Pathetic Propaganda
Jul 7, 2018 6:50:04 GMT
Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2018 6:50:04 GMT
[Here is some really pathetic propaganda. Fr. Simoulin really overdoes it. And people fall for this?]
July 4, 2018
SOURCE – Fr. Michel Simoulin, SSPX - Le Seignadou - July-August 2018
Lies
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At the approach of our General Chapter, for which we pray and invite you to pray, other less favourable spirits are warming up. They are our "resistant" friends... so worried and eager to demonstrate that they were right to prophesy the fall of the Society and its rallying to the Council, that they are not afraid to use lies [the word "menterie" instead of "mensonge"] as our ancestors used to say! It is not the first time, and it has even become a habit for them: lies about the feast of the school of Saint-Manvieu, lies about my relations with Mother Anne-Marie, lies about the "liberals who are preparing the Chapter", to quote only the most recent, but the person who wrote what follows is really a champion! Did you know that in Moncrabeau (Lot-et-Garonne) there is an "Academy of Liars" which every year, on the first Sunday in August, holds a festival where everyone can come and propose some lie about their invention? Our beautiful bird would have every chance to be crowned "king of liars" and his tirade is worth quoting in its entirety:
"Pope Francis has just dedicated Pentecost Monday to Mary, Mother of the Church. The Society of Saint Pius X immediately publishes the information and subtly takes advantage of it to publish that Archbishop Lefebvre had rejoiced in the proclamation of Mary as Mother of the Church by the Council. As though there would be good things to accept in this council...!"
"If they had a little filial piety, the superiors of the Society of Saint Pius X could point out the miracle worked by Mary, Mother of the Church, that of having provided Archbishop Lefebvre to save the faith perverted by the Council. My conclusion is that this article of the Society of Saint Pius X, seemingly insignificant, is a sure sign that the Society of Saint Pius X wants not only to rally, but to accept the Council. Oh, certainly, it will accept it with reluctance, by making reservations like Bishop Schneider, but it will accept it. Its superiors have already accepted it."
You have indeed read: a sure sign that our superiors have already accepted the Council! Impressive, isn't it? Nice try: "all this is nothing but lies" as my priest's governess used to say! This talkative bird has to give me details of the act by which our superiors accepted the Council, its nature, its circumstances of place and date, etc... and we will talk about it again!
I will not sully my pen by telling you his name, but I will point out to him that it is not the Council but Pope Paul VI who made this proclamation! He did so during the Council, but of his own authority, during the promulgation of the dogmatic constitution Lumen Gentium on November 21, 1964. "To introduce this almost new title, notes Bishop Philips, the Pope did not request a "synodal" decree, he used his pontifical authority.”
So I will conclude by emphasizing that lying, when it is not a game and is taken seriously, is the weapon of mediocre people, and that the mediocrity of these methods is the best demonstration of the absence of serious and intelligent arguments! I will need more serious arguments to make me doubt my superiors and, especially, to doubt my mother, the Church. Because that is what it is all about.
On the day of my baptism, when Bishop Florent Dubois of the Villerabel (who would be gotten rid of shortly afterwards!) poured the water on my forehead, I was secretly conceived by the Holy Spirit in the womb of the Church, as Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit in the womb of Mary. This is, of course, an analogy, but it is indeed the Holy Spirit who, since my baptism "pours charity" into my soul, which first leads me to love those from whom I received divine life after natural life. And it is the Church which, in that order, became my mother. And the love that I have for the Church, my mother, is of the same order as the love of Jesus for Mary, his mother and mother of the Church.
So, if it is sadly true that my mother is sick, suffering from an illness similar to a true leprosy, must I flee far away, stop listening to her, hearing her and receiving from her what she can still give me that is good? Is she therefore no longer capable of a gesture of kindness, an act of truth, a smile? As Archbishop Lefebvre said in commenting on his 1974 declaration, "we turn a deaf ear to the destructive novelties of the Church," but we remain attentive to the Church and listen to and receive all that the Church "guardian of the Catholic Faith" tells us! Is she so sick at this point that she can no longer keep this faith for us, that she can no longer give us anything good? If this were the case, she would no longer be sick, but simply dead. Only a corpse is powerless to give something good. Any living being, however sick, can give something good. Now the Church is alive, and remains my mother. From her I can still receive kindnesses, benefits... despite her unfaithful ministers.
Among these benefits was the recognition of our sacramental powers for confessions and marriages, which are good realities but were no longer recognized. So would it still be loving my mother, the Church to tell her that I am not interested, that I do not need her? Archbishop Lefebvre, however, clearly showed us the rule which had dictated his own refusals: refusal of illegal acts (suppression of the Society) or acts contrary to the common good of the Church, mainly to its faith (erroneous documents of the Council, Assisi, etc.) To go further than him is to be unfaithful to him and, more seriously, to no longer have the spirit of the Church.
It is too easy to say that we believe in the Church and act as if it no longer exists. Our love for her cannot be theoretical or platonic, but concrete and real; and we must love her as she is today since that is how God loves her! To love her as she was before the Council is to love a wonderful memory, not a reality. Without doubt the Church is eternal in its substance, but it is incarnated in time, at a given time, and it is the Church of today that I must love, the Church of Pope Francis as she lives even if everything in her is unrecognizable! To love the Church without a pope or bishops, as if they did not exist, is to love a ghost or a corpse of the Church! To love the crucified Church as she suffers today is the only way to truly love her, as we love Jesus Christ, to love her so as to bring her what she needs: my faith, my hope, my trust and my compassion, in exchange for what she gives me beyond the evil from which she suffers: the supernatural life, the grace to live, share and offer what she herself lives and offers "per Ipsum, and cum Ipso et in Ipso" for the glory of the Most Holy Trinity.
To love the Church is to love her as God loves her, that is, as she is at the present moment, as He knows and loves her, and even as He wants her, since nothing happens without God's will.
And, as for me, I love the Society as I love the Church and as God loves it. I love it for what it gave me and still gives me, and I love it so as to give it what it needs: my trust, my fidelity... I know it is loved by God! I know it is loved by the Church as it was on the first day! And I would like to be able to love and serve it as much as its founder loved it, if only to make amends for so many abandonments and betrayals.
Let us end these reflections with a beautiful meditation borrowed from Saint Michael Garicoits.
"It is in the providential plan of God that there are heresies and that the wicked are mixed with the good, even in the Church. In practice, alas, we lose sight of this doctrine; we get angry, we get annoyed, we shout scandal when the Master said: "It is necessary that there be scandals" (Mt. 18:7). Like the servants with indiscrete zeal of whom the Gospel speaks, we would like to tear off what seems useless or harmful, but which enters into the designs of God. To those, Jesus Christ answers: "Let the cockle grow, lest by gathering it up, you uproot the good grain." (Mt. 13:29-30).
Drawing good from evil, that is the character of the predestined. This is the use we must make of temptations, sorrows and tribulations that God sends us; for He is the author of everything, except sin. The punishments of sin are His work and, for the sin itself, although He does not want it, He allows it positively: "necesse est ut veniant scandala, it is necessary that scandals come; opportet haeresesesse, it is necessary that there be heresies" (I Cor. 11, 19). Sin therefore also enters into the fulfillment of His designs, to excite the just and form the novices who must reign in heaven. God draws good from evil; did He not draw His glory from the shame of the Cross and, from deicide, the salvation of mankind?
Let us therefore sanctify ourselves, not only on the occasion of the virtues of our brothers, but also of their scandals. God allows them; I do not say enough, He wants them, not in themselves, but in relation to us, to sanctify us; just as He wants the devil to roar around us to tempt us.
If we must look at God's will even in unhappiness and sin, what a mess to reject that which displeases, because it displeases! Heli receives from Samuel the news of his ruin, what does he answer? "The Lord is Master; let it be done according to his good pleasure" (I Kings 3:18). Admirable answer to a word of death! We should respond, at all times, in order to be and to appear as we should be, and to attract others to duty.
Whatever misfortune happens, let us bless the Lord: it is a precept, "sit nomen Domini benedictum - may the name of the Lord be blessed!" (Job 1:21) But who only wants to fulfill the precept, will never fulfill it. It is therefore necessary to tend towards loving submission, and to say yes, at least with a beginning of love.
How many times a day we have on our lips: "Paratum cor meum, Deus, paratum - My heart is ready, Lord, it is ready" (Ps 107:1)! Ah! if we really had it in our hearts, and if we could say without lying: I am ready, Lord, and ready for anything! What happiness! The pious David was there. In the midst of all the tribulations he cried out: "Dominus regit me et nihil mihi deerit; the Lord leads me, I shall want nothing." (Ps 22:1).
Source: tradinews.blogspot.com/2018/07/abbe-michel-simoulin-fsspx-le-seignadou.html
July 4, 2018
SOURCE – Fr. Michel Simoulin, SSPX - Le Seignadou - July-August 2018
Lies
_________________________________________________________________________________
At the approach of our General Chapter, for which we pray and invite you to pray, other less favourable spirits are warming up. They are our "resistant" friends... so worried and eager to demonstrate that they were right to prophesy the fall of the Society and its rallying to the Council, that they are not afraid to use lies [the word "menterie" instead of "mensonge"] as our ancestors used to say! It is not the first time, and it has even become a habit for them: lies about the feast of the school of Saint-Manvieu, lies about my relations with Mother Anne-Marie, lies about the "liberals who are preparing the Chapter", to quote only the most recent, but the person who wrote what follows is really a champion! Did you know that in Moncrabeau (Lot-et-Garonne) there is an "Academy of Liars" which every year, on the first Sunday in August, holds a festival where everyone can come and propose some lie about their invention? Our beautiful bird would have every chance to be crowned "king of liars" and his tirade is worth quoting in its entirety:
"Pope Francis has just dedicated Pentecost Monday to Mary, Mother of the Church. The Society of Saint Pius X immediately publishes the information and subtly takes advantage of it to publish that Archbishop Lefebvre had rejoiced in the proclamation of Mary as Mother of the Church by the Council. As though there would be good things to accept in this council...!"
"If they had a little filial piety, the superiors of the Society of Saint Pius X could point out the miracle worked by Mary, Mother of the Church, that of having provided Archbishop Lefebvre to save the faith perverted by the Council. My conclusion is that this article of the Society of Saint Pius X, seemingly insignificant, is a sure sign that the Society of Saint Pius X wants not only to rally, but to accept the Council. Oh, certainly, it will accept it with reluctance, by making reservations like Bishop Schneider, but it will accept it. Its superiors have already accepted it."
You have indeed read: a sure sign that our superiors have already accepted the Council! Impressive, isn't it? Nice try: "all this is nothing but lies" as my priest's governess used to say! This talkative bird has to give me details of the act by which our superiors accepted the Council, its nature, its circumstances of place and date, etc... and we will talk about it again!
I will not sully my pen by telling you his name, but I will point out to him that it is not the Council but Pope Paul VI who made this proclamation! He did so during the Council, but of his own authority, during the promulgation of the dogmatic constitution Lumen Gentium on November 21, 1964. "To introduce this almost new title, notes Bishop Philips, the Pope did not request a "synodal" decree, he used his pontifical authority.”
So I will conclude by emphasizing that lying, when it is not a game and is taken seriously, is the weapon of mediocre people, and that the mediocrity of these methods is the best demonstration of the absence of serious and intelligent arguments! I will need more serious arguments to make me doubt my superiors and, especially, to doubt my mother, the Church. Because that is what it is all about.
On the day of my baptism, when Bishop Florent Dubois of the Villerabel (who would be gotten rid of shortly afterwards!) poured the water on my forehead, I was secretly conceived by the Holy Spirit in the womb of the Church, as Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit in the womb of Mary. This is, of course, an analogy, but it is indeed the Holy Spirit who, since my baptism "pours charity" into my soul, which first leads me to love those from whom I received divine life after natural life. And it is the Church which, in that order, became my mother. And the love that I have for the Church, my mother, is of the same order as the love of Jesus for Mary, his mother and mother of the Church.
So, if it is sadly true that my mother is sick, suffering from an illness similar to a true leprosy, must I flee far away, stop listening to her, hearing her and receiving from her what she can still give me that is good? Is she therefore no longer capable of a gesture of kindness, an act of truth, a smile? As Archbishop Lefebvre said in commenting on his 1974 declaration, "we turn a deaf ear to the destructive novelties of the Church," but we remain attentive to the Church and listen to and receive all that the Church "guardian of the Catholic Faith" tells us! Is she so sick at this point that she can no longer keep this faith for us, that she can no longer give us anything good? If this were the case, she would no longer be sick, but simply dead. Only a corpse is powerless to give something good. Any living being, however sick, can give something good. Now the Church is alive, and remains my mother. From her I can still receive kindnesses, benefits... despite her unfaithful ministers.
Among these benefits was the recognition of our sacramental powers for confessions and marriages, which are good realities but were no longer recognized. So would it still be loving my mother, the Church to tell her that I am not interested, that I do not need her? Archbishop Lefebvre, however, clearly showed us the rule which had dictated his own refusals: refusal of illegal acts (suppression of the Society) or acts contrary to the common good of the Church, mainly to its faith (erroneous documents of the Council, Assisi, etc.) To go further than him is to be unfaithful to him and, more seriously, to no longer have the spirit of the Church.
It is too easy to say that we believe in the Church and act as if it no longer exists. Our love for her cannot be theoretical or platonic, but concrete and real; and we must love her as she is today since that is how God loves her! To love her as she was before the Council is to love a wonderful memory, not a reality. Without doubt the Church is eternal in its substance, but it is incarnated in time, at a given time, and it is the Church of today that I must love, the Church of Pope Francis as she lives even if everything in her is unrecognizable! To love the Church without a pope or bishops, as if they did not exist, is to love a ghost or a corpse of the Church! To love the crucified Church as she suffers today is the only way to truly love her, as we love Jesus Christ, to love her so as to bring her what she needs: my faith, my hope, my trust and my compassion, in exchange for what she gives me beyond the evil from which she suffers: the supernatural life, the grace to live, share and offer what she herself lives and offers "per Ipsum, and cum Ipso et in Ipso" for the glory of the Most Holy Trinity.
To love the Church is to love her as God loves her, that is, as she is at the present moment, as He knows and loves her, and even as He wants her, since nothing happens without God's will.
And, as for me, I love the Society as I love the Church and as God loves it. I love it for what it gave me and still gives me, and I love it so as to give it what it needs: my trust, my fidelity... I know it is loved by God! I know it is loved by the Church as it was on the first day! And I would like to be able to love and serve it as much as its founder loved it, if only to make amends for so many abandonments and betrayals.
Let us end these reflections with a beautiful meditation borrowed from Saint Michael Garicoits.
"It is in the providential plan of God that there are heresies and that the wicked are mixed with the good, even in the Church. In practice, alas, we lose sight of this doctrine; we get angry, we get annoyed, we shout scandal when the Master said: "It is necessary that there be scandals" (Mt. 18:7). Like the servants with indiscrete zeal of whom the Gospel speaks, we would like to tear off what seems useless or harmful, but which enters into the designs of God. To those, Jesus Christ answers: "Let the cockle grow, lest by gathering it up, you uproot the good grain." (Mt. 13:29-30).
Drawing good from evil, that is the character of the predestined. This is the use we must make of temptations, sorrows and tribulations that God sends us; for He is the author of everything, except sin. The punishments of sin are His work and, for the sin itself, although He does not want it, He allows it positively: "necesse est ut veniant scandala, it is necessary that scandals come; opportet haeresesesse, it is necessary that there be heresies" (I Cor. 11, 19). Sin therefore also enters into the fulfillment of His designs, to excite the just and form the novices who must reign in heaven. God draws good from evil; did He not draw His glory from the shame of the Cross and, from deicide, the salvation of mankind?
Let us therefore sanctify ourselves, not only on the occasion of the virtues of our brothers, but also of their scandals. God allows them; I do not say enough, He wants them, not in themselves, but in relation to us, to sanctify us; just as He wants the devil to roar around us to tempt us.
If we must look at God's will even in unhappiness and sin, what a mess to reject that which displeases, because it displeases! Heli receives from Samuel the news of his ruin, what does he answer? "The Lord is Master; let it be done according to his good pleasure" (I Kings 3:18). Admirable answer to a word of death! We should respond, at all times, in order to be and to appear as we should be, and to attract others to duty.
Whatever misfortune happens, let us bless the Lord: it is a precept, "sit nomen Domini benedictum - may the name of the Lord be blessed!" (Job 1:21) But who only wants to fulfill the precept, will never fulfill it. It is therefore necessary to tend towards loving submission, and to say yes, at least with a beginning of love.
How many times a day we have on our lips: "Paratum cor meum, Deus, paratum - My heart is ready, Lord, it is ready" (Ps 107:1)! Ah! if we really had it in our hearts, and if we could say without lying: I am ready, Lord, and ready for anything! What happiness! The pious David was there. In the midst of all the tribulations he cried out: "Dominus regit me et nihil mihi deerit; the Lord leads me, I shall want nothing." (Ps 22:1).
Source: tradinews.blogspot.com/2018/07/abbe-michel-simoulin-fsspx-le-seignadou.html