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1 July - August 2016 Newsletter of the SSPX in Great Britain and Scandinavia Introibo ad altare Dei, Ad Deum qui laetificat meam.

I will go to the altar of God, To God who giveth joy to my youth (Ps 42:1)

(Ordinations to the diaconate and priesthood, St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary, Winona, Minnesota, U.S.A.)

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Joy of a new priest

Rev. Fr. Robert Brucciani, District Superior

Masses will be offered? How many Ordinations more sacraments will be adminis- tered? How many dying souls will On the Feast of the Sacred Heart have the gates of heaven opened to of Jesus, 3rd June 2016, seven new them by this new priest. priests and nine new deacons were ordained at the St. Thomas Aqui- Our joy is for another Christ, an- nas Seminary, Winona, Minnesota, other Priest, another King and an- U.S.A. Among the new priests was other Judge in the fight against the Rev. Fr. Paul-Isaac Franks of Not- Prince of Darkness who casts his tingham whose ordination gives ugly shadow across the face of the great joy to the entire District of Church. Great Britain & Scandinavia. , found- Our joy is for the heroic example of ed the Society of St. Pius X to form a young man giving his life for the priests, because he saw clearly that love of God which means for the the victory over Satan and the res- love of the Church. toration of the Church could only come about through the restoration Our joy is for the thousands of of the priesthood. The ordination souls who will have a share in the of these seven young men and the Divine Life through the ministry twelve others due to be ordained of this new priest. How many more later in the same month at the Ger-

6 July - August 2016 "That you bless + and sanctify + and consecrate these elect. R. We beg you to hear us." His Lordship, blesses the ordinands during the litany of the saints. man seminary in Zaitzkofen and home country where he could have the Swiss seminary at Ecône brings worked wonders for the sung litur- that restoration closer. gy and for the general sanctity and jocosity of priests and faithful, but at St. Mary’s, Kansas, U.S.A. First Posting Consolations for this loss are not But if we wish to rejoice with wanting however, for the District Christ, we must suffer with Him will welcome home Fr. Matthew first. Regrettably, Rev. Fr. Franks Clifton from Calgary, Canada, will begin his apostolate not in his and will also welcome newly or-

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dained Rev. Fr. Reid Hennick of care of Rev. Fr. Patrick Summers, the U.S.A. Fr. Clifton will be based where, together with the other at St. George’s House, where his members of this holy community, presence will enable us to move he will take his first steps as a away from the unfruitful hit-and- priest of the Most High God. run style of apostolate across the twelve Mass Centres served by this priory. It will also enable me to In Jesu et Maria, help the other priories on a regular Rev. Fr. Robert Brucciani basis. Fr. Reid will be based at St. Michael’s School under the paternal

Other news however modest. All the faithful are encouraged to become mem- bers so that we may be effective Change of Mass times members of the Church Militant in Following the arrival of two new its fight against the devil, sin and priests on 15th August, the times error; that we might put the love for Sunday Mass at several chap- of neighbour into practice; that we els will change (see Mass Times). might live a unified Catholic life as The changes are arranged to allow instruments in Mary's hands. God priests to spend more time after will bless this work. Mass at the bigger chapels for cate- chism or other apostolic activities. Pray for our vocations Please keep our seminarians, pos- Militia Immaculatae (MI) tulants and novices in your daily A first round of enrolments to prayers of supplication and thanks- the MI signed up 115 members at giving. Rev. Fr. Paul Franks will Wimbledon, London and Leicester celebrate a First Mass at Manches- on Sunday 19th June. These new ter on 26th June, Burghclere on 2nd members have joined at the first July and Leicester on 3rd July. With level of the MI which commits them the help of your prayers we should to wearing the miraculous medal, have one new seminarian and two reciting a short prayer each day new postulant nuns in September. and undertaking an apostolic work These are the heroes and heroines

8 July - August 2016 of our age. Do not hesitate to join are waived at the discretion of the the mothers of St. Michael's School priest in cases of hardship. in their prayers for vocations; also, the Apostolate of Prayers for –– Mass: £10 Priests ([email protected]) in –– Novena of Masses: £100 Australia (see advert on page 37). –– Gregorian of Masses: £400 Deo gratias. –– Weddings & Funerals: £100 –– Baptisms: £40 Fr. Ockerse's 30th Please join us in prayers of thanks- Grave news giving for the 30th anniversary of Following a survey of the pipes Rev. Fr. Francis Ockerse's ordina- and cables running through the tion to the priesthood on 27th June cemetery at St. Saviour's House, 1986. Rev. Fr. Pazat reports that no new bookings for plots are possible. Sr. Marie-Gabriel's 25th We're fully booked. Prayers and jubilation are also in order for the 25th anniversary of Lisieux Pilgrimage Sr. Marie-Gabriel's first profession We need five more applicants to go as Dominican sister of Brignole, ahead with this pilgrimage on 18th- France. She teaches at the girls' 23rd October. Please apply at the school of Our Lady of Victories at earliest opportunity to the District Le Hérie-la-Viéville, France. Superior, at St. George's House, Wimbledon SW19 7DR. Stole fees At a recent priests' meeting it was Thank You decided that we publish the mini- Rev. Fr. Paul Franks asked me mum stole fees expected for differ- to publish his thanks for all who ent ceremonies. Stole fees are offer- helped him, both spiritually and ings in consideration of expenses temporally, on his path to the incurred by a chapel or priest in priesthood. A novena of Masses the course of ministering to the will be offered for their intentions. faithful. Expenses are comprised Thinking about it, we should also of fixed costs (mortgage/rent, thank him for giving his life for the maintenance, utilities, insurance, salvation of souls. priestly living cost) and variable costs (travel mostly). The stole fees

9 COMMUNIQUE FROM THE SUPERIOR GENERAL

At the conclusion of the meeting of the major superiors of the Society of Saint Pius X that was held in , from 25th to 28th June, 2016, the Superior General addressed the following communiqué:

The purpose of the Society of Saint Pius X is chiefly the formation of priests, the essential condition for the renewal of the Church and for the restoration of society.

In the great and painful confusion that currently reigns in the Church, the proclamation of Catholic doctrine requires the denunciation of errors that have made their way into it and are unfortunately encouraged by a large number of pastors, including the himself.

The Society of Saint Pius X, in the present state of grave necessity which gives it the right and duty to administer spiritual aid to the souls that turn to it, does not seek primarily a canonical recognition, to which it has a right as a Catholic work. It has only one desire: faithfully to bring the light of the bi-millennial Tradition which shows the only route to follow in this age of darkness in which the cult of man replaces the worship of God, in society as in the Church.

The “restoration of all things in Christ” intended by Saint Pius X, following Saint Paul (cf. Ep.h 1:10), cannot happen without the support of a Pope who concretely favours the return to Sacred Tradition. While waiting for that blessed day, the Society of Saint Pius X intends to redouble its efforts to establish and to spread, with the means that Divine Providence gives to it, the social reign of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

The Society of Saint Pius X prays and does penance for the Pope, that he might have the strength to proclaim Catholic faith and morals in their entirety. In this way he will hasten the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary that we earnestly desire as we approach the centennial of the apparitions in Fatima.

Bishop Bernard Fellay Superior General of the Society of Saint Pius X Ecône, 29th June 2016 The Feast of Saints Peter and Paul

Below: Eight priests and twelve deacons were ordained by His Lordship Bishop Tissier de Mallerais at Ecône 29th June. This is the restoration. The Restoration

The Restoration

A daydream coming true

Rev. Fr. Robert Brucciani

There are many theories about how ern Europe, the failure of the our prayers for the “liberty and ex- power and habit of one united altation of Holy Mother the Church” organisation seated in Rome to will be answered. Some predict a colour, define and administrate cataclysmic war, others predict a the lives of men, was an internal violent persecution, others still pre- revolution; it did not come from dict a miraculous intervention. without. It was a change from The Church is in crisis, the world is within; it was nothing remotely becoming more anti-Christian; the resembling an external, still less solution has to be dramatic. a barbaric, conquest from with- out. All that happened was that Or does it? While reading Hilaire Roman civilization having grown Belloc’s, Europe and the Faith, very old, failed to maintain that another possibility presented itself. vigorous and universal method Belloc, that wonderful historical of local government subordinat- storyteller of profound understand- ed to the capital, which it had ing, explains the circumstances for four or five hundred years surrounding the collapse of the Ro- supported. The machinery of man Empire and the emergence of taxation gradually weakened; the nation state: the whole of central bureaucratic action weakened; the greater In a word, the gradual cessation men in each locality began to of central Imperial rule in West- acquire a sort of independence,

12 July - August 2016 and sundry soldiers benefited by by the internal revolution of the the slow (and enormous) change, in the 20th occupied the local "palaces" century. as they were called, of Roman administration, secured such Just as the Roman Empire faltered revenues as the remains of Ro- in its government as a consequence, man taxation could give them, the has faltered and, conversely, had thrust upon too. It no longer teaches, governs them so much of the duty of gov- nor sanctifies as it should; religious ernment as the decline of civili- ignorance, disrespect for God’s law, zation could still maintain. That abuse of ecclesiastical law (espe- is what happened, and that is all cially those concerning the liturgy) that happened. (Chp 4) and desacralisation are becoming its hallmarks. A widespread col- Now this decline of the old order lapse of its institutions - religious and the rise of a new order, could orders, seminaries, parishes and well be the pattern of the fall of schools - signals an imminent end modernist Rome and the restora- to the old order. tion of Catholic Tradition in the Catholic Church. The parallels are But just as the collapse of the Ro- striking: man Empire permitted new men to occupy the “palaces” of power, Just as the Roman Empire became the same might happen following weak because it abandoned its the collapse of the church of the founding principles - the rule of law Second Vatican Council. Indeed, and the love of Rome - the Catho- the process is already begun; the lic Church became weak because field is clearing for those who have its members abandoned Our Lord kept the faith. We see how tradi- Jesus Christ as the unique Law of tional communities attract a dis- salvation with their false notion proportionate number of vocations. of religious liberty, and they failed In France, one forecast (http:// in their love of Holy Mother the rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2014/11/ Church with their false ecumenism. hope-comes-from-france.html) pre- dicts that the number of traditional Just as the Roman Empire was con- priests will overtake the number of vulsed by an internal revolution, conciliar priests by the year 2030. the Catholic Church was convulsed We have witnessed great edifices

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being handed to the communities in increasing num- bers because there is no-one left to maintain them. We have witnessed institutions such as our own having to rely on supplied jurisdiction to continue the Church’s mission. We have also seen jurisdiction for ca- nonical processes and the admin- istration of the sacraments being granted or delegated more freely than ever before. The similarities are striking.

There is, of course, one differ- ence with the fall of the Roman of Empire: the visible Church will never fail. It will always be one, holy, catholic and apostolic; it will always have a hierarchy with the bishop of Rome as its head however much it is afflicted and however un- faithful its incumbents.

Archbishop Lefebvre's vision of the restoration - happening through the restoration of the Catholic "Almighty Father, we pray that Thou priesthood - fits into perfectly into bestow upon these servants of Thine this model and is already coming the dignity of the priesthood. Renew true. The only thing that will fail in in their hearts the spirit of holiness, the Church is the revolution ... and so that they may be steadfast in this when that happens, she shall have second degree of the priestly office re- the liberty and exaltation that we ceived from Thee, O God, and by their earnestly pray for. Deo gratias. own lives suggest a rule of life to others." (Form of the sacrament of )

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The Precious Blood

Justice and Mercy

Rev. Fr. Robert Brucciani

Almighty, everlasting God, who because God’s justice is entirely hast ordained thine only-be- rooted in His mercy. He offers us gotten Son to be the Redeemer a superabundance of graces to re- of the world, and wast pleased pent, to become just and save our to be reconciled unto us in his souls; He rewards those who love blood; grant to us, we beseech Him far beyond their merits; and if thee, so to venerate with solemn we turn to Him, His punishment is rite the price of our redemption... never so much as we deserve. (Collect of the Feast of the Pre- cious Blood of Our Lord Jesus But this entwining of divine justice Christ). and mercy in the redemption of man is a doctrine which appears to be increasingly at odds with the God is Justice and Mercy new theology of the Second Vatican Council. Today we hear suggestions When we say that God is Justice of a universal salvation (everyone (demanding reparation for sin or is saved) and a hell (if it exists) punishing sinners) it might seem to with no souls in it. Limbo has been contradict the fact that God is also declared a fiction. The problem is Mercy (making reparation for our that the notion of Redemption is sins and forgiving sinners). There is completely misunderstood. actually no contradiction in terms

16 July - August 2016 Catholic Redemption nant that has not been destroyed by sin. In short, Jesus came to tell Redemption is the freeing of man us that we are all saved whatever from sin and its attendant evils we do. It is desirable that we be- (servitude to the devil and eternal come conscious of our elevated death) by the paying of a debt (a re- humanity, to reach fulfilment in deeming of a debt). It also signifies this world, but it is not a necessity the restoration of man’s supernatu- for our salvation. There is mercy, ral union with God which is called but no justice. Of course, this false an atonement (at-one-ment). doctrine is not expressed in such clear terms because, by deliberate As the work of the Redeemer, it is intention, the propositions con- called the Objective Redemption cerning almost all the controversial and its realisation in individuals points in the council documents is called the Subjective Redemp- can be understood in a correct way tion. Christ redeemed the whole and a heretical way (e.g. Gaudium of mankind objectively but not et spes §18). subjectively. Every individual to be saved must have applied the fruits But by reducing the Redemption of the Redemption to his soul. This to an act of mercy without justice, is called Justification. Justification the magnitude and completeness (being made just or right with God) of the act of mercy and love is di- is brought about by our incorpora- minished, the reality of sin as an tion into Christ - by becoming liv- offence against God is evacuated ing members of His Mystical Body. and the example of repentance and This happens by the reception of penance enacted by Our Lord in sanctifying grace. His Passion is made meaningless. And, most of all, the Passion of Our Lord as the cause of the objective Vatican II Redemption salvation of every human soul from the dawn of time is denied. In ef- The modern concept of Redemption fect, His Precious Blood is poured is no longer the satisfaction of di- out upon the ground for nothing. It vine justice as wrought by Christ, is for this reason that the Feast of but rather the supreme revelation the Precious Blood was suppressed of the eternal Covenant which God in 1969. has made with humanity, a cove-

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The Precious Blood

The Precious Blood, my dear breth- ren, is the means God has chosen to pour forth the intermingled stream of justice and mercy upon mankind. The blood of Christ was the price of our redemption. Its shedding was an act of justice to the Father by the Son, the appli- cation of its merits was an act of mercy by the Blessed Trinity and the two together are acts of love by the same.

Let us who follow the 1962 liturgi- cal calendar be alone in the Church to celebrate this feast on 1st July so that, on behalf of the entire Church we pray (as the collect continues):

Grant to us we beseech thee, so to venerate with solemn rite the price of our Redemption, and to be on earth so defended by its power from the evils of the pres- ent life, that we may rejoice in its perpetual fruit in heaven.

"Hic est enim calix sanguinis mei." Rev. Fr. Franks, First Mass after ordination.

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21/06/2016 Saints

St. Dominic

Defensor fidei

Br. Columba Maria

Dominic de Guzman was born in the all the material world was believed north of Spain. He was an excellent to be evil and therefore suicide was and pious student and early cultivat- commendable, while childbirth was ed the austerities that he relentlessly the evil embodiment of an otherwise practised and promoted in later pure spirit. years, coupled with a great charity to his neighbour. He was ordained at Their mission ended prematurely about the age of twenty-five, and was with the death of the intended prin- an Augustinian canon in the cathe- cess and, using the opportunity to dral at Osma. visit Rome, the then pope, Innocent III, gave them the mission to preach In 1203, king Alfonso of Castile sent in those parts of France that had suc- his bishop on a diplomatic mission cumbed especially to the heresy. It into France to negotiate a suitable was in Rome that Dominic befriend- match for his son, and Bishop Diego ed Saint Francis of Assisi, who was took Dominic with him. It was on this also to introduce a new bouquet to journey, while travelling in the region the Church’s vineyard. of Toulouse, that Dominic first en- countered the antagonistic influence Cistercians were already trying to on his life that was to produce such admonish the heretics, but Dominic lasting fruit. For this region, Langue- in turn admonished the Cistercians, doc, was almost entirely given over calling upon them to throw off their to the Albigensian heresy in which baggage train of foodstuffs and

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clothing as it was undermining their ing them to do their worst and secure credibility with the people, who were a high place in heaven for him. Una- impressed by a greater spirit of det- ble to upset him they left him alone. tachment in the Albigensian perfecti. The civil unrest that accompanied Thus, poverty allied to preaching the heresy became a bloody war, became the two pillars of his new lead, on the Church’s side, by Count Order. Simon de Montfort. The count and our saint truly were the secular and It must have been at this time that clerical arm in the struggle. After de Dominic, despairing of the reluctance Montfort’s great victory at Muret in of these people to repent and convert, 1213, where Dominic spent the night withdrew into a forest to pray and in the church, an inquisition was held chastise himself for them, and was to expose those heretics who were a visited by Our Lady who told him danger to the faithful. Dominic was that the battering ram for this kind chosen as chief inquisitor and he did of warfare was the Hail Mary and the not shy from sending men to torture Rosary. or even to death when he judged it ap- propriate. He could be lenient too, as Dominic went straight to the cathe- on one occasion when he prophesied dral and his preaching was accompa- that a heretic would finally convert, nied by a thunderstorm and a vision and many years later so it happened. of Our Lady calling down God’s vengeance on the people if they did Dominic saw the necessity of a not convert. Toulouse began to turn. convent to receive women who had Another miracle took place at a pub- converted and his first one, at Our lic debate with his adversaries, when Lady of La Prouille near Fanjeaux, they challenged him to throw his pa- became the cradle of the new Order. pers into the fire with the challenge Monks associated with him at this that if they were true they would not early stage often convened here to burn. Three times they were thrown parlay, until eventually Pope Honori- in and three times they leapt out us III granted him all the permissions unsinged! he needed to found the new Order of Preachers. But these Albigensians were very stubborn. More than once Dominic’s Desiring that his monks embrace a life was in danger. Each time, howev- spirit of poverty and mortification, er, he welcomed his assailants, invit- the great monastic lent - from the

22 July - August 2016 There is one convent of traditional Dominican monks, one convent of contempla- tive nuns and three communities of traditional Dominican teaching nuns: those of Fanjeaux and Brignoles in France, and Wanganui in New Zeland. They run schools in France, U.S.A., Germany, New Zealand, Australia and Argentina. (For contact details see: laportelatine.org/ordres/ordres.php)

feast of the Holy Cross in September sending his monks to found monas- until Easter - was included in the teries in Italy, France, Germany, Po- Rule. land and beyond.

Regrettably, many of the converts His final years were spent travelling from heresy relapsed, and Dominic’s from convent to convent exhorting final sermon at La Prouille was a call- his monks and nuns to live their Rule. ing down of divine vengeance upon He died at the house in Bologna, aged an obstinate people. Then he began fifty-two, in 1221.

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Dignity of the Priest

St. Alphonsus of Liguori

Idea of the Priestly Dignity vine man. Hence he has called the priesthood a divine dignity. In fine, In his epistle to the Christians of St. Ephrem says that the gift of the Smyrna, St. Ignatius, Martyr, says sacerdotal dignity surpasses all that the priesthood is the most understanding. For us it is enough sublime of all created dignities: to know, that Jesus Christ has said "The apex of dignities is the priest- that we should treat his priests as hood." St. Ephrem calls it an infinite we would his own person: He that dignity: "The priesthood is an as- heareth you, heareth me; he that de- tounding miracle, great, immense, spiseth you, despiseth me. Hence St. and infinite." St. John Chrysostom John Chrysostom says, that "he who says, that though its functions are honours a priest, honours Christ, performed on earth, the priesthood and he who insults a priest, insults should be numbered among the Christ." Through respect for the sac- things of heaven. According to erdotal dignity, St. Mary of Oignies Cassian, the priest of God is exalted used to kiss the ground on which a above all earthly sovereignties, and priest had walked. above all celestial heights-he is infe- rior only to God. Innocent III, says that the priest is placed between Importance of the Priestly God and man; inferior to God, but Office superior to man. St. Denis calls the priest a di- The dignity of the priest is estimat-

24 July - August 2016 ed from the exalted nature of his have given or shall give to him; for offices. Priests are chosen by God their worship cannot be of infinite to manage on earth all his concerns value, like that which the priest cele- and interests. "Divine," says St. Cyril brating on the altar offers to God. of Alexandria, "are the offices con- fided to priests." St. Ambrose has Moreover, in the holy Mass, the called the priestly office a divine priest offers to God an adequate profession. A priest is a minister thanksgiving for all the graces destined by God to be a public bestowed even on the Blessed in ambassador of the whole Church, Paradise; but such a thanksgiving to honour him, and to obtain his all the saints together are incapable graces for all the faithful. The entire of offering to Him. Hence it is that Church cannot give to God as much on this account also the priestly dig- honour, nor obtain so many graces, nity is superior even to all celestial as a single priest by celebrating a dignities. Besides, the priest, says single Mass; for the greatest hon- St. John Chrysostom, is an ambassa- our that the whole Church without dor of the whole world, to intercede priests could give to God would con- with God and to obtain graces for all sist in offering to him in sacrifice, creatures. The priest, according to the lives of all men. But of what val- St. Ephrem, "treats familiarly with ue are the lives of all men compared God." To priests every door is open. with the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, which is a sacrifice of infinite value? Jesus has died to institute the priest- What are all men before God but a hood. It was not necessary for the little dust? As a drop of a bucket, …. Redeemer to die in order to save the as a little dust. They are but a mere world. A drop of his blood, a single nothing in his sight: All nations are tear, or prayer, was sufficient to before him as if they had no being procure salvation for all; for such a at all. Thus, by the celebration of a prayer, being of infinite value, should single Mass, in which he offers Jesus be sufficient to save not one but a Christ in sacrifice, a priest gives thousand worlds. But to institute greater honor to the Lord, than if all the priesthood, the death of Jesus men by dying for God offered to him Christ has been necessary. Had he the sacrifice of their lives. By a sin- not died, where should we find the gle Mass, he gives greater honour to victim that the priests of the New God than all the angels and saints, Law now offer, a victim altogether along with the Blessed Virgin Mary, holy and immaculate, capable of

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giving to God an honour worthy of though they should be his enemies. God? As has been already said, all And after having come, he remains, the lives of men and angels are not entirely at their disposal; they move capable of giving to God an infinite him as they please, from one place honour like that, which a priest of- to another; they may, if they wish, fers to him by a single Mass. shut him up in the tabernacle, or ex- pose him on the altar, or carry him outside the church; they may, if they Grandeur of the Priestly choose, eat his flesh, and give him Power for the food of others. "Oh, how very great is their power," says St. Law- The dignity of the priest is also es- rence Justinian, speaking of priests. timated from the power that he has "A word falls from their lips and the over the real and the mystic body of body of Christ is there substantially Jesus Christ. formed from the matter of bread, and the Incarnate Word descended With regard to the power of priests from heaven, is found really present over the real body of Jesus Christ, on the table of the altar! Never did it is of faith that when they pro- divine goodness give such power to nounce the words of consecration the angels. The angels abide by the the Incarnate Word has obliged order of God, but the priests take himself to obey and to come into him in their hands, distribute him to their hands under the sacramental the faithful, and partake of him as species. We are struck with wonder food for themselves." when we hear that God obeyed the voice of Josue - The Lord obeying With regard to the mystic body of the voice of man - and made the sun Christ, that is, all the faithful, the stand when he said move not, O sun, priest has the power of the keys, or towards Gabaon, … and the sun the power of delivering sinners from stood still. But our wonder should hell, of making them worthy of para- be far greater when we find that in dise, and of changing them from the obedience to the words of his priests slaves of Satan into the children of - HOC EST CORPUS MEUM - God God. And God himself is obliged to himself descends on the altar, that abide by the judgment of his priests, he comes wherever they call him, and either not to pardon or to par- and as often as they call him, and don, according as they refuse or give places himself in their hands, even absolution, provided the penitent is

26 July - August 2016 capable of it. "Such is," says St. Max- of his penitents, "Ego te absolvo," imus of Turin, "this judiciary power and the penitents of each would be ascribed to Peter that its decision equally absolved. How great the carries with it the decision of God." honour that a king would confer on The sentence of the priest precedes, a subject, whom he should empower and God subscribes to it, writes to rescue from prison as many as he St. Peter Damian. Hence St. John pleased! But far greater is the power Chrysostom thus concludes: "The that the eternal Father has given to Sovereign Master of the universe Jesus Christ, and that Jesus Christ only follows the servant by confirm- has given to his priests, to rescue ing in heaven all that the latter de- from hell not only the bodies but cides upon earth." also the souls of the faithful. "The Son," says St. John Chrysostom, "has Priests are the dispensers of the put into the hands of the priests, all divine graces and the companions of judgment; for having been as it were God. "Consider the priests," says St. transported into heaven, they have Ignatius, Martyr, "as the dispensers received this divine prerogative. If of divine graces and the associates a king gave to a mortal the power to of God." "They are," says St. Pros- release from prison all prisoners, all per, "the glory and the immovable would pronounce such a one happy; columns of the Church; they are the but priests have received from God doors of the eternal city, through a far greater power, since the soul is them all reach Christ; they are the more noble than the body." vigilant guardians to whom the Lord has confided the keys of the king- dom of heaven; they are the stew- ards of the king's house, to assign to each according to his good pleasure his place in the hierarchy."

Were the Redeemer to descend into a church, and sit in a confessional to administer the sacrament of pen- ance, and a priest to sit in another confessional, Jesus would say over each penitent, "Ego te absolvo," the priest would likewise say over each

27 About 3300 faithful attended the four and a half hour ordination ceremony on a hot sunny day at Winona on 3rd June; many come every year as if to a family reunion. As usual, the seminarians have everything working like clockwork. These ordinations are the last to take place at Winona, Minnesota, U.S.A. Next October, the seminary will move to Virginia. Above: "Hoc est enim Corpus Meum." Rev, Fr. Paul Franks' First Mass at the seminary.

Below: Three priests from the diocese of Nottingham: Fr. Robert Brucciani, Fr. Paul Franks and Fr. John Brucciani. Chartres Pilgrimage 14th-16th May 2016 From our correspondent: A Pilgrimage with a Difference. Chartres 2016 was unique in more ways than one. For a start, there was an official British and Irish chapter - sadly, this has not always been the case in recent years. And it wasn't just any ordinary chapter as its Anglo-Celtic makeup made for a welcoming, friendly and positive spirit which attracted pilgrims from all over the world with numbers swelling to around 30 - 40. On the afternoon of the second day our chapter was asked (along with the American chapter) to send volun- teers to carry the 'life size' cross which is transported every year, at the head of the pilgrimage, all the way from Chartres to Paris. To put this into perspective: it takes three men to carry this cross... and they have to rotate every ten minutes. It certainly brings home to the bearer the reality of the gruelling nature of Christ's journey up the hill of Calvary. Why was this unique? The pilgrimage organisers informed us that this was the first time that 'les anglophones' had been invited to carry the pilgrimage cross. Finally, Chartres 2016 was unique in the number of 'first-timers' that made the decision to head across to France. In fact, the majority of our chapter had never walked the pilgrimage before and with an average age of twenty-something there was bound to be a certain amount of trepidation beforehand. However, under the excellent direction of Fr. Vandendaele and Mr. Rupert Bevan our ragtag band did themselves proud and completed what many recognise as 'the hardest pilgrimage in tradition'. Each participant returned home spiritually revitalised and with a wealth of new acquaintances. Some have resolved to make the trip an annual event and to increase our numbers for next year. May their endeavours inspire future potential pilgrims to take the plunge and sign up for the next pilgrimage. Chartres 2017 anyone? Chris Sudlow. On 27th June 2016, Rev, Fr. Francis Ockerse cel- ebrated the 30th anniversary of his ordination to the eternal priesthood. He was ordained in Ecône, Switzerland by Arch- bishop Marcel Lefebvre. Still smiling. Deo gratias.

On Sunday 29th May Rev. Fr. Robert Brucciani gave First Holy Communion to Michael Weir, Eva McPake and Joanna Marshall at St. Andrew's Church, Glasgow. On Sunday 29th May Rev. Fr. John McLaughlin gave First Holy Communion to Marta Przbylska, Dominic O'Donnell, Sophie Barry, Madeleine Marshall and Emily Kozeja at the Church of Ss. Marga- ret and Leonard, Edinburgh. On the first weekend of June, Rev. Fr. Elias Stolz came over from Italy to repeat the success- es of the Gregorian Chant Seminars previously held in May 2013 and August 2015. About 20 participants came to this weekend at St. Michael’s School aimed at a more thorough un- derstanding and higher-level performance of Gregorian chant, that comprised not only four sung Masses, but also two parish barbecues (Burghclere and Woking) and a social evening.

Unprecedented cerebral activity at St. Michael's School during their inaugural all-comers Chess Tour- nament on 15th May 2016. Winners were James Fesq, Edmund Fesq and Miss Elizabeth Weiner. On Whitsun eve, 14th May 2016, Rev. Fr. Lindström and some of the faithful from our chapel in Stockholm gathered outside the now Lutheran, but formerly Catholic Cathedral of Uppsala to re- peat last year's pilgrimage. After venerating the relics of St. Erik, king and martyr, and St. Bridget, the pilgrims walked 6 kilometres across windy fields to Old Uppsala, where they prayed the lita- ny to the Swedish Patron Saints in front of the altar piece of the 12th-century church, which de- picts many of the Scandinavian Saints, including St. Bridget, St. Erik and St. Olav of Norway.

The formerly Catholic Cathedral of Uppsala. The Old Church, Old Uppsala, Sweden. These are the pioneer pilgrims on the first Canterbury Pilgrimage.

On This Day - 1987 Canterbury Pilgrimage

X Of your charity please pray for the souls of

Mrs. Margaret Slowey of Portlethen who died on 3rd May Prof. Robin Whatley of Capel Bangor who died on 4th June Mr. Finbarr Buckley of Bristol who died on 5th June Mrs. Catherine Gordon of Jersey who died on 11th June Mrs. Ida Joan White of Whitchurch, Hampshire who died on 11th June Mrs. Dilys Anne Morris who died on 4th May 2014 but was never mentioned hitherto

Please also pray for the following whose anniversaries occur about this time

July Brother Joseph C.S.S.R., William Roser, Mrs Young- Father Basil Wrighton, Father Oswald Baker, Edith Bateman, Lucy Cheffers, Moira Campbell, Adolphine Knott, Walace Watts, John Adams, Frank McNally, Rhead, Patricia Grimer, Mrs Maxwell, Irene Marshall, Stella Booth, Lily Beswick, Marie Patterson, Mary Mary Clarihew, Joseph Bolton, Amy Lynch, Mrs Shakespere, Mary Mooney, Robert Kemp, Elizabeth Mather, Joseph McAsey, John Galloway, Angela Cook- Landon, Miss J Beauvoisin, George Moorat, Gregory son, Winifred Kenny, Nora Walsh, Catherine Livesey, McDonald, Gertrude Dougal, Luis Parfitt-Spencer, Irene Bowman, Nora O’Brien, May Wood, Mary Davis, Anne Callaghan, Vera Forder, Thomas Rigby, Eliza- Winifred Conway, Elise Denning-Smitherman, May beth Pfaff, Alfred Bransby, John Hurrell, Derek Colley, Holden, Geoffrey Backus, Francesco Trapani, James Francis Mooney, Patrick O‘Connor, Raymond Grif- Havelock-Walker, Lilian Nicholson, James Glynn, fiths, John and Joy Deegan, Dorothy Reid, Ada Mary Margaret Saunders, Reginald Hill, Anne Teresa George, Veronica Anderton-Webster, Niall Maddock, Callaghan, North McIntyre, Sheila Tree, Mary Malloy, Josephine Ryan, Lillian Bentley, Patience Baldwin John Francis Corcoran, Mary Anne Tibbott, Theresa Thrower, Rita Callaghan, Mary Fitzgerald-Fox, Paul Couldery, Mary Maguire, Josephine Boyle, Mr H Vigoureux, Sheila Shepherd, Karol Bettany, Godfrey Farnworth, Aileen Grossmith, Cecil Russell, Winifred Gilbert, Ellen Cranstone, Isobel Yates, Anna Trapani, Walmesley, Vivian Tristram, Kathleen Baker, Edward Joseph Kibbey, Roy Warner, Mary Ainsworth, Nora Marchant, Rita McCarthy, Reginald Chapman, An- Docherty, Jean Johnstone, Alfonsus Valori, Mary thony Codd, Catherine Derham, Mary Ellen Holland, Stukis, Francis Pangrazi, Constance Hardera, Michael O’Connor, Xavier Craig, Daniel Daly, Douglas Bernard Prescott, Elizabeth Whiteford, Joseph Mate, Campbell, Richard Holden, Joan Goodbam, George Margaret Kingon-Rouse, Catherine Ruth Grizell, Campbell, Mary Proctor-Blagden, Doris Curwen, Tony Belinda O’Connor, Elizabeth Wilkinson, Barbara Foster, Mary Griffin, Doreen Hurst, Anthony McLane, Dowey, Scaife, Iris Chambers, John Bristow, Kathleen Millington, Jane Philipps, Mary O’Hare, Jean John Boyle, Valerie Potkins, Aidan Fanning, Maurice Marie Szimjonka, Audrey Bocar, Arthur Whieldon, Marshall, Brendan Collins, Kenneth Archer, Charles Mary PrendergJst, Robert Allen, Anthony Beswick, Kennedy, Zadislaw Siemaszko, Rita Cunningham Mary Tudor, Ralph Cowan, Peter Denning-Smith- erman, Kathleen O’Brien, John O’Connor, Albert August Edwards, Bryan Phipps, Cynthia Bettany, John Father Louis Coache, Father Michael Cresswell, McCarthy, Mary Mills.

Requiescant in pace 38 July - August 2016 Walsingham Pilgrimage 2016 Girls Camp 2016

3rd-4th September 19th -27th July Saturday: Meet 1pm at Slipper Chapel for High Grange House, Burghclere procession and Mass in the Abbey ruins. Email to Sr. Mary-Elizabeth Sunday: 11am Mass [email protected]

Canterbury Pilgrimage 2016 Boys Camp 2016

29th-31st July 11th -19th August Meet at Rochester Cathedral Colleton Manor, Devon 1:30pm Friday 29th July Email to Fr. Vandendaele Cost: £20 [email protected] Details: Events on sspx.uk website

Retreats 2016 Saint Saviour’s House, Bristol Lisieux Pilgrimage 2016 Jul 11-16 Men’s Ignatian 18th-21st October 2016 Aug 8-10 Doctrinal Seminar Flight from/to Stanstead Airport Aug 22-27 Women’s Ignatian £500 all-in, 5 places left Oct 10-15 3rd Order Retreat Details: [email protected] Nov 28-30 Advent Retreat

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St. Christopher Illustrated by Cecelia Coward MONTH OF THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF OUR LORD

The Transfiguration of Our Lord (6 August)

Whilst apparitions of Our Lord are most notable since His glorious ascension, He graced Sts. Peter, James and John with an apparition of His glorified state, possibly on Mount Tabor. The Transfiguration of Our Lord

Illustrated by Lucia Brady MONTH OF THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY Year Planner 2016

Jul 11-16 Men’s Ignatian Retreat at St. Saviour’s House, Bristol.

19-27 Girls Camp at Burghclere.

28 All Day Adoration at St. Andrew’s House, Carluke.

29-31 Canterbury Pilgrimage.

Aug 1-6 Oblate Sisters’ Retreat.

8-10 Doctrinal Seminar on the Liturgy at St. Saviour’s House, Bristol.

11-19 Boys Camp at Colleton Manor, Devon.

22-27 Women’s Ignatian Retreat at St. Saviour’s House, Bristol.

Sep 3-4 Walsingham Pilgrimage

7 All Day Adoration at St. Saviour’s House, Bristol.

13 St. Michael School, Michaelmas Term begins.

15 Feast of the Seven Sorrows - Renewal of promises of SSPX Oblate Sisters.

26 All Day Adoration at St. George’s House, Wimbledon.

Oct 7-10 Pilgrimage to Lisieux: email to [email protected] for details.

10-15 Third Order Retreat for Men and Women at St. Saviour’s House, Bristol.

Nov 30 All Day Adoration at St. Saviour’s House, Bristol.

28-3rd Advent Retreat for Men & Women at St. Saviour’s House, Bristol.

Dec 7 All Day Adoration at St. George’s House, Wimbledon.

Aug 17 19-20 SSPX Fatima Pilgrimage: email to [email protected] for details. 44 July - August 2016 Mass Times

JULY AUGUST 3rd 10th 17th 24th 31st 7th 14th 15th 21st 28th

Bingley - - 1700 - - - - - 1700 -

Brighton - 1230 - 1230 - - 1230 - - 1300

0800 Bristol 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1830 0730 0730 0730 0730 0730 0730 0730 0900 0730 0730 Burghclere 0900 0900 0900 0900 0900 0900 0900 1900 0900 0900 Colleton 26th - - - - - 1100 1100 - - Manor 1130

Edinburgh 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300 1230 1300 1300

Gateshead 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1900 1800 1800

Glasgow 0945 0945 0945 0945 0945 0945 0945 1830 0945 0945

Groombridge 1230 - 1230 - 1230 1230 - - 1300 -

Herne 0830 0830 0830 0830 - 0830 0830 0800 0830 0830

30th 27th Jersey ------1030 1030

Leicester 1100 1730 1730 1730 1730 1730 1730 1100 1730 1730

Liverpool - 1700 - 1700 - - 1700 - - 1700

London 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1900 1100 1100 (St. Joseph) London 0800 0800 0800 0800 0800 0800 0800 0715 0800 0800 (Wimbledon)

Manchester 1230 1230 1230 1230 1230 1230 1230 1230 1230 1230

Middlemarsh - 1530 - 1530 - - 1530 - - 1100

Oxford 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 - 1000 1000

Portsmouth 1630 1630 1630 1630 1630 1630 1630 1900 1600 1600

Preston 0930 0930 0930 0930 0930 0930 0930 1900 0930 0930

Rhos-on-Sea 1700 - - - - 1700 - - - -

Taunton 1530 - 1530 - - 1530 - - 1530 1530

Woking 1130 1130 1130 1130 1130 1130 1130 1930 1130 1130

15th 5th Aalborg ------16th 6th

Oslo - 0900 0900 - 0900 0900 - - 0900 -

Malmö - 9th 14th - - 4th - - 20th -

Stockholm - 1730 1730 - - 1730 - - 1730 - 45 Mass Centres

Great Britain High Grange House Harts Lane, Burghclere, Hants. RG20 9JW DISTRICT HOUSE Resident: Saint George’s House Sr. Mary Elizabeth (Superior) 125 Arthur Road Sr. Mary Ancilla Wimbledon SW19 7DR Sr. Marie Salome Tel: 0208 946 7916 Sr. Maria Vicenta [email protected] Resident: CARLUKE Rev. Fr. Robert Brucciani (District Superior) Saint Andrew’s House Rev. Fr. Håkan Lindström (District Bursar) 31 Lanark Road Rev. Fr. Francis Ockerse (District Secretary) Carluke, Lanarkshire ML8 4HE Tel: 01555 771523 [email protected] ABERDEEN Resident: Aberdeen Foyer Marywell Centre, Rev. Fr. John McLaughlin (Prior) Marywell St, Aberdeen AB11 6JF Rev. Fr. Anthony Wingerden Tel: 01857 616206 CHULMLEIGH BINGLEY Colleton Manor Chapel The Little House Chulmleigh, Devon, EX18 7JS Market Street, Bingley BD16 2HP Tel: 01769 580 240 Tel: 01274 567786 EDINBURGH BRIGHTON Saints Margaret and Leonard Chapel of the Holy Family 110 Saint Leonard’s Street Hollingdean Street, Brighton BN1 7GL Edinburgh EH8 9RD Tel: 0208 946 7916 Tel: 01555 771523 BRISTOL GATESHEAD Saint Saviour’s House Church of the Holy Name of Jesus Saint Agnes Avenue, Knowle, Bristol BS4 2DU Gladstone Terrace West, Bensham [email protected] Gateshead NE8 4DR Tel: 0117 977 5863 Tel: 0191 4270542 Resident: Rev. Fr. Philippe Pazat (Prior) GLASGOW Rev. Fr. Vianney Vandendaele Saint Andrew’s Church, Sr. Marie-Charbel JssR 202 Renfrew Street, Glasgow G3 6TX Sr. Mary Joseph JssR Tel: 01555 771523 BURGHCLERE GROOMBRIDGE (Tunbridge Wells) Saint Michael’s School Chapel Church of Saint Pius V, Harts Lane, Burghclere, Hants RG20 9JW Station Road, Groombridge TN3 9QX Tel: 01635 278 137/173 Tel: 01892 654 372 [email protected] Resident: HERNE Rev. Fr. Patrick Summers (Headmaster) Saints John Fisher & Thomas More Church Rev. Fr. Gary Holden (Housemaster) Herne Street, Herne CT6 7HR Rev. Fr. Lawrence Barrett Tel: 020 89467916 Br. Ignatius Br, Columba Maria LEICESTER Br. Gerard Mary CssR Church of Saint Anne Abingdon Road, Leicester LE2 1HA Tel: 01858 555813

46 July - August 2016 LIVERPOOL The Church of Saints Peter and Paul Jersey 35 Upper Parliament Street, Liverpool L8 7LA Tel: 0151 4802433 JERSEY Tel: [44] 1534 742 884 LONDON Church of Saints Joseph and Padarn Salterton Road, N7 6BB Tel: 020 8946 7916

MANCHESTER Scandinavia Church of Saint Pius X, 16 Deer Park Road, Manchester M16 8FR Rev. Fr. Håkan Lindström, Tel: 01772 885 990 St. George’s House, 125 Arthur Road, London SW19 7DR MIDDLEMARSH / HOLNEST Tel: +44 20 8946 7916 Saint Lawrence Chapel Tel: 01963 210 580 [email protected] [Mass celebrated in Holnest in wintertime] fsspx.uk/en/scandinavia

OXFORD AALBORG, DENMARK N.O.C.C. 17 Middleway, Summertown, Oxford OX2 7LH OSLO, NORWAY Tel: 01993 851695 MALMÖ, SWEDEN PORTSMOUTH Our Lady Help of Christians STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN 14 Kingston Road, Porstmouth PO1 5RZ Tel: 01635 278137

PRESTON Our Lady of Victories East Cliff, Winckley Square, Preston PR1 3NA Pious Groups Tel: 01772 885990 [email protected] THIRD ORDER OF ST. PIUS X Rev. Fr. Philippe Pazat RHOS ON SEA [email protected] Saint David’s Chapel Conwy Road, (A547) Mochdre ARCHCONFRATERNITY OF ST. STEPHEN Rhos-On-Sea LL28 5AA, Tel: 01772 885990 Rev. Fr. Lawrence Barrett, Mr. Richard Cullen [email protected] STRONSAY St Columba’s House, EUCHARISTIC CRUSADE Stronsay, KW17 2AS , Tel: 01857 616206 Rev. Fr. Vianney Vandendaele Resident: [email protected] Rev. Fr. Nicholas Mary CssR Br. Louis-Marie CssR MILITIA IMMACULATAE Rev Fr. Robert Brucciani, Mr. Howard Toon TAUNTON militia-immaculatae.org Church of Our Lady of Glastonbury [email protected] 17 South Street (off East Reach), TA1 3AA Tel: 01823 652701 SCHOLA Rev. Fr. Håkan Lindström WOKING [email protected] Church of the Holy Cross Sandy Lane, Maybury, GU22 8BA Tel. 01483 767 537

EMERGENCY NUMBER: 0754 888 0281

47 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”.

The Society of St. Pius X is an international priestly society of common life without vows, whose purpose is the priesthood and that which pertains to it.

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