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The
Society’s purpose is the priesthood and all that pertains
to it and nothing but what concerns it; i.e., the
priesthood as Our Lord Jesus Christ willed it when He
said, “Do this for a commemoration of me.”
SSPX's
Statutes
The
Priestly Society of St. Pius X was founded by Archbishop
Marcel Lefebvre to form holy priests as the Roman Catholic
Church has done for centuries, focusing particularly on
doctrinal and sacrificial nature of the Priesthood of Our
Lord Jesus Christ.
The SSPX
also exercises an apostolate to assist other priests to
better understand and practice the ministry of their
priesthood (see
excerpts from the SSPX's Statutes).
To better
facilitate this assistance, the SSPX's United States
District has a Priests' Training Program in Kansas City,
Missouri, where priests may learn how to offer the
traditional Roman Mass and administer the traditional
sacramental rites, as well as learn about how Modernism is
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What other priests are saying... |
An Interview
with Fr. Massimo
"What did you experience the first time
that you attended the Mass of All Time?..." "What is life like in
the SSPX?" Fr. Massimo gives many interesting answers!
1-28-2011 |
We are looking for DOCTRINE!
Bishop Fellay comments on what priests in the Novus Ordo
are seeking
1-24-2011 |
Fr. Massimo: “This is why
I went over to the SSPX”
A young Italian priest explains his
reasons for coming to Tradition
1-24-2011 |
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The Mass: the heart of the priesthood;
some doctrinal and spiritual aspects
The
Theology and Spiritual of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass
An important expose by Fr.
Franz Schmidberger that the traditional Roman Mass requires
Catholic doctrine. This article summarizes what the battle
over the Mass is about: the purity of the Catholic doctrine
A
Brief Critical Study of the Novus Ordo Missae
Commonly referred to as
the Ottaviani Intervention, this study was made in 1969 just after
the publication of the Novus Ordo Missae. It predicted a crisis of
the priesthood would accompany the New Mass, as being faced today
Does the New Mass fulfill the notion of Catholic liturgy?
...Here lies the first reason for the illegitimacy of the rite
of the New Mass—that it does not correspond to man's knowledge
of God...
6-7-2011
What Archbishop Lefebvre said about the New Mass... in the
beginning
...I am convinced that one cannot take part in the New Mass, and
even just to be present one must have a serious reason. We
cannot collaborate in spreading a rite which, even if it is not
heretical, leads to heresy. This is the rule I am giving my
friends...
1-22-2013
Free the Mass and and the Face of the Earth shall be Renewed
A pre-Summorum Pontificum
article that compares the Tridentine Mass versus the Novus Ordo
Priests' Thoughts: Meditations on the Holy Sacrifice of
the Mass
Comments from Dom Gueranger, Cardinal Pie, Fr. de Condren
3-2008
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About the priesthood |
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A priest must be a man of faith:
Bishop Fellay's sermon
This is one of the great misfortunes of our time, this ignorance
of what a priest is, even before knowing what he does. The only
way to know a priest in his reality is faith... We are living in
an age in which this faith is abused, attacked, slashed,
everywhere, outside the Church and inside as well...
2-4-2013 DICI |
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Winona seminarian ordained in Paris
...Fr. Lundi's ordination given by Bishop Bernard Fellay was
held at the Parisian church of St. Nicholas du Chardonnet in his
home country of France on January 27th. A reminder of Father's time spent in the
United States...
1-29-2013 |
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Priestly
and diaconate ordinations for mendicants
On October 11, 6 mendicant friars of traditional Dominican and
Capuchin communities in France received major holy orders from
the hands of Bishop Alfonso de Galarreta of the Society of St.
Pius X...
10-19-2012 |
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SSPX has 569 priests
After the ordinations in the
seminaries of the Northern Hemisphere, the Society of St. Pius X
has 569 priests (includes a graph showing the growth of SSPX's
priests since its founding in 1970)...
7-20-2012 |
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18 new SSPX priests
Another two priests were ordained for the SSPX on July 1 at
Priesterseminar Herz Jesu (Sacred Heart Seminary) in Zaitzkofen,
Germany by Bishop Alfonso de Galarreta...
7-3-2012 |
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USA priests celebrate 10 years in Lord's vineyard
On the Saturday after Easter, April 14, four American priests of
the Society of St. Pius X were reunited from around the globe at
Assumption Chapel in St. Mary's, Kansas to celebrate their 10th
anniversary of ordination to the Priesthood of Our Lord Jesus
Christ...
7-3-2012 |
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USA: 8 new priests, 12 deacons!
Appropriately on the
Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Friday, June 15, 8
new priests and 12 new deacons were ordained by Bishop
Bernard Tissier de Mallerais...
6-18-2012 |
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Priestly Holiness by Archbishop Lefebvre
A posthumous collection of writings on the priesthood by
Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. This beautiful
hardcover volume will make an excellent gift for priests,
seminarians, and anyone interested in understanding the true and
sublime dignity of the Catholic priesthood
buy
the book > |
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The priesthood in crisis |
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Communion on the tongue unsanitary?
Communion on the tongue is unsanitary... This statement
(often made by in-the-hand proponents) reveals an ignorance of
the Roman Church’s traditional practice and the rubrics for the
distribution of Holy Communion on the tongue....
2-15-2012 |
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The priests who disliked Mass: Fr. Byran Houghton
"...Every priest had daily said the Old Mass with the required
carefulness and with apparent devotion. How could 98% of them
willingly accept to change it... What made them accept the
changes?... Yet this was the fact of the matter: they could not
possibly have loved the Old Mass. It was nothing more than a
rite which one could change as simply as one changes clothes.
But if they did not like Mass, certainly they were incapable of
adoration..."
8-10-2011 |
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Free MASS KIT for the clergy
An instructional kit for learning how to offer the traditional
Roman Mass. |
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Kit includes:
- Latin-English
Sacramentary insert of the Ordinary and Canon
of the Latin Tridentine Mass (1962 Missale Romanum)
- set of Latin altar cards
- Latin-English sacristy
vesting card
- instructions for use of the
sacramentary insert and cards
- 120
minute long instructional video that explains and
demonstrates the celebration of the traditional Mass,
including how to vest, etc.
- Angelus Press catalog
containing
list of liturgical items available
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Mass kit
items: click image to enlarge |
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a kit please send an e-mail to: free_books@sspx.org
Please include your:
- full name
- mailing address
(including the church's name)
- if diocesan or
religious
- if a seminarian: the
seminary's name
- Comments are also
appreciated
NB: we do not offer
this kit to permanent deacons. |
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Other Free Offers for the Clergy
The SSPX offers a
selection of free books about the priesthood and the current
Church crisis, and how it affects priests and Catholic Tradition.
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Ecclesiastical Ministry
Fr. Emmanuel Marie AndreThis
manual
helps priests to live their priesthood united to the
Sovereign High Priest Whom they represent |
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They Have Uncrowned Him
Archbishop Marcel LefebvreGets to the root
of the present crisis in the Church: liberalism and the
removal of the Social Reign of Christ the King |
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The Problem of the
Liturgical Reform
Priests of the SSPXDetails how the false
understanding of the "Paschal Mystery" is at the core of
the liturgical crisis |
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Archbishop Lefebvre and
the Vatican
Fr. Francois LaisneyA fascinating look at the
history of the Archbishop's relations with the Vatican.
Amply demonstrates the persecution of Catholic Tradition |
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