"It is I, the accused, who would have to judge you" Bishop Marcel Lefebvre

 

SAN PÍO X

Go to Jesus Christ through the Church

So that by the extension of the Catholic Church we will sanctify ourselves, we will honor Our Lord and his kingdom will come to us. There is no other way. That is precisely what we fight for. We want to maintain the Church as it has always been, to transmit Our Jesus Christ to souls, as he has always wanted to give himself, that is, by the Church, by the faith of the Church and by his grace.

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«You see, Venerable Brothers, what is the office that is ultimately entrusted to us as well as to you: that we bring human society, away from the wisdom of Christ, to the doctrine of the Church. Truly the Church belongs to Christ and Christ is to God».

The order that God wants

«Now, for success to respond to desires, it is necessary to try by all means and with all effort to uproot that cruel and detestable crime, characteristic of this time: the desire that man has to place himself in the place of God".

How can we not think here of the news of the Second Vatican Council? What strikes us is precisely the role of man in relation to God. It is something like the religion of man. The new mass highlights the man above all; it is a democratic mass. Whereas the Mass of Tradition, which we say every day, is a hierarchical Mass: God, Christ, the Church, in the person of the bishop and the priest; then the faithful, in whom there is also a hierarchy. At one time a distinction was made between princes and magistrates - who have an authority and therefore share the authority of Our Lord, since all authority comes from God - and the faithful people.

They are not ideas from the Middle Ages, but simply the hierarchy as it will be in Heaven: there will be God and then the hierarchy of angels, and the same among the saints. All of this is normal; God has wanted us to participate to a greater or lesser degree in his glory.

Let us see in this an opportunity to exercise charity, since as some have fewer gifts and others more, this is how communications are born between men in this world, as between angels and saints in Heaven.

On the other hand, according to modern errors, all men are equal. They are a uniform mass, and the one who gives the authority is the man. Man replaces God. God no longer exists.

Saint Pius X recalls the order that God wants for society:

«It will be necessary to restore its old dignity to the precepts and evangelical counsels; It will be necessary to proclaim more firmly the truths transmitted by the Church, all its doctrine on the sanctity of marriage, the doctrinal education of children, the ownership of goods and their use, the duties for and with those who administer the State; in short, the balance between the different orders of society, the law and Christian customs must be reestablished. We, of course, seconding the will of God, we propose to try it in our pontificate and we will continue to do it to the best of our ability».

This is the program of Saint Pius X: to establish all things in Christ, to put God back in society through the Church, to restore order in society through the Christian institutions that the Church has always defended and taught.

Train priests

Next, the Pope addresses the bishops. What is your trade? What do you have to do to achieve this reign of Our Lord Jesus Christ? What means should be employed to achieve such a high end?

«It is hardly necessary to talk about the means that can help us in such an undertaking, since they are taken from common doctrine. Of your concerns, let it be the first to form Christ in those who by reason of their office are destined to form Christ in others. I think of the priests, Venerable Brothers. May all those who have been initiated into sacred orders be aware that, in the people with whom they live, they are assigned the mission that Paul declared to have received with those words full of affection: My children, for whom I suffer labor pains again until you see Christ formed in you (Gal. 4:19) ».

So you need to think about the seminars:

"[The priest] is called another Christ not only because of the participation of his power, but because he imitates his deeds, and in this way bears the image of Christ imprinted on himself."

Saint Pius X exhorts the bishops: “What has to be your main occupation? The priests". It is normal. What would the Church be without priests, without authentic and holy priests? We are heading towards that catastrophe much more than in the time of Saint Pius X… If he returned, he would insist even more on this point. Now priests no longer have the spirit of the priesthood, nor do they preach the Gospel or the true catechism, or what is worse: they get married. There are almost no seminarians, or they are not well trained. What can produce this situation?

Multiply the seminars

I insist: the first concern of the bishops must be the formation of true priests. We could not have chosen a better Patron for the Fraternity than Saint Pius X. As the current situation is worse than when this holy Pope lived, it seemed to me that being a bishop and not officially holding any position, it seemed that the best thing I could do for the Church and for the restoration of the reign of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Church and in society, was to train priests, and, therefore, open seminaries and prepare formators of priests.

You have to multiply the seminars. This is the primary purpose of the Saint Pius X Priestly Fraternity. It would take a seminary in Canada, another in Mexico, Colombia, Australia and South Africa; the same in Ireland, in England and everywhere ... ² Priests are needed, and not just any, to renew the Church and restore the social reign of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

Sometimes you hear people say: “The situation is changing and the number of seminarians is increasing; for example: at the seminary in Paderborn, 39 seminarians just entered last year; in Habsburg, 25; In a new seminary in Argentina, a bishop has tried to reestablish tradition a bit and many young people are attracted by the use of Latin and by a certain discipline” ...

However, you have to look closely at what kind of philosophy they are taught, what liturgy is used, and even what general discipline they have. These young seminarians are not taught scholastic philosophy, which is still the true philosophy of the Church, but a history of philosophy (that is, all philosophies), but the true principles of philosophy are not learned. The same thing happens with theology; apologetics and Sacred Scripture are studied above all. So these priests are not only not formed, but are deformed.

A professor from Paderborn came to see us at our seminary in Zaitzkofen recently, and he told us: “It is true that we have seminarians and that when they arrive they come with very good dispositions and with a desire to learn the Truth, but after one or two years they realize that they are completely deformed and that they are not taught what they had come to learn; then they get discouraged, they lose the notion of the truth and they go to other places ”.

Another example: the Regensburg (Regensburg) seminary was considered until recently as the traditionalist seminary in Germany and Bishop Graber was also considered traditionalist, having written a “reactionary” booklet against some positions of the Council. ¿I went to visit him and what did he tell me? - “Yes, I have seminarians; ¿I have ordained 18 priests this year and I am going to have even more vocations “... -” So - I asked him - are you happy? " - "Not so much," he told me, "because many seminarians do not attend mass in the morning and many of them have long hair down to their shoulders" ...

All in all, we would be happy and thank God if there were seminars that started to get back on the right track, but this is not the case. As time goes by, it will take even fewer teachers who know the philosophy of St. Thomas or the real theology. For this reason, a good part of the seminarians of the Saint Pius X Fraternity will in turn be destined to be professors in our seminaries. Training holy priests is absolutely essential.

Saint Pius X warmly invites us:

«¡In this situation, what care you must take, ¡Venerable Brothers, ¡in the formation of the clergy to be saints! It is necessary that all other tasks that are presented to you, whatever they may be, yield to this one. For this reason, the best part of your zeal should be used in the organization and administration of the sacred seminaries, so that they flourish for the integrity of their doctrine and for the sanctity of their customs. Each one of you preserve for the Seminary the delights of your heart, without omitting for your good progress anything that was established with great prudence by the Council of Trent.

When the time comes to initiate candidates into holy orders, please do not forget Paul's prescription to Timothy: Lay hands on no one rashly (1 Tim 5:22). Consider carefully that ordinarily the faithful will be such as they are ² In 2002, the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X already has 6 seminaries:

Important note It is necessary to make it clear that Archbishop Lefebvre complied to the letter with the thought of Saint Pius X on the formation of true priests until his death March 25, 1991. From his beginning until his death he imposed the ordering the anti-modernist oath commanded by Saint Pius X, then it is not known with certainty until the continuous year or the new authorities of the Neo-Fraternity left it by virtue of their agreements with modernist and heretical Rome)

 

- Saint Pius X Seminary (Ecône, CH-1908 Riddes, Switzerland);

- Seminary of the Holy Priest of Ars (Maison Lacordaire, 21150 Flavigny sur-Ozerain, France);

- Saint Thomas Aquinas Seminary (Route Rurale 1, Box 97, A-1-USA Winona, Minnesota 55987, USA);

- Our Lady Co-redemptrix Seminary (La Reja, cc 308, 1744 Moreno, Argentina);

- Holy Cross Seminary (PO Box 417, Goulburn, NSW 2580, Australia);

- Herz Jesu Seminary (Zaitzkofen, 8306 Shierling, Germany).

 

who you assign to the Priesthood. Therefore, do not have your sights set on your own usefulness; mi-rad only to God, to the Church and the eternal happiness of souls, lest, as the Apostle warns, you have a part in the sins of others (id.)» .

Stay awake with the young priests Nor should the new priests be neglected when they leave the seminary:

«Don't let the beginning priests and those just out of the seminary miss your care. To these - we ask it with all our soul - frequently draw them to your heart, which must feed on the celestial fire, kindle them, inflame them in such a way that they yearn only for God and the good of souls. We certainly, Venerable Brothers, will provide with the greatest diligence so that these sacred men are not caught by the tricks of this new and deceptive science that does not have the good smell of Christ and that, with false and cunning arguments, tries to promote the errors of the rationalism and semi- rationalism ; Against this the Apostle already warned Timothy when he wrote to him:Guard the deposit that has been entrusted to you, avoiding the profane novelties and the contradictions of false science that some profess as they stray from their faith (1 Tim. 6:20) ».

Newly ordained priests need to be cared for:

«We have great sadness and continuous pain in our hearts (Rom. 92, 2) when we see that Jeremiah's lamentation is applicable to our time: The little ones asked for bread and there was no one to break it (Lam. 4, 4). There is no shortage of the clergy who, according to their own qualities, toil in things of perhaps not very definite utility, while, on the contrary, there are not so many who, following the example of Christ, accept the voice of the Prophet: The Spirit anointed me, he sent me to evangelize the poor, to heal the contrite of heart, to preach freedom to the captives and the recovery of sight to the blind (Luke 4: 18-19) »

NOTE. Regarding these words of the prophet, I must tell a sad anecdote that broke my soul at the time when I was a member of this congregation. He was serving among the guaraní tribes in the north of Paraguay, lasting four years with them.

At first it was very hard to establish contact with them, later I realized the situation of poverty in which they found themselves; They did not have a farm tool or tool to cultivate the land, they did not have seed suitable enough to produce fruit, the corn was very old, as was the rice and little cassava. My first purpose was to supply this tribe with good quality seed in both rice and corn, to buy hoes, shovels, picks and other tools of work, then the doctrine. About fifty children were baptized, the chief or chief of the tribe and his wife were baptized, finally, they were regularized in the sacrament of marriage ... the way was already open. Before leaving the mission by order of my "superiors" I had to leave the mission before this, the tribe assigned me the priestly room and they also pointed out the place where the chapel would be built; the mission was called THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION. With great pain I left the mission because I had a feeling in the depths of my soul that the new and "comfortable superiors" would leave the mission just because they would not get any financial benefit from it. My conscience is clear because without anything I came to it and without anything I left it, finally, I found out that the mission ended up in the hands of the Protestants, what a terrible shame. With great pain I left the mission because I had a feeling in the depths of my soul that the new and "comfortable superiors" would leave the mission just because they would not get any financial benefit from it. My conscience is clear because without anything I came to it and without anything I left it, finally, I found out that the mission ended up in the hands of the Protestants, what a terrible shame. With great pain I left the mission because I had a feeling in the depths of my soul that the new and "comfortable superiors" would leave the mission just because they would not get any financial benefit from it. My conscience is clear because without anything I came to it and without anything I left it, finally, I found out that the mission ended up in the hands of the Protestants, what a terrible shame.

I suppose that the Pope at that time, when he said that many priests used their time in things very foreign to the exercise of their ministry, the teaching of the catechism, the administration of the sacraments, etc., remembered his diocese.

What could be said today? Where is there a parish where the priest is in the confessional waiting for the penitents? You have to go to the rectory; the priest has left or does not have time ... and the faithful do not dare to insist and do not go to confession.

Saint Pius X always insisted that the priest's first occupation is to teach the catechism. Today's priests say: “No; That is not my obligation, but that of the parents” … Of course parents have to teach their children the rudiments of the catechism and that is very good. But the priest is the one who has the science to impart religious teaching, not to deliver great philosophical speeches to a select group of people, but to have the skills to transmit religious science to children and simple people. There is a danger of being absorbed by highly speculative sciences and not adapting to all people. We must know how to adapt the science that we have received to the people to whom it corresponds to teach.

NOTE In my year and a half in Santiago, Chile, I was in charge of 11 catechism groups, every weekend I visited each one of them. He spoke with the catechists, with the children and the parents, a priceless and comforting experience that was very comforting. From the first days of November all these groups began to parade through the chapel to make their first communion until December 8, the day of the Immaculate Conception, when the last group made their first communion, ending with a triumphal procession through the streets surrounding the priory of Santiago de Chile.

Please do not ask the name of the priest who was in the Guaraní mission or in Santiago de Chile