FULL STATEMENT OF THE GENERAL CHAPTER OF THE SOCIETY OF ST. PIUS THE X

[Dawn Marie]

Society of St. Pius X General Chapter Statement

19-07-2012
Filed under From Tradition, News

As announced in the press communiqué of the Society of St. Pius X’s General House on July 14, 2012, the members of the General Chapter sent a common statement to Rome. It has been published today.
During the interview published at DICI on July 16, Bishop Bernard Fellay stated that this document was “the occasion to specify the (SSPX’s) road map insisting upon the conservation of the Society’s identity, the only efficacious means to help the Church to restore Christendom”. “For,” he said, “doctrinal mutism is not the answer to this “silent apostasy”, which even John Paul II denounced already in 2003.”

At the conclusion of the General Chapter of the Society of St. Pius X, gathered together at the tomb of its venerated founder, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, and united with its Superior General, the participants, bishops, superiors, and most senior members of the Society elevate to Heaven our heartfelt thanksgiving, grateful for the 42 years of marvelous Divine protection over our work, amidst a Church in crisis and a world which distances itself farther from God and His law with each passing day.

We wish to express our gratitude to each and every member of our Society: priests, brothers, sisters, third order members; to the religious communities close to us and also to our dear faithful, for their constant dedication and for their fervent prayers on the occasion of this Chapter, marked by frank exchanges of views and by a very fruitful common work. Every sacrifice and pain accepted with generosity has contributed to overcome the difficulties which the Society has encountered in recent times. We have recovered our profound unity in its essential mission: to preserve and defend the Catholic Faith, to form good priests, and to strive towards the restoration of Christendom. We have determined and approved the necessary conditions for an eventual canonical normalization. We have decided that, in that case, an extraordinary Chapter with deliberative vote will be convened beforehand.

We must never forget that the sanctification of the souls always starts within ourselves. It is the fruit of a faith which becomes vivifying and operating by the work of charity, according to the words of St. Paul: “For we can do nothing against the truth: but for the truth” (cf. II Cor., XIII, 8), and “as Christ also loved the church and delivered himself up for it… that it should be holy and without blemish” (cf. Eph. V, 25 s.).

The Chapter believes that the paramount duty of the Society, in the service which it intends to offer to the Church, is to continue, with God’s help, to profess the Catholic Faith in all its purity and integrity, with a determination matching the intensity of the constant attacks to which this very Faith is subjected nowadays.

For this reason it seems opportune that we reaffirm our faith in the Roman Catholic Church, the unique Church founded by Our Lord Jesus Christ, outside of which there is no salvation nor possibility to find the means leading to salvation; our faith in its monarchical constitution, desired by Our Lord himself, by which the supreme power of government over the universal Church belongs only to the Pope, Vicar of Christ on earth; our faith in the universal Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Creator of both the natural and the supernatural orders, to Whom every man and every society must submit.

The Society continues to uphold the declarations and the teachings of the constant Magisterium of the Church in regard to all the novelties of the Second Vatican Council which remain tainted with errors, and also in regard to the reforms issued from it. We find our sure guide in this uninterrupted Magisterium which, by its teaching authority, transmits the revealed Deposit of Faith in perfect harmony with the truths that the entire Church has professed, always and everywhere.

The Society finds its guide as well in the constant Tradition of the Church, which transmits and will transmit until the end of times the teachings required to preserve the Faith and the salvation of souls, while waiting for the day when an open and serious debate will be possible which may allow the return to Tradition of the ecclesiastical authorities.

We wish to unite ourselves to the others Christians persecuted in different countries of the world who are now suffering for the Catholic Faith, some even to the extent of martyrdom. Their blood, shed in union with the Victim of our altars, is the pledge for a true renewal of the Church in capite et membris, according to the old saying sanguis martyrum semen christianorum.

“Finally, we turn our eyes to the Blessed Virgin Mary, who is also jealous of the privileges of her Divine Son, jealous of His glory, of His Kingdom on earth as in Heaven. How often has she intervened for the defense, even the armed defense, of Christendom against the enemies of the Kingdom of Our Lord! We entreat her to intervene today to chase the enemies out from inside the Church who are trying to destroy it more radically than its enemies from outside. May she deign to keep in the integrity of the Faith, in the love of the Church, in devotion to the Successor of Peter, all the members of the Society of St. Pius X and all the priests and faithful who labor alongside the Society, in order that she may both keep us from schism and preserve us from heresy.

“May St. Michael the Archangel inspire us with his zeal for the glory of God and with his strength to fight the devil.

“May St. Pius X share with us a part of his wisdom, of his learning, of his sanctity, to discern the true from the false and the good from the evil in these times of confusion and lies.”(Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre; Albano, October 19, 1983).

Given at Ecône, on the 14th of July of the Year of the Lord 2012.

[Dawn Marie]

HOLY SEE  COMMUNIQUE CONCERNING PRIESTLY SOCIETY OF ST. PIUS X
Vatican City, 19 July 2012 (VIS) - Early this afternoon, the Holy See Press Office released the following English-language communique concerning the declaration which emerged from the General Chapter of the Priestly Society of St. Pius X.
"The recently concluded General Chapter of the Priestly Society of St. Pius X has addressed a declaration regarding the possibility of a canonical normalisation in the relationship of the Society and the Holy See. While it has been made public, the declaration remains primarily an internal document for study and discussion among the members of the Society.
"The Holy See has taken note of this declaration, but awaits the forthcoming official communication of the Priestly Society as their dialogue with the Pontifical Commission 'Ecclesia Dei' continues".

[Dawn Marie]

You tell em Addy girl!!!!

I add my AMEN!!!!

[Dawn Marie]

Brief Commentary on the SSPX General Chapter Statement

July 19, 2012

As a number of people have asked for an opinion about today's SSPX General Chapter Statement, I'll give my initial thoughts.

The Statement is pretty much what I thought it would be: it appears to be a diplomatic 'no' to the Doctrinal Preamble, but does not shut out future discussions. I am glad the SSPX reiterated its rejection of the 'errors of Vatican II', which in the present climate, is more of an explosive statement than I think many realize. This is precisely what Pope Benedict, and bishops Müller and Di Noia cannot abide, the claim that Vatican II contains errors. Both Di Noia and Müller have insisted that the SSPX may not claim there are errors in Vatican II. Müller has stated that full recognition of the Council is an indespensible condition for any sort of 'regularization'. We’ll see what unfolds in the future.

The SSPX's public adherence to what they rightly call the "constant Magisterium" and "uniterrupted Magisterium" is a well-deserved slap-down to the modernist notion of "Living Tradition" on which the entire post-Conciliar Church runs. This will not be lost on today's Vatican.

The fact that the SSPX said they await the day for a serious debate, to me, is their way of saying that the discussions so far have not really been serious. From all appearances, it seems the Vatican gave the SSPX in June 2012 basically the same statement the SSPX refused to sign in September 2011. That’s quite an insult, especially after nearly three years of doctrinal discussion by which the Vatican should know the SSPX's position.

Also, Bishop Fellay’s statement in the earlier interview that “doctrinal mutism is not the answer” (and here I speculate) may be a response to the Vatican perhaps insisting the SSPX draw in its horns regarding criticism of Vatican II, the New Mass, and the new post-Conciliar orientation. This is precisely what I was told when I visited the Vatican's Ecclesia Dei office in 1994.

John Vennari
Catholic Family News

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