So the controversy; the fight, continues, and it will as long
as the situation is not regularized.
It could be done at any time, in an instant, but ever since
the situation arose, it is the one and same sin that prevents
that from taking place:
Pride.
They don't call pride the deadliest of all sins for nothing.
The Catholic Church is the guardian of the deposit of faith;
she holds the truth about us humans and about God.
Despite humans being finite, limited, restricted, by our
humanness, in contrast to God who is All Powerful,
without limit, obstructed by nothing,
the Catholic Church offers by the means of the
Sacraments, for us to have a close relationship with Him, through
His Only Son Jesus Christ.
Even though I grew up in a post christian (protestant) country
and am a convert to Catholisism, I remember the absolute outrage,
even in my country of origin,
when the New Mass was introduced, because it was reported in
the media.
In the 50 years since then, I have progressivly learnt more
of the faith, because there was much unclarity, a lack of guidelines,
this hinders progression and true knowledge.
I wanted to learn more, driven by a desire to dig deeper, to truly
understand, so I could implement it in my daily life.
Integrating the teaching in myself, which implies obviously to
step outside the comfort zone,
taking risks and a complete trust in God.
It implies not being afraid
of being ridiculed and rejected, and to not be afraid of death.
Those who today are pejoratively called "intégrists" or
"fundamentalists", judged with contempt, while
in reality they are rather the logical result of taking abord the
message of Christ without modifying it to suit personal
whims and desires, are regarded with suspicion.
What Archbishop Lefebvre did was the exact opposite to
rebellion, it was a heroic sacrificial act with disregard to
himself, in order to save the Church; the true treasures of
the Church. With the new mass; the novus ordo, the
deconstruction of the Chuch was set in motion.
From then on subjective relativism replaced primordial
Catholic teaching; even the Decalogue, (written in stone..)
(And ever since, those who still holds fast to the new mass,
are unable to understand why there is less and less
people going to that mass.)
Monseigneur Lefebvre's situation was akin to a firechief
looking at a building containing everlasting value, which
had been set alight, in order to burn it down. He had
spent his whole life in service of propagating it, he had
been elevated to Archbishop of Dakar and Superior
General of the Holy Ghost Fathers, by the Catholic Church.
He was a 100% faithful servant of the Holy Catholic Church,
and never a renegade.
Then, due to the Second Vatican Council, he was faced
with the wilful dismanteling and destruction of the Church,
to be carried out from within, the impoverished new Liturgy
replacing the Liturgy of all times, the same Liturgy which
had produced thousands of known Saints and an unknown
number of unknown saintly ordinary men, women and children.
Lefebvre absolutely had to react, he was not disobedient,
on the contrary; he was obedient to the last;
obedient to God the Father.
When you are the Chief of a firebrigade, would it be normal
to stand there without reacting, looking at the building that has
been set fire to?
If Lefebvre had not founded the SSPX, the authentic Catholic
Church would have ceased to exist today, it was an absolutely
necessary act in order to preserve it.
Because he consecrated bishops without having obtained the formal
permission from the Pope who just wanted Lefebvre to toe the line
and stop making a fuss about the Faith being destroyed, and agree
to submit to Vatican 2.
Since that was not possible, he was ready to die rather than do that,
the ordinations went ahead.
He knew full well that he would be excommunicated, this is why his
actions were of sacrificual nature, he sacrified himself in order to save
the Church.
Even though this act has been called "schismatic", it has not, not up
until now anyway, been declared that SSPX are in actual schism, it is
much more ambigous than that.
They have, since the ordinations of the 4 bishops in
1988 been left in limbo, due to the Vatican's lack of willingness to
regularize them; declaring them to be in full communion with Rome.
I don't even put this down to the individual Popes we have had since
then, the diabolical powers of the world which have infiltrated the
Church are at play.
It is a question of punishment, they are being punished, for not
submitting to the order of accepting the unacceptible. (Vatican 2)
Similarly to the doctors who refused to inject their patients with the
covid "vaccine", which the manufacturers admitted were,
unlike other vaccines, not properly tested , therefore by definition
"experimental", based on the hippocratic oath they had
made and their own moral compass, they were struck off the register
and prevented from practising their profession/vocation.
It boils down to the power of authority. Not about right or wrong,
or the common good, but pure power.
I cannot help but to make the analogue with family.
Parents have the authority over their children, however that does
not prevent mistakes, bad judgement and sometimes cruelty and
abuse from parents even toward a good and well behaved child.
Sometimes it is simply the parent who is wrong, nevertheless they
have the upper hand of authority over the child.
What does the child do then?
But thanks to the good and saintly Archbishop, we have today
in full communion with The Holy See;
Traditional Roman Catholic Societies of Apostolic life like
Christ the King Sovereign Priest ( established in 1990), and the
Institute of the Good Shepherd,( 2006)
who continues to teach, transmit, educate the true authentic Faith.
