Transalpine Redemptorists REGULARIZED! [Fr. Z]

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**Canonical Good Standing

1 July, 2008

Feast of the Precious Blood**

My dear friends,

I am happy to inform you that last June 18th, before Cardinal Castrillon and the members of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei in Rome, I humbly petitioned the Holy See on my own behalf and on behalf of the monastery council for our priestly suspensions to be lifted.

On June 26th I received word that the Holy See had granted our petition. All canonical censures have been lifted.

Our community now truly rejoices in undisputed and peaceful posession of Communion with the Holy See because our priests are now in canonical good standing.

We are very grateful to our Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI for issuing, last July, the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum which called us to come into undisputed and peaceful Communion with him.

Now we have that undisputed communion! It is a pearl of great price; a treasure hidden in the field; a sweetness that cannot be imagined by those who have not tasted it or who have not known it, now for many years. Its value cannot be fully expressed in earthly language and therefore we hope that all traditional priests who have not yet done so, will answer Pope Benedict’s call to enjoy the grace of peaceful and undisputed communion with him. Believe us, the price to pay is nothing; even all the angry voices that have shouted against us and calumniated us are as nothing when weighed in the scales against undisputed communion with the Vicar of Christ; others have died for it; what are raucous voices?

We publicly thank all those souls who have prayed for us over the last months; some of you have truly stormed heaven for us. You have kept us afloat. We are deeply grateful. Especially we thank that priest who was unknown to us, until June 16th when he wrote in fraternal support. Where did he come from? Why us? But he told us of the number of Masses, Offices, prayers and sacrifices he had personally said for us; he had also enlisted the prayers of contemplatives and Third Order societies and had a great number of people fervently praying for us with an abundance of prayers. We were amazed! Thank you Father! Thank you also to that brave person who, so kindly wrote to us to say that if he said any more prayers for us he would be floating! What wonderful people! Thank you!

Looking to the future, the next stage will be to have our community canonically erected. So please, dear friends, keep praying for us, there will be many crosses to bear; but they will be yokes sweetened by the grace of these last days.

We assure you all of our very best wishes.
Your devoted servant,

Fr. Michael Mary, C.SS.R.
Vicar General

papastronsay.blogspot.com/2008/07/canonical-good-standing.html

Also see:

**Important: Transalpine Redemptorists on the move
Now regularized **

rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2008/07/transalpine-redemptorists-regularized.html
 
🙂 😃 👍

I pray that SSPX will VERY SOON follow suit!!

God bless these Brothers!
 
Rorate has something which I heard about a couple days ago, but which I couldn’t confirm concretely.
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Let there be sung *Non nobis* and *Te Deum*.
Here is the site of the Transalpine Redemptorists:
Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Canonical Good Standing 1 July, 2008
Feast of the Precious Blood

My dear friends,

I am happy to inform you that last June 18th, before Cardinal Castrillon and the members of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei in Rome, I humbly petitioned the Holy See on my own behalf and on behalf of the monastery council for our priestly suspensions to be lifted.

On June 26th I received word that the Holy See had granted our petition. All canonical censures have been lifted. [They waited until after the SSPX’s deadline at the end of June to announce this.]

Our community now truly rejoices in undisputed and peaceful possession of Communion with the Holy See because our priests are now in canonical good standing. [Praise God!]

We are very grateful to our Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI for issuing, last July, the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum [It is bearing fruit.] which called us to come into undisputed and peaceful Communion with him.

Now we have that undisputed communion! It is a pearl of great price; a treasure hidden in the field; a sweetness that cannot be imagined by those who have not tasted it or who have not known it, now for many years. Its value cannot be fully expressed in earthly language and therefore we hope that all traditional priests who have not yet done so, will answer Pope Benedict’s call to enjoy the grace of peaceful and undisputed communion with him. Believe us, the price to pay is nothing; even all the angry voices that have shouted against us and calumniated us are as nothing when weighed in the scales against undisputed communion with the Vicar of Christ; others have died for it; what are raucous voices?

We publicly thank all those souls who have prayed for us over the last months; some of you have truly stormed heaven for us. You have kept us afloat. We are deeply grateful. [You are welcome!] Especially we thank that priest who was unknown to us, until June 16th when he wrote in fraternal support. Where did he come from? Why us? But he told us of the number of Masses, Offices, prayers and sacrifices he had personally said for us; he had also enlisted the prayers of contemplatives and Third Order societies and had a great number of people fervently praying for us with an abundance of prayers. We were amazed! Thank you Father! Thank you also to that brave person who, so kindly wrote to us to say that if he said any more prayers for us he would be floating! What wonderful people! Thank you! [See what prayer can do?]

Looking to the future, the next stage will be to have our community canonically erected. So please, dear friends, keep praying for us, there will be many crosses to bear; but they will be yokes sweetened by the grace of these last days.

We assure you all of our very best wishes.
Your devoted servant,

Fr. Michael Mary, C.SS.R.
Vicar General
I am very pleased and proud of those men, who made this good decision.

This definitely helps to place some gentle pressure on the SSPX as well.

As more and more people find they really don’t have good reasons to stay separated from the Bishop of Rome, that they can still have concerns and maintain an identity even in their submission to Peter, so too the SSPX will have to make an act of submission or run the risk of becoming less and less relevant for the cause of Tradition in unity with the Catholic Church.

PRAY! PRAY NOW!

Fr. Michael Mary used the biblical images from Christ’s parables of the pearl of great price, the treasure hidden in the field (cf. Matthew 13).

The Lord speaks of the value of being an heir of the Kingdom of heaven. Christ opened for us the kingdom of heaven: this is the essence of the Gospel which we embrace and, as a Church, we announce. We are made heirs to this kingdom, but we can lose the kingdom, too. To maintain our claim and membership, we must make sacrifices. Nothing is worth imperiling our membership our inheritance. All other things, as precious as they might seem, must be set aside.

If you are separated from the Church, knowing who and what the Church really is, you are in peril.

I also note that in Matthew 13 we have the wonderful words which in many ways describe Pope Benedict:

He said unto them: Therefore every scribe instructed in the kingdom of heaven, is like to a man that is a householder, who bringeth forth out of his treasure new things and old.

*Summorum Pontificum *is bearing fruit, friends. Brick by brick the rebuilding of the Benedictine Marshall Plan is taking shape.

Full entry…
 
🙂 🙂 👍

Great news.
May they continue exactly as they have always done, practicing, teaching, and spreading the traditional Catholic faith.
 
:highprayer: We should give glory to the Holy Spirit for inspiring such virtues of humility and obedience as to allow these good men to be reconciled with the Church.
 
Amen to that one, brotha.

This, my fellow Catholics, is what true humility and obedience means. 🙂

God be praised, the Transalpine Redemptorists have been brought Home! :crossrc:
 
Catholics must realize that it was not the Transalpine Redemptorists that changed, but Rome.

Pope Benedict has restored some of the traditional faith to Rome.

He acknologed the truth about the TLM in Summorum Pontificum.

Had Rome continued under the disasterious policies of Pope John Paul in the liturgy, there would be no regularization.

Pope Benedict with the TLM and his tolerance of tradition has vindicated the traditional Catholic movement.

The Church is moving forward in the restoration of Catholic tradition under Divine Providence.
 
I know I can look it up on wikipedia…

But who are the Transalpine Redemptorists? I have a cheeseburger in one hand and I would rather get a Catholic explanation on the situation.

God Bless
Scylla
 
Not all. At least one priest, based here in the USA, will countinue the work without comprimise. I’m told the location for at least the time being will be in Phoenix (rising from the ashes, literally in this case).
 
Spiller said:
Yeap. Fr. Pablo Straub, FSsP seems rock solid.
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Redemptorists = C.SS.R., not FSSP.

The whole order wasn’t suspended, just the TR. I’m sure someone will correct me if I’m wrong.

Anyhow, this is great news. :extrahappy:
 
By way of clarification, the Redemptorists in question are the Transalpine Redemptorists (not the “mainstream” Congregation most of us are familiar with) who currently have their monastery (which is thriving) on the island of Papa Stronsay north of Scotland (cold!). They also have a new foundation in Christchurch, New Zealand. They have at least until now been associated with the Society of St Pius X; their priests have been ordained by SSPX bishops, and their seminarians, until recently, attended SSPX seminaries. They took over several years ago a traditional Catholic monthly periodical called “Catholic” previously published by SSPX-affiliated laymen in Australia, which publication is widely circulated in SSPX chapels…though, for how much longer, I do not know. It is an excellent, (now quarterly) newspaper with much devotional material, spiritual reading, current affairs, opinion pieches, etc.

God bless
Mitch
 
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