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In Principio In Principio Superior’s Letter A Visionary for Catholic Ireland Celtic Christianity Pontmain—the Story of a Miracle Winter 2017 Newsletter of the SSPX in Ireland Basilica of Our Lady of Pontmain in France. Read the story of the miracle on p. 21. Cover page portrays the artwork of Harry Clarke created in 1918 for St Barrahane’s Church of Ireland in Co. Cork. Fr. Griego leads the Cork parish in praying the Rosary on 26 October in solidarity with Catholics around the country, who gathered together on the coasts to pray for the continued protection of the unborn in Ireland. In Principio Bulletin of the Priestly Society of Saint Pius X in Ireland Publisher Fr. Vicente A. Griego Saint Pius X House 12 Tivoli Terrace South Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin Editor Fr. Patrick Kimball Saint Joseph’s House Court Devenish Lane Athlone, Co. Westmeath Frequency Quarterly Suggested Donation €3 to cover printing expenses The SSPX relies solely on the donations of the faithful. To donate to the SSPX in Ireland Society of Saint Pius X Permanent TSB Account no: 26190763 Sort code: 99-06-04 BIC: IPBSIE2D IBAN: IE66 IPBS990 604 2619 0763 Cheque donations may be made out to “The Society of Saint Pius X“ and sent to: 12 Tivoli Terrace South Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin PayPal: [email protected] The Society of Saint Pius X is a registered Charity: CHY 9694 All donations made by individuals amounting to €250 or over authorise the Charity to a tax rebate. For more information, contact Fr. Griego. Wills and Bequests The Society gratefully appreciates the generosity of benefactors who remember the Society in their wills. Contact a solicitor for further advice. The Web Visit us online at fsspx.ie Letter from the Superior 6 Visionary for a Catholic Ireland 12 Celtic Christianity 16 Pontmain—Story of a Miracle 21 Storming Heaven for the Unborn 26 Picture Collage 28 Addresses 31 In Principio Letter from the Superior Rev. Fr. Vicente A. Griego, SSPX Superior of Ireland Dear Friends and Benefactors, dispel the evils that darken men’s lives. How is it that the IN THE BEGINNING WAS Light of the Omnipotent God THE WORD (John 1:1). By sin, seems restrained by the dark- mankind cast away the Word of ness of evil? How can we per- God, and over the world fell the sist in a separation from God, if darkness of God’s absence. God desires us to be with Him? Conflict was born when angels and men chose to abandon God loves perfectly and un- grace, to withdraw from the conditionally; but men are not light of God’s grace. The con- so generous and often set un- trast between light and dark- fair terms before reciprocating ness metaphorically presents to their “love”. When men refuse our understanding the inability to accept God’s love, men refuse of good and evil to co-exist – to love God. Men are free and where light penetrates, dark- must use their freedom rightly. ness recedes; where darkness prevails, light is unwelcome. Free will is a pre-requisite to be able to love. This means Christ, the Light of truth we may love wisely or wrongly. and goodness, is the Son of We misuse our liberty when we God, born a man on earth 2000 choose to love creatures more years ago. Christ came to free than the Creator, Who, infi- men from the darkness of sin, nitely good and lovable, is which separates men from God. uniquely able to satisfy our de- Yet, this Light seems unable to sire for happiness. A wrong use 6 Winter 2017 of freedom thrusts souls into stand close to the light (rather the darkness of sin – men than in the light), in shadow, abandon the Light of God, where our pretence of good may meant to brighten men’s lives, be sufficiently revealed, but if men would only “allow” it: … where our discernible evils are the light shineth in darkness, better concealed. and the darkness did not com- prehend it; …He came unto His Christ, the Light, illumines own, and His own received Him man’s good and dispels the er- not (John 1:4, 11). rors that make him false. The challenge of perfection, to be The Light shines from integrally good, is frightening heaven into this world to call- because we do not sufficiently ing men to perfection: …the trust the goodness of God. We Lord appeared to [man]: and live as if mediocrity will bring said unto him: I am the Al- us happiness, and that the pro- mighty God: walk before me, fane will satisfy our cravings and be perfect (Genesis 17:1). for peace, rather than believe The ideal of perfection, confor- God will make us truly happy. mity to God’s Will, is attractive, This is one reason why we are but our habit is to inordinately reluctant to step out of the cling to passing joys and com- darkness – we are afraid of let- forts. We dread forsaking and ting go of our possessions if we losing them despite the advan- are to possess God. Our happi- tages of lasting union with God. ness, however, can be realised Clinging to creatures, we bur- only in and with God. row into the sullied earth, ever further from the Light – we Another reason we fear the choose to live in the dark. Light of God’s truth is that we will be exposed for what we Should we dare to step out really are without Him – noth- of the darkness, we will neces- ing and sin! Hardly a compli- sarily expose our weaknesses. ment to our pride, we easily The fear of revealing our empti- prefer to think ourselves better ness, failings, and sinfulness, than we really are, and we convinces us to seek protection greatly desire that others think in the obscurity of darkness. us without defects. God’s light We foolishly believe it safer to necessarily reveals to us, and to 7 Editorial others (perhaps we fear this The Mass presents the clear most), our emptiness, our truths of Faith for our contem- weakness, and our failures. If plation. Christ’s Light first we truly trusted Our Lord, we shone serenely from Bethle- would run to the Light to be hem, when It seemed faint and filled with God’s goodness, for- fragile; It exploded in magnifi- tified with God’s omnipotence, cent brilliance from atop the and be perfected by God’s Cross, when It appeared weak grace. and extinguished. Mysteri- ously, Christ challenges believ- To stand in the light means ers to persevere in the Light of we must leave the shadows of Faith, which sees beyond the darkness, we must abandon limitations of the material vain pursuits and subordinate world. We transcended the all legitimate endeavours and limitations of this dark life of possessions in pursuit of mortality by an act of Faith, greater union with God. Stand- whereby we truly live super- ing in the Light of Christ, we naturally, our hearts and may be transformed from minds fixed on the eternal earthly beings, dark and dis- Light that ever shines resplen- couraged, to heavenly beings, dent! This is Christ the Light’s light and confident. Subordi- great victory – to exalt lowly nating the cares of this life to men to a divine union. the aim of perfecting our love for God, we increasingly live in Integral doctrine is richly His resplendence and perfec- and clearly taught in the vener- tion. This, Our Lord promises able and ancient Rite of the us, is our perfect happiness. Tridentine Latin Mass and is terribly shrouded in the doc- Would that we grasped this trinal poverty and ambiguity of truth with great conviction in Paul VI’s New Mass of 1970. these days of preparation for An earthly vulgarisation of the Christmas! A great means to Mass has defrauded many fortify our conviction is Christ’s Catholics (and many others) of wonderful Gift – the Holy Sac- the pristine teachings of time- rifice of the Mass, which is the less doctrine, the realistic su- source of all graces. pernatural virtues, and the brilliant purification of mind, 8 Winter 2017 heart and body, all of which are trous: e.g. sacrilegious liturgi- lavishly presented in the Mass cal innovations, empty of Trent, which aptly draws churches, disdain for the Sacra- humble men to conformity to ments. Due to the lack of doc- God’s Will. trinal orthodoxy and the con- viction to preach it, could one Pope John Paul II’s 1984 expect otherwise!? When “Indult”, Quattuor abhinc an- Churchmen fail to preach inte- nos, and his 1988 Apostolic Let- gral truth, the darkness of ig- ter, Ecclesia Dei, merely toler- norance opens the way to error, ated the Tridentine Rite under which allows the proliferation unfair restrictions and held it of evils. Darkness grows as inferior to the New Mass. deeper. Even Benedict XVI’s 2007 “Motu Proprio”, Summorum The attempts of these “well- Pontificum, which removed meaning” Popes have failed to many of his predecessors’ re- procure the restoration of the strictions, maintained a prefer- Church and Christian society, ence for the New Mass, and simply because integral truth is cited its “spiritual richness compromised. Christ’s truth and… theological depth” (loc. illumines with piercing purity – cit.). Patently, the fruits of the compromise clouds the truth New Mass have been disas- and casts dark shadows of 9 Editorial doubt. Vatican II and its adher- Integral truth with confor- ents have obscured the truth by mity in action must go hand in a false ecumenism and have hand for the Light to break the replaced Christ’s truth with a darkness – without the light of man-centred progressivism, truth, we can neither give glory summed up liturgically in the to God nor save our souls.
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