Florida newsletter of the Society of St. Pius X 1513

Catholic Faith and Culture in Florida n. 20 september 2018

ear Faithful, D Times are ter- rible for Holy Moth- er the Church, as She is crucified by her dearest children, a lost and extremely sinful clergy. “It is impossible that scandals should not come: but woe to him through whom they come. It were better for him that a mill- stone were hanged about his neck and be cast into the sea than that he should scandalize one of these little ones.” (Lk 17:1-2) We are back to very bad periods of the history of the Church and we knew that with Paul VI, after a very confusing , the aggiornamento and the Liturgical revolution, more monstrosities were coming. For many, the first signal was the Litur- gical ruin. “When therefore you shall see the abomination of desola- tion, which was spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place: he that readeth let him understand.” (Mt 24:15) In the previous perilous epochs, we had attacks against the Faith or against the morals, but the Modernist crisis is the fruit of a total heresy that won’t save any theological or moral virtue. This heresy is methodically breaking any possible communication with God. However, woe to the one who rejoices upon these scandals and dis- grace, as all of us should rather kneel down, pray, do penance and repair for the many abominations perpetrated by these felon priests and bishops. Their scandals and sacrileges have destroyed many lives, especially spiritual lives. This perverted clergy have dishonored and desecrated their consecration; they gave up their fatherhood and their human dignity. Let us admit that we have our own responsibility, as we do not pray and do penance as we should. Shame on us who did not console the divine Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate and sorrowful heart of our Lady. Many among us are self-declared “heroes” of the social kingship of our Lord Jesus Christ, but with a very narcissist tongue only.

2 The enemies of Christ shout: “We do not want this man to reign over us” (Lk 19:14). Thus, their passive accomplices speak, criticize, divide, waste time on the internet and “social” media and do noth- ing concrete for the kingship of Christ our Lord. The real builders of the Kingdom are unfortunately a handful of generous and humble people, always the same. This is also a result of this Modernist and nihilist wave. It encour- ages very talkative and hysterical individuals to cover the voice of the true and humble and to empty even more their own soul and contaminate many in the useless, sinful and very popular habit of gossiping. The Kingdom of our Lord is His Church and it is primarily a spir- itual edifice that has temporal consequences. The Church is calling us on first Thursday to pray for Her and Her priests, on first Friday to repair for our sins and console the Sacred Heart and on first Saturday to ask the intercession of our Blessed Lady in this tormented time. We make the opportunity for confession as frequent as possible and encourage to do penance. We try to give the best options to go to Mass. We offer catechism and instructions and help families. We preach retreats and organize pilgrimages. We bless as much as we can. We offer a school of excellent quality to real Catholic families. We help the poor and the desolate. Please pray for your priests and take advantage of their service. Therefore, you will more generously help to the edification of the temporal aspect of the Kingdom in building strong Catholic fami- lies, aware of the perils of the world and fighting efficiently behind the standard of the King, in being more involved in the practical part of the apostolate, in building our school, in building bigger and more beautiful churches to worship God, in offering your generosi- ty and service to the civil society for her conversion, etc. We are full of Hope and the conversion of the world is at hand, in our hands, in your hands. However, beware of the world and Mam- mon! They do their best to enslave you. “The harvest indeed is great, but the laborers are few. Pray ye there- fore the Lord of the harvest that He send forth laborers into His harvest.” (Mt 9:37-38) Fr. Marc Vernoy, Prior

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4 aint. Pius the tenth in his first S encyclical, E Supreme Apos- tolatus of October 4th, 1903, lays out the program for his pontifi- cate, “to restore all things in Christ”. He saw in his time there was a great error which was en- tering the church and secular so- ciety. This error was that of re- placing God with man. He echoed the words of St. Paul in his first letter to the Romans when he says “and they changed the glory of the incorruptible Fr. Samuel Fabula God into the likeness of a cor- ruptible man…who changed the truth of God into a lie and wor- shipped and served the creature until now. rather than the creator, Who is This tragedy of putting man at blessed forever. Amen.” St. Pius the center and having God on the tenth saw at his time men the side is far spread within the working towards putting them- walls of the Church. We see that selves in the place of God even with the Second Vatican Council in the Church Herself. Being the that God was put to the side so holy pontiff that he was, he knew that we could make room for our that his subjects needed to have protestant brothers in this false the remedy for this great evil and idea of . so he points it out in his first en- 1969 saw the Novus Ordo Mis- cyclical. The remedy is “to re- sae coming to light in which the store all things in Christ.” priest no longer faces God but In our present times we can see rather turns to the people to that this error or infection is no please them. The Tabernacles longer entering the Church but have, in most churches today, rather it has entered Her. We see been moved off to the side. The that Our Holy Mother the Second Vatican Council and the Church has been infected by this Novus Ordo Missae have put error especially since the 1960s man in the place of God. 5 What we see in the Church today remedy is simply in itself and yet is simply the blossoming of the it is difficult for us because man seeds of this error which St. Pius is complicated. the tenth saw entering the The answer to the present crisis Church in his times and the same we see around us today is simply error that St. Paul chastised the to put God back in His place in Romans for in his epistle to our lives and to remember our them. Man is trying to take the place, which is that of creature place of God in the world and in before our Creator. Holy Mother the Church today. We must have confidence in This is the reason why we see so God and work to rebuild Our many problems in our secular Holy Mother the Church with society and the Church. If we Our Lord as the foundation. So, continue on this path then we we say with St. Pius the tenth will end as the Romans did in that the answer to the crisis in their state of sin and debauchery. the Church is “to restore all If we want to avoid this end we things in Christ.” must take and apply the remedy St. Pius the tenth gave to us, “to restore all things in Christ.” The

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he episcopal letter is no dated, but was a reaction to an article about the T apostolate of the FSSPX in Miramar Beach: http:// www.nwfdailynews.com/news/20180715/traditional-catholic-latin-mass-is- offered-in-chapel-in-miramar-beach. Here is the documented answer of Mr. Kelly in italic type font. “Dear Brothers and Sisters, Pius X. Since my installation as the 6th The Society of St. Pius X was Bishop of the Diocese of Pen- founded in 1970 by Archbishop sacola-Tallahassee on August 22, officially break- 2017, it has been brought to my ing communion with the Catho- attention that a liturgy in lic Church.” [On November 1, [Tridentine Latin Mass] is being 1970, the Priestly Society of Saint offered at the Grimaldi Building Pius X was canonically founded and in Miramar Beach, Florida spon- then formally approved by the sored by the Society of St. Pius just four months later] 1 X. The sign in front of the build- “Consequently, members of this ing states “Saint Anthony Mary Society are validly ordained, but Claret - Roman Catholic Chapel - have received the sacramental Traditional Latin Mass.” With illicitly. Therefore, they have this statement I wish to update been forbidden by the Holy Fa- the status of the Society of St. ther from exercising their minis- 8 try due to doctrinal differences the doctrinal questions are clari- with the Roman Catholic fied, [See #2 and #3 above] the Church.” [In 2015, the Vatican sent Society has no canonical status in its own delegate, Bishop Athanasius the Church, and its ministers --- Schneider, to visit the SSPX. After even though they have been his review, Bishop Schneider said freed of the ecclesiastic penalty – “When the SSPX tries to believe, to do not legitimately exercise any worship and to live morally the way our ministry in the Church.” [The fore-fathers and the best-known Saints Society of St. Pius X has always re- did during a millennial period, then lied, with all certainty, on the extraor- one has to consider the life and the dinary jurisdiction conferred by the work of these Catholic priests and Normae generals of the Code of Canon faithful of the SSPX as a gift for the Law.]4 “Unfortunately, although Church in our days – even as one of many attempts have been made the several instruments which the Di- to reconcile the Society with the vine Providence uses to remedy the enor- Church, this reconciliation has mity of the current general crisis of the yet to be achieved. faith, of the morals and of the liturgy Recently, our Holy Father Pope inside the Church.”2 In 2016, Arch- Francis has shown great mercy in bishop Guido Pozzo, secretary for the allowing Catholics to receive the Pontifical Commission - Sacraments of Marriage and Rec- the Vatican office responsible for doc- onciliation with SSPX priests trinal discussions with the SSPX, said under certain circumstanc- “The difficulties raised by the SSPX es.” [The Holy Father placed abso- concerning the Church-State relation- lutely no restrictions on the faithful ship and religious freedom, the practice receiving the Sacrament of Penance of ecumenism and dialogue with non- from an SSPX priest.]5 At the same Christian religions, certain aspects of time, a Catholic may not receive the liturgical reform and its concrete or celebrate the Sacrament of the application, remain subject to discus- Eucharist in a SSPX church un- sion and clarification but do not consti- der ordinary circumstanc- tute an obstacle to a canonical and es.” [According to Canon 1335 of the juridical recognition of the SSPX.”3] Code of Canon Law, any conscientious “Because of these doctrinal dif- Catholic can request from a Catholic ferences they are not in full com- priest “a sacrament or sacramental or munion with the Catholic an act of governance; a person is per- Church. mitted to request this for any just In a letter from Pope Benedict cause.” That “just cause” (for exam- XVI in March of 2009, the Holy ple: the dangers of heresy, indifferent- Father said: “Once again, until ism, and false ecumenism found in their 9 local diocesan parish) is left up to the tian faithful alone, who likewise determination of the conscientious receive them licitly from Catholic Catholic. 6 If we cede the false claim ministers alone...” [The priests of that the SSPX is outside the Church, the are Catho- according to Canon 844 paragraph 2 lic ministers, so Canon 844 nicely ar- of the Code of Canon Law, any consci- ticulates their administering of the sac- entious Catholic “whenever necessity raments as licit.] “Because the Soci- requires it or true spiritual advantage ety of St. Pius X and its members suggests it...are permitted to receive the do not enjoy any canonical status sacraments of penance, Eucharist and or recognition in the anointing of the sick from non-,” [In January 2018, Bishop ministers in whose Schneider had this to say, “Pope Churches these sac- Benedict XVI raments are valid.” a n d P o p e 7] “Only in cases Francis on of emergen- various occa- cy” [The Church sions spoke with clearly is in a state understanding of necessity.]8 “or towards the when it is not SSPX. It was possible for a particularly at his Catholic to time, as Cardinal c e l e b r a t e of Buenos Aires, Mass in a that C a t h o l i c helped the SSPX Church (i.e., in some adminis- one that is trative issues. Pope recognized Benedict XVI once as such by the Ordinary / said about Arch- Bishop of the diocese) may they bishop Marcel Lefebvre: “He was a do so with the SSPX. As there great bishop of the Catholic Church.” are several Catholic parishes in Pope Francis considers the SSPX as the same area as the chapel this Catholic, and has expressed this pub- last condition would not apply. licly several times. Therefore, he seeks a According to Canon 844 para- pastoral solution, and he made the graph 1 of the Code of Canon generous pastoral provisions of granting Law, “Catholic ministers admin- to the priests of the SSPX the ordinary ister the sacraments licitly to faculty to hear confessions and condi- Catholic members of the Chris- tional faculties to celebrate canonically marriage. The more the doctrinal, mor- 10 al and liturgical confusion grows in the “At the present time there is a life of the Church, the more one will traditional Latin Mass offered understand the prophetic mission of every Sunday in Pensacola at Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in an 10:30am at St. Stephen Catholic extraordinary dark time of a general- Church/Our Lady of Fatima Di- ized crisis of the Church.”]9 “then no ocesan Shrine. There are addi- conscientious Roman Catholic tional opportunities to participate should receive Holy Communion in a Latin Mass at St. Thomas at a Mass celebrated by a mem- More Parish in Pensacola and at ber of the Society.” [See #6 and St. Louis Catholic Church in Tal- #7 above.] “Furthermore, attend- lahassee. You will find more in- ance at it does not fulfill one’s formation on our Diocesan web- obligation to attend Mass on site. Sunday and on Holy Days of Sincerely yours in Christ Jesus, Obligation.” [Cardinal Silvio Oddi, then President for the Sacred Congrega- Most Reverend William A. Wack, tion for the Clergy, wrote on March CSC Bishop of Pensacola- 17, 1984 in reply to an inquiry made Tallahassee” by a family about whether attending Mass at an SSPX chapel would serve 1 http://sspx.org/en/news-events/news/ to fulfill their Sunday Obligation: joyful-consequence-november-1-1970-2730 “According to the New Code of Canon 2 https://rorate - caeli.blog spot.com/2016/02/exclusive-bishop- Law, “The obligation of assisting at athanasius-schneider.html?m=1 Mass is satisfied wherever Mass is 3 https://www.catholicnews agency.com/ celebrated in a Catholic rite....” I hope news/could-reconciliation-with-the-sspx- that settles your doubts.” Msgr. Ca- arrive-with- mille Perl, Secretary of the Pontifical ease-31983 Commission Ecclesia Dei, wrote a 4 http://sspx.org/en/faq-page/do-sspx- letter on May 28, 1996 and repeated priests-have-jurisdiction-faq9 5 http://sspx.org/en/news-events/news/ in Protocol No. 236/98 of March 6, pope-francis-sspxs-confessions-valid-and- 1998: “In the strict sense you may licit-10330 fulfill your Sunday obligation by at- 6 http://www.vatican.va/archive/ tending a Mass celebrated by a priest of ENG1104/_P4X.HTM the Society of Saint Pius X. ...If your 7 http://www.vatican.va/archive/ ENG1104/_P2T.HTM intention is simply to participate in 8 http://sspx.org/en/state-necessity Mass according to the 1962 Missal for 9 http://edwardpentin.co.uk/bishop- the sake of devotion, this would not be schneider-on-the-sspx/ a sin. It would seem that a modest 10 http://sspx.org/en/what-canonical- contribution to the collection at Mass status-sspx could be justified.”]10 11 An excerpt from “Open Letter to Confused Catholics” by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. odernism is indeed what devotions or at least stop their M undermines the Church increasing... Let ecclesiastical from within, today as yesterday. government become democratic; Let us again quote from the en- let a share in the government be cyclical Pascendi some typical given to the junior clergy and features which correspond with even the laity; let authority be what we are experiencing now. decentralized. Reform of the Ro- “The Modernists say that author- man Congregations, above all the ity in the Church, since its end is Holy Office and the Index... Fi- purely spiritual, should strip itself nally, there are those among of all that external pomp, all them who, echoing their those pretentious adornments Protestant masters, seek the sup- with which it parades itself in pression of priestly celibacy.” public. In this they forget that Notice that the same demands religion, while it belongs to the are now being put forward and soul, is not exclusively for the that there is absolutely nothing soul and that the honor paid to original. As regards Christian authority is reflected back on thought and the formation of Christ who institutes it.” future priests, the intention of It is under pressure from these the reformers of St. Pius X’s “speakers of novelties” that Paul time was the abandonment of VI abandoned the tiara, bishops scholastic philosophy among the gave up the violet cassock and obsolete systems.” They advo- even the black, as well as their cate “that young people should rings, and priests appear in lay be taught modern philosophy, clothes, usually in a deliberately the only true philosophy, the on- casual . ly one suitable for our times... There is nothing among the gen- that so-called rational theology eral reforms already put into ef- should be based on modern phi- fect or insistently demanded that losophy and positive theology on St. Pius X has not mentioned as the history of dogmas.” the “maniac” desires of the mod- In this respect, the Modernists ernist reformers. You will recog- have got what they wanted and nize them in this passage: “As more. In what passes for semi- regards worship (they want) to naries, they teach anthropology, diminish the number of external psychoanalysis and Marx in place 12 of St. Thomas Aquinas. tion, which is God? The principles of Thomist phi- But what is Tradition? It seems losophy are rejected in favor of to me that the word is often im- vague systems which themselves perfectly understood. It is equat- recognize their inability to ex- ed to the “traditions” that exist plain the economy of the Uni- in trades, in families and in civic verse, putting forward as they do life: the “bouquet” fixed to the the philosophy of the absurd. roof of a house when the last tile One latter-day revolutionary, a is laid, the ribbon that is cut to muddle-headed priest much open a monument, etc. That is heeded by intellectuals, who put not what I am referring to: Tra- sex at the heart of everything, dition does not consist of the was bold enough to declare at customs inherited from the past public meetings: “The scientific and preserved out of loyalty to hypotheses of the ancients were the past even where there are no pure nonsense and it is on such clear reasons for them. nonsense that St. Thomas and Tradition is defined as the De- Origen based their systems.” Im- posit of Faith transmitted by the mediately afterwards, he fell into Magisterium down through the the absurdity of defining life as centuries. This deposit is what “an evolutionary chain of biolog- has been given to us by Revela- ically inexplicable facts.” How tion; that is to say, the Word of can he know that, if it is inexpli- God entrusted to the Apostles cable? How, I would add, can a and transmitted unfailingly by priest discard the only explana- their successors.

13 The Holy Mass and what we must do. e have the heard the W words “crisis in the Church”. We are in a crisis, things are going bad, the mem- bers of the Church are corrupt- ed, we have a loss of vocations, priest’s abandoning their priest- hood, the faithful turning to false religions and the youth giving up their Catholic teaching as soon as they become adults. Why has this happened? There are many reasons, but one very important reason is that the Holy Fr. Joshua Jacobs Mass has been attacked and from this attack on the Mass, the priesthood suffers as well. this reason. It was to continue This only makes sense. The Mass Christ’s work in the world after He had Ascended into Heaven. is The Act of Liturgy in the Catholic Church. It is the Sacri- The Mass is at the heart of the fice of Our Lord Jesus Christ Church. It is the source of life renewed again on our altars. It is for the members. It is from this a sacrifice which renders perfect Sacrifice that all the graces flow Adoration, Thanksgiving, Propi- to all men and it is this very Sac- tiation and Petition to God the rifice that has been attacked to- Father. This is the act that we as day, we know what has hap- Catholics are uniting to at every pened, the notion of sacrifice is Mass. It is not our own personal gone, the sacredness is gone, the prayer, it is the prayer of Christ, reality of what the Mass is has the act of Christ offered to His disappeared and the reality of Father. what the priest is, and his dignity It is the sacrifice which Christ has suffered. We see the conse- wished to continue until the end quences of this loss of the Sacred of time and it is the means for and the attacks on the Mass. I do continuing the act of redemp- not need to elaborate about tion. The Church was formed for them. They have happened, Yes, 14 but what is most important is He has told us, He has given us what we must do, here and now, this promise and we must believe each one of us. It is very simple. with all our hearts that He will We need to remain united to the always be with us. Sacrifice of the Mass. We need to Today, right now we need to gather around the altar, unite to pray. We need to pray for the the Sacrifice of Our Lord and Pope, for those in authority in pray for all those in the Church. Holy Mother Church and for all Pray as Our Lady of Fatima told priests. We need to pray that they us, pray for sinners and do pen- can see the Dignity, the Sacred- ance. We cannot change what ness of the Holy Sacrifice, the has happened, but we are called sacredness of their office and the to preserve what we have been great role that they perform in given. the work of Redemption. We can never doubt, we never Let us offer all our prayers at get discouraged. God has al- Mass with Our Lord for these lowed this crisis and He will intentions, let us ask Our Lady to bring good from it. We do not carry our prayers to the altar of know when or how but we know Sacrifice and by so doing we are that this crisis will come to an guaranteed that all our prayers end in God’s perfect time. We are heard and that we are work- know that the gates of hell will ing for the end of the crisis and never prevail against the Church, the reign of Our Lord Jesus it is founded on Christ who does Christ. not change and cannot deceive.

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