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"They are Changing our Religion" What They are Doing to the Mass The merit of His Excellency’s essay lies first between the principles enunciated or The Mass of All Times versus the Mass of Our Time "You're a Dinosaur!" consequent effect in the doctrinal, moral, liturgical, and disciplinary deviations that The New Forms of Baptism, Marriage, Penance and Extreme Unction The New Priests have arisen and progressively developed to the present day. The New Catechisms. of all in its grasp of the causal The New Theology implied by July - August 2020 The 2 monstrum it has grown and Vatican II Ecumenism generated and their logical Religious Liberty subversive and rebellious nature.in The creature that was link strengthened,modernist so that today circles could have it shows itself forat first been misleading, what it really is conceived at that time is but in its I read with great published on interest the essay of post concilio LifeSiteNews 9 June 2020 religions , entitled on June 1, subsequently translated into Italian by Saint Ephrem . His Excellency’s study summarizes, with the clarity that distinguishes the words of those who speak accordingThere is no todivine Christ, positive the objections will or naturalHis against Excellency right to the Athanasius Schneider legitimacy of the exe theorized, as well as the Catholiccontradicting Magisteriumrcise of which is the faithful guardian of both. religious f 3 Chiesa e the the diversity of testimony r The merit of His Excellency’s essay lies first eedom of Sacred that the Second between the principles enunciated or Scripture presumed consequent effect in the doctrinal, moral, liturgical, and disciplinary deviationsand that Vatican Council The New Forms of Baptism, Marriage, Penance and Extreme Unction The New Priests the have arisen and progressively developed to the present day. voice of Tradition, of all in its grasp of the causal implied by The monstrum it has grown and Vatican II generated and their logical subversive and rebellious nature.in The creature that was link strengthened,modernist so that today circles could have it shows itself forat first been misleading, what it really is conceived at that time is but in its Ite Missa Est Newsletter of the Society of St. Pius X in Great Britain & Scandinavia Price: suggested donation £1 To Order: request in writing or by email Publisher Society of Saint Pius X St. George‘s House 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 4 July - August 2020 Open Letters Editorial 6 Open letter of Archbishop Viganò 12 Spirituality Hope 22 Edel Quinn 26 Catechism Light of the World 32 Ite Missa Est Society of St. Pius X in Great Britain and Scandinavia Chronicle 34 Liturgical Calendar 40 Year Planner 2020 44 Mass Times 45 Addresses 46 5 Editorial Open Letters An archbishop awakes Rev. Robert Brucciani , District Superior Thy people, O Lord, they have the same is to follow. The main- brought low: and they have af- stream media are creating expecta- flicted thy inheritance. tion with expressions like “the new They have slain the widow normal”, economic meltdown is im- and the stranger: and they have minent, and the World Economic murdered the fatherless. Forum – an organisation for the (Ps 93:5-6) minions of the New World Order - have launched an initiative called My dear brethren, “The Great Reset” which seems to augur the imposition of more direct There is a collective sense that the individual control, ecologism, and world is on the cusp of dramatic the culture of death upon the entire change. Already, the Covid-19 crisis planet. and recent civil unrest in many countries – both bearing hallmarks And they have said: The Lord of sinister orchestration – have been shall not see: neither shall the the occasion of mass social condi- God of Jacob understand. tioning and a dramatic encroach- (Ps 93:7) ment upon religious and civil rights. Regrettably, it seems that more of Meanwhile, God is ignored in all this 6 July - August 2020 upheaval and men of good will are couraging the Society of St. Pius X finding themselves being man- to accept a canonical structure; oeuvred into making a choice partly it is due to a growing realisa- between supporting the “new nor- tion that, as the auto-destruction of mal” of the cultural Marxists or face the conciliar church accelerates, social and economic exclusion. Archbishop Lefebvre was right all along. No greater evidence of this Who shall rise up for me awakening to the Archbishop’s mes- against the evildoers? or who sage can be found than in two as- shall stand with me against the tonishing open letters published by workers of iniquity? (Ps 93:16) Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò earlier this month. Our hope should not fail, however, for the evil that is visiting upon us is The first open letter of 6th June to the occasion of great heroism on the President Donald Trump tells both part of those who stand firm in the the president and the world of the Catholic faith. Members of the Soci- great battle between the children of ety have ever in their minds the light and the children of darkness heroic acts of Archbishop Marcel presently playing itself out on the Lefebvre, their founder, to give them world stage, and exhorts the chil- an example of fidelity to the faith. dren of light to prayer. The second He confronted the evildoers who fo- open letter of 9th June attacks the mented a revolution in the Church Second Vatican Council as being the and founded a Society to continue cause of “doctrinal, moral, liturgical the work of the Church by the form- and disciplinary deviations”, and as ation of Catholic priests. spawning a “new parallel church” which is working for the freema- From condemnation to silence and sonic goal of a humanist one-world then qualified approval, the judge- religion. ment of the conservative clergy has been markedly more sympathetic The first letter treats of the battle towards the Archbishop’s message between good and evil raging in the and legacy in recent times. Partly state, the second letter treats of this is due to overtures made by the same battle within the precincts of conciliar authorities in view of en- Holy Mother the Church. 7 Editorial What is particularly encouraging bishop Viganò, and to re-read Arch- about the second letter is that it bishop Lefebvre’s Open Letter To shows how Archbishop Viganò’s un- Confused Catholics. They give us derstanding of the crisis in the the key to understanding the Church now meets that of Arch- present disorder and how we bishop Lefebvre. Indeed, his letter should respond to it. Both prelates reads like an updated summary of exhort us to return to Catholic tradi- Archbishop Lefebvre’s Open Letter tion in its doctrine, in its liturgy, and to Confused Catholics penned in in its morals with a spirit of prayer 1985 which every serious Catholic and self-sacrifice. If we do this, then should read. we will resist the world and be numbered among the upright. What sets the two archbishops apart however, is that, having been For the Lord will not cast off formed by the Père Le Floch at the his people: neither will he for- French Seminary in Rome from sake his own inheritance.
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