The Final Showdown Before July 1st
Follow this development in the weeks ahead: the SSPX Superior General recently made a decisive Declaration of Faith TO THE POPE (LINK) in response to Tucho’s final warning. He is asking as a simple Catholic and human being that the pope and head of the doctrinal office confirm him, the entire SSPX, and the universal Church in the Faith, on specific central dogmas, especially “Outside the Church there is no salvation” (EENS), by themselves affirming those dogmas.
Will they respond and clearly CONFIRM there is only one God, the Holy Trinity? One Messiah? Only ONE path to salvation? Only one true Church? Or…that homosexual relationships are intrinsically sinful?
In writing.
They’ll surely never write back “Yes” to these questions. They’ve been backed into a corner by THEIR own past contradictions and hypocrisy.
It’s a Catch 22.
Option 1: If they write back “Yes,” then they implicitly support the doctrinal reasons and mindset why the Society is consecrating new bishops, and its doctrinal critiques. That would make “excommunications” hard to carry out and justify without looking hostile to their own.
And many would point out how their “Yes” contradicts so many of their previous statements and decisions. And would offend the Jews, Muslims, Protestants, Orthodox…and sodomites. How it will offend “the world” which treats the Church merely like a relativistic, humanistic organization of social services.
Therefore, they’d never dare to respond “Yes.”
Option 2: On the other hand, if they reply “No,” that would be evidence of their own loss of faith, loss of orthodoxy, of the Great Apostasy, leaving the Church in shock and disarray,. But that would never happen, whether true or not. If true, they’d never admit it publicly to preserve their own credibility going forward.
Option 3: A Non-Response. This is to be expected. Yet everyone who still reads and thinks autonomously with common sense will see their Non-response to be some kind of actual Response, given the gravity of their spiritual and moral duty, and the gravity of the situation. To equate it either to “No,” or “We don’t really seriously care about the Truth, or about being just to you.” The most willfully ignorant will fail to see that.
The conclusion will be that at the very least, their Non-response Response indicates a pastoral failure, and that the “excommunications” will therefore be uncharitable and unjust, and likely motivated either by a mindset of heterodoxy or heresy.
Truth be told, it is a brilliant and holy spiritual crusade kind of move, a final Showdown between good and evil, between truth and error, to righteously demonstrate officially to the universal Church, as a historical special act of faith, a major reference point, and final written record, a “smoking gun” kind of evidence, that the forthcoming “excommunications” are mainly about a spiritual war between two different versions of the Faith and the Church. The traditional Faith/Church vs the false modernist Faith/Church. That on the side of the false Faith/Church are the Vatican modernists in control of the Holy See who refuse to give clear answers clearly in conformity with Tradition, in large part because many have practically lost their faith.
That we hold fast to Tradition, while they implicitly deny it. The Declaration went first to Tucho. Then to Leo. They will likely not respond by July 1st, or at all, which per the statement/practical ultimatum from the Society, it would suggest they DO NOT really FIRMLY (if at all) believe in all of the dogmas listed in the Declaration.
Heaven is orchestrating this move. Our Lady surely had a hand in it.
This Final Showdown will be discussed and referenced for years to come as Exhibit A showing a Great Apostasy even coming from Rome. Evidence for positive doubt that the authorities generally have practically lost their faith. Among the whole mountain of evidence. Leo and Tucho would be obligated in justice and charity to the whole Church to respond “Yes, of course, we believe!” such that their silence will at least give great scandal, to give the surface impression, if not the certain conclusion, that “No, we do not.”
Not to mention “Shut your pie hole. We don’t care.”
Both religious and secular commentators will be pointing to that deliberate silence in the weeks leading up to the Consecrations, as an extremely telling sign of contradiction. Everybody with common sense who knows how to observe B.S. will see the hypocrisy.
The next six weeks then will be a time of watching and praying. And expecting the obvious.
Preparing to Watch and Celebrate
You’d be able to view the ceremony live on YouTube, either on the SSPX International channel, LifeSiteNews channel, or another channel. Maybe over at The Remnant or The Fatima Center. I’m guesstimating the July 1st ceremony starts at 11 am Econe, Switzerland time, we will see, which is 7 hours earlier than CST in the US, being 4 am in Tulsa or in say St. Mary’s, KS.
It is a spiritual practice to participate remotely in a Mass, when you don’t have access, and to make an act of spiritual communion. Ideally, not being able to attend, remote participation would be best, watching it live online, while praying joined in spirit to that Mass, likely ending at 7 am CST.
Regarding my thoughts on all the issues related to this event, check out my recent blog articles below, even needing unfortunately to respond to some unnecessary false Ad Hominem’s and false conclusions, from within a certain sub-culture of the traditional movement.
This occasion is NOT an occasion of fear, for the Society and its supporters, nor to denounce Leo as a formal heretic or anti-pope, but of joy to see clarification and Truth given to the whole world more than ever before of the true Faith/Church vs. the False Faith/Church. To clearly show the existence of the “Ape of the Church.” Those facing “excommunication” (does that include you and your family?) will be like martyrs lead to their death, happy to give witness to the Truth by that persecution, but in this case it will be a spiritual martyrdom.
For our otherwise good reputation as Catholics and good standing in the Church to be unjustly destroyed in the eye of the public, for giving witness to the true Faith, refusing to compromise one iota of the true Faith to be accepted.
Just think of what it would teach your children to take this rare opportunity to go to bed much earlier and say get up at 3:45, tuning into the ceremony. I predict many millions of views for this video, at least on the order of 10M, if not later 100M.
Just for its initial wave of viewing.
It will be a jubilant and glorious day that goes down as such in the annals of Church history. Operation Survival 2.0. It was Operation Survival in 1988, as Lefebvre called it. It will be just as relevant today as it was in 1988, even ten times more relevant and necessary today. To preserve the true Faith and the true Church.
Archbishop Lefebvre's
1988 Episcopal Consecrations
Sermon
A Must Watch
Plan a Party!
The “Excommunication from the ‘Ape of the Church’” Party can begin at 7 am after the ceremony, with chocolate chip pancakes topped with whipped cream and strawberries, and syrup, Belgian waffles topped with real maple syrup, Denver omelettes, and Bloody Mary’s. Or later that evening, the family watches the recorded ceremony, or perhaps the key parts of it. Especially the sermon and actual consecrations. Then break open the champagne. We’re planning ourselves on brats, sauerkraut, beer, a cake, and folk music.
Photos forthcoming.
This could be even more easily done if the children are homeschooled. Or take them out of school for the day to watch, pray, and celebrate. Decades later, they will never forget it. One small sacrifice to help preserve the faith of your children once they grow up.
I expect pundits commenting live before, during, and after the ceremony on what is happening and its meaning. People like Michael Matt, Matt Gaspar, Brian McCall, Christopher Ferrara, John Henry Westen, Mother Miriam, or Fr. Charles Murr. Certain key questions can already be anticipated to be examined up to the ceremony:
Questions
Will Leo miraculously come to his senses, loosen his heart strings, and try and intervene before or even right up to the day of the ceremony? (0.00001% chance, but still worth praying for)
What well known bishops if any might be in attendance showing their support? (80% chance). Bishop Athanasius Schneider? Archbishop Vigano? Bishop Strickland? Etc?
When will the decree of “excommunication” be issued? (99.9999% certain same day; 70 % certain immediately after the ceremony or actual consecrations).
Will it include all the priests? Brothers? Sisters? Oblate Sisters? Third Order Members? Affiliated orders, monasteries, and convents? (90% certainty)
All of the laity attending SSPX chapels? (50/50). Or giving remote attachment and loyalty? (30%). Or just supporting the SSPX positions? (30%). Or just for adhering to the “schism” caused by the Consecrations? (95%)
Will the entire SSPX be described as a new Formal Schism, that is like a new Schismatic Church? (50/50)
Will THE main basis, or ONE of the bases be because the SSPX does not accept the conciliar doctrinal errors? Including sodomite couple blessings? (100%)
Will the Vatican roll out a program of “reconciliation” to “bridge back” now “formal schismatics” to full communion? Like the Ecclesia Dei document did by also erecting the FSSP in 1988 (100%)?
Will that include a program for every bishop to root out every “Lefebvrite” attending approved TLM’s, and force them to repudiate their beliefs by confession under threat of being individually “excommunicated” (50/50).
The Aftermath
There will be a lot of changes. Canonical appeals and canonical defenses. A more formal schism between Ecclesia Dei/Summorum Pontificum trads, and SSPX trads, not stemming from the SSPX. More persecution and ostracization of SSPX trads, and SSPX-like trads, whether by friends, family, or parishioners.
Or by the bishop.
New canonical conundrums? If you fall under the ipso facto “excommunication,” should you try and appeal it to your diocese and to Rome? Appeal to trusted local priests to defend you, still giving you the sacraments, when having no local access to the SSPX? Even though invalid, should or could you abide by it, to gain graces? That is not receiving the sacraments until it is formally lifted? Will your diocese officially, publicly designate you as excommunicated?
I’d expect no more permissions to ordain priests, hear confessions, witness marriages, resolve certain canonical cases, to let retired bishops live with them, to offer Mass in approved churches like St. Peter’s, to operate with normal, ordinary jurisdiction like they have been under Bishop Barron in California, etc?
For that matter, will they be treated as a now formal, new Schismatic Church? If so will the Vatican finally start extending the olive branch of ecumenism to them? (0%)
Will they admit that if the SSPX is still offering a true Catholic rite of Mass, that per canon law one may still attend and fulfill their Sunday obligation there at “any Catholic rite of Mass”? (negative percent)
For that matter, if they are now viewed as a new Schismatic Church like the Old Catholics, or the Church of England, is a Catholic allowed and encouraged to still attend their Masses by the 1991 Vatican Ecumenical Directory which formulates this? (1000 negative percent = -1000%)
Will this signify a kind of “internal schism” not only between the Society and the juridical structure, but between all traditional, orthodox Catholics and that juridical structure? Effectively pushing many more beyond the outer juridical margins to operate independently? (100%)
Will the Church on a practical level be overtly split between those adhering to the new heretical “Synodal Church,” and those who stand outside of that rejecting it? Such that those officially under the “conciliar church” become more overtly separated from the rest within it, a kind of conservative “schism within the conciliar church framework”? (100%)
How deep does all of this chaos spiral downward into the abyss? Into hell, dragging souls downward with it? Before God soon intervenes with the Big One (LINK)? (Only God knows, but I think it’s coming soon)
Real World Consequences
Will the SSPX stop ever advising some people, under certain circumstances, based on Mass availabilities, that one could attend the FSSP or ICK? Or to go to confession to a Novus Ordo priest? Or to have any practical relations with the diocese, especially IF the laity are also considered officially “excommunicated”? (Guessing a “Yes” to all of the above)
Or will they advise to just ignore the censure and still seek sacraments as needed from approved priests,if/when the SSPX is unavailable, IF that priest agrees their “excommunication” is null and void”? There will be a lot of new complex situations to discern, especially where you can attend Mass, Benediction, Stations of the Cross, or any liturgical function. All of which is forbidden by an excommunication.
Where can you go to confession? Just to the SSPX? Where should you live? Where should you plant or re-plant your family long term?
This would clearly be the situation if the laity are also “excommunicated,” BUT also still “suspect of excommunication and schism” with similar backlash.
I personally expect and plan for the high likelihood, in the months and years ahead, that this harsh clampdown on the SSPX and those who support it will continue with Tucho rolling out a fascist protocol to forcefully bring us “back into the fold,” while they ALSO harshly clampdown on the Tridentine Mass.
To end it.
Before now, that process of gradual “accompaniment” back to the liturgical reform, to the Novus Ordo, with its own banal, spiritually ugly architecture, music, and spirituality, has been slow and incremental. Yet, the Vatican Baby Boomer modernists are getting closer to death, so they will naturally want to accelerate their Revolution.
I do not believe the parochial TLM will return. Traditionis Custodes is here to stay. And all forms of traditionalist faith, liturgy, theology, ideology, writings, blogs, and podcasts, especially ONLINE, as well as traditional Catholic activity offline, in each diocese, will no longer be tolerated but snuffed out.
Yet ironically the traditional movement, especially the SSPX, will paradoxically continue to grow exponentially! Many new independent chapels will surely form, especially when groups like the FSSP are forced to make new substantial compromises, causing some to jump ship. There will be more cancelled priests with independent chapels.
What a time to be alive. “The best of times. The worst of times.” As it were. To give witness through our lives to the one and only Triune God, to Jesus Christ the God-Man, to the true Faith, and to the true Church Christ founded. To be given the opportunity to merit the glorious, heavenly crown of spiritual martyrdom, if not physical martyrdom.
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