Question for SSPX members and others

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We have the St Aloysius Camp & Retreat House near by, and it’s owned by the Society of St PiusX. I can’t imagine any changes being made regardless of what happens during the negotiations in Rome? There is a vacuum in this area for “Her Magnificat” that must be filled. This high tech area that I live in is so openly opposed to God and to His Divine Law that we are hungry and thirsty for the good things which Our Lady speaks of in Her Magnificant.
 
I would consider attending a Mass celebrated by an SSPX priest. I want to attend a Traditional Latin Mass but I have not yet ever been able to do so.
 
There has been a sspx chapel here in town for many years.

There is also a Latin Mass at my Church, though I am not interested in attending it. If things are reconciled and IF I had the desire to attend a Latin Mass, I would still attend at my parish Church as a means of staying in league with my diocese, my Church and my bishop. I would be suspect of priests who have spent the last 20 years in persistent disobedience against the Holy Father, against the local bishops and against the laws of the Church. I would be suspect of a society that, until recently, posted on their official website that the Ordinary Form of the Mass is “evil.” While I am sure that there are many fine priests within the sspx, there exists the fact that there are many who have called the modern Church, the pope and bishops “heretics” and “modernists,” and who have denigrated the Ordinary Form of the Mass (calling it not fully Catholic).

My question is, if the sspx does not reconcile with the Holy See, how many will still support them?
 
I had been to SSPX masses for a few months in another city, travel around 1.5 hours each time, and and only one mass on the 2nd Sunday each month.

Their mass is indeed gorgeous, and I definitely like it. Now they are considering about coming back to the church, and there is a fierce fight within this district. I am much afraid they will be splitted.

IMHO, it’s a golden time for them to come back, considering some unhealthy attitudes growing within this society, if they delay more time, they will be in a worse situation as time goes by.

Seems it is likely that Bishop Fellay will be back this time. If the 3 other bishops are not coming back this time, they may fall into the sede trap, together with the priests who follow them.
 
I would definitely attend their Masses sometimes. I wouldn’t leave my parish though. The EF is nice once in a while but I wouldn’t want to attend it every week.

There is an SSPX chapel a few miles away, right by where I work, but the next closest EF is about 45 minutes away.
 
Timothysis said:
I would be suspect of priests who have spent the last 20 years in persistent disobedience against the Holy Father, against the local bishops and against the laws of the Church
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:rolleyes:

I am not a member of any SSPX chapel, but I have attended their masses.

I have an awesome Latin Mass Community at my own parish so I wouldn’t leave. I’d love to go to confession with an SSPX priest though. I like strict priests.

If they were to become regularized, I would love them to come to my parish as guest priests. Those sermons are pretty good.
 
I don’t attend now, I used to but I moved out of state and now attend a diocesan EF. We do have an SSPX mass in a hotel where I am now but they only have mass once a month. If I moved to an area again with an SSPX chapel I’d absolutely make it my home parish even if there were diocesan EF masses available. IME the experience of having a home parish that only celebrates the EF and uses the 1962 calendar is my preference.
 
ProVobis said:
Congratulations.

I just hope you don’t have Brutus as your top name for your newborn. 🙂
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I like Benedict, My wife hates it. I like Faustina, Wife, hates it. She likes Peter Roman or Cecilia.
She won the name battle for our other three, but I swear I’ll win this one!
 
Moore11 said:
I like Benedict, My wife hates it. I like Faustina, Wife, hates it. She likes Peter Roman or Cecilia.
She won the name battle for our other three, but I swear I’ll win this one!
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If it’s a boy, there are St. Nicholas and St. Francis Xavier that week.

Fraternally,

Br. JR, FFV 🙂
 
I’m not sure it’d make a huge difference. We live roughly equidistant from 2 FSSP parishes and there is also an SSPX chapel about 15 minutes further out than the other 2. For me I do have a hard time imagining going to an SSPX when the FSSP parishes give me the same thing without the willful disobedience.

Basically it comes down to the example they set. Both the FSSP priest I know have some of the same concerns as the SSPX, but they chose obedience and figured out how to work within the confines of the Church rather than separating themselves. That just seems a better example to me.
 
I would really like to see the SSPC regularized. And should that happen I will see how I can try to lobby them to come to Boston. We could use the SSPX here…
 
I too would like to see the SSPX regularized, and I’d like to attend TLM too. I haven’t been to one. Hoping there would be an SSPX church near my place.
 
We have an SSPX chapel within 20 miles. There is also an EF celebrated by a diocesan priest slightly further away. If the SSPX are reconciled, I would probably attend occasionally if the Mass time were convenient.
 
I would stay in the parish in which God placed me, which is my territorial parish.

I am discerning a call to the diaconate in the diocese where I live. If ordained, I would first obey my bishop and the pastor of the parish in which I am placed. If the SSPX were regularized and the pastor or bishop said “Go there” I would go. If the pastor or bishop said “Do not go there” then I would not go.

There is an FSSP parish nearby so I do not forsee the need to go to an SSPX chapel even if there was one nearby. I do not hear anyone asking for a Tridentine Mass at my parish so there probably wouldn’t be the need anyway.

Quite frankly, knowing what I know about deacons - who they are and what they do - being trained on the Tridentine Mass is probably number 9,857 on their list of important things to do, right after sacramental records, annulment requests, prison ministry, homebound ministry, hospice ministry, chaplain to the boy scouts, earning a paycheck, cooking dinner for the kids, getting the oil changed in the car., etc., etc., etc.

No disrespect is meant toward the SSPX or the Tridentine Mass. I just don’t see the need for it in the tiny little part of the Church which I can see.

-Tim-
 
TimothyH said:
Quite frankly, knowing what I know about deacons - who they are and what they do - being trained on the Tridentine Mass is probably number 9,857 on their list of important things to do…
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Deacons are necessary for solemn masses, so actually learning the traditional mass is quite useful for a deacon.

Maybe you’ll be assigned to your local FSSP parish for solemn masses 😃
 
Iotaunum said:
. . . but I really want to know what impact any “reconciliation” will have on non-SSPX members and those who do not attend SSPX Masses.

. . . In short, how would a good outcome of the current talks affect you?
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Well, “non SSPX members” includes all who are not ordained into their priestly society. Those laity who attend their illicit Masses are usually members of the territorial diocese they live in. Having the prodigal son reconciled to the Bride of Christ will affect each and every member of the Body of Christ to the good.
 
I would petition them to build a parish here and I would instantly begin to consider a vocation with them.

🙂
 
I would definitly attend whenever I had an opertunity, they will be a valuble addition to this diocese, though I worry what it will cause the diocese to do about the other local Traditional Masses.
 
Thanks everyone for sharing your opinions. Lets just hope and pray now that the talks tave a positive outcome!
 
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