Cor Mariae joins the False Resistance
Jun 25, 2020 11:14:47 GMT
Post by Admin on Jun 25, 2020 11:14:47 GMT
Dear friends,
In the opening post, I included the following summary of some of the statements made Bp. Williamson:
· The new religion can build your Faith.
· Attending the New Mass can build your Faith.
· Do whatever you think you need to do to keep the Faith, which can include attending the Novus Ordo Mass.
· If you attend the Novus Ordo Mass you have to be careful, but you can find the grace of God there and sanctify your soul.
· Not everyone needs to avoid the Novus Ordo Mass.
· Attending the Novus Ordo may do more good than harm spiritually.
· Not every priest needs to leave the conciliar church or stop saying the Novus Ordo Mass.
· The Novus Ordo Mass does not always undermine the Faith, though frequently it does.
· The problem with the Novus Ordo Mass is that it is ambiguous. It can be made to favour the new religion, but does not have to, it can also be done in line with the old religion.
· The problem with Vatican II is that it is ambiguous.
· By distancing yourself from the conciliar church, you are putting yourself in danger and risk becoming a Pharisee who is disconnected from reality.
· We must accept the supposed ‘Eucharistic miracles’ of the Novus Ordo Mass as genuine.
· The Eucharistic miracles of the Novus Ordo Mass have lessons for Traditional Catholics, one of which is that the Novus Ordo Mass doesn’t always have to be avoided.
· The Novus Ordo Mass is not as good as the Traditional Mass, but it is still better than nothing.
· Attending the Novus Ordo may do more good than harm spiritually.
· Not every priest needs to leave the conciliar church or stop saying the Novus Ordo Mass.
· The Novus Ordo Mass does not always undermine the Faith, though frequently it does.
· The problem with the Novus Ordo Mass is that it is ambiguous. It can be made to favour the new religion, but does not have to, it can also be done in line with the old religion.
· The problem with Vatican II is that it is ambiguous.
· By distancing yourself from the conciliar church, you are putting yourself in danger and risk becoming a Pharisee who is disconnected from reality.
· We must accept the supposed ‘Eucharistic miracles’ of the Novus Ordo Mass as genuine.
· The Eucharistic miracles of the Novus Ordo Mass have lessons for Traditional Catholics, one of which is that the Novus Ordo Mass doesn’t always have to be avoided.
· The Novus Ordo Mass is not as good as the Traditional Mass, but it is still better than nothing.
In the eighth chapter of Don Felix Sarda y Salvany's book, Liberalism is a Sin, he writes:
On the borderland between the realms of light and darkness, the devil is most active and ingenious in detaining those who seem about to escape his snares, and he spares nothing to retain in his service a great number of people who would truly detest his infernal machinations if they only perceived them. His method, in the instance of persons infected with Liberalism, is to suffer them to place one foot within the domain of truth, provided they keep the other inside the camp of error. In this way they stand the victim of the devil's deceit and their own folly. In this way those whose consciences are not yet entirely hardened escape the salutary horrors of remorse; so the pusillanimous and the vacillating, who comprise the greater number of Liberals, avoid compromising themselves by pronouncing themselves such openly and squarely; so the shrewd and calculating (according to the measure of expediency -- how much time they will spend in each camp), manage to show themselves the friends and allies of both; so a man is enabled to administer an official and recognized palliative to his failings, his weaknesses and his blunders. It is the obscurity that arises from the indefiniteness of clearly defined principles of truth and error in the Liberalist's mind that makes him the easy victim of Satan. His boasted strength is the very source of his weakness. It is because he has no real solid knowledge of the principles of truth and error that he is so easily deluded into the belief of his own intellectual superiority. He is in a mental haze -- a fog which hides from him the abyss into which his vanity and pride, cunningly played upon by Satan, are invariably drawing him.
Don Felix Sarda y Salvany also notes that it is "Protestantism [that] naturally begets toleration of error."
In the above [public] statements made by Bp. Williamson, he makes it very clear that it is acceptable to tolerate the errors of the Conciliar Church. We have long understood that New Mass, the new Conciliar Sacraments, the New Catechism, the New Code of Canon Law, the New Saints, the New 's so-called 'miracles' are all products of the Conciliar Revolution.
By making allowances for these new Conciliar products, Bp. Williamson implicitly and explicitly sanctions them. The New Mass which was emphatically anathematized by Pope St. Pius V's bull Quo Primum, cannot somehow enrich souls by giving grace. The Conciliar religion cannot build a true Catholic Faith. They are opposed to each other. One is the true Faith, the other is essentially Protestant and most certainly Modernist. They are mutually exclusive!
Dear friends, let 'our yes be yes and our no, be no!' Many martyrs, saints, popes, and good clergy have taught us that one does not mix truth with error without slowly losing the Faith. Many have shown battle-fatigue over the last several decades. It is easier to receive Sacraments from what is available rather than wait for the uncompromising priests, especially since there are so few of those left.
Let us continue to pray for each other and remembering the words of our first Pope, may we all "be sober and watch: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour." [1 Peter 5:8]
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Below is an excerpt from one of Archbishop Lefebvre's Letters to Friends and Benefactors, dated April 1980 (forty years old now!). Notice the simplicity and clarity in this Letter, notice how it is not ambiguous. does not compromise with error. These words help the faithful to keep their eye on the prize of Heaven and helps them to ascertain who will help get them there:
We must protect the worship of the Church, the Sacrifice of the Mass, and the sacraments instituted by Our Lord, practicing them according to the rites honored by twenty centuries of tradition. Thus we will properly honor Our Lord, and thus be assured of receiving His grace.
It is because the novelties which have invaded the Church since the Council diminish the adoration and the honor due to Our Lord, and implicitly throw doubt upon His divinity, that we refuse them. These novelties do not come from the Holy Ghost, nor from His Church, but from those who are imbued with the spirit of Modernism, and with all the errors which convey this spirit, condemned with so much courage and energy by St. Pius X. This holy Pope said to the bishops of France with regard to the Sillon movement: “The true friends of the people are neither revolutionaries nor innovators, but the men of tradition.”
If only the innovators of the Council and those since it would understand this language which is, after all, that of the Church since the time of St. Paul.
One cannot hope for a real renovation of the Church without a return to Tradition. The Church cannot content herself with doubtful sacraments nor with ambiguous teaching. Those who have introduced these doubts and this ambiguity are not disciples of the Church. Whatever their intentions may have been, they in fact worked against the Church. The disastrous results of their industry exceed the worst examinings, and are not lessened by the apparent exceptions of a few regions. When Luther introduced the vernacular into the liturgy, the crowds rushed into the churches. But later?
It is consoling to note that in the Catholic world, the sense of faith of the faithful rejects these novelties and attaches itself to Tradition. It is from this that the true renewal of the Church will come. And it is because these novelties were introduced by a clergy infected with Modernism, that the most urgent and necessary work in the Church is the formation of a profoundly Catholic clergy. We give ourselves to this work with all our heart, aided henceforth by our eighty young priests, and encouraged by the presence of our two hundred and ten major seminarians. The countries of South and Central America give us hope.
The Church was saved from Arianism. She will be saved as well from Modernism. Our Lord will triumph, even when, humanly speaking, all seems lost. His ways are not our ways. Would we have chosen the Cross to triumph over Satan, the world and sin? [Emphasis mine.]
It is because the novelties which have invaded the Church since the Council diminish the adoration and the honor due to Our Lord, and implicitly throw doubt upon His divinity, that we refuse them. These novelties do not come from the Holy Ghost, nor from His Church, but from those who are imbued with the spirit of Modernism, and with all the errors which convey this spirit, condemned with so much courage and energy by St. Pius X. This holy Pope said to the bishops of France with regard to the Sillon movement: “The true friends of the people are neither revolutionaries nor innovators, but the men of tradition.”
If only the innovators of the Council and those since it would understand this language which is, after all, that of the Church since the time of St. Paul.
One cannot hope for a real renovation of the Church without a return to Tradition. The Church cannot content herself with doubtful sacraments nor with ambiguous teaching. Those who have introduced these doubts and this ambiguity are not disciples of the Church. Whatever their intentions may have been, they in fact worked against the Church. The disastrous results of their industry exceed the worst examinings, and are not lessened by the apparent exceptions of a few regions. When Luther introduced the vernacular into the liturgy, the crowds rushed into the churches. But later?
It is consoling to note that in the Catholic world, the sense of faith of the faithful rejects these novelties and attaches itself to Tradition. It is from this that the true renewal of the Church will come. And it is because these novelties were introduced by a clergy infected with Modernism, that the most urgent and necessary work in the Church is the formation of a profoundly Catholic clergy. We give ourselves to this work with all our heart, aided henceforth by our eighty young priests, and encouraged by the presence of our two hundred and ten major seminarians. The countries of South and Central America give us hope.
The Church was saved from Arianism. She will be saved as well from Modernism. Our Lord will triumph, even when, humanly speaking, all seems lost. His ways are not our ways. Would we have chosen the Cross to triumph over Satan, the world and sin? [Emphasis mine.]