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October 2017

Four Anniversaries

Dear faithful,

As in the lives of men, anniversaries are also celebrated in the lives of people though not all of them merit a cake with candles. This will be the case during the Month of October, where we will commemorate two happy events and two unhappy ones, all of them still carrying consequences up to our times.

Let me start with the commemoration of two events that made us to cry but that are highly broadcasted by liberal media.

October 31, 1517: Five hundred years ago, Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses on the door of Wittenberg Cathedral. This action that triggered the so-called Protestant Reformation which resulted in the loss of one third of Europe to the . As expected, the commemoration of the revolt of this Augustinian monk against the Roman Catholic Church is receiving wide coverage from the media.

October 26, 1917: One hundred years elapsed since a tiny group of dedicated men, led by Lenin and Trotsky, occupied the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia. On that day, the Russian Bolshevik Revolution entered history. Now, even though hardcore Bolshevism apparently waned after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the spirit of atheist Communism is still well alive, and Russia keeps spreading her errors (see article below).

Now, there are two happy events that may remain unknown from the media at large but that we will gladly celebrate.

October 13, 1917: This Month of October, we will commemorate one hundred years since the last apparition of Our Lady at Fatima. That day was highlighted by the famous miracle of the sun, which was witnessed by a crowd of 70,000 people and seen by people in a 40 kms radius around Fatima. Here were the words of Our Lady appeared to the children: “I want to tell you that they must build a chapel in my honour; that I am Our Lady of the Rosary; that they continue to say the Rosary every day.” Knowing that this was the last apparition, Lucy asked Our Lady if she wanted anything else from her. To which Mary answered, “I desire nothing else.” In a few words, we have the essential message of Our Lady of Fatima, which is the consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, ought to be lived by the recitation of the daily Rosary.

But we should not forget that the message of Fatima was addressed not only to individuals; but more specifically for the Church, the , and the World. The

Fatima message is essentially anti-Communist, anti-liberal and anti-Lutheran, as the errors of Russia descend from the errors of the French Revolution and Protestantism. They are the errors of the anti-Christian Revolution, which the Catholic Counter-Revolution opposes. Our Lady reminds us that a dreadful chastisement threatens mankind and that profession of the Catholic faith in its entirety is necessary in the dramatic age we are living in. One Faith, one Baptism and one Church. We need not then leave the Church, but turn back to Her and live and die in Her, since outside the Church there is no salvation. Outside Her doors there is only the inconsolable abyss of hell. We conquest Heaven on earth by fighting in defence of the true Church, so often abandoned by Churchmen.

October 17, 1917: Last but not least, let us not forget an event that happened on the eve of the Russian Revolution. On that day, without knowing anything about the apparitions at Fatima, St. (1894-1941), a young Polish Franciscan, founded the Militia of the Immaculate to combat Freemasonry which was celebrating the 200thanniversary of the constitution of London’s Grand Lodge with blasphemous parades through the streets of . St. Maximilian Kolbe is one of the who prophesised the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

The Triumph of Mary’s Immaculate Heart, which is also the Reign of Mary announced by many privileged souls, is nothing other than the triumph in history of the natural and Christian order, preserved by the Church. Our Lady announced this triumph as the final outcome of a long trial, of tragic days of penance and struggle, but also of immense trust in Her promise.

As we commemorate these historical events, let us turn to Her, asking Her, to make haste, this moment, making of ourselves an instrument, in our times, for Her victory against all her enemies, which is equivalent to saying: In the end, Her Immaculate Heart will triumph. Father Dominique Boulet

Note: material for this editorial was taken from an article written by Roberto de Mattei.

Confirmations: Bishop Tissier de Mallerais will be visiting us. A ceremony of confirmation in Toronto is scheduled for Friday November 3 @ 7:00pm. Candidates must register ASAP.

Websites: 1. Website for the SSPX in Southern Ontario:www.toronto.sspx.ca 2. the official information website of the SSPX: http://fsspx.news/en

Note about the SSPX Mass in Ottawa: Be advised of the new location of Holy Ghost Mission, hall of a former Anglican church, 317 Chapel Street, Ottawa, ON, K1N 7Z2. Sunday Mass 10:00am.

St. Michael’s Priory - Tel: 416-251-0499 o Fr. Dominique Boulet [email protected] ▪ Cell: 204-963-4524 o Fr. Freddy Mery o Fr. Raymond Lillis [email protected] o Parish Secretary [email protected] Our Lady of Mount Carmel Academy - Tel: 519-634-4932 o Fr. Sherry [email protected] o Fr. Marc Potvin [email protected] o Parish & Academy Secretary [email protected]

Activities:

• SSPX Annual Pilgrimage - Canadian Martyrs Saturday September 30, 2017. A rented bus will depart from the Church of the Transfiguration in Toronto promptly at 7:45 am, and will leave Martyrs shrine at 6:00 pm to return to Toronto. Cost: $20.00 per person. **Extended walk for men starts on Friday, September 29, with a 9:00am Mass @ Canadian Martyrs Church in Orillia. For information contact: Dave Simpson [email protected].

• Church of the Transfiguration, Toronto: • Special: o Franciscan 1/3 Order meeting, Sunday October 15 o Home Schoolers Day, Thursday October 19 • Regular: o Confessions on Sunday 30 minutes before each Mass. Friday 6:30pm, 1st Saturdays 8:30am and on request o Rosary before the Bl. Sacrament Wednesday 7:00pm o Legion of Mary meetings: Tuesday 7:00pm o 2nd collection for St. Bursary, 2nd Sunday of the Month o 2nd collection for Building Fund, 4th Sunday of the Month o Altar Boys practice, 3rd Sat. of the Month, Saturday October 21

• Holy Face of Jesus Church – St. Catharines: o Confessions usually one hour before Mass o 1st Friday & Saturday devotions to resume in October o Every Tuesday, from 7 to 8pm, Holy Hour devotion to the Holy Face

• Church of the Canadian Martyrs, Orillia: o Confessions usually one hour before Mass o Home Schoolers Day, Monday October 23

• St. Peter’s Church, New Hamburg: o For details, see the monthly bulletin from St. Peter’s o SSPX Third Order meeting, Thursday November 23

• St. Philomena Mission, in Sudbury, will be praying a Rosary at LaSalle Cemetery in honor of each of the Fatima apparitions on the 13th of each month from June 13th up to and including the October 13th Miracle of the Sun. Please join us if you are able in front of the statue at noon hour. Bring a lawn chair. Eucharistic Crusaders Intention for October That the Rosary may bring souls to God

Souls of the departed:

+Please pray for the repose of the souls whose anniversary occurs in October: + Fr. Bonneterre, Fr. Jolicoeur, Michael Davies, Leo-Candide Violette, Patrick Sharpe, Brian McMath, Murray Keating, Lillian Larson, Laurentia Rushton, Betty Daniels, Manuel Coutu, & Franz Ballachay, Larry Pidgeon and Rose Jesudhason. Requiescant in pace.

1. Have the “Errors of Russia” Now Infected Rome?

The following article was written in December 2016 by Dr. Maike Hickson for OnePeterFive. Since that time, new developments happened, like the dismissal of Cardinal Muller and the death of two of the dubia signatories, Cardinals Meissner and Caffara, but it is the same spirit that is prevailing in Rome.

One hundred years ago, Our Lady of Fatima mysteriously warned us of the danger that the then-unspecified “errors of Russia” would somehow come to spread throughout the whole world if Russia would not first be adequately and solemnly consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Such a consecration, moreover, was prophesied to attain Russia’s own fuller conversion to the Catholic Faith and, thus, to the genuine incarnational life and culture of the Faith.

For some months now, a certain expression has recurrently come back to me in my reflections: “The errors of Russia have reached Rome!” Let me attempt to explain why this insight may be so.

There have come to us now several witnesses who speak of an atmosphere of fear and suppression of free speech in Catholic Rome. Steve Skojec, one of them, reported on the atmosphere of fear in the Vatican: “I have heard reports that the Vatican is like an occupied state. Certain sources I’ve spoken with have a fear that communications with Vatican officials are being monitored; some have even reported suspicious anomalies in their telephone conversations in which, after a dropped call, the audio of the last moments of their conversation has played over and over again on a loop, as though they are hearing a recording. Some individuals who work within the Vatican are advising their contacts on the outside not to share sensitive information via email or their Vatican-issued cell phones.

The recent intense responses against the Four Cardinals’ dubia – to include threats and insults thrown at them, instead of properly responding to the substance of their fundamental questions – is another hint of the increasingly suffocating ideological atmosphere in Rome. Not the substance matters, but whether you are in line with the pope’s own methods and procedures and ambiguous proposals. Those who at all disagree with the new line of thought are being intimidated (or removed from office, as was Cardinal ). Just as in earlier Communist times, those who oppose the regime of subversive or coercive novelties are called “right- wing” and “being backwards.”

All these new developments, to include the new atmosphere in Rome, remind some of the current major Catholic witnesses of their own prior experience in Communist Russia. There is, for example, the witness of Bishop himself who grew up under the terror of Soviet Communism. He himself recently described the atmosphere in Rome as being comparable to that in the former Soviet Union. According to LifeSiteNews: “The reaction to the dubia is a proof of the climate in which we actually live in the Church right now,” Bishop Schneider said. “We live in a climate of threats and of denial of dialogue towards a specific group.” Schneider went to say that “dialogue seems to be accepted only if you think like everyone else – that is practically like a regime.” Schneider brought up his experience in Russia, where he was born in the time of the Soviet Union. His parents were sent by Stalin to work camps, or “Gulags,” after the Second World War. “If you didn’t follow the line of the party, or you questioned it, you couldn’t even ask. That is for me a very clear parallel to what is happening now in the reactions to the dubia – questions – of the Cardinals.”

Another eye witness of Communism has also recently given us further proof that the current anti-family and gender ideology – which finds increasing acceptance in Vatican circles, to include the pope himself – has troubling similarities to historical Communism. Dr. Anca-Maria Cernea, a Catholic medical doctor and participant at the 2015 Synod of Bishops on the Family, recently gave an interview to Edward Pentin where she says the following (I shall also print here in italics some of Pentin’s own specific questions put to Dr. Cernea): Would you say your and others’ experience of communism in Central and Eastern Europe has a lot to offer, in terms of tacking this crisis in the Church? Yes, for us, also, it’s easier, because we went through this for decades. … Now, we’re in a better position to fight this aggression. We are better placed to fight, those of us interested in this. We are more familiar with real Marxism than our brothers and sisters in the West. You see more clearly what’s happening? Yes, and there’s no doubt that it is Marxism. In our country, when you visit some internet pages, if there’s a new article about political correctness, you can see people commenting, and they’re saying it [political correctness] is communism, and asking, “Don’t you people realize it’s communism?” It is communism, and the people who make such comments tend to have a very clear intuition. They are correct. Dr. Cernea says that it is a form of cultural Marxism and of Gramscianism that stands behind the current crisis of the family. Now, with the more permissive laxity appearing in the Church’s moral teaching on marriage and the family, it seems that this same ideology is also seeping into, and sometimes even flooding into, the Catholic Church. I remember conducting an interview with Bishop Athanasius Schneider during the 2015 Synod on the Family and asking him about the new language of “inclusion” and “diversity” that was then coming up and infiltrating into the debate. He answered, in general, and then specifically drew an important parallel to his upbringing under Communism: “This is again to use language without content to make and express an accumulation of letters with beautiful sound, but without sound substance. This is a perversion of language, in order to achieve an aim which is against the Word of God. And this is typical Gnosticism. […] I grew up in Communism, I went five years to Communist schools, and I remember very well this seductive language, and quite completely; for, they used the same terms, concepts, but in a perverted manner, when they spoke of “peace.” They said: “Oh we are promoting peace,” but we knew that in that Communist time that they were not promoting peace by exporting weapons to Cuba, to Angola, and so on; and, so, this was “the peace.” And this is cynical and is likewise perverting the true meaning of the words [such as mercy?]. For example, I remember as a child in the Communist school, that we had to learn a famous Communist song, quite famous at that time, and it goes like this: our country

is a beautiful country with trees and forest, and I don’t know another country where people can breathe so freely. Freely! I had to sing this song again and again. A country where you can breathe so freely – and, in actuality, it was a country filled with prisons and with concentration camps. It is very sad that now this innovative group of bishops in the Synod are using a perverted language to promote an anti-Christian agenda.”

It is worthwhile to present this extended quote because I believe that all of us Catholics should learn from the experience of those members of the Church who have had to live under some form of Communism and its “cultural hegemony” – and who might help us now to “come out from under the rubble,” and “not to live the lie” (two expressions of the great Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn).

Another example of a prelate who grew up under Communism and who now has had the courage to stand up against the new stifling ideology in Rome is Cardinal Joachim Meisner. As we just reported, he wrote a most beautiful little text where he mentions his upbringing in Communist East – where Catholics had to suffer variously and very much for their Faith – and where he even chooses to quote a prayer he often prayed as a young man. This prayer may now be of help to all of us, as well. It reads: “Lord, let me stand where the storms are blowing, and do not spare me. The child has to disappear, and the man has to appear: do not be afraid!” May this prayer also inspire those prelates within the Catholic Church who are now holding back from their private and, if necessary, their own public fraternal correction of – those such as Cardinal Robert Sarah and Cardinal Gerhard Müller, both of whom are Prefects of Congregations under Francis. May they consider the extent to which their loyalty toward Francis should effectively stand above their prior loyalty toward Christ.

In light of the theme of this article – namely, that there is a growing similarity between the current crisis in Rome and the techniques used by Communist regimes and their Nomenklatura in Russia and its Satellites (but for the network of Gulags) – some of our current prelates might also well consider the history of the Communist takeover in Russia and elsewhere: how the Mencheviks softened up and further prepared things for the more coercive Bolsheviks. To give a small example, Dr. Cernea said in a very important May 2016 talk: “[In the face of the silence of many Catholic bishops with regard to Communism,] No wonder that Christian-Democrats not only failed to oppose communism in Latin America, they even became instruments of the communist take-over of their countries – Salvador Allende took power in Chile thanks to the support of Eduardo Frei. Rafael Caldera was Hugo Chávez’s godfather, both in the literal and the political sense.”

Thus, we may continue to pray for those who have not yet spoken up – or sufficiently woken up. May they all come out and help all of us to come out from under the asphyxiating rubble. Christ’s truth, we trust, shall set us free! May also the Blessed Mother – who warned us nearly 100 years ago against the spreading of the “errors of Russia” – help us now to fight against these subtle (and sometimes blatant) errors back in Rome. Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us.

Abridged from an article written by Dr. Maike Hickson Source: OnePeterFive Blog

2. Book review:

A Recommended Book: Luther's True Face

On the occasion of the 500th year anniversary of the deplorable Lutheran reformation St. Institute for Catholic Apologetics issued a forthright work on the Father of Protestantism and his doctrine.

“Luther’s True Face”, written by a French scholar and clergyman, Fr. Jean-Michel Gleize of St Pius X Society, brings back into the light of day historical facts, too often forgotten by modern Catholics and Protestants alike. What was Luther’s career before 1517? How long was the “shortest seminary formation in history”? Why and how did he form his protestant doctrine? What was the situation in the Church at the time? All these questions and more receive clear answers from an author skilled in Thomist precision and Aristotelian logic.

The translation was admirably rendered by Mary Molliné. Mgr. Bernard Tissier de Mallerais wrote a special preface for the 1stEnglish edition. The book – 160 pages – has an excellent finished quality being bound in hardcover with an attractive layout. It includes a short appendices, Pope’s Pius XI encyclical “Mortalium Animos” on religious unity. This approachable synthesis, based on sound sources given in a very unemotional way makes “Luther’s True Face” a must read of 2017 for both Catholic & Protestants. It will be difficult for any other title to beat it as the “Apologetic Book of the Year”.

Fr. Jean-Michel Gleize, SSPX, was born in 1966 in Montauban (Southern France). He graduated from National Archivist School “École nationale des chartes” in Paris. After his priestly ordination in 1996 he was appointed professor in St. Pius X Seminary in Écône (Switzerland), where he teaches apologetics, ecclesiology and esthetics. He has translated and commented on the theological treatises of cardinals Cajetan, Franzelin and Billot. He is also a regular contributor to the monthly theological review Courrier de Rome. Fr. Gleize took part in the theological discussions with Vatican theologians as an official representative of the Society of St. Pius X (2009–2012). He expressed the scope of these in the book “Disputed questions about the ” [in French] (2012).

St. Thomas Aquinas International Institute for Catholic Apologetics was founded in in 2007. Its activity focuses on organizing conferences and distributing information to strengthen the Catholic faith in dark times of doctrinal confusion and apostasy. Within the last ten years it succeed in forming a devoted international team of scholars, linguists, priests and laymen, skilled in theology, philosophy and history, for the defense of the revealed truth through sound apologetic books & conferences.

Available from Angelus Press: https://angeluspress.org/products/luthers- true-face

Source: PRESS RELEASE: "Luther’s True Face" by Fr. Jean-Michel Gleize Written by Wojtek Golonka, for The Remnant magazine.

Mass Times for October 2017

Feasts Toronto St. St Peter’s OLMC Orillia/ Catharines New New Sudbury Hamburg Hamburg Oct 1st Solemnity of the 8:00am 10:00am 7:30am 5:00pm Orillia Rosary 10:30am 10:00am Vespers & 10:00am 5:00pm Ben. 2 1. Holy Guardian 7:15am - 8:00am 11:10am - Angels 3 2. St. Theresa of the 7:15am - 8:00am 11:10am - Child Jesus 6:00pm 4 3. St. Francis of 7:15am - 8:00am 11:10am - Assisi Ros. 7:00pm 5 4. Ferial (Sts. Placid 7:15am - 8:00am 11:10am - & comp) 6 5. St. 7:00pm 6:00pm 6:30pm 6:30am - 6. & First Friday Mass & HH 7 7. Our Lady of the 9am HH 9:00am 8:00am + 8:00am - Rosary 10am Mass Ros. & Ben. 8. & 1st Saturday 8 9. 18th Sunday after 8:00am 10:00am 7:30am 5:00pm Orillia Pentecost 10:30am 10:00am Vespers & 5:00pm 5:00pm Ben. 9 10. St. John Leonard 7:15am - 8:00am 10:10am - 10 11. St. Francis Borgia 6:00pm - 8:00am 11:10am - 11 Mary’s Divine 7:15am - 8:00am 11:10am - Motherhood Ros. 7:00pm 12 12. Ferial 7:15am - 8:00am 11:10am -

13 13. St. Edward 7:00pm - 6:30pm & 7:00am - HH 14 14. St. Callistus I 7:15am - 8:00am 8:00am - 8:00am 15 15. 19th Sunday after 8:00am 10:00am 7:30am 5:00pm Orillia Pentecost 10:30am 10:00am Vespers & 10:00am 5:00pm Ben. 16 16. St. Marguerite 7:15am - 8:00am 11:10am d’Youville 17 17. St. Margaret Mary 7:15am - 8:00am 11:10am - Alacoque 6:00pm

18. Feasts Toronto St. St Peter’s OLMC Orillia/ Catharines New New Sudbury Hamburg Hamburg 18 19. St. Luke 7:15am - 8:00am* 11:10am - Ros. 7:00pm 19 20. St. Peter of 7:15am - 8:00am 11:10am - Alcantara 11:00am 20 21. St. John Cantius 7:15am - 6:30pm 6:30am - 7:00pm 21 22. Our Lady on 8:00am - 8:00am 12:00pm Sudbury Saturdays 6:00pm 22 23. 20th Sunday after 8:00am 10:00am 7:30am - Sudbury Pentecost 10:30am 10:00am 10:00am 5:00pm Orillia 5:00pm 23 24. St. Anthony Mary 7:15am - 8:00am - Orillia Claret 11:00am 24 25. St. 7:15am - 8:00am - - 6:00pm 25 26. Ferial (Sts. 7:15am - 8:00am - - Chrysanthus & Ros. 7:00pm Daria) 26 27. Ferial (St. 7:15am - 8:00am 11:10am - Evaristus) 27 28. Ferial 7:15am - - 11:10am - 7:00pm 28 29. Sts. Simon & Jude 7:15am - - 8:00am - 8:00am 29 30. Christ the King 8:00am 10:00am 7:30am 5:00pm Orillia Sunday 10:30am 10:00am Vespers & 10:00am 5:00pm Ben. 30 31. Ferial 7:15am - 8:00am 11:10am 31 32. Ferial 7:15am - 8:00am 11:10am 6:00pm Nov 133. All Saints Day 7:15am 6:00pm 10:00am 5:00pm 6:00pm 7:00pm 6:30pm Vespers & Ben. Nov 234. All Souls Day 6:30am 6:30am + 7:15am 6:30am 6:30am 7:15am 2 other 6:30pm 10:25am + 2 other 7:00pm Mass to Mass to follow follow *Day of Adoration at OLMC – see special schedule