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Ite Missa 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 Treasure CONTENTS | < PREVIOUS PAGE | NEXT PAGE > FSSPX MANUAL | page 6 1 November - December 2018 Newsletter of the SSPX in Great Britain and Scandinavia "Receive the power of reading the Gospel in the Church of God." (Ordination to the Diaconate). "Take the vestment of priesthood which signifies charity;" (Ordination to the Priesthood) "Domine non sum dignus!" We are not worthy of this treasure of the Mass which gives us Thy very Self. 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 Treasure Editorial 6 We are holding a treasure 12 in the background. Treasures of the liturgy: Advent & Christmas 22 Spirituality St. Laurence O''Toole 28 Ite Missa Est Society of St. Pius X in Great Britain and Scandinavia Chronicle 32 Archives: Short history of Oxford Mass Centre 34 Events and Announcements 38 Liturgical Calendar 40 Year Planner 2018 44 Mass Times 45 Addresses 46 5 CONTENTS | < PREVIOUS PAGE | NEXT PAGE > FSSPX MANUAL | page 7 Editorial Treasure in mortal hands Rev. Fr. Robert Brucciani, District Superior My dear brethren, – The treasure which gives su- We have a treasure in our hands pernatural faith something to which has been faithfully guarded believe in (ie. its material ob- by a long line of popes and bishops ject) is sacred doctrine from spanning two millennia. It is a the wellsprings of tradition treasure that enables a soul to span and holy scripture. the infinite gulf between herself – The treasure which gives us and God. reason to hope is the sacra- mental priesthood, by which the Christ the Mediator is Touching God made present among us. – The treasure in which super- We touch God spiritually in this natural charity finds its ulti- life by the theological virtues of mate expression is the Holy faith, hope and charity which God Sacrifice of the Mass by infuses directly into the soul, but which the soul inserts itself these virtues can only reach perfec- into the perfect prayer of God tion by the treasure handed down offering God to God, entering from generation to generation by thereby into the life of the frail members of Holy Mother the Blessed Trinity itself. Church. 6 November - December 2018 Supernatural faith, hope and char- Church. It left an open wound ity are never in danger as gifts, within the frontiers of Christendom because God is their dispenser. The where new heresies, new religions triple treasure of doctrine, priest- and new organisations were able hood and the Mass are perpetually to grow to further the work of the in peril because their keeper is Prince of the World. man. By the end of the 19th century, the Church was infected with a coales- Satan's war cence of philosophical and theolog- ical errors, a masterpiece of Satan, Little surprise, therefore, that since called Modernism. the establishment of the Church, Satan has tried to subvert doctrine, corrupt priests and desecrate the Modernism Mass. Most of his assaults have been against one or other of the The modernist is a nominalist (or treasures singly: heresies of every idealist): denying the knowability description have troubled the of objective truth. The modernist Church, moral corruption at every is also a prisoner of naturalism: level of the hierarchy have scan- effectively denying the existence of dalised so many souls across the the supernatural order. To the mod- centuries, the liturgy has suffered ernist: faith is from within, hope with the passage of time and at the is founded on one’s own natural hands of misguided innovators. But endowments, and charity is follow- each time the hierarchy has acted ing one’s sentimental inclinations to restore order, the Church has irrespective of objective truth and emerged stronger than before; each the commandments. time that is, until the Protestant Reformation. The heresy of modernism corrupts the intellect and therefore neces- The Reformation was a major vic- sarily corrupts morals too. The tory for Satan: all three treasures injunction “If you love Me, keep My were attacked simultaneously and commandments” becomes “If you within 20 years, a third of Chris- love Me, do what you feel is right.” tendom had fallen away from the 7 Editorial The modernist, like the Protestant.. As the modernist excuses himself from obedience to doctrine and “..really believes that he is doing obedience to an objective moral the will of God, but in practice law, he feels free to experiment private judgment means that with the liturgy too. By the 1950s, he interprets the will of God by debate about the future of the Mass his own will and that his rule was led by the progressives of the of faith is to do what he thinks day. Ugly churches were built, not right--that is to say, he uses his for the traditional Latin Mass of own judgment to decide what 1600 years, but in anticipation of a God's judgment will be and then new man-centred liturgy for mod- follows the result as God's judg- ern times. ment. Thus while he thinks he is agreeing with God, he is really Modernism, because it can operate making God agree with him. [It within the hierarchy of the Church is not simply that every man is and because it undermines the his own pope, but that every man intellect and the will more funda- is his own God, for the pope's mentally than Protestantism, repre- authority is limited by God who sents the greatest existential threat gives it, but the individual's au- to the triple treasure of doctrine, thority, being wrong ab initio, priesthood and the Mass that the is limited in no way.] Gradually Church has ever faced. he comes (usually unconscious- ly) to leave out this middle step and no longer thinks of God in Modernism's victory each individual case, but only as a kind of general approver Pope St. Pius X tried in vain to ex- of his actions. Then rejecting tirpate Modernism from the Church alike atheism and deism, he has throughout his pontificate (1904- reached the practical position of 1914). The heresy went to ground believing in God's existence and for few years, only to emerge again God's will for us, but of acting like a tenacious fungal infection, exactly as though there were no nourished by churchmen’s desire God but his own will." (Frank to fit-in with an increasingly pagan Sheed, Booklet on the Catholic world and accelerated by the organ- Evidence Guild, 1924). ised infiltration of the hierarchy by 8 November - December 2018 Freemasons and communists. Remnant keeps the treasure At the Second Vatican Council (1962-5), a carefully prepared rev- Satan’s victory was complete but olution established the heresy of for a stubborn bishop here or there, Modernism - that “synthesis of all and priests considered too old to heresies” - as the new orthodoxy. learn new tricks or too odd to get with the programme. Doctrine changed: new notions of religious liberty, ecumenism, colle- The most visible of the bishops giality were only the start of a con- was Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. tinuous slide which now sees the He founded our Society precisely natural law being officially ignored to conserve and transmit the tri- by a pope. ple treasure, but was repaid for his efforts by being subject to the The priesthood changed: the priest full fury of the new modernist was to perceive himself as the pres- hierarchy.
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