This is an important question and can also be asked (1) Whether a Catholic can go to the false resistance masses, and (2) Whether one can receive the other sacraments from the false resistance.
At first, this is a difficult answer for reason the false resistance keeps a duplicit surface, a façade about themselves under the cover of being “traditional Catholic” even though they profess certain modern errors to affect their planned changes. We have covered those many errors on other pages. Typical yet of all revolution to look like something good for their agenda to be believed. However, each passing month the answer gets easier as they expose their compromising intentions.
So this, as all things, will be answered with Catholic principles and its outcome will be evident to the situation and circumstances given.
(1) Whether a Catholic can go to their masses?Out of all the seven sacraments, the consecration of the Holy Eucharist is the only one that requires the priest’s intention to provide for the validity. All the other sacraments require the recipient's intention for its validity.
To attend the mass of a priest is a public confession of faith. It is the means to establish the acknowledgment of the Catholic faith in a public way the Intent of Christ Crucified and the visibility of the Church in Her four Marks:
One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic.The mass has
Two parts: the first is
the Mass of the Catechumens, and the other is
the Mass of the Faithful or Communion, which makes it a public act of faith. A Catholic who arrives late after the Sunday gospel is read (without due cause), had missed their obligation of mass but must continue with good will.
The first of the Two parts is to receive the
faith from the priest, the church he represents, the second is to receive the fruit of that
faith. Which is why you necessitate and participate with, by, and give acknowledgement of that priest's faith and the institution he represents giving credence to the whole of their profession of faith. The priest is between you and God as a proper minister of sacrifice and offering your gifts to God. The priest is therefore, in stead and representation for you to God and must have the proper faith to please God in your stead. If it is doctrinally or liturgically erroneous and against the faith, it does not represent your faith and does not please God. Therefore it is sinful to be present, and you MUST not attend!
The Old-SSPX had
demonstrated many times that it is sinful to go to the mass of the new mass, the indult, and the other Ecclesia Dei groups for reason they profess a different faith from our Baptism. Going to the compromised masses of these PAX priests puts your faith and eternal salvation into danger. Because the mass is a public event, doing so in effect, would be a mortal sin against the faith in reason of presumption and tempting the Holy Ghost. Our Catechism teaches us one cannot participate in another religion, it is against the First Commandment of God. If one goes on a Sunday to a PAX mass, they have not fulfilled their Sunday Obligation to worship God as He commanded.
“Without Faith it is impossible to please God” (Hebrews 11).
We do not have a choice what “liturgy” we can attend. That is a Vatican II mentality playing with idols. There is only one God, one faith, one Church, one Liturgy.
So to the extent of going to the new-sspx and false resistance masses depends if they hold to the perennial faith of our Forefathers without error, blemish, compromise, and novelty. What is their faith?
On value of their words and actions, it is clear the new-sspx had joined the conciliar church professing and promoting their belief system of a new faith providing the worship to man. Just visiting their websites one can see it written all over. So one CANNOT attend the masses of the conciliar-sspx. They profess a different faith from the Cross putting in danger of your eternal salvation.
Regarding the false resistance, they too are clearly providing in their medias words and acts to support, profess, promote, and defend the new religion of the novus ordo and
believing the conciliar religion IS the soundness of the Catholic Church; including the support and promotion of the nouvs ordo fake eucharist miracles. So too, one CANNOT attend the masses of the false-conciliar-resistance.
Ecumenism is not a choice before the living God!
All too often the detractors make their premise to attend these compromised masses saying they have to go to mass; the Church commands to go to mass on Sunday. However, this is not true in the context and principles presented.
They often make themselves the object of the question than placing God as the object -- does it please God? The object of
Worship, Atonement, Petition, and Thanksgiving are the four ends of the mass and is to please God; not oneself. No person is obliged to go in harms way to fulfill one's Sunday obligation. So this is a strawman argument and based on man's values and a democratic lifestyle.
(2) Whether one can receive the other sacraments from the false resistance.
This answer becomes evident from the first part addressed above. This is a question of faith and THAT faith to give you life and provide you with sanctifying grace pleasing to God. There is a reason the Church does not allow one to go to the Orthodox masses and sacraments and any impure act of intention from other priests. It corrupts from the outside in.
Our intention to receive the other sacraments of the Church is based on Faith; not on personalities or convenience. The underground Church in China is a good example one cannot compromise with a foreign element injected in the sacrament.
Same applies within the agents of revolution within tradition. There are all sorts of compromise and groups professing the Christ. St. Paul said
be careful, there will be a time of itching ears, do not head them; they are false Christs and will deceive even the elect.Sacraments are not drive-thru cotton candy for a conscience to remain idle. A Sacrament is an outward sign instituted by Christ to give grace. They grant the graces they signify. St. Paul urges us
“to live in a manner worthy of the call you have received” (Ephesians 4:1). And,
“to discern the body of Christ” (1 Corinthians 11), that is, the dignity of the sacrament in its
Intention, Form, and Matter.
Most important of all, they give the life of the Faith in
sanctifying grace. Sanctifying grace is that marvelous sharing-in-God’s-own-life that is the result of God’s Love, the Holy Spirit, indwelling in the soul.
There are two sacraments that
begin this sanctifying grace: Baptism and Confession, when one is cut off from God by Original sin and by mortal sin. The flow of grace from these two sacraments establishes union between the soul and God.
The other five sacraments: Confirmation, Holy Eucharist, Extreme Unction, Holy Orders, and Matrimony - give an
increase in sanctifying grace.
The Church teaches that the effect of a sacrament comes “
ex opere operato”, by the very fact of being administered,
regardless of the personal holiness of the minister administering it. However, a recipient’s own lack of proper disposition to receive the grace conveyed can block the effectiveness of the sacrament in that person. The sacraments presuppose faith and through their words and ritual elements, nourish, strengthen and give expression to faith.
As to the recipients of the sacraments, it is certain that no intention is required in children who have not yet reached the age of reason, or in imbeciles, for the validity of those sacraments which they are capable of receiving. In the case of adults, on the other hand, some intention is indispensable if the sacrament is not to be invalid. The reason is that our justification is not brought about without our co-operation, and that includes the rational will to profit by the means of sanctification.
We read more in the Catholic Encyclopedia regarding the Minister of the Sacraments:
It follows, other than the Holy Eucharist, the intention of the minister is not necessary for the dispensation of the Sacraments nor of his personal holiness. It requires the purity of the faith of the priest and individual. Which gets to the next point to answer the original question:
Whether we can receive the sacraments from the false resistance?It depends. What is the faith of the recipient? Is it one of ignorance not knowing the faith of the bishop or priest; not informed or un-informed of the crisis? St. Paul said to discern the body of Christ. That too goes for the sacraments. You have to know something of the priest to know if the sacraments you want to receive are legitimate and valid. What is their faith? What are their morals? Do you want to commune and validate their position of revolt or compromise? By what faith do you attend to? Is it pleasing to God, that is the central question, otherwise why receive it? Are they sacraments of your Baptism conveyed in purity or one that professes a revolution?
So again, it is not our choice but one God had established to please Him not ourselves.
To conclude,
It is clear both the new-conciliar-sspx and the false-conciliar-resistance are therefore conciliarists in their thinking and actions, both in principle and practice, and are not traditional Catholics in the true meaning of the term. They wholly express an
indult thinking to promote an alternative from God and His Commandments to promote the false religion of man and its freedom of independence.
This being so, attending their Mass is:
- Accepting the compromise on which they are based,
- Accepting the direction taken by the Conciliar Church and the consequent destruction of the Catholic Faith and practices, and
- Accepting, in particular, the lawfulness and doctrinal soundness of conciliarism and its revolting Novus Ordo Missae and Vatican II.
That is why a Catholic ought not to attend their Masses and their sacraments (unless in a state of emergency upon grave illness or death).
God will provide through this crisis. He always does in the time of His choosing.
So the question should return, why are these bishops and priests so defunct in their duties before God wanting to please men and casting revolt and hindrance of the faith of others putting the fear of God and trepidity of salvation in the way of souls?
The crisis would change if men's minds and hearts would change. Its that simple, says our Blessed Mother.
