamavi ad Te Domine.
We might also start the family rosary as a daily routine. Mother Mary would be so pleased.
In Jesu et Maria,
Rev. Robert Brucciani
District Superior
This is how SSPX leadership is choosing to handle the question of society and the State; declaring to their faithful, and to the world at large, that the Church has no choice but to operate within government restrictions. As I recently wrote, one expects as much from the conciliar church, but surely it is reasonable to expect more from a Society that claims unwavering allegiance to Eternal Rome.
In response to my criticism of Fr. Jurgen Wenger’s sell-out to the civil authority in the United States, the rejoinder was offered in his defense:
Who is in charge of the Church, last I saw it was a man named Bergoglio and his chosen men. No SSPX bishop, superior general, or priest carry that crown.
Setting aside the undeniable reality that “Bergoglio” reigns over the conciliar imposter and is not in charge of the Church… For the sake of any who may be similarly confused, the “full freedom of the Church to judge and decide as to the things that may best suit Her ends” (Pope Leo XIII, Officio Sanctissimo, which was addressed to the Church in Bavaria) applies as much to the local churches as to the Church Universal; in practice, arguably even more-so given that the civil authorities operate locally.
So, inasmuch as the SSPX is a part of the one true Church (a claim that is in danger of teetering on the very edge of believability), then it does indeed “carry that crown.” Furthermore, that crown is none other than the Crown of Christ the King!
This is why I shall never tire of declaring that the State has no authority whatsoever to place restrictions upon the Catholic Church in the exercise of her mission!
The Church is the Mystical Body of Christ, and as such Her freedom from the dictates of the State in these matters is a direct consequence of Our Lord’s Kingship and His Sovereign Rights over every nation.
Surrendering this freedom, declaring that we have no choice but to operate under government restrictions, is tantamount to renouncing the Kingship of Christ.
To any self-identified “traditionalist” that feels compelled to defend this capitulation of the SSPX to the civil power in this matter, as well as those who are content to sit in silence as its leaders willingly submit to the whims of the State, the words of Archbishop Lefebvre most certainly apply:
The reign of Our Lord is no longer the center of your attention and activity.
To the rest of you, who presumably share my disappointment and outrage, make it your business to get in touch with SSPX leadership, letting them know that their unwillingness to stand up for the eminent liberty of the Church in the face so much governmental overreach is an affront to the Sovereign Rights of Christ the King that cannot be tolerated.
Caving like a house of cards! Imagine the radiant witness to Christ Our King that would occur should SSPX priests be carried off by the British police And photos of such thuggery be beamed across the world. Alas, we live in an Age of Effeminacy: Let’s go along to get along. Mustn’t ruffle feathers! Have mercy on us Lord Jesus!
It is an unlawful illegitimate order.
The District Superior does not have authority from God to enforce it.
All District Priests are obligated to ignore it, and him, and offer the public offering of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
Look through him to Jesus. If he contradicts and acts against Our Lord, then it is Our Lord who must be obeyed, not man – even up to the Pope (or “Pope”) himself.
In the same way that the District Superior does not have authority to alter the Lord’s Prayer, so also he may not remove the Holy Mass from the Faithful.
Choose carefully, brave SSPX Priests. This is a moment of choice – eternally significant choice – both for you and for us.
First and foremost God must be given His due.
Using social distancing in the pews and asking only the healthy assist at Mass the priests would honor the laws of man. Nothing else would be required.
Please SSPX, we need a witness to the Catholic Faith in this Age of Coronavirus. Don’t be like Cupich.
“Using social distancing in the pews and asking only the healthy assist at Mass the priests would honor the laws of man.”
Actually, it wouldn’t. The government has forbidden us to gather in “groups” of more than two! Plus, the government has also explicitly ordered the closure of all “places of worship”.
Anna,
My post makes sense. The dictates of your government go beyond what would be allowed by the “laws of man”.
I will honor the laws of man, until they conflict with the laws of God. Then, no.
In principle, Mr. Verrecchio’s point makes sense. However, if the decades of ministry of the SSPX is authorized by the argument of “necessity”, rather than by a legitimate governing authority, then the whole idea of a regular public ministry may not be legitimate in the first place. So, if the SSPX is still having private Masses and anointing the dying because of necessity in spite of the UK ban, maybe that’s all they should really be doing anyway. There is, of course, the 3rd issue of whether or not Bergoglio (maybe not a real pope, but certainly an administrator of Vatican City) could regularize the SSPX in the matter of hearing confessions and witnessing marriages.
SSPX invites faithful to join the “Pope” in prayer tomorrow the Feast of the Annunciation re COVIS-19. The SSPX loyalty to this fake pope is sickening.
The SSPX have got problems for sure. I’m so glad Mr. Verrecchio that you are interviewing this SSPX guy but I think that you should interview someone who might have an idea of how we get a Pope from Catholic Bishops instead of these New Order fairy cardinals via “supplied jurisdiction.” The oh so nuanced complexities of which if only I was a bit brighter I might understand. I wouldn’t take a donut from those evil little Antichrists, why would I follow a Pope they elect? They have elected how many false Popes now dragging how many former Catholics out of the Church and possibly to Hell? That’s crazy. I wish I could think of anyone that you could interview but across the board in every camp people carry on with their own chosen bishops and leave the responsibility of electing a Pope to God or to the New Order. Certainly more sensible to leave it to God but He never told us to do that. Sit tight after the Pope dies and I’ll send you one someday. That would be fascinating to see what miraculous way we’d get a Pope every so many years. No, it’s much more boring than that, we have a conclave and elect him. I am behind you Mr. Verrecchio, I believe that you are a man who loves Truth and I hope you keep looking. Thank you for that.
One cannot serve two Masters. If the SSPX served Christ, they would be suffering terrible persecution; they, as an organisation have become more comfortable and compromising with evil, and more vicious towards those who speak the truth. As the evil Apostasy and heresy has exponentially risen, so has the official SSPX-as-organisation cooperation, compliance therewith. Very distressing.
There ought to be many bishops, priests etc. in jail, and suffering severe persecution were they upholding the Faith, as we are living in the most evil, anti-Christ world dictatorship. Those who are suffering persecution are suffering double persecution as they are abandoned by the apparent bishops and priests who collude against them. Holy martyrs and saints intercede for us! St John Eudes intercede for the remnant faithful and send us some holy priests who care only to give glory to God and save souls. Everywhere is compliance and collusion with the enemies of God and the Faithful, by those in apparent leadership. They fear the temporal anti-Christ dictators and those who have economic power; but where is their fear of Holy God?
Where are the martyred and persecuted bishops, priests or religious? Bishops and priests are assisting the persecutors of Holy God and His Church. Satan’s reign is at its zenith. Lord, save us from all evil, especially priests or bishops that lead us to mortal sin, compliance with evil and evil dictatorships.
Hardly any holy souls to give glory and consolation to God.
Dear God, have mercy!
I agree with you on this Louie, even though I am still of the opinion we should cooperate with quarantine even though this means refraining from public Holy Mass for a few weeks. But as regards the SSPX, I have long said they do not seem such a pillar of Catholicism to me. For a number of years we suffered with Bergolio in a diocesan church, and at no point did we ever hear of the SSPX reaching out and trying to let the average Catholic know Catholicism was proceeding on, relatively undisturbed, at a local venue. Where WAS the SSPX for the last 7 years?? Have they made an agreement with Francis Church that they will continue to wear the gear and say the Mass but will not bother nor molest any of the diocesan laity? Is that the nature of the agreement? If I sound frustrated, it’s because, I am. If you are claiming to maintain fidelity in worship to God, you might want to share that information with Catholics who have tried to ENDURE under this rotten papacy! I realized about two years ago, the SSPX has been fairly irrelevant, like those udders on a bull. They are in large part silent! They seem a closed unit, they don’t reach out to the average Catholic in any way I’ve seen. We, as enduring Catholics trying to get through life under lousy circumstances with a horrible pope, we need to just plod along as best we can. Not even a public refutation of Bergoglio and his crimes against God, that would have definitely been noticed by Catholics, maybe even saved a soul or two by telling people the truth! Hardly a peep. So I remain less than impressed. People have been left in error with a blasphemous, pagan pope.
So I’m not terribly swayed by the SSPX as being so incredibly “Catholic”.
In general, people do not have the high caliber of Catholicity they once had, and since classical education has fallen by the wayside, quite frankly the decline in Catholic education and rigor rears it’s ugly head everywhere. I’m not the least surprised that even the head of the SSPX would start to sound more like a globalist worldling than someone supposedly in charge of the “faithful” Catholic arm, and would fairly quickly fold under state diktats. Will these men do as priests are doing now, and hide behind safe walls without regard for severely ill people who need to be baptized and given sacraments before they take that last breath? Many of these men probably do not care and they aren’t going to risk their material lives for that. Do I sound jaded, you bet. I’ve seen too much of these men over the last 7. God bless and eternally reward the number of excellent priests that are out there, I know some, and they are a blessed relief when encountered, but they are outnumbered by the careerists.
Cast your fears to the Lord, Who sees all and knows all, and Who knows what we need and will provide it. He needs no men, faithful or otherwise, to do this. We need have no fear we will have what we need when we need it. He loves us and is always faithful.
Cooperation with NWO dictatorship. Terrible silence on the evils they ought to be publicly leading the laity against -but that would mean suffering, persecution, loss of comfort, prestige, monies, with the anti-Christ world dictatorship bringing their power against them. The “one world religion” of the anti-Christ NWO freemasonic dictatorship becomes more and more formal and open, and its centre is in the apparent institutions of the Catholic Church which were taken over, as the SSPX was taken over by the Enemy.
The true Catholic Church never obeyed enemies of Christ but obeyed God and their duty. The Church up to a few decades ago, at least at the top levels and in most places gave its tribute to God, regardless of real plagues, persecutions, wars. Good priests and bishops kept open their Churches and kept holy the Sabbath Day, feeding the souls of the Faithful and shining a light of Truth and sacrificial witness for those who had not yet come into the Faith – during terrible times such as the 1918 influenza epidemic, wars etc. That is how Faith and piety, and the gifts of the Holy Spirit were increased in the Faithful, and how many converted to the One True Faith, giving greater glory to God and saving souls.
Many good Catholic bishops and priests gave great example and leadership and exhorted the Faithful to continue to attend Holy Mass, and to help the sick and dying, and help bury the dead and to come to the aid of the orphaned children during the height of the 1918 influenza epidemic, when it was most lethal. We are not to stop practising publicly the Faith during such times, but become a brighter light.
Of course, there is no special or significant epidemic at this time. That is fact, even on their own unreliable data.
“Therefore God gave them the operation to believe lying.”
Don’t look to the one world anti-Christ dictatorship and its propaganda machines, who have enforced sodomy, men as women, sodomites as two father’s of innocent children, destruction of morals, family, the sanctity of life, etc to give you the truth. Their propaganda and programmes, false flag operations and disinformation is always in the service of Satan, the destruction of Faith and morals – and the ever-increasing temporal totalitarian oppression and absolute control that is thereby enabled.
Start using the priest holes again!
https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/Priests-Holes/
Akita,
Excellent observation, during this trial, it would be wonderful to see priests being carried away from Mass by cops, choosing to honor our Lord Jesus above all temporal nonsense.
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Jesus Is Life.
Linda,
Well stated. The agenda of many nations is no longer hidden. Vile, destructive behavior is openly promoted.
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Almighty God strengthen us, increase our Love of Jesus.
For the sake of their parishioners, someone needs to pass on to them the following:
Protocols for the Mass During Times of Rampant Plague
01) Priests should continue saying Mass per their usual schedules in the churches, which should continue to be open to the public. This is because the Mass is the eternal worship of God and must always continue, regardless of how well it may be attended by the Faithful. The priest offers his Mass on behalf of his congregation, usually those who show up, but also for those who for legitimate reason are unable to show up.
02) However, given the extreme risk of transmission of a potentially fatal disease, parishioners are dispensed from their normal Sunday and Holy Day of Obligation Mass attendance and generally encouraged to attend sparingly, say once a month, though all remain welcome. This dispensation is comparable to that occasionally given from the law forbidding cremation.
03) For those (hopefully not so many) parishioners as do show up, all the usual social distancing rules must be observed. Other than family groups who dwell under one roof each person or family group must remain six feet away from all other persons or family groups. For individual attendees, pews should alternate between one person in the middle and two persons, one at each extreme end in the next pew in front or behind, and so forth. While passing in or out of the doors to the Church individuals and family groups must maintain a six foot distance from the individual or family group ahead or behind.
04) Those who either a) may have the disease (positive active and recent diagnosis – symptoms still present to any degree), or exhibit the symptoms of the disease, or know themselves to have been recently exposed to the disease within the past week, even if lacking any symptoms or testing, or b) are in particular danger from the disease owing to extreme age, ill health, known to be immunosensitive or any other specific factors are expressly discouraged from Mass attendance.
05) Communion will not be given out to the people in the Mass; only the priest and servers receive.
06) Holy water is removed from the small fonts at the doors, which are also taped over as a reminder that they will not be used and should not even be touched until the plague is over. Parishioners are advised to bring their own holy water to bless themselves immediately prior to entering church or after leaving, and even if lacking water, to genuflect upon entry or departure otherwise as normal.
07) Blessings for candles, water, or other items may be performed after the Mass; individuals or one member of a family group will come up one at a time to place items for blessings on a table. When all items to be blessed are there, the priest will bless them without touching them, after which individuals return one at a time to reclaim their items.
08) The priest is available to meet anyone or any family on a one-on-one basis by appointment, not only for Last Rites, but also for Communion or Penance or counseling; masks and gloves and all other prudent precautions shall be taken by all participants at any such private gathering. St. Blaise blessings for the throat will also be done under similar terms only privately and by appointment.
09) For those as do not attend Mass on a given Sunday or Holy Day of Obligation, the Mass prayers for that day are strongly encouraged, a guide will be provided on how to do that for those unfamiliar with it, and also to point to the current day’s readings. In lieu of that, a family Rosary may be said. 15 minutes of pious reading may also be encouraged. If the priest has the technical know how and is willing, his Mass may be streamed for his parishioners, or he may point to another priest’s livestreaming as another way to receive the blessings of the Mass.
10) When the plague is ended, the dispensation also ends and normal Mass and other obligations return.
Ubipetrus: That sounds about right. Which is what our Priest is doing at our Parish.
Couldn’t find your info anywhere, to verify.
Source please?
Kudos, Mr. V. Well done
I heartily agree.
O ye faint of heart! Slightly stretching it with your title, “SSPX renounces….”, methinks.
Could be a prudential judgement – what to do in the circumstances?
No suggestions from you as to what to do when at the first public Mass the police turn up and start arresting the priest, if not the faithful?
You are blaming the SSPX for not reaching out to you to fix the broken Church? You do realise who holds the power and wordly authority in this contest, don’t you?
Have you considered the obligation to follow your faith and move your worship over to the SSPX? To support this society which has as you say so much good in it?