Maurice Pinay Blog: Letter from SSPX Superior General Bishop Fellay to Bishop Williamson

Maurice Pinay Blog: Letter from SSPX Superior General Bishop Fellay to Bishop Williamson

My comment

I think the overarching issue here is that when you read Archbishop Lefebvre from years ago the voice of faith shines through, without legalisms and distractions and absolutely no compromise with apostasy from faith in Christ. Today, so very many who speak of holding faith in Christ and equate this with the SSPX seem more interested in debating legalistic points which only distract.

It is very clear that Rome has fallen from the faith, given the main points that are important here. Those points have nothing to do with Mass in Latin (I grew up with Mass in Latin - only that, there was no other) or the arrangement of the altar etc. However, what you pray and to whom do you pray are critical. Also critical is the fact that one cannot contradict Jesus Christ Himself and try to make a liar out of Him by substituting perfidy and proponents of deicide as faith and the faithful respectfully. The natural outgrowth of this is exactly what happened - Assisi, no real censure of the pedophiles and pro-aborts etc.

Archbishop Lefebvre taught a most prescient thing, years back, to wit that St. Athanasius was nearly alone, but his was the true faith and not the mass of apostate bishops and those who followed them. The Church follows Christ and not man made conventions. Those who call themselves the Church but follow man made conventions are no more the Church than the priests who plotted the death of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Matthew 26:59

And the chief priests and the whole council sought false witness against Jesus, that they might put him to death:

Excerpt from article:

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A true upholder of tradition

St Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, suffered many persecutions and injustices because he refused to tolerate Arianism, the reigning heresy of the 4th Century which denied the divinity of Christ. He died in 373 A.D., and his feast day is kept on the 2nd of May, the anniversary of his death.

St Athanasius was one of the very few bishops in the world who, during the Arian heresy, openly defended the Catholic teaching. He suffered slander, exile and even unjustified excommunication for his almost lone stand in defence of the Faith.

It was a time when the Faith was more upheld by the laity who remained true to their baptism than by the vast majority of the episcopate who failed to remain faithful to their divine commission. Only when we realise this stupendous fact can the full extent of the heroism of St. Athanasius be appreciated (together with a few other heroic bishops such as St. Hilary, who supported him faithfully).

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The Mark, the Name, the Number of the beast and the Tower of Babel = Ecumenism: True to the Faith