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DECLARATION OF THE SSPX'S
2006 GENERAL CHAPTER |
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For the glory of God, for the salvation of
souls and for the true service of the Church, on the occasion of
its Third General Chapter, held at Ecône in Switzerland, from July
3 to 15, 2006, the Priestly Society of St. Pius X declares its
firm resolution to continue its action, with the help of God,
along the doctrinal and practical lines laid down by its venerated
founder, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre.
Following in his footsteps in the fight for the
Catholic Faith, the Society fully endorses his criticisms of the
Second Vatican Council and its reforms, as he expressed them in
his conferences and sermons, and in particular in his Declaration
of November 21, 1974:
We adhere with all our heart and all our soul
to Catholic Rome, guardian of the Catholic Faith and of the
traditions necessary for the maintaining of that Faith, to eternal
Rome, mistress of wisdom and of truth. On the contrary, we refuse,
and we have always refused, to follow the Rome of neo-modernist
and neo-Protestant tendencies, which showed itself clearly in the
Second Vatican Council and in the reforms that issued from it.
Contacts held with Rome over the last few years
have enabled the Society to see how right and necessary were the
two pre-conditions that it laid down, since they would
greatly benefit the Church by re-establishing, at least in part,
her rights to her own Tradition. Not only would the treasure of
graces available to the Society no longer be hidden under a
bushel, but the Mystical Body would also be given the remedy it so
needs to be healed.
If, upon these pre-conditions being fulfilled,
the Society looks to a possible debate on doctrine, the purpose is
still that of making the voice of traditional teaching sound more
clearly within the Church. Likewise, the contacts made from time
to time with the authorities in Rome have no other purpose than to
help them embrace once again that Tradition which the Church
cannot repudiate without losing her identity. The purpose is not
just to benefit the Society, nor to arrive at some merely
practical impossible agreement. When Tradition comes back into its
own, "reconciliation will no longer be a problem, and the
Church will spring back to life".
On this long road to re-conquest, the Chapter
encourages all members of the Society to live, as its statutes
require, ever more intensely by the grace proper to it, namely, in
union with the great prayer of the High Priest, the Holy Sacrifice
of the Mass. Let them be convinced, along with their faithful,
that in this striving for an ever greater sanctification in the
heart of the Church is to be found the only remedy for our present
misfortunes, which is the Church being restored through the
restoration of the priesthood.
In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph. |
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