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THE LOGO The grey letters stand for the worldwide fraternal society which is subordinate to the Catholic Faith and the content of all publications. The content - the Faith and the patron saint - is more important than the fraternal society. The logo becomes more easily readable due to the difference in grey tones. The black letters stand for the organization itself. The design seeks to express something of the organization’s core values, showing ourselves fully “in the light”. Ite Missa Est Dystopia CONTENTS | < PREVIOUS PAGE | NEXT PAGE > FSSPX MANUAL | page 6 1 May - June 2018 Newsletter of the SSPX in Great Britain and Scandinavia Stabat Mater dolorosa: the Blessed Virgin Mary stands at the foot of the Cross once again, the successors of the apostles have fled and the forces of evil parade in triumph. Derelict Church of Our Lady of Lourdes & St. Bernard, Liverpool THE SHADOW The icon’s shadow gives us a strong, yet subtle corporate element. The two hearts now have a light shadow, ﬁtting into the spacious lay-out. There is recognition, but with a light touch. The watermark is always present in the background but is not overt, just like Ite Missa Est Newsletter of the Society of St. Pius X the FSSPX. Again, the content is the most in Great Britain & Scandinavia Price: suggested donation £1 important factor, with the FSSPX staying To Order: request in writing or by email Publisher Society of Saint Pius X St. George‘s House in the background. 125 Arthur Road Wimbledon SW19 7DR United Kingdom +44 20 8946 7916 [email protected] District Superior Rev. Fr. Robert Brucciani Donation options (specify "St. Michael's School" if desired) 1. Cheque to: "The Society of Saint Pius X" at the above address 2. Standing Order: contact us for a form either: at the above address or: [email protected] or: www.fsspx.uk/en/donate-gb 3. Transfer to: Lloyds Bank plc Account: The Society of St. Pius X Account Number: 00279661 Sort Code: 30-99-80 BIC/SWIFT: LOYDGB21061 IBAN: GB07LOYD30998000279661 4. Paypal: [email protected] Please ask for a Gift Aid declaration form if you pay income tax or complete online form at www.fsspx.uk/en/donate-gb Internet fsspx.uk CONTENTS | < PREVIOUS PAGE | NEXT PAGE > FSSPX MANUAL | page 7 THE SHADOW The icon’s shadow gives us a strong, yet subtle corporate element. The two hearts now have a light shadow, ﬁtting into the spacious lay-out. There is recognition, but with a light touch. The watermark is always present in the background but is not overt, just like the FSSPX. Again, the content is the most important factor, with the FSSPX staying Dystopia Editorial 6 Political Correctness 12 in the background. Spirituality For the Society of St. Pius X 16 St. Robert Bellarmine 22 Other Books 28 Regina Caeli 30 Ite Missa Est Society of St. Pius X in Great Britain and Scandinavia Announcements 31 Liturgical Calendar 38 Year Planner 2018 43 Mass Times 44 Addresses 46 5 CONTENTS | < PREVIOUS PAGE | NEXT PAGE > FSSPX MANUAL | page 7 Editorial Dystopia Already here Rev. Fr. Robert Brucciani, District Superior My dear brethren, man is worshipped. The tenets of this new religion of man are almost The last century produced three identical to the new religion out- notable works of fiction that depict lined in the Second Vatican Coun- a dystopian future for the world: cil's Dignitatits Humanae! [An ar- Lord of the World by Mgr. Robert ticle will be devoted to this uncanny Hugh Benson (1907), Brave New similarity in a future issue.] World by Aldous Huxley (1932) and Nineteen Eighty Four by George Huxley predicts a state-organised Orwell (1949). In each book the au- religion which worships a god thor made predictions of the future named "Ford" (probably a reference by extrapolating the tendencies of to the all mighty capitalist of his the world at the time of writing. day) with a sensual liturgy bereft of While the picture of society painted any appeal to reason. by each novel is very different, the similarities with our own world are Orwell makes no memorable refer- alarming. ence to religion in his description of Oceana in which England (named Religion Airstrip One) finds itself. Atheism reigns. In Lord of the World, Christianity is replaced by a state religion in which 6 May - June 2018 Morals by which foetuses and young children are subjected to thousands In all three novels, there are no of repetitions of oral propositions objective principles that deter- until they hold them as self-evident mine right and wrong behaviour. truths. In this world, ten thousand There is, therefore, no natural law. lies can actually be made into one Mgr. Benson predicts a world gov- unassailable 'truth'. In Nineteen erned by the social norms of the Eighty Four, children and adults day. Both Huxley and Orwell pre- are continuously indoctrinated by dict a world in which the principles ear, eye and activity. The universal- of the natural order and revealed ly present 'telescreens' are rarely religion are replaced by an order quiet and the party activities occu- imposed by the state. Mgr. Benson py most "free-time". History must and Orwell preserve the notion of always be re-written to support the marriage and the family, but Huxley changing needs of the party. makes even the concepts of marriage, mother, father and childbirth There is no new philosophy or theol- appear repulsive and subversive in ogy in any of the predicted futures. the ears of the inhabitants of the Brave New World. Recreation Eugenics and contraception are There is no recreation mentioned in central to the society of the Brave Lord of the World and no recreation New World with abortion and cre- approved-of for party members in mation being practised there on an Nineteen Eighty Four. In the Brave industrial scale. Euthanasia is com- New World, free time is spent in mon to all three dystopias. mindless games such as 'electro- magnetic golf', diversions such as Education the 'feelies' (a development of the 'movies'), under the influence of In Lord of the World, the population the state-produced drug 'soma' and is manipulated by state-sponsored in shameless promiscuity from the media and many Catholic priests earliest age. leave the priesthood as a conse- quence. In the Brave New World, children are taught by 'hypnopedia' 7 Editorial are features of all three dystopias. The state In Nineteen Eighty Four, chil- In Lord of the World, it is the "es- dren are taught and rewarded for tablishment" that runs things and denouncing their own parents. laws are made to fit pragmatic 'Thought crime' is something as expedience. This "establishment" pernicious as it is arbitrarily used to willingly subjects itself to a new maintain the climate of fear. world order directed by the incarna- tion of Satan himself. In the Brave Nothing new New World, there is an invisible one-world government, in Nineteen Such are the visions of dystopia. Eighty Four, there is a single per- Now, while this might sound alarm- petual conflict between a changing ist, much of the evil described in alliance of two totalitarian world these dystopian worlds is actually powers and a third. happening in our own and, in some things like abortion and gender In Lord of the World, perceived ene- ideology, the dark dystopian pre- mies of the state are lynched by the dictions of a century ago are even mob; in the Brave New World they surpassed. are mercifully exiled to places like Iceland or the Falklands; in Ninety Not surprisingly, there is a common Eighty Four they are 'vaporised' feature of the different societies after a lengthy period of interroga- portrayed and our own and that tion, torture and public humiliation. is the rejection of God to Whom we owe adoration, to Whose laws Instruments of control we are subject and from Whom we learn and receive power and grace. Universal surveillance and extreme enforcement powers are unques- This wholesale rejection of Jesus tioned in Nineteen Eighty Four. Christ, the God-Man, has happened Submission to the system is almost before. In his great work, The City automatic in the Brave New World of God, St. Augustine shows how a (owing to the absence of all critical society that turned away from (or thinking and 'hypnopedic condi- ignored) its Creator and Redeemer tioning'), and self-policing by fear fell into the most appalling vices 8 May - June 2018 while convinced that it was practis- by society in general is growing and ing virtue, and thereby ultimately will most probably continue to grow failed. The irony was that the pa- to the point where it is not possible gans blamed the fall of Rome on to live under the radar as a Catholic that unique thing which could have anymore. The Church is no longer a brought it peace, prosperity and political force in the world and there glory: the Catholic religion. are no Catholic champions on the world stage. We will all, sooner or The same may be said of the leaders later, be expected to burn incense of the Chosen Race, who had Christ before the new false-gods or face crucified two thousand years ago. the consequences. The same may be said of political powers that govern the world in our This prospect fills me with dread. I own day. And, most painfully, the fear for St. Michael's School, I fear same may be said of those prelates for parents who must raise their of the Church of Jesus Christ who children in this fallen world, I fear are attempting to strip the Church for our faithful who must live and of its doctrine in order to accom- work in an increasingly hostile en- modate dystopia.

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