Bishops - His Excellency Bishop Richard Williamson

[Michael]

Bishops

The SSPX is no way “out of the woods.”
Resistant bishops must “deliver the goods”!

Ever since the General Chapter of July, 2012, when under Bishop Fellay’s direction the Society of St Pius X took a decisive lurch towards a compromise agreement with Conciliar Rome, Catholics of Tradition have wondered where the two other SSPX bishops stand, Bishop Tissier de Mallerais (BpT) and Bishop de Galarreta (BpG), because both have been rather discreet in public since that time.

However, firm words spoken by each of them last month have raised hopes for the future of the SSPX. Are the hopes justified? Catholics may need to remain on their guard . . .

The Confirmations sermon of BpT given on January 31 in Saarbrücken in Germany could not have been more upright or clear. For instance: In the SSPX’s confrontation with Rome, it may never go in for compromise or double-dealing. We can never negotiate with Rome so long as the representatives of the Newchurch (sic) cling to the errors of Vatican II. Any talk of ours with Rome must be unambiguous, and have as its purpose the conversion of the Newchurch representatives back to our one and only truth of Catholic Tradition. No compromise or double-dealing until they have got over their Conciliar errors, and have converted back to the Truth.

Admirable words! Uprightness is not BpT’s problem. He is no politician, God bless him. His problem is that when it comes to putting words into action, his “Fiftiesism” makes him obey his Superior and fall back in line with the politicians of SSPX HQ in Menzingen. Nothing indicates that this will not happen again this time, but we may always pray that, as the proverb says, “Even a worm will turn.” BpT is far from a worm, but he is hiding from himself, or genuinely cannot see, the full malice of Menzingen’s action. It is not just the unity and welfare of the SSPX which is at stake, but the Catholic Faith.

On the contrary BpG is a politician. Unfortunately we do not have the full text of the conference he gave in Bailly, France, on January 17, because his exact words count, so we can only quote from a summary of his main thoughts: Rome’s latest theological and canonical proposals for a Rome-SSPX agreement remain unacceptable, but the Pope certainly wants an agreement and he is perfectly capable of overriding his own officials and of imposing a “unilateral” recognition on the SSPX. Such a recognition could definitely harm the SSPX internally, but if the SSPX had done nothing to obtain it, then there is nothing that the SSPX could do about it. However, Providence would once more watch over the Archbishop’s work.

But, your Excellency, Menzingen has now for many years been doing all it can by political negotiation to arrive at official recognition by Rome, and its eventual “unilateral” arrival would be a mere pretence to deceive Traditionalists so as to sell out the SSPX under cover of claiming, no doubt with Rome’s permission behind the scenes , that it was all Rome’s fault. But the fact would remain that the Archbishop’s Society would finally be betrayed, and you with your own “No, no, a thousand times no . . . but possibly, yes” would have to answer for not having done all you could and should have done to block its betrayal.

In brief, that emergency lighting system of the Universal Church in Conciliar darkness, which is the SSPX, is itself flickering and in danger of no longer giving light. Therefore that repair team to sustain the emergency lighting, which is the “Resistance,” is still needed, and that team needs a sufficiency of good foremen. A third bishop for the “Resistance” is planned, as last year for March 19 at the monastery near Nova Friburgo in Brazil. He is its Prior, Fr Thomas Aquinas, faithful warrior and veteran of the post-Conciliar war for the Faith. May God be with him, and with all the humble and faithful servants of God.

Kyrie eleison.

[Michael]

Deo Gratias!!

[Dawn Marie]

Pretty great eh!

Michael said:

Deo Gratias!!

[Ana De Valle]

Deo Gratias! God bless Bishop Williamson!!!

[Dawn Marie]

WHO IS DOM THOMAS AQUINAS FERREIRA DA COSTA, OUR NEW BISHOP: A TESTIMONY

Carlos Nougué

(Professor of the House of Studies Saint Anselm,

 of the Monastery of the Holy Cross)

Miguel Ferreira da Costa was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1954. Before starting the law career, he made his studies in the Saint Benedict College of Rio de Janeiro, where I had the opportunity to be his classmate during a brief time. He took part of the Traditionalist and anti-modernist movement organized around Gustavo Corção and Permanencia magazine; then, it began his life of “faithful warrior and veteran of the post-Conciliar war for the Faith”, as Bp. Williamson wrote. He began, as I said, to study Law, but he quit to become a monk with the name of Thomas Aquinas, in the French monastery of Barroux, which superior was Dom Gérard at that time; and he was ordained priest in 1980, in Ecône, by Archbishop Lefebvre. He was then able to enjoy the friendship, the example, the teaching of the SSPX’s founder.

He came to Brazil with a group of monks of Barroux to found the Monastery of the Holy Cross in Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro / Brazil. However, in the meantime Dom Gérard, against the instances of AB Lefebvre, marched toward an agreement with the conciliar Rome, against which Dom Thomas Aquinas was also opposed. The split was inevitable. The Monastery of the Holy Cross, with the support of AB Lefebvre to Dom Thomas Aquinas, became independent, but friend of the SSPX. Indeed, AB Lefebvre wrote in a letter to Dom Thomas, letter which I had the privilege of reading, something like this: You must revere and consult the bishops of the SSPX, but they do not have jurisdiction over you because, as Prior of the Monastery, you must have autonomy.

But the relationship between Dom Thomas and his Monastery with the SSPX was becoming difficult, especially with the approach of the SSPX to neo-modernist Rome. When Benedict XVI released his Motu Proprio about the "extraordinary rite", Dom Thomas Aquinas refused to sing at the Sunday Mass the Te Deum asked by Bp. Fellay to celebrate the papal document, and, especially for the “lifting of the excommunications” by the same pope, Dom Thomas wrote to Bp. Fellay a letter where he said that he will not follow his steps towards an agreement with conciliar Rome. Sometime later, Bp. De Galarreta and Fr. Bouchacourt appeared at the Monastery (I’m an eyewitness) to say to Dom Thomas he had 15 days to leave the Monastery; otherwise the Monastery wouldn’t receive help and sacraments (Order included) from the SSPX.

I wrote to Bp. Fellay to complain about this injustice, and received for answer the following: “As long as he doesn’t leave the Monastery, this one will not receive our help”. I responded: “I should have the same mental problem, because I know him for twelve years and I never realized”. It truly was something similar to Stalinism and its psychiatric hospitals for opponents.

Then Dom Thomas hesitated: if he left the monastery, it would be its ruin regarding the Faith; but if he stayed, he would deprive it of all the help needed. It was then when Bp. Williamson came to the rescue: our English Bishop wrote a letter to Dom Thomas in which he assured the monastery all the sacraments; this way Dom Tomas could remain in it. This was enough for all of us to react: it was the beginning of what is now known as the Resistance, which had as first organ the website called SPES, today offline for having played the role to which it was destined. The Monastery then became the reception center for the priests who, wanting to leave the SSPX by the treachery of his superiors, hesitated to leave because they had nowhere to live. It was the consecration place of Bp. Faure and now it will be the place of the consecration of Dom Thomas Aquino Ferreira da Costa himself, my spiritual father and closest friend that God could had given to me. Yes, I’m his son and the Monastery of the Holy Cross’ son and it was here, in this little corner of heaven, I could feel for the first time the most pleasant odor of sanctity.

Publicado por Non Possumus

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