EASTER SUNDAY SERMON 1984: MONS. MARCEL LEFEBVRE.

 

Note_ Dear readers I repeat it again and I will not tire of doing it while I was alive, Bishop Marcel Lefebvre, He manifested in one way or another his position regarding the tradition of the Church and his resounding rejection of all the "reforms" that emanated from the council, among them this fierce ecumenism that ended the missions in pagan soils. He does so again in this sermon, a position that he knew how to transmit to all of us who had the grace to be with him in the most critical moments of this unequaled struggle of David (the Church of always) against Golead (the new or modernist Church). ), we never saw him back down or waver in his faith like so many bishops in the world at that time. He was able to say as Saint Paul said at the time: "I have fought the good fight, I have kept the Faith" that is why I die excommunicated by the modernists or the new Church.

 

Dear friends and brothers:

We all know that we are currently facing a situation of the Church that is increasingly disturbing. The problem is not of today but since the Council, particularly since the application of the conciliar reforms. (Someone asked me that, if there was something salvageable from the Second Vatican Council, my answer was that quote from the Gospel: "Can a bad tree bear good fruit? Draw the conclusion yourself) We feel a kind of escalation of ecumenism made by the Pope (at that time John Paul II) and the bishops.

This is not a mystery - it is seen and known all over the world - because television and all the social communication media show this ecumenism practiced by the same authorities as the (modernist) Church. This ecumenism represents for each one, I am sure of it, a serious problem of conscience.

We have decided to remain Catholic and we do not intend to change. Catholicism for us means keeping the Faith, the sacraments, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the catechism, everything that the Church has taught and bequeathed as a precious inheritance for 19 centuries to generations and generations of Catholics.

We ourselves have received this precious inheritance in our childhood, in our adolescence, in our youth and middle age, and we have attached ourselves to it as the pupil of our eyes.

This faith and all the means that have been bequeathed to us to maintain and keep grace in us, are necessary to save our souls, to go to heaven.

It is not for other reasons that we want to remain Catholic: it is to save our souls. I said on Holy Thursday in the sermon of the Chrism Mass, that we have the impression of distancing ourselves more and more from those who practice this senseless ecumenism and contrary to the Catholic faith. But, I should say better, that we must remain Catholic and persevere in it to the end of our days. It is they who we see that they are distancing themselves from us all because we want to remain faithful.

Not for nothing have our godparents pronounced the Creed on the day of our baptism, when we were confirmed, we ourselves pronounce that Creed that unites us definitively to the Catholic Faith.

 Now, disconcerting facts have been accumulating, especially after the trips to India (where John Paul II allowed the sign of the Indian goddess Shiva to be placed on his forehead), Morocco and Togo and the statements that the Holy See has published officially these last days. In them he expressed his intention to go with the Jews to pray with them, as well as his desire to go to Taizé to pray with the Protestants, and that he wanted - he himself has said publicly in São Paulo outside the walls - to hold a ceremony that would gather all the religions of the world to pray with them in Assisi for peace. This meeting will take place on October 24 within the framework of the Peace proclaimed by the United Nations (O. N. U.).

You have read that in the newspapers and those who have television have been able to see and hear for themselves. What do we think of all this? What should be the reaction of our Catholic Faith? That's what matters. It is not about our personal feeling or some kind of impression of any realization. It is about knowing what the Catholic Church thinks about it according to what we have been taught, what is the reaction of our faith to these facts? (The meeting of the “religions” took place punctually in Assisi, as Bishop had said months before. From this first meeting, others followed under the pontificate of John Paul II, then under the Pontificate of Benedict XVI. He is a witness who this writes and the impotence that seized us by not being able to make the rest of the faithful understand the imminent danger that this would bring to their souls).

That is why I am going to quote some very short sentences that I have collected from the Naz Canon Law Treatise. Canon Law edited under the order of Pope St. Pius X and published by Benedict XV, is the expression of the Law of the Church and that has been his for 19 centuries. What do these texts say about what is called the “Comunicatio in Sacris”, that is, participation in a non-Catholic rite or where non-Catholics?

It seems to me that this is what concerns us when we see the Pope and the bishops participate in non-Catholic cults. What does the Church of the Comunicatio in Sacris say? This is forbidden to participate with non-Catholics in accordance with Canon 1258, which says: "IT IS ABSOLUTELY FORBIDDEN FOR THE FAITHFUL TO ATTEND OR TAKE PART IN THE CULTS OF CATHOLICS IN ANY WAY THAT IS." And, here is how this official comment on the doctrine of the Church explains that I did nothing but copy: “Participation is active and formal when a Catholic participates in a heterodox cult, that is, not Catholic, with the intention to honor God by this means, according to the way of the Catholics. " I repeat: "Participation is active and formal when a Catholic participates in a non-Catholic worship with the intention of honoring God by this means in the manner of Catholics." It is exactly what we are faced with.

I really think that the bishops and the Pope have the intention of honoring God through the non-Catholic worship in which they participate, it seems to me that I am not mistaken in that.

 “Such participation is prohibited in any form - quovis mode - since it implies the profession of faith of a false religion and, consequently, to deny the Catholic Faith. And the Holy See decreed in 1889: "It is forbidden to pray, sing, play the organ in a heretical or schismatic temple in association with the faithful, even if the terms and songs are orthodox."

I am not the one who wrote it. This with all its letters in the treatise of Canon Law of the canonical Naz that is an authority and that has always been considered in the Church as a completely official and valid comment.

Those who participate actively and formally with non-Catholics are presumed to adhere to the ceremonies of the latter. Therefore Canon 23,16 declares them "Suspects of heresy" and if they persevere they are "considered as heretics". I do nothing but quote the text.

Why this legislation of the Church? To help us practice the first commandment through which we profess our Catholic Faith.

If we profess it, it is inconceivable for us to profess another faith and participate in another cult. Praying in another cult we make a profession of honoring the god that is invoked by that cult, that of a false religion. A god who is a construction of the spirit or who is any idol, but who is not the true God.

How do you want the Jews to pray to the true God? They are formally, essentially against Our Lord Jesus Christ, precisely from the day of the resurrection of Our Lord and since before since they have crucified Him, but in an official way after the resurrection they have started to immediately persecute to persecute the disciples of Our Lord Jesus Christ and this for centuries. What have the chief priests done? Instead of saying we repent, we have made a mistake, we adore Our Lord Jesus Christ if he truly resurrected, how can we not follow him? No.

What have they told the soldiers guarding the tomb? "Here is a great sum of money, go and say throughout Jerusalem that while you were sleeping the apostles came to take the Body of Our Lord." Saint Augustine answered them - I think smiling -: How could they have affirmed that they had seen the Apostles take the body of Our Lord since they were sleeping? They have not been able to see, it is the devil who inspired them and they remained under its influence.

What to do in this unfortunate situation of the Church? From morning to afternoon and from day to night pray to the Blessed Virgin Mary to come to the aid of her Church since it is a considerable scandal - in the true sense of the term, scandal means to push sin - this scandal of the ecumenism and participation in the cult of false religions.

 They no longer have faith in the Catholic Church. They no longer believe that there is only one true religion, that there is only one true God, the Holy Trinity.

Faith disappears when the example and the scandal come from so high, from the one who is now over the seat of Peter and from almost all the bishops. Poor self-liberated Christians, who do not have enough Christian formation to maintain their Catholic Faith in spite of everything! Or that they do not have priests at their side to help them keep the Faith, they are helpless! They lose faith, no longer practice it, or become involved with any sect. So we must pray a lot, reflect, ask the Good God to keep the Catholic Faith for us, whatever happens.

Events do not depend on us. It is like a movie that unfolds before our eyes, since the Council we have seen the situation deteriorate year after year. The synod has even given, I would say a final note even more serious than the others, stating the following: "We continue despite the consequences" the synod wanted to see in the Council a work of the Holy Spirit, an extraordinary Pentecost.

It is necessary to continue, they say, to continue in the spirit of the Council, without restriction, without reprimand, without returning to tradition. We now see that the stages are accelerating, that they are going faster. By force, since there has been no objection after these twenty years of putting into practice the evil spirit of the Council.

From now on, all those who agree with the transformations of the Church have no reason not to continue and to do so more quickly. It is coming to the destruction of the Church.

 

END OF SERMON

 If we meditate a little on this sermon by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre we find the following:

 

- The current Church, that is to say the Modernist Church, has incurred in heresy today more than ever materially and formally for all acts against Catholics, for their speeches and for their own writings that are totally contrary to the tradition of the Church of always.

 

- The very opposite position of the Monsignor with respect to the Popes from John XXIII to the current one of "whose name I do not want to remember" Francis in relation to the Jews.

 

- The sharp condemnation of current ecumenism based on ancient Canon Law, not the modern one, which, surely, has already been modified.

 

--The permanence in the Faith of always if necessary until giving our lives, of course with the help of the Blessed Virgin.