APPARENT
DISOBEDIENCE,
BUT REAL
OBEDIENCE...”
Dear Father, today you have the joy
of celebrating Holy Mass in the midst of your loved ones, surrounded by your
family, your friends, and with great satisfaction we find ourselves near you
today to tell you all our joy and all our wishes for your future apostolate. ,
for the good you will do to souls.
On this day we pray especially to
Saint Pius X, our patron saint, whose feast we celebrate today and who was
present in all your studies and throughout your training. We will ask him
to give you an apostle's heart, a holy priest's heart like his. And since
we are here, very close to the city of Saint Hilary and Saint Radegunde and the
great Cardinal Pie, well then, we will ask all these protectors of the city of
Poitiers to come to your aid so that you follow their example, and so that you
preserve, as they did in difficult times, the Catholic Faith.
You could have aspired to a happy,
perhaps easy and comfortable life in the world, since you had already prepared
medical studies. You could therefore have desired another path than the
one you have chosen. But no, you have had the courage, even in our time,
to come to ask for priestly formation at Ecóne. And why in
Ecóne? Because there you have found the Tradition, because there you have
found what corresponded to your Faith. For you, this was an act of courage that
honors you.
And that is why I would like to
respond, with a few words, to the accusations that have been made in recent
days in local newspapers following the publication of the letter from Monsignor
Rozier, Bishop of Poitiers. Oh, not to argue. I am careful to avoid
it, I am not in the habit of answering those letters and I prefer to remain
silent. However, it seems to me that it is good that I justify you because
in that letter you are involved just as I am. Why is this
happening? Not because of our people, but because of the choice we have
made. We are incriminated because we have chosen the supposed path of disobedience.But it would be that we
understand precisely what the path of disobedience is. I think we can
truly say that if we have chosen the path of apparent disobedience, we have
chosen the path of real obedience.
So, I think that those who accuse us
have perhaps chosen the path of apparent obedience, but of real
disobedience. Because those who follow
the new path, those who follow novelties, those who adhere to new principles,
contrary to those that were taught to us in our catechism, contrary to those
that were taught to us by Tradition, by all the Popes and by all the Councils,
those such have chosen the path of real disobedience.
Because it cannot be said that today
authority is obeyed while disobeying all of Tradition. The sign of our
obedience is precisely to follow Tradition, that is the sign of our
obedience: “Jesus Christus herí, hodie
et in saecula”. Jesus Christ yesterday, today and forever.
Our Lord Jesus Christ cannot be
separated. It cannot be said that he obeys Jesus Christ of today and that
he does not obey Jesus Christ of yesterday, because then he does not obey Jesus
Christ of tomorrow. This is very important. For this reason we cannot
say: we disobey the Pope of today and for that very reason we also disobey
those of yesterday. We obey those of yesterday, therefore we obey those of
today and therefore we obey those of tomorrow. Because it is not possible
that the Popes do not teach the same thing, it is not possible that the Popes
contradict each other, that the Popes contradict each other.
And that
is why we are convinced that, being faithful to all the Popes of yesterday, to all
the Councils of yesterday, we are faithful to the Pope of today, to the Council
of today and to the Council of tomorrow and to the Pope of tomorrow. Once
again: “Jesus Christus hurt, hodie et in saecula”. Jesus Christ yesterday,
today and forever.
And if
today, due to a mystery of Providence, a mystery that for us is unfathomable,
incomprehensible, we are in apparent disobedience, we are not really in
disobedience, we are in obedience.
Why are we in obedience? Because we believe in our Catechism, because we
always have the same Creed, the same Decalogue, the same Mass, the same
Sacraments, the same prayer: the Our Father of yesterday, today and
tomorrow. That is why we are in obedience and not in
disobedience.
On the contrary, if we study what is
taught today in the new religion, we notice that they no longer have the same Faith, the same Creed,
the same Decalogue, the same Mass, the same Sacraments, they no longer have the
same Our Father. It is enough to open today's catechisms to
realize this, it is enough to read the speeches that are delivered in our time
to realize that those who accuse us of being in disobedience are they who do
not follow the Popes, they are the ones who already they do not follow the
Councils, it is they who are in disobedience.Because we do not
have the right to change our Creed, to say that Angels do not exist today, to
change the notion of original sin, to affirm that the Virgin is no longer the
ever-virgin, and so on.
There is no right to replace the
Decalogue with the Rights of Man; however, today we only talk about the
Rights of man and we do not talk about his duties that constitute the
Decalogue. We have not yet seen that in our catechisms we should replace
the Decalogue with the Rights of Man!... And this is very serious. The
Commandments of God are attacked, all the laws that concern the family and so
on are no longer defended.
The Most Holy Mass, for example,
which is the summary of our Faith, which is precisely our living catechism, the
Most Holy Mass is distorted, it has become equivocal,
ambiguous. Protestants can say it, Catholics can say it.
To this end, I have never said and
have never followed those who have said that all new Masses are invalid
Masses. I have never said such a thing, but I think that, in fact, it is very dangerous to get used to
following the new Mass because it no longer represents our usual catechism,
because there are notions that have become Protestant and have been introduced
in the new Mass.
over souls through Baptism, through
the Eucharist, through the Sacrament of Penance. ¡Oh! ¡the beauty,
the greatness of the priesthood, ¡a greatness of which we are not worthy! of
which no man is worthy. Our Lord Jesus Christ wanted to do this. What
greatness! What sublimity!
And this is what our young priests
have understood. Be sure that they have understood. They have loved
the Holy Mass throughout their seminar. They have penetrated its
mystery. They will never penetrate its mystery in a perfect way even if
God grants us a long life here below. But they love their Mass and I think
they have understood and will always understand better that the Mass is the sun
of their lives, the reason for their priestly life to give Our Lord Jesus
Christ to souls and not simply to break
bread of friendship. in which Our Lord Jesus Christ is no longer found. And,
consequently, grace no longer exists in
Masses that would be purely a Eucharist, purely a meaning, and a symbol of a
kind of human charity among us.
That is why we are clinging to the Holy
Mass. And the Holy Mass is the expression of the Decalogue. What is
the Decalogue if not the love of God and the love of neighbor? What better
realizes the love of God and the love of neighbor than the Holy Sacrifice of
the Mass? God receives all glory for Our Lord Jesus Christ and for his
Sacrifice. There can be no greater act of charity towards God than
celebrating the holy sacrifice of the Mass instituted by Him. And also an act
of charity towards men than the Sacrifice of Our Lord. Our Lord Jesus Christ
himself says so: ¿is there a greater act of charity than giving your life for
those you love? Therefore, the Decalogue is realized in the Sacrifice of
the Mass: the greatest act of love that God can have from a man and the
greatest act of love that we can have from God towards us. That is what
the Decalogue is: it is our living catechism. The Holy Sacrifice of the
Mass is there continuing the Sacrifice of the Cross. The Sacraments are
nothing but the irradiation of the Sacrament of the Eucharist. All the
Sacraments are, in a certain way, like satellites of the Sacrament of the
Eucharist. From Baptism to Extreme Unction, passing through all the other
sacraments, they are nothing but the irradiation of the Eucharist, because all
grace comes from Jesus Christ who is present in the Holy Eucharist. The
Sacraments are nothing but the irradiation of the Sacrament of the
Eucharist. All the Sacraments are, in a certain way, like satellites of
the Sacrament of the Eucharist. From Baptism to Extreme Unction, passing
through all the other sacraments, they are nothing but the irradiation of the
Eucharist, because all grace comes from Jesus Christ who is present in the Holy
Eucharist. The Sacraments are nothing but the irradiation of the Sacrament
of the Eucharist. All the Sacraments are, in a certain way, like
satellites of the Sacrament of the Eucharist. From Baptism to Extreme
Unction, passing through all the other sacraments, they are nothing but the
irradiation of the Eucharist, because all grace comes from Jesus Christ who is
present in the Holy Eucharist.
Now, the sacrament and the sacrifice
are intimately united in the Mass. The sacrifice cannot be separated from
the sacrament. The Catechism of the Council of Trent explains this
magnificently. There are two great realities in the Sacrifice of the Mass:
the sacrifice and the sacrament, the sacrament dependent on the sacrifice, the
fruit of the sacrifice.
This is our whole holy religion and
for this we are clinging to the Holy Mass. You will understand now better
perhaps than you did until today why we defend this Mass, the reality of the
Sacrifice of the Mass. She is the life of the Church and the reason for
the Incarnation of Our Lord Jesus Christ. And the reason for our existence
is to join Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Sacrifice of the Mass. So, if they
want to denature our Mass, to tear away our Sacrifice from the Mass in a
certain way, ¡we begin to shout! We are being torn apart and we do not
want to be separated from the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
This is why we firmly hold to our
Sacrifice of the Mass. And we are convinced that our Holy Father the Pope
has not prohibited it and he will never be able to prohibit the celebration of
the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass of always. On the other hand, Pope St. Pius
V said in a solemn and definitive way, that whatever happens in the future, a
priest could never be prevented from celebrating this Sacrifice of the Mass and
that all excommunications, all suspensions, all the penalties that could befall
a priest for celebrating this Holy Sacrifice would be null and void. For
the future: “in future in perpetuum”.
Therefore, we have a clear
conscience, whatever happens. If we can be with the appearance of
disobedience, we are actually in obedience. Here is our
situation. And is it convenient that we say it, that we explain it,
because we are the ones who continue the Church? Those who denature the Sacrifice of the Mass, the
Sacraments, our prayers, those who put the Rights of Man instead of the
Decalogue, who transform our Creed, are they who are in the reality of
disobedience. Now this is what is done by the new catechisms of
today. That is why we feel a deep sorrow for not being in perfect
communion with the authors of these reforms... and we are infinitely
sorry! I would like to go immediately to Monsignor Rozier to tell him that
I am in perfect communion with him. But it is impossible for me, if
Monsignor Rozier condemns this Mass that we celebrate, to be able to be in
communion with him is not possible, because this Mass is that of the
Church. And those who reject this Mass are no longer in communion with the
Church of all time.
TO BE CONTINUE...
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