Fr. Hewko's SHM Newsletter - June 2019

Dear Remnant Left on the Battlefield,

Gideon’s army was reduced to 300 soldiers to fight a decisive battle against the Midianites (Judges VII), and won!

Up against 48,000 Syrians, God gave the victory to Jonathan Maccabee’s meager 3,000 soldiers!

On September 12, 1683 some 200,000 blood-thirsty Muslims arrived at the gates of Vienna, Austria. John Sobieski arrived heading 65,000 Polish, German, and Austrian Catholic knights, reminding them: “It is not a city alone that we have to save, but the whole of Christianity, of which the city of Vienna is the bulwark!” After a spectacular victory, Sobieski saluted the Mother of God and gave the glory to the real cause of their win, adapting the words of Julius Caesar: “We came, We saw, God gave the victory!” (Venimus, vidimus, Deus vincit!”).

The Sacred Heart of Jesus could single-handedly defeat the Church’s enemies, inside and out; in an instant; at a single word; with “the sword which proceedeth from His mouth” (Apoc. XIX, 21). But He is preparing the greatest victory of all history for His Most Beautiful Virgin Mother! The Immaculate Heart of Mary desires us to help Her prepare this triumph, with our humble rosaries, breast-plated in Her Brown Scapular, professing by words, and more by actions, the Holy Catholic Faith!

This is what Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre did with his episcopacy. He saved the Faith. He preserved the Catholic priesthood. Consecrated to Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart, he “scattered the proud [Conciliar Churchmen] in the conceit of their heart” (St. Luke, I: 51) by resisting the Modernist Popes to their face, proclaiming the Social Reign of Our Lord Jesus Christ, while they proudly conspired with Freemasonry to uncrown Him and dress Him in the mock-purple of Pluralism and Ecumenism.

Now, the Conciliar disease has infiltrated the Society of St. Pius X, founded by Archbishop Lefebvre to be a bulwark against the enemies of Christ.

Many good-willed souls are bewildered, confused, or simply refuse to inquire into the obvious doctrinal compromise of the Holy Faith in the SSPX. “When Error,” explained Cardinal Pie of Poitiers, “has become embodied in the legal formulae and the administrative practices, it penetrates the minds so deeply, it becomes impossible to extricate it!”

The documents of 2012 AD from the General Chapter Statement, the Six Conditions for the agreement with Rome and the Doctrinal Declaration (not “prudential”!) including the ongoing “recognition” from Modernist Rome, all these are injecting errors and compromise into the very bloodstream of the SSPX! Now, the consequences are unfolding before our very eyes with recent announcements that Ascension Thursday (a holy day of obligation in the U.S.) can now be observed on the following Sunday and all SSPX marriages must be approved by the local diocesan Modernist bishops! Take a close look at the well-documented Catalogue of Compromise, Change, and Contradiction in the SSPX listing 103 examples, and counting! Say all you want about how “nothing has changed,” the undeniable facts are there!

It doesn’t matter how small or large the remnant, faithful to Catholic Tradition dwindles, we must simply fight on, despite all odds, confident in Our Lady’s help, to stand firm in the line of the 20 Councils (excluding Vatican II!), the anti-Modernist Popes (from Pius XII, back) and Archbishop Lefebvre! “When someone asks if we know when there will be an accord with Rome, my answer is simple: When Rome re-crowns Our Lord Jesus Christ! We cannot be an accord with those who uncrown Our Lord! The day when they recognize once again Our Lord as King of all people and nations, it will be not be us with whom they are rejoined, but the Catholic Church, in which we dwell!” (Abp. Lefebvre, 1988, Fideliter , No. 68 p. 16).

With Modernism engulfing the Church as the Muslims did Vienna, how well Abp. Lefebvre understood, with the great Sobieski: “It’s not the city (i.e. the SSPX) alone we have to save, but the whole of Christianity (i.e. Catholic Tradition) of which the city of Vienna is the bulwark!”

Fight on, little flock, with Our Lady’s weapons, the Victory is Hers!

In Christ the King,
Fr. David Hewko