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 Staying Catholic CONTENTS | < PREVIOUS PAGE | NEXT PAGE > FSSPX MANUAL | page 6 1 September - October 2019 Newsletter of the SSPX in Great Britain and Scandinavia "All I know - the faith teaches us - is that Our Lord Jesus Christ must reign here below, now, and not only at the end of the world, as the Liberals would have it!" Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, They Have Uncrowned Him. Photo: Statue of Christ the King, Swiebodzin, Poland. 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 Staying Catholic Editorial 6 in the background. Spirituality St. Richard Gwyn 12 St. Pius X and Lourdes 18 50th Anniversary Pilgrimage to Lourdes 20 Liturgy Treasures of the Liturgy 26 Ite Missa Est Society of St. Pius X in Great Britain and Scandinavia Chronicle 32 Liturgical Calendar 40 Year Planner 2019 44 Mass Times 45 Addresses 46 5 CONTENTS | < PREVIOUS PAGE | NEXT PAGE > FSSPX MANUAL | page 7 Editorial Staying Catholic Rev. Fr. Robert Brucciani, District Superior Under the new iour – a natural right and wrong, totalitarianism these are all denied by the new ideology. As liberalism in our society reach- es its logical development into a Killing a baby before it is born is totalitarianism which attempts to called “reproductive healthcare”, force the Culture of Death upon all pushing a boy into a zone where within its sphere of power, faithful the suicide rate is 40% by making Catholics now find themselves in him doubt whether he is a boy and the direct line of fire for their belief by feeding him puberty blockers in revealed truth, truth knowable is called “gender sensitivity”, en- by reason and even truth knowable couraging school children to be by simple apprehension. promiscuous is called “relationship studies”, denying the natural law is The evident truth that a baby before called liberation. it is born is the same being as after it is born, that a boy is a boy by The official hierarchy of the nature – not by a social construct, Church, after 50 years of compro- that men and women are not equal, mise and capitulation, now ap- that there is a natural law of behav- pears to be a willing agent of this 6 September - October 2019 extreme ideology, so that, far from this means that those who attend a defending faithful Catholics, they Society Mass Centre should see the are hacking holes in the Barque of priest who has charge of the Mass Peter which is the only chance of Centre their parish priest. He has their salvation. The list of ongoing an authority which binds under sin scandals in doctrine, liturgy and when properly exercised. The idea morals is too long to recount here that the crisis in the Church liber- and it is getting longer. The Synod ates the faithful from ecclesiastical of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon Re- authority is pure liberalism! gion of October of this year will no- doubt be another high-water mark in the sinking boat, but it will soon Spiritual life be surpassed. Order in our spiritual lives is So how can we remain Catholic another foundation that must be when all the world, and even our strengthened. Prayer - both public shepherds, appear to militate and private, both vocal and mental against this? - with frequentation of the sacra- ments, with scripture and spiritual reading, and with mortification Submit to legitimate to make reparation for sin and authority strengthen the dominion of the will over our wayward passions, these With the shepherds indisposed, as are the essential elements of the Catholics, we need to submit to a spiritual life. None of this revolu- legitimate authority to practice our tionary; it was ever thus. faith. Such is the constitution of the Church - no Catholic is sufficient to himself. The Society of St. Pius Relations with our neighbour X was originally founded to train priests but it has subsequently been And then, as we are social beings, forced into the role of an emergen- it is necessary that we put order cy hierarchy – not in opposition to into our social life too. This means the official hierarchy, but filling the analysing our relations with our gaps where the official hierarchy is family, our parish, the various com- morally absent. In practical terms, munities of which we are members, 7 Editorial our workplace and with the world In concrete terms, prudence – both at large. natural and supernatural – will tell us when we should retreat from In our relations with our neighbour, the world, when we should co-exist naturally we should do good and with it and when we should try to avoid evil. We should exercise vir- change it. tue for the common good and recoil from all danger of sin both directly and by cooperation. The danger Tactical retreat of sin by cooperation is one that merits greater attention. The world Retreating means cleansing the around us, imbued with the Culture home of the Culture of Death – of Death, wants us to burn incense Hollywood and the BBC are good at its altars and will contrive to place to start. It means limiting trap souls into compromise even the use of social media: avoid the if it be a single grain of incense ranting bloggers who sow discord; burned, nay, even the simulation of we should read the encyclicals and burning a grain would suffice (cf. Doctors of the Church rather than Eleazar of 2 Macc 6). the internet theologians. We should also retreat form the world by going on retreat! Prudence Retreating means leaving behind To resist this pressure, we have those pastimes and friends who recourse to the virtue of prudence lead us away from God or hinder which is defined as the habit of the execution of our religious du- right-reasoning in things-to-be- ties. It means leaving an employer done. It is an intellectual virtue by who forces you to cooperate in sin. which we make the right decisions It may even mean emigrating to be to attain natural perfection. With closer to the sacraments, Catholic sanctifying grace, our supernatu- schools and parish life. ralised nature is infused with the supernatural virtue of prudence too by which we will make the right Co-existence decisions in view of our supernatu- ral perfection. Prudence may well direct us to 8 September - October 2019 co-exist with evil. For example, we and in Catholic Action, in our com- must always keep the door open munities by being the light on the for an errant child or sibling in the hilltop, and in the state by champi- hope that our fraternal charity oning the teaching of Christ among might be the occasion of the grace the lawmakers and governors. of conversion. We must not chase away the newcomer in the chapel The bugle call to the banner of who is unaware of the rules of com- Christ the King was the leitmotif of portment before the Blessed Sacra- our venerable founder, Archbishop ment. We must be nice to the couple Marcel Lefebvre. It would be as next door who are living in sin – as- well therefore, to finish this edito- suming that they are in ignorance rial with the last few words of his of their sin. Providence will give us book, They Have Uncrowned Him: the chance to be instrumental in their conversion in His own time.