Profession of Faith of Monsignor Lazo.

 

On May 8, 1998, Cardinal Sin, Archbishop of Manila, Philippines, organized a large interfaith meeting to call for peaceful elections, inviting Buddhists, Muslims, Protestants, Taoists and representatives of indigenous cults to pray in the cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, thus renewing the Assisi scandal in Manila.

On May 17, 1998, Monsignor Salvador Lazo, Bishop Emeritus of La Unión, sent a letter to Cardinal Sin, reproaching him for having publicly transgressed the first commandment of God's law, and reminding him of the sanctions provided by the Code of Canon Law (suspect of heresy according to canon 2316 of the 1917 Code ... imposition of a just penalty according to the same Code), as well as the threat of Our Lord to throw out “the salt that lost its flavor”. He calls you "to return to the true Catholic faith, the faith of a Saint Pius V who conquered in Lepanto, of a Pius XI who, in his encyclical" Mortalium animos "already condemned what you have just done."

 On May 18, through a press release, he announced that on the 24th of that same month he was going to make a solemn profession of faith, addressed to His Holiness Pope John Paul II, at the Nuestra Señora de las Victorias church, belonging to the Society of Saint Pius X, and invited the press to cover the event.

That Sunday 24, after Holy Mass, Monsignor Lazo made the following solemn profession of Faith. Here is his text:

My Statement of Faith

 To His Holiness

Pope John Paul II

Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Jesus Christ,

Successor of Saint Peter, Prince of the Apostles,

Supreme Pontiff of the universal Church,

Patriarch of the West, Primate of Italy,

Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Province of Rome,

Sovereign of Vatican City.

Ascension Thursday, May 21, 1998

 

Most Holy Father,

On the tenth anniversary of the consecration of four Catholic Bishops by His Excellency Monsignor. Marcel Lefebvre for the survival of the Catholic Faith, I declare that, by the grace of God, I am a Roman Catholic. My religion has been founded by Jesus Christ when he said to Peter: "You are Peter and on this rock I will build my Church" (Saint Matthew, XVI, 18).

Holy Father, my Creed is the Apostles' Creed. The deposit of Faith comes from Jesus Christ and was completed with the death of the last apostle. It has been entrusted to the Roman Catholic Church to serve as a guide for the salvation of souls until the end of time.

Saint Paul commanded Timothy: "O Timothy, keep the deposit" (I Timothy, VI, 20).

The Deposit of Faith!

Holy Father, Saint Paul seems to say to me: “Keep the deposit ... you have been entrusted with a deposit, not what you discover. He has received it, not drawn from his own fund. It does not depend on personal intervention, but on doctrine. It is not for your private use, but belongs to the public Tradition. It does not come from you, it has come to you. You cannot act with it as if you were its author, but only as a guardian. He is not the initiator, but the disciple. It does not belong to you to regulate it, but to be regulated by it” (Saint Vincent de Lerins, Commonitorium, nº 22).

The Holy Council Vatican I teach that “the doctrine of Faith that God has revealed has not been proposed as a philosophical discovery to be perfected by human ingenuity, but given to the Bride of Christ as a divine deposit, to be faithfully kept. and infallibly declared. Hence, it is also necessary to perpetually maintain that sense of the sacred dogmas that Holy Mother Church once declared and one must never deviate from that sense under the pretext and name of a higher intelligence” (Dogmatic “Constitution Dei Filius”, Dz. 1800).

"The Holy Spirit was not promised to the successors of Peter so that by his revelation they might manifest a new doctrine, but so that, with his assistance, they would holy guard and faithfully expose the revelation transmitted by the Apostles, that is, the deposit of faith." (Vatican I, Dogmatic Constitution "Pastor Aeternus", Dz. 1836).

Furthermore, “the power of the Pope is not unlimited: not only can he not change anything that is of divine institution, such as, for example, suppressing the episcopal jurisdiction, but, placed to edify and not to destroy, by natural law he cannot it must sow confusion in the flock of Christ "(" Dictionary of Catholic Theology ", T. II, col. 2039-2040).

Saint Paul also strengthened the faith of his converts in this way: "But, even if we ourselves, or an angel from heaven preached to you a different Gospel from the one we announced to you, let him be anathema" (Galatians, I, 8).

As a Catholic Bishop, here is briefly my position on the post-conciliar reforms of Vatican II:

If the conciliar reforms are in accordance with the will of Jesus Christ, then I will gladly collaborate in their realization. But if the conciliar reforms are planned for the destruction of the Catholic religion founded by Jesus Christ, then I refuse my cooperation.

Holy Father, in 1969 a notification from Rome was received in San Fernando, diocese of La Unión. It said that the Tridentine Latin Mass should be suppressed and the Novus Ordo Missæ should be used. No reason was given. The order, coming from Rome, was followed without protest (Roma locuta est, causa finita est).

I retired in 1993, 23 years after my episcopal consecration. Since my retirement I have discovered the real reason for the illegal suppression of the traditional Latin Mass: the old Mass was an obstacle to the introduction of ecumenism. The Catholic Mass contained the Catholic dogmas that Protestants deny. In order to achieve unity with the Protestant sects, the Tridentine Latin Mass had to be deprecated and replaced by the Novus Ordo Missæ.

The Novus Ordo Missæ was composed of Annibale Bugnini, a Freemason; six Protestant ministers helped Monsignor Bugnini make it. The innovators took care that no Catholic dogma that offended Protestant ears was left in the prayers. They suppressed everything that the Catholic dogmas fully expressed and replaced it with highly ambiguous texts of Protestant and heretical tendencies. They have even changed the form of the Consecration given by Jesus Christ. With such modifications, the new rite became more Protestant than Catholic.

Protestants affirm that the Mass is nothing more than a simple dinner, a simple communion, a simple banquet, a memorial. The Council of Trent insisted on the reality of the Sacrifice of the Mass, which is the bloodless renewal of the bloody sacrifice of Christ on Calvary.

“Thus, then, our God and Lord, although he had to offer himself only once to God the Father on the altar of the cross (...) offered to God the Father his body and his blood under the species of bread and of wine and under the symbols of those same things, he gave them, during the Last Supper, the night in which he fought, in order to leave to the Church, his beloved wife, a sacrifice that would be visible (as human nature demands) whereby the bloody sacrifice performed once for all on the cross may be presented again ”(Dz. 938).

 Consequently, the Mass is also a communion of the sacrifice that has just been celebrated: a banquet where the Victim immolated in sacrifice is eaten. But if there is no sacrifice, there is no communion with him. The Mass is, first and foremost, a sacrifice, and, secondly, a communion or supper.

It should also be noted that, in the Novus Ordo Missæ, the actual presence of Christ in the Eucharist is implicitly denied.

The same observation is also true regarding the Church's doctrine on transubstantiation.

In relation to that, the priest, who was once a priest offering a sacrifice, in the Novus Ordo Missæ has been demoted to the role of president of an assembly. It is for such a role that he appears in front of the people. In traditional Mass, on the other hand, the priest appears in front of the tabernacle and the altar, where Jesus Christ stands. After having become aware of these changes, I have decided to stop saying the new rite of Mass that I had said for more than 27 years out of obedience to my ecclesiastical superiors.

I have returned to the Latin Tridentine Mass, because it is the Mass instituted by Jesus Christ at the Last Supper, the bloodless renewal of the Sacrifice of Jesus Christ on Calvary. That same old Mass sanctified the lives of millions of Christians over the centuries.

Holy Father, with all the respect I have for you and for the Holy See of Saint Peter, I cannot follow his personal teaching on "universal salvation": it is in contradiction with the Holy Scriptures.

Holy Father, will all men be saved? Jesus Christ wanted all men to be redeemed. He died, in fact, for all of us. However, not all men will be saved, because not all men meet the necessary conditions to belong to the number of God's elect in heaven.

Before ascending to heaven, Jesus Christ entrusted his apostles with the duty of preaching the Gospel to all creation. His instructions already indicated that not all souls would be saved. He says: “Go into the whole world, preach the Gospel to all creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved; but whoever does not believe will be condemned” (San Marcos, XVI, 15-16).

Saint Paul used the same language towards his converts: “Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Don't get your hopes up. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor greedy, nor drunkards, nor swearing, nor those who live by prey, will inherit the kingdom of God” (I Corinthians, VI, 9-10).

Holy Father, should we respect false religions? Jesus Christ founded a single Church within which one can be saved: it is the Holy Catholic, Apostolic and Roman Church. When He taught all the doctrines and truths necessary to be saved, Jesus Christ did not say: "Respect all false religions." In fact, the Son of God has been crucified on the cross because in his teachings he had no commitments to anyone.

In 1910, in his letter "Notre charge apostolique", Pope Saint Pius X warned us against the interfaith spirit, which is part of a great apostasy movement organized in all countries to erect a world church.

Pope Leo XIII warned that “treating all religions in the same way (...) is something calculated to ruin all forms of religion, and especially the Catholic religion, which because it is the true religion cannot — without great injustice— be look as simply equal to the other religions” (“ Humanum genus ”). The procedure ranges from Catholicism to Protestantism, from Protestantism to Modernism, from Modernism to Atheism.

Ecumenism, as practiced today, is diametrically opposed to traditional Catholic doctrine and practice.

Lowering the only true religion, founded by Our Lord, to the same level as false religions, the works of men, is something that the Popes in the course of centuries have strictly forbidden Catholics to do so.

"It is evident that the Apostolic See in no way can take part in these (ecumenical) assemblies and that in no way are Catholics allowed to give their approval or support to such enterprises." (Pius XI, "Mortalium animos").

I do not accept modernist Rome either. Pope St. Pius X condemned modernism in his encyclical "Pascendi dominici gregis" in 1907.

I do not serve Rome controlled by the Masons, who are the agents of Lucifer, the Prince of demons.

But I adhere to the Rome that faithfully leads the Catholic Church, in order to fulfill the will of Jesus Christ, the glorification of the three times holy God, God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. I consider myself happy to have received, in the midst of this crisis of the Catholic Church, the grace of having returned to the Church that adheres to the Catholic Tradition. Thank God, I say the traditional Mass again: the Mass instituted by Jesus at the Last Supper, the Mass of my ordination.

May the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint Joseph, my patron saint Saint Anthony, Saint Michael and my Guardian Angel deign to help me remain faithful to the Catholic Church founded by Jesus Christ for the salvation of men.

May I obtain the grace to remain until death in the bosom of the Holy Apostolic and Roman Catholic Church, which adheres to ancient traditions, and may always be a faithful priest and Bishop of Jesus Christ, Son of God.

Very respectfully,

Monsignor Salvador L. Lazo, DD Bishop Emeritus of San Fernando de La Unión. Magazine “Iesus Christus” nº 59, September-October 1998, pp. 23-25.

Archbishop Lazo as bishop in writing this testimony of faith shows his firm and determined determination to remain faithful to the Church of all time.

In these moments of great confusion, it is always helpful to us to know that another bishop openly manifested himself against modernist Rome with those strong expressions typical of an extremely indignant bishop.

This testimony acquires more importance because it was told a few days or months after his death and he expressed it publicly without fear of the "Vatican authorities" and, perhaps he expected the same award from Mons, Marcel Lefebvre, excommunication for his daring letter.

For the Fathers who fight to maintain the TRUE FAITH, the defense of the doctrine, the Church and the devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary and, above all, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.

The writing of this letter in defense of the Faith does not surprise us, because the formality in which it is written is typical of a Catholic bishop where the "gentleman does not remove the cuts"