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FOR THE RECORD: 31 SEMINARIANS TAKE CASSOCK IN THE UNITED STATES AND FRANCE
St. Cure d’Ars Seminary in Flavigny-sur-Ozerain, France
First from France:
The picture above is from the SSPX seminary in Flavigny-sur-Ozerain, France. The below is that passage form the SSPX website:
At St. Cure d’Ars Seminary located in the quaint French medieval town of Flavigny-sur-Ozerain, it was Bishop Bernard Tissier de Mallerais (currently stationed at the Chicago priory) who vested 19 seminarians in the soutane and gave the tonsure. The Flavingy seminary was pleased to host over 50 priests and religious and 500 faithful.
Next from the United States
And here is the photo from Winona, Minnesota:
St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary, Winona Minnesota
Here is the relevant passage:
At St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary in Winona, in addition to the 12 men who received the habit, Bishop Bernard Fellay also administered the tonsure to another 8 seminarians thus initiating them into the clerical state.
Link here.
Nota bene:
Vocation shortage? What vocation shortage?
I would also like to draw your attention to the fact that the SSPX seminary in Flavigny vested more seminarians than the seminary in Winona. Deo gratias!
Furthermore, with 8 seminarians tonsured, this give us a grand total of 40 more in the pipeline!
And now two for the “Vaches grasses? Ah Non!” category:
For some background and for comparison purposes, here is an old Rorate Caeli post pertaining to the situation with respect to vocations in France from March 2012. (see here)
For a present day snap shot, the situation in the Netherlands from Rorate Caeli. (see here)
And finally, please pray for these young men.
One more thing. As we head towards the Synod of Bishops of 2015, this blog will be posting more of these side by side comparisons over the next 241 days. It is of critical importance that this “objective information” reaches the public domain and is distributed far and wide. The more one becomes familiar with the present situation in the Church, especially with respect to vocations, the more one realizes that the problems at the “field hospital” are either “self inflicted” or caused by medical malpractice. Either way, this needs to be stamped out.
We all need to be aware of this fact!
St. Michael Archangel, ora pro nobis.
Archbishop Lefebvre, ora pro nobis.
While we’re talking game theory. The enemy thinks he knows the parameters of infallibility. (One of which is: if it’s wrong, you die before it takes effect.) The dupe encourages a growing schism, either because he will resign to lead the schismatic group or be eliminated/irrelevant before issuing an infallible pronouncement. Thus the enemy guts the church by its hierarchy.
Since they don’t believe in hell, the game skews regarding motivations to reflect the state messianism described in ccc#675-677.
Regarding the pope’s awareness. Look at his actions upon receiving the enclave’s vote:(my recollection) he prayed and let his mind go BLANK. That is not contemplative prayer.
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Dear SA,
We agree with your assessments, with one caveat that resulting from from our research. There seems more to his social work than a means to an end. He has a driving, personal need to be “with” hurting people, who naturally look to him as they would to Chirst– which he seems to crave as central to his existence. It could be directly connected to his sense of self-worth, his idea of what God expects of him and others, and his sense of a need to atone for his sins and weaknesses. But this has been evident in him since early childhood, to a degree that everyone noticed. Childhood acquaintances INVARIABLY mention that he was always trying to help everyone –on the streets, in the schoolyard, in the classrooms.
He describes himself as a loner, but then tells you he “loved” to Tango-a particularly intimate and sensual dance (condemned in earlier times) and did so for years with a girl friend. So is he fully in touch with reality, even aware of the contradictions between his own words and actions about himself?
All we can do is keep listening and watching. So far the picture is emerging of an emotionally unstable person, driven by ideas of Christ that are contrary to the Gospel, and determined to re-make the Church into the warped image he holds in his mind. His frustrations show most quickly when he his talking about what he thinks should be, and recalls something he sees as a contradiction or road block to accomplishing it, or getting the public to behave accordingly.
Be it humble priests who believe their call is not social work but primarily prayer, or a generous mother of 8, who sees her large family as pleasing to God, rather than a strain on the earth’s resources or an unwarranted “testing” of God’s providence.
We’re seeing anger and manipulation in place of a normal Catholic appreciation.
Those say a lot about what’s wrong with Jorge Bergoglio a.k.a. Pope Francis, and why he may actually merit the acronym “T.M.A.H.I.C.H. ” as he has been accurately dubbed by Mundabor.
The thought is father to the deed.
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IF:
Correct again. This which you identify above also exhibits itself in his penchant for the Pentecostals. Especially the more weird ones who do the “healing” bit. Bergoglio acts as if he is a direct instrument of the Holy Spirit, which comes off as dictatorial and authoritarian to the casual observer, but in reality, and clinically speaking, he most likely has mental health issues.
S.A.
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Dear SA,
It’s great to see the vocations pouring in, and we wonder if the numbers will at some point force the “God of surprises” -crowd to admit they were wrong about Tradition; or whether The Good Lord will have to force their hand by having all their efforts come to nothing– like this report about the Dutch Church (which should carry a warning-“don’t read this if you are easily depressed”).
Numquam desistas, numquam nisi Domino deditionem
(Never give up, never surrender- except to the Lord)
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Dear IF:
Personally, I think the main goal of Francis, whether he knows it or not, is to destroy the priesthood. If you look at what he is doing, he is trying to take the ” sacred” out of the priesthood, thereby reducing it to something that anybody can do. Very protestant if you ask me. Maybe that is why he is targeting all those traditional bishops who have the full seminaries. 🙂
But the Holy Spirit has other ideas, obviously.
S.A.
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Dear SA,
We’ve been researching Bergoglio’s leadership of the “slum priests” in Argentina, getting a “feel” for what it’s objectives and methods were, and still are. There’s a definite revolutionary bent to it all, that the Liberation Theologian priests first pushed hard to promote, (coming in from outside to push against Governments for the “rights” of the poor) and the Vatican tried to squelch it all-rather unsuccessfully due to morphing methods and less-public, more underground activities. Some of their heroes were resurrected by Bergoglio, who seems to have worked at maintaining a distanced image from them, disagreeing with some of their ideas while supporting others.
This mix of Marxist, socialist, ideas with Catholic sounding rhetoric is why it’s taking so long for anyone to get a handle on what he actually believes.
That’s why it’s so important to watch for the RESULTS, and keep getting testimonies from eye-witnesses who tell us things like the Anglican Archbishop did–that Bergoglio doesn’t WANT converts. These are the moments that reveal the anti-Catholic, and most destructive ideas he’s holding on to, and promoting.
This article seems a good overview of his Argentinian past:
http://www.traditioninaction.org/HotTopics/j059_Slum.htm
Other reports done on priests Bergoglio is still very close to, demonstrate the altered priorities we see being applied to the world today:
“The parish is not a building; it’s the neighborhood, it’s the community,” Olivero said. His “FIRST FOCUS focus is ON HELPING people, NOT CONVERTING THEM.” But he believes “FAITH IS CONTAGIOUS.”
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Such an approach may be initially necessary in trying to reach those who have to be literally “pulled from the fire”, as St. Jude put it–like serious addicts and “hit men” these articles talk about. If you can’t get them to stop firing and dodging bullets, there’s no time to talk about the Faith to them. But that is the job of the social worker, and for priests to devote the major part of their efforts to it, causes serious neglect of their responsibilities to teach and preach the Faith, and it is wrongly applied when extended to everyone in the world, changing the mandate and the mission, as we have seen. This one-track focus of the Pope seems to be the driving force behind a lot of the atrocities that come from his lips and are put into practice as much as he is able to force his will on others or sway them to act as he does. It must be examined, refuted and resisted, just as liberation theology was, and for the same reasons.
You’re right, he’s developing a gigantic network of social workers, all based on that slum-model he keeps in his head, to the point where they forget their purpose. The above-quoted priest, was so busy setting up social activities all day as the reporter followed him around, that late in the afternoon he suddenly paused and exclaimed: ” I just remembered I have a wedding to do tonight!”. It was apparently the last thing on his mind.
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p.s. Understanding that driving force, also explains why he wouldn’t want their schedules filled with training priests for the TLM, a ritual that is far more complex and time-consuming, and viewed as such by one with a busy agenda for social work. The priestly work of the soul is set aside.
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Dear IF:
Exactly correct. He literally hates the priesthood as Our Lord founded it.
What Bergoglio is actually doing is creating his own religion. He is like a parasite that latched on to a host. He sucks the nourishment to keep his pet religion alive. That is why he is banning Catholics from proselytizing, making all those stupid videos for the Pentecostals, and then they take those stupid videos and reinforce in their sects that they have been right all along. This is nothing short of providing aid and comfort for the enemy. He gets a free ride from the institution, funding and patrimony that the Argentine people put in place over a couple of hundred years, and uses it for his own personal disposal. He crows about the poor simply because it is his “hedge” so that he never has to account for the cash. And as for the destruction of the seminary of Buenso Aires, and the abysmal numbers, he just turns around and says that ” we don’t want priests like that, anyways”. But there is always an answer for the failure. And this explains why he hates the bishops with the full seminaries. I wouldn’t put it past him that what he is doing with the FFI is that he is trying to “re-program” them into the “NGO PRIESTS”, and the frustration that Volpi is showing is due to the plan not working. Just like the last one or two, bahh… all this cockeyed plans. None of them had ever worked. The only one that worked was the plan to become pope, and that was because the Germans funded him as we now know.
Anyways, I think it is high time that the sane bishops and cardinals started to say something about this. They must see this, surely, to use a line from RC blog.
S.A.
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