De Jorna's Roman Anosmia
I do not care too much for matters that agitate the Lefebvrists. However, I wish to point out that De Jorna's formulations, as that of Williamson which he quotes, is very unfortunate, and is misleading or badly put, so that it is capable of leading souls into error.
The Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, 1869-70, is one that all of us in the Catholic Resistance, whatever our particular ideology, accept. That is, excepting a small fringe group which is actually "Old Catholic" or Dollingerite, as I believe Fr. John Martinez and the Regium Dei group is...
This Council teaches us that Rome cannot ever fall. This teaching is, I would remind all, de fide for us, as Catholics, unless we wish to impeach this Council and Pope Pius IX.
And while it is true that there is a Sect, headquarted in Rome, and in the same buildings in which the Catholic Church was once headquartered, it is wrong to speak of this Sect as if it were "Rome", "Romans" and the like.
On the contrary, it is essential to affirm that they are NOT. It is essential to affirm that they are merely an usurpatory sect, Antirome, Antiromans, and it essential for us to affirm, together with the last Ecumenical Council under Pope Pius IX, that Rome is indefectible, immortal, atleast, until the Parousia...
Let us always be careful to emphasise this important and fundamental distinction.
We are eternally faithful and eternally filial to our Dear Mother, Saint Rome — Eternal Rome, the Rome that is the Patrimony of the Apostles, Saints and Martyrs and which is the Mother-Church of all Christianity. We reject and repudiate the Antirome which always rebelled and which today rules the City apparently triumphant and unchallenged.
Saint Rome may seem to have died, to have been wiped out, but that is not true. We may not be able to see Saint Rome or her vestiges, but we must not, therefore, betray her by joining those who deny her survival, her continued existence. On the contrary, trusting, not on our human abilities, which cannot perceive her, but reposing our faith in God, Who inspired the Holy Ecumenical Council of the Vatican in 1869-70, and its de fide definitions, we must believe in faith and perceive her outlines with the eyes of faith, and affirm that Saint Rome survives and will always survive, and that she will soon overcome her adversary, Anti-Rome, and that her victory will be made manifest to men.
For this, truly, is the faith.
Prakash J. Mascarenhas
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 11:33:57 -0700 (PDT)
From: "john menezes"
Subject: "ROMAN ANOSMIA" - an answer by Fr De Jorna to Fr Aulagnier
To: Gary_Giuffr�, SSPX-Asia, etc.
Dear Gary,
Thanks for your kind intervention on my endorsement. Your remarks are indeed very true and refresh my memory. I trust you will not mind me circulating them among my friends.
Kind regards,
John
Gary_Giuffr� <[email protected]> wrote:
Dear John:
The SSPX never left the conciliar church. To confirm this, Ratzinger published a letter in which he let it be known that its members had never been "excommunicated." Econe has been in on-going negotiations with the Vatican ever since the "suspension" of Marcel Lefebrve in 1976. In July 1988, the archbishop referred to JP2 as "antichrist" and "a father of lies," but then, in the same month declared: "In four or five years, I hope to reach an accord with the Church of Rome." Why not? He and his society have always recognized the conciliar church as the true Church. They have to. It was the conciliar church�s John Cardinal Wright, Prefect of the Congregation of the Clergy, who "canonically" set up the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X in Fribourg, Switzerland, in 1970. The SSPX owes it very existence to the false church of Vatican II. They are playing a very cynical game with the lay people who blindly follow them, and are leading them down a dead-end path toward a slimy compromise with the devil�s anti-church.
Regards,
Gary Giuffr�
From: John Menezes
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 12:07 PM
Subject: "ROMAN ANOSMIA" - an answer by Fr De Jorna to Fr Aulagnier
In forwarding the brilliant response of Rev. Fr. Bernoit de Jorna, Rector, Seminary of St. Pius X, Econe, let it be known to Fr. Paul Aulagnier and those of his ilk that if they have their way and the SSPX joins the Prostitute Church in Rome, it will be the end of the SSPX mission in India which will be charged for treachery and suitably dealt with.
The best we can do is to pray for the Restoration of Eternal Rome.
JOHN MENEZES
23 SEPTEMBER 2003
An answer to the recent interview given by Father Paul Aulagnier
ROMAN ANOSMIA
By Father Benoit de Jorna, Rector, Saint Pius X International Seminary, Econe
Everyone has heard of the curious illness called ageusia which entails a complete loss of taste. It might make you laugh but imagine a great gourmand who all of sudden can no longer distinguish a pheasant from a poussin. How terrible!
But have you heard of anosmia? It is an analogous condition but, instead of losing the ability to taste, it affects only the nose. All sense of smell is lost. How sad! Especially if before one was enraptured by the sweet perfumes of Rome.
The recent interview given by M. l'abb� Aulagnier is another sign of this painful affliction: a Roman anosmia. It's true; I am convinced of it. He who was one of the first to encourage Archbishop Lefebvre to rebuild, to repair and to continue without fear the formation of priests and the whole institution of the Catholic priesthood, he now appears today to no longer notice the stench of this most dreadful scourge that is the Conciliar Church.
It is already clear, the doctrine of Vatican II is really a vast mythology, a remarkable system certainly, an impressive edifice, but alas, the work of human hands...made by man. It is a human idea that the men of the Church take as divine an idea simply for the reason that it is an idea, something spiritual. For them everything that is spiritual is divine. In the sermon that Bishop Tissier de Mallerais gave at last year's ordinations, he rightly lamented, "As much in its dogma as in its liturgy the new religion has tried to empty the Catholic religion of its substance".
He who reads what M. l'abb� Aulagnier writes now, therefore, cannot but be astonished to hear only praise for what Rome has to say - praise without further criticism. His position has a curious resemblance to the attitude of Ecclesia adflicta, the afflicted church...
It is not as if Rome has changed. Pontifical publications like those of one or other of the cardinals are as bad as they are dangerous. Cardinal Kasper's commentary of the most recent encyclical published in the magazine 30 Days (no.5, 2003) is typical. He has the audacity to say word for word: "I hope to arrive one day at a point where we can sign an accord with the Lutherans on the doctrine of the Eucharist as we have done with the doctrine of justification".
The Church of Vatican II is a pantheon! The Romans would like to receive us certainly, but precisely because in this pantheon they do not wish to exclude a single god. For us to enter, however, would be to renounce the Truth, the one exclusive Truth.
Remember the comments of Bishop Fellay in his letter to Friends and Benefactors of June 2002: "The time for open collaboration has not yet arrived said Archbishop Lefebvre in 1988 during the episcopal consecrations. This position is unchanged today. It is not a question of trying to understand their intention, the facts speak for themselves: it is an attempt to divide us. Our attitude cannot be any other than to keep our distance."
You could even compare the situation to Jesus and Barabbas. There is no alternative. The episcopal consecrations of 1988 were, as Archbishop Lefebvre described them, a survival operation, an event that one cannot regret or minimise or, even worse, reject. The interview given by M. l'abb� Aulagnier, therefore, is saddening for it has all the air of such a reaction.
The blackmail that permits the Mass is repeatedly renewed and has no other goal but to make us accept a place in the pantheon which is the Conciliar Church. As Bishop de Galaretta explained to me recently: "to follow their lead would be to renounce the proclamation of the faith - all at a time when it is absolutely necessary." How can one possibly forget the magnificent declaration of Bishop Castro Mayer on 30th June 1988? Is it possible that were two Archbishop Lefebvres too?
The Rome to which M. l'abb� Aulagnier aspires is a distant memory. It no longer exists, suffocated long ago by the conciliar beast that devours all or lets all be devoured. The last encyclical on the Holy Eucharist is an example; it is just a pale reflection, a mirage. Bishop Williamson in his sermon of 27th June this year quite rightly said: "These Romans are incapable of understanding us. They have lost the objective truth; they believe that the truth is subjective and even if they say: Our Lord Jesus Christ is truly present under the species of the Holy Eucharist, even if they say exactly the same thing as we say, these words do not mean the same thing to them."
In his last letter to friends and benefactors (no.64), our Superior General affirms: "the Mass to which the recent encyclical refers is the New Mass, the reformed Mass of Vatican II. That says everything."
The ceremony of 24th May in the basilica of St. Mary Major too, was nothing but an indult Mass, the Mass of St. Pius V with the faith of Vatican II. Certainly it might have enabled a few to discover the splendour of the traditional Roman liturgy, a liturgy designed to best reflect the splendour of the august mysteries of the Mass, but the affirmation that this Mass has "a right of citizenship" only confirms that, in the new conciliar republic, no form of worship is excluded. This conciliar republic is an enemy of the Church founded by Our Lord Jesus Christ, a Church to which we belong by a God's grace.
We must not therefore be discouraged but rather be encouraged to be strong, strong in the faith. The virtue of fortitude is more a virtue of perseverance than attack and it might well be that we are precisely at period of combat akin to trench warfare, a long war of attrition. Whatever happens, be vigilant without being troubled, be constant without being worried. Re-read the words of St. Paul, the magnificent herald of the faith: "Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place. For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish. To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things? For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ." II Cor 2,v14-17.
The Saint Pius X Society is not only a bastion, a shield but also a battering ram of the Truth which is Jesus Christ and the Church that He founded. Our Lord Jesus Christ is the Life! He is the Way! Follow him by adhering to TRADITION WITHOUT FEAR, without faltering, in the hope of victory, the victory of Christ.
Benoit de Jorna
Econe 17th September 2003
On the feast of the Commemoration of the Stigmata of St. Francis of Assisi.