Posted on 07/01/2008 1:44:50 PM PDT by Pyro7480
1 July, 2008
Feast of the Precious Blood
My dear friends,
I am happy to inform you that last June 18th, before Cardinal Castrillon and the members of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei in Rome, I humbly petitioned the Holy See on my own behalf and on behalf of the monastery council for our priestly suspensions to be lifted.
On June 26th I received word that the Holy See had granted our petition. All canonical censures have been lifted.
Our community now truly rejoices in undisputed and peaceful posession of Communion with the Holy See because our priests are now in canonical good standing.
We are very grateful to our Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI for issuing, last July, the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum which called us to come into undisputed and peaceful Communion with him.
Now we have that undisputed communion! It is a pearl of great price; a treasure hidden in the field; a sweetness that cannot be imagined by those who have not tasted it or who have not known it, now for many years. Its value cannot be fully expressed in earthly language and therefore we hope that all traditional priests who have not yet done so, will answer Pope Benedict's call to enjoy the grace of peaceful and undisputed communion with him. Believe us, the price to pay is nothing; even all the angry voices that have shouted against us and calumniated us are as nothing when weighed in the scales against undisputed communion with the Vicar of Christ; others have died for it; what are raucous voices?
We publicly thank all those souls who have prayed for us over the last months; some of you have truly stormed heaven for us. You have kept us afloat. We are deeply grateful. Especially we thank that priest who was unknown to us, until June 16th when he wrote in fraternal support. Where did he come from? Why us? But he told us of the number of Masses, Offices, prayers and sacrifices he had personally said for us; he had also enlisted the prayers of contemplatives and Third Order societies and had a great number of people fervently praying for us with an abundance of prayers. We were amazed! Thank you Father! Thank you also to that brave person who, so kindly wrote to us to say that if he said any more prayers for us he would be floating! What wonderful people! Thank you!
Looking to the future, the next stage will be to have our community canonically erected. So please, dear friends, keep praying for us, there will be many crosses to bear; but they will be yokes sweetened by the grace of these last days.
We assure you all of our very best wishes.
Your devoted servant,
Fr. Michael Mary, C.SS.R. Vicar General
See additional coverage at Fr. Z's blog and Rorate Coeli blog.
Catholic ping!
How are these different from my Redeptorists???
They were a traditional community now-formerly affiliated with the SSPX. They’re based out of an island of north of the mainland of Scotland.
Excellent news!
SSPX???
(Priestly) Society of St. Pius X
Wonderful news. God is good.
Thanks....I’ve never heard of it. Is it Catholic but not ROMAN Catholic? I’m not getting it.
The SSPX began as an order of Catholic priests founded by Marcel Lefebvre, the former Archbishop of Dakar, Senegal, and onetime head of the Holy Ghost Fathers. The order was started as a traditionalist reaction against the efforts to “modernize” the Catholic Church in the 1960s. Archbishop Lefebvre tangled with two popes (Paul VI and John Paul II) before finally incurring excommunication after consecrating several bishops in 1988 without Vatican approval. Since that time, the SSPX has been in an “irregular” situation with the rest of the Catholic Church.
First defectors. God bless them!
THANKS!!!!
I can feel the grace filled joy in Fr. Michael Mary writings.I say welcome back and a great big hug from me:)
You can enroll three generations of your family into their Purgatorian Archconfraternity, they will say Holy Mass for the living and deceased [almost] every day in perpetuity, as long as their order exists. Individual enrollments are also available, as are annual enrollments for one year only of Masses.
So some of the SSPX has petitioned and has been accepted back into the Catholic Church? Is that correct?
Pyro7480:
Hey, I did not see that you had posted this earlier. I started a similar thread a few hours ago and also linked Fr. Z’s “what does prayer really say”.
The fruit of the Motu Proprio is continuing.
Regards
“Defectors”? Not the most charitable way to phrase that, do you think? The entire Traditional movement is gaining momentum and having a hugely positive impact on the entire Church Militant. We all need to be much more conscious of the fact that this is an internal Church issue, a family fight so to speak and that we will be in the trenches together for the rest of our lives. Our enemy is Satan and all of his evil demons, NOT our fellow brothers-in-Christ.
See what Mr. Fellay had to say when Pope Benedict committed the unforgivable crime of visiting the United States:
Benedict is a liberal according to traditionalist bishop
And now, we have an absolutely liberal Pope, my very dear brothers. He went to this country [the United States] founded on Masonic principles of a revolution, of a rebellion against God. And, well, he expressed his admiration and fascination for this country that has decided to grant liberty to all religions. He went so far as to condemn the confessional State. And they call him a traditionalist? Yes, this is the truth. He is absolutely liberal and absolutely contradictory. He has some good sides, which we hail and for which we rejoice, such as what he has done for the Traditional liturgy. What a mystery, my very dear brothers, what a mystery!”
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