TESTIMONY OF A CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP ONE YEAR AND TWO MONTHS BEFORE HIS DEATH.

 

Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre

 

 Foreword to the book Itinerary spiritual

  Saint-Michel-en-Brenne, January 29, 1990, Feast of Saint Francis de Sales Dear readers,

   In the afternoon of a long life - since, born in 1905, I have reached the year 1990 -, I could say that this life has been marked by exceptional world events: three world wars, that of 1914-1918, that of 1939- 1945, and that of the Second Vatican Council of 1962-1965.

  The disasters accumulated by these three wars, and especially by the last one, are incalculable in the order of material ruins, but much more spiritual still.  The first two have prepared war within the Church, facilitating the ruin of Christian institutions and the domination of Masonry, which became so powerful that it managed to penetrate deeply, through its liberal and modernist doctrine, in the governing bodies of church.

  By the grace of God, instructed from my seminary in Rome on the mortal danger of its influences for the Church by the Rector of the French Seminary, the venerated Father Le Floch, and by the professors, the Reverend Fathers Voetgli, Frey, Le Rohellec, I have been able to verify throughout my priestly life how justified his calls to vigilance were, based on the teachings of the Popes and especially Saint Pius X.

  I have been able to verify at my expense how justified this vigilance was, not only from the doctrinal point of view, but also because of the hatred it provoked in the secular and ecclesiastical liberal circles, a diabolical hatred.

  The innumerable contacts to which the positions entrusted to me led me, with the highest civil and ecclesiastical authorities in many countries and especially in France and Rome, confirmed with exactitude that the wind was generally favorable for all who were willing to compromises with liberal Masonic ideals, and unfavorable to the firm maintenance of traditional doctrine.

  I think I can say that few people in the Church have been able to have and do this information experience to the extent that I was able to do it myself, not by my own will, but by the will of Providence.

  As a missionary in Gabon, my contacts with the civil authorities were more frequent than when I was vicar in Marais-de-Lomme, in the diocese of Lille.  This time of mission was marked by the Gaullist invasion, in which we were able to verify the victory of Freemasonry against the Catholic order of Petain.  It was the invasion of the barbarians without faith or law!

  Perhaps one day my memoirs will give some details about these years from 1945 to 1960 in order to illustrate this war within the Church.  Read Mr. Marteaux's books on this period: they are revealing.

  The rupture was accentuated in Rome and outside Rome between liberalism and the doctrine of the Church.  The liberals, after getting popes like John XXIII and Paul VI to be named, will make their doctrine triumph through the Council, a wonderful means of forcing the whole Church to adopt their errors.

  After attending the dramatic combat between Cardinal Bea and Cardinal Ottaviani, the former as a representative of liberalism and the other of the doctrine of the Church, it was clear, after the vote of the seventy cardinals, that the rupture was consummated.  One could safely think that the Pope's support would go to the liberals.  That is the real problem, posed since then in full light!  What will the bishops, aware of the danger facing the Church, do?  All verify the triumph of the new ideas coming from the Revolution and the Lodges; within the Church: two hundred and fifty cardinals and bishops rejoice at their victory, two hundred and fifty are scared, and the other one thousand seven hundred and fifty try not to pose problems and follow the Pope: "We will see later!" ...

  The Council passes, the reforms multiply as fast as possible.  Persecution begins against traditional cardinals and bishops, and soon, everywhere, against priests and men and women religious who strive to preserve tradition.  It is the open war against the past of the Church and her institutions: "Aggiornamento, aggiornamento!"

  The result of this Council is much worse than that of the Revolution.  Executions and martyrdoms are silent; Tens of thousands of priests, men and women religious abandon their commitments, others become secular, closures disappear, vandalism invades churches, altars are destroyed, crosses disappear ... seminaries and novitiates are emptied.

  Civil societies that were still Catholic are secularized under pressure from the Roman authorities: ¡Our Lord no longer has to reign on earth!

  Catholic teaching becomes ecumenical and liberal; catechisms are changed, they are no longer Catholic; the Gregorian in Rome becomes mixed, and St. Thomas is no longer at the base of the teaching.

  Faced with this public, universal verification, what duty do bishops, officially responsible members of the institution that is the Church, have?  What do they do?  For many the institution is untouchable, even if it no longer conforms to the purpose for which it was instituted ... Those who occupy the seat of Peter and the bishops are responsible; the Church needed to adapt to her time.  The excesses will pass.  It is better to accept the Revolution in our diocese, lead it rather than fight it.

  Among the traditionalists, faced with the contempt that Rome shows them, a good number resign, and some like Monsignor Morcillo, Archbishop of Madrid, and Monsignor Mac Quaid, Archbishop of Dublin, die of sadness, as do many good priests.

  It is evident that, if many bishops had acted like Monsignor de Castro Mayer, bishop of Campos in Brazil, the ideological revolution within the Church could have been limited, since we should not be afraid to affirm that the current Roman authorities, since John XXIII and Paul VI, have become active collaborators of international Jewish Freemasonry and world socialism.  John Paul II is above all a pro-communist politician at the service of a world communism with a religious tinge.  He openly attacks all anti-communist governments and does not bring any Catholic renewal with his travels.

  It is understood, therefore, that the Roman conciliar authorities fiercely and violently oppose any reaffirmation of the traditional Magisterium.  The errors of the Council and its reforms continue to be the official norm enshrined in Cardinal Ratzinger's profession of faith of March 1989.

 No one denied that I was a recognized official member of the episcopal body.  The Pontifical Yearbook affirmed this until the bishops' consecration in 1988, presenting me as Archbishop Bishop Emeritus of the Diocese of Tulle.

  With this title of Catholic Archbishop I thought of rendering a service to the Church, wounded by his own, founding a congregation dedicated to forming true Catholic priests, the Saint Pius X Priestly Fraternity, duly approved by Monsignor Charrière, Bishop of Friborg, in Switzerland, and endorsed with a letter of praise from Cardinal Wright, Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy.

  I could rightly fear that this Fraternity, which wanted to cling to all the traditions of the Church, doctrinal, disciplinary, liturgical, etc., would not continue to be approved for much longer by the liberal devastators of the Church.

  It is a mystery that fifty or one hundred bishops like Monsignor de Castro Mayer and I did not rise up, who reacted against the impostors, as true successors of the apostles.

  It is not pride and sufficiency to say that God, in his merciful wisdom, saved the inheritance of his priesthood, of his grace, of his revelation, through these two bishops.  It is not we who have chosen ourselves, but God, who has guided us in maintaining all the riches of his Incarnation and of his Redemption.  Those who think they should minimize these riches and even deny them can only condemn these two bishops, which only confirms their schism of Our Lord and of his Kingdom, for their secularism and apostate ecumenism.

  Someone might say to me: “You are exaggerating!  There are more and more good bishops who pray, who have faith, who are edifying ...”.  Although they were saints, from the moment they accept false religious freedom, and consequently the secular state, false ecumenism (and with it the existence of various ways of salvation), liturgical reform (and with it the practical denial of sacrifice of the Mass), the new catechisms with all their errors and heresies, officially contribute to the revolution in the Church and its destruction.

  The current Pope and these bishops no longer transmit Our Lord Jesus Christ, but rather a sentimental, superficial, charismatic religiosity, through which the true grace of the Holy Spirit as a whole no longer passes.  This new religion is not the Catholic religion; it is sterile, incapable of sanctifying society and the family.

  Only one thing is necessary for the continuation of the Catholic Church: fully Catholic bishops, who do not make any commitment to error, who establish Catholic seminaries, where young aspirants are fed with the milk of true doctrine, put Our Lord Jesus Christ In the center of your intelligences, of your wills, of your hearts, unite yourself to Our Lord through a living faith, a deep charity, a devotion without limits, and ask like Saint Paul that you pray for them, so that they advance in science and in the wisdom of the "Mysterium Christi", in which they will discover all the divine treasures;  Catholic bishops, who prepare to preach Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ crucified, "opportune et importune ...".

  Let's be Christians!  Even the same human and rational sciences without exception must be illustrated by the light of Christ, who is the Light of the world and who, when he comes into the world, gives each man his intelligence.

  The evil of the Council is ignorance of Jesus Christ and of his Kingdom.  It is the evil of evil angels, the evil that leads to hell.

  Precisely for having had an exceptional science of the Mystery of Christ, Saint Thomas has been proclaimed by the Church as her Doctor.  Let us love to read and review the encyclicals of the Popes on Saint Thomas and on the need to follow him in the formation of priests, in order not to doubt for a moment the richness of his writings, and especially of his Theological Summation, to communicate an immutable faith and the surest means of reaching, in prayer and contemplation, the heavenly shores, which our souls burned with the spirit of Jesus will never leave, despite all the vicissitudes of this earthly life.

+ Marcel LEFEBVRE

 

  Note.  Officially in April 2012 the Bishops of the Congregation founded by this great Archbishop began the arrangements with modernist Rome. What a paradox!  And what a nightmare for Catholics who want to follow in the footsteps of this great man of God, lover of the Church instituted by Our Lord Jesus Christ and his tender love for the Blessed Virgin Mary.  It is a true disgrace for the Catholic world, the action so sad and regrettable that it not only goes against the spirit of the founder but against the very Heart of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the High and Eternal Priest, against the very Institution of the Church and against the Immaculate Heart. of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

  Sorrow and pain and at the same time a great impotence invades my soul when reading and writing this note because I had the grace not only to meet him but above all to receive all the minor and major orders typical of the Catholic priesthood and the grace to receive this beautiful sacrament of the priesthood of his hands, to deal with him familiarly and to feel like one of his beloved disciples.  Monsignor Marcel Lefebvre I have not betrayed, thanks to God and his Blessed Mother, the ANTIMODERNIST OATH imposed by his Holiness Saint Pius X. from my nothingness and my misery and with your invaluable help I will always remain firm in this oath until the last breath of my life .  Father Arturo Vargas Meza