Remember before Vatican II, I do!

 

Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre (November 29, 1903 - March 25, 1991)

“I Have Handed on What I Have Received”
On The Biography of Marcel Lefebvre

by John Vennari


“They literally took me by the scruff of the neck and said: ‘Something must be done for these seminarians!’ It was useless my saying that I was sixty-five and retired, or that it was foolish to begin something that I could not continue if I should die within the next few years ... they wouldn’t have it.”[1]

The year was 1969. Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre was sixty-five and retired. He had survived the tumultuous battles of the Second Vatican Council. He had just resigned as Superior General of Holy Ghost Fathers. He had spent himself for over 40 years in the Lord’s vineyard. He assumed his work was over. Providence had other plans.

A handful of seminarians at the time were dissatisfied with the priestly formation they were receiving: a formation both liberal and lax. Only four years after the close of the Council, the seminaries were already permeated by the modernist spirit of Vatican II: weekly liturgical experiments, seminarians concocting their own liturgies, seminarians going out at night, bad theology courses, no rule of life, no cassocks, no Latin, no discipline, contempt for Tradition, total collapse.

The distraught seminarians were advised to seek counsel from Archbishop Lefebvre, now living quietly in Rome. The Archbishop counseled the young men to try a House of Studies at Fribourg, but this turned out to be as unsatisfactory as anything they already encountered. The Archbishop then looked into another House of Studies in Switzerland only to find more disorder, more aggiornamento, more “spirit of Vatican II”. The seminarians were orphaned. They had no place to go. They had suffered ridicule for their traditionalist stand while in the seminaries of the new springtime. What could be done for them?   

The rest of the story is here.

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Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary

     Queen of the Most Holy Rosary, in this tragic hour of the world's history, we entrust and consecrate ourselves to thine Immaculate Heart, our only refuge, our hope, our salvation.

     Have pity on this world, torn by the most terrible conflicts,
 burning with the fires of hate,  victim of its own sins.

     May thy Heart be moved at the sight of so much ruin, pain and sorrow.

    We consecrate to thy maternal heart our persons, our families,
 our country (name country), the whole of humanity.  Protect and save us!

    O Heart of Mary, source of true love, fill our selfish hearts
with Divine charity and with that true brotherly love without which there can never be peace.

    Grant that men and nations may understand and fulfill the precept of
thy Divine Son, "Love one another", in order that true peace may be firmly
established in the Justice and Truth of Christ.

By Pope Pius XII

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Father Albert Drexel

  
     The book about Fr. Albert Drexel , Faith is Greater than Obedience, is a collection of words of Our Lord spoken to him a couple of years before he died on March 9, 1977.  These locutions have every mark of credibility, for Fr. Drexel was an experienced priest, a professor certainly not one to give into flights of imagination, nor one easily deceived by the devil.  Fr. Drexel said only the Latin Tridentine Mass and never said the Novus Ordo (New Mass).  The book is available at JMJ Books and Religious Goods, 1-608-565-2516, and their website.  You can also read some of the book here.

     Here are a couple of quotes taken from the book that I found to be very interesting.  He was told by Our Lord several times that He approved of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre and on page 78, words of the Savior in the early morning of December 3, 1976,  Our Lord said, "But priests, like My worthy servant Marcel, are persecuted, condemned, and outlawed because they see the sacramental sacrifice as the truest and holiest and celebrate the mystery of My body and blood with holy reverence."

 Our Lord said, "The great disaster in My one and true Church is the desecration of the Blessed Sacrament, because it has gained ground in the whole world since the council of the popes John and Paul, and it provokes the anger of God."

     Shortly before his death, Fr. Drexel had said:  "My greatest grief 
in the hour of death is the dilapidation of faith in the Roman Catholic Church.  My last desire is the reconciliation of Rome with Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre."