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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 Inversion & subversion CONTENTS | < PREVIOUS PAGE | NEXT PAGE > FSSPX MANUAL | page 6 1 March - April 2019 Newsletter of the SSPX in Great Britain and Scandinavia The ecclesiology of the Second Vatican Council is upside down. 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 Inversion & subversion Editorial 6 Wrong way up 10 Wrong way round 18 in the background. Liturgy Treasures of the Liturgy 26 Ite Missa Est Society of St. Pius X in Great Britain and Scandinavia School Report 28 Chronicle 32 Liturgical Calendar 38 Year Planner 2019 43 Mass Times 44 Addresses 46 5 CONTENTS | < PREVIOUS PAGE | NEXT PAGE > FSSPX MANUAL | page 7 Editorial Inversion & subversion They are trying to put the Church in the service of the New World Order Rev. Fr. Robert Brucciani, District Superior And I say to thee: That thou art hierarchy and in him alone was in- Peter; and upon this rock I will vested power over all the Church to build my church, and the gates of teach, to sanctify and to govern. hell shall not prevail against it. The world - those souls who have And I will give to thee the keys of made their heaven here below - the kingdom of heaven. And what- have always hated the Church be- soever thou shalt bind upon earth, cause she is a sign of contradiction it shall be bound also in heaven: to them; not of the wagging finger and whatsoever thou shalt loose sort, but of innocence shrinking in on earth, it shall be loosed also in horror from the presence of evil. It heaven. (Mt 16:18-19) cuts to the heart to be so contra- dicted, but when the heart is black, My dear brethren, it is the innocence that must go; it is the Church that must break. This passage of scripture relates the moment when Our Lord ap- pointed St. Peter to be His vicar For all her history on earth and visible head of His Church to continue His mission to For two thousand years, the world redeem men from sin and hell and has either persecuted the Church to teach them the way to heaven. or tried to bend her to its temporal He was made the visible head of a power. Even in the golden age of 6 March - April 2019 Christendom in the Middle Ages, what crimes were perpetrated by kings struggled in vain to gain the men of the world within her. mastery over her only to find that, The form of the Church would when she was persecuted, she grew always be comely no matter how stronger still. they attempted to mutilate her. She would always be our Holy Mother The hierarchy of the Church, even the Church. when populated with men of the world, held firm against the as- saults of the world, because, as Second Vatican Council an institution, she never ceased to teach the truth, to administer the Like declaring a woman to be a sacraments and to govern accord- man: this is exactly what happened ing to divine law. She never ceased at the Second Vatican Council and to do these things because we have has been happening ever since. The the guarantee of Our Lord Himself Council declared the Church to be that the Church will not fail in her something other than she was. It mission. She can never cease to tried to dress her up as something do these things because she is the natural rather than see that she Bride of Christ. was supernatural. They tried to make her worship mankind (and But what would happen if the prel- ultimately the Prince of the World) ates of the Church declared the instead of worshipping her Divine Church to be something other than Spouse. And they tried to change herself? What would happen if they her form instead of jealously guard- tried to change the Church in a way ing - fondly guarding - that which that did not conform to her divine was fashioned by her Creator and constitution? Well, if would be like Lover. them declaring a woman to be a man! If such a calamity were ever to happen, then the Church would Mutilation remain herself; the real Church would still be there no matter how This last act of barbarism is the she was adorned. The actions of the main subject matter for this edition Church would still be the actions of of Ite Missa Est. The attempt to her soul which is divine no matter mutilate the Church began with 7 Editorial the Dogmatic Constitution Lumen The mutilation continues. In Sep- Gentium of the Second Vatican tember 2018, Pope Francis pub- Council; it was the beginning of a lished the Apostolic Constitution process to have the hierarchy of the Episcopalis communio which Church flattened-out and turned declared the pope to exist in a upside down. communion of other bishops and other baptised souls which “pre- Lumen Gentium attempted to di- vents any one subject from existing minish the office of pope by declar- independently of the other” (§10). In ing him head of a college of bishops effect, the Constitution is implying rather than vicar of Christ with uni- that the pope is the pope, the bish- versal power over all the bishops ops are the bishops and the bap- and the entire Church. tised are the baptised only because they are in relation to each other The surgery continued with new rather than by divine constitution, powers given to episcopal confer- sacramental consecration and by ences at the end of the Council by baptism. Pope Paul VI (Ecclesiae Sanctae) in 1966, by Pope John Paul II (Ap- ostolos suos) in 1998 and by Pope Inversion & subversion Francis (Evangelii Gaudium) in 2013. The changes served to the The same document diminishes remove decision-making from the pope and bishops further by Rome, diminish uniformity across implying that role the “Episcopal the Church and emasculate the Communion” (a new concept intro- local ordinary – the bishop - in his duced by Constitution) is that of lis- own diocese. Giving such power to tener, enunciator and ratifier of the episcopal conferences also made consensus Ecclesiae of the People it easy for a small group within of God who participate in the pro- each conference to control all the phetic function of Christ! No more dioceses associated with the con- teaching the deposit of the faith, no ference. Finally, most important of sanctifying by divinely instituted all, the changes removed the gov- sacraments, no more government. ernance of the Church from those The Episcopal Communion’s job is who have the grace ex officio for to reflect the way, truth and the life that purpose. desired by the world. 8 March - April 2019 In effect, they have tried to bring Holy Mother the Church into the Other news servitude of the world – the New World Order to be precise - but try It gives us great joy to announce as they might, she is still free and that Sunday Mass at Herne Bay still beautiful, and even more so will return to its popular time of by contrast with clothes they have 12:30pm from 3rd March. made her wear; even more so by forcing us to see her with eyes of Sunday Mass at Middlemarsh will faith rather than with human eyes. revert to its "summer" time of 5pm Her teaching is more eloquent, her from 7th April.