July 09, 2021 Source: FSSPX Spirituality By strongly encouraging, by autograph letter, an American Jesuit known for his commitment to the militant homosexual movement, Pope Francis is sending confused signals, while the Roman Curia has taken divergent decisions in recent weeks. The Pope sent a letter to Fr. James Martin, a fervent defender of the LGBT cause in the United ... Lire la suite »

July 09, 2021 Source: FSSPX Spirituality “After years of purgatory, the cassock is back. ‘During the continuing formation sessions of my ecclesiastical province [Rouen], there were two of us wearing it in 2014. Today there are around ten, or half of the participants,’ remarks Fr. Laurent Gastineau, who was ordained a priest four years ago in the diocese of Séez.” ... Lire la suite »

July 09, 2021 Source: FSSPX Spirituality On June 24, Agence France-Presse covered the extraction of the first monumental oak trunks to be used to restore the spire of Notre-Dame: the first four trunks were transported from the national forest of Bercé (Sarthe) to at a sawmill in Craon (Mayenne). “We’re lucky to be working with these exceptional specimens,” declared Mickaël ... Lire la suite »

July 09, 2021 Source: FSSPX Spirituality On Thursday, July 1, 2021, the feast of the Most Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ, two priests as well as eight deacons were ordained at the International Seminary of St. Pius X in Ecône, Valais, Switzerland, by Bishop Bernard Fellay, auxiliary bishop of the Society of Saint Pius X. The two new priests, ... Lire la suite »

July 09, 2021 Source: FSSPX Spirituality Since May 13, 2021, Lausanne Cathedral has hosted the exhibition “Gothic! The Time of the Great Cathedrals.” Around twenty 1/200th scale cathedrals by artist Luciano Xavier dos Santos are being displayed along the ambulatory of the Gothic Notre-Dame Cathedral in Lausanne. Born in 1985 in Brazil, Luciano Xavier dos Santos trained as an architectural ... Lire la suite »

July 09, 2021 Source: FSSPX Spirituality The Vatican’s foreign minister believes it serves no purpose for the Holy See to speak out regarding restrictions on Hong Kong. It is an admission that bodes ill for the future of Catholics in the Middle Kingdom, and which further mortgages the agreement reached with Beijing in 2018. The Suppression of Apple Daily Coincidences sometimes ... Lire la suite »

On the feast of the martyrs St. John and St. Paul, five candidates were ordained to the priesthood and two to the diaconate at the Sacred Heart Seminary in Zaitzkofen “How would you describe this day? An older seminarist asks one of the first-year seminarians at dinner. “Well, with regard to the ceremony: impressive. As for the work: exhausting. And ... Lire la suite »

Defying Roman authority, many priests chose to display a rainbow flag [LGBT movement colors] at the foot of the altar during the events, and announced that this day was just the beginning a practice that will become a daily one when couples request it. These priests knew there was no risk of sanctions. Two bishops, Bishop Helmut Dieser of Aachen and ... Lire la suite »

July 06, 2021 Source: FSSPX Spirituality On his blog of March 31, 2021, the Vaticanist Aldo Maria Valli posted a nice tribute to the Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral by an American intellectual John Horvat, on the occasion of the selection on March 5th of the oaks from the forest of Bercé, Sarthe, which will be used for the new framework. “Something ... Lire la suite »

July 06, 2021 Source: FSSPX Spirituality It was almost in a climate of general indifference that the legislative revisions of the law on bioethics was definitively adopted by the National Assembly during the last parliamentary round on the afternoon of June 29, 2021, by 326 votes for, and 115 against. If the joy of the promoters of the culture of death ... Lire la suite »