What issues keep the SSPX irregular?

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They submit they just say the Mass of the ages is better. In many ways it is… Not trying to sound like a schismatic but can anyone really say the novus ordo is better? Without the whole vernacular thing. Just the form is more reverent. The mass comes off as a true sacrifice. Just saying…
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It is not a question of which is better. The Church says they are both valid Masses. People have preferences but you cannot state one is better than the other.
 
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They submit they just say the Mass of the ages is better. In many ways it i
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“better” is pretty subjective. Is the Byzantine Liturgy better that Latin Mass, or Vernacular Mass? Some people might feel more comfortable in one or the other, but “better” isn’t an adjective I would use.
 
I don’t think the SSPX ever said the OF isn’t a valid Mass. They criticize aspects of it yes but like I do attend SSPX masses quite often yet I also go to OF almost daily and the SSPX priest has never told me I’m going to an invalid mass or anything like that. He did say it’ll drive me to be schizophrenia going to both forms though which I don’t agree with.
 
The Byzantine liturgy is basically the same as an Orthodox liturgy so it really doesn’t matter. I’m talking about the Latin rite. Though I do get what you mean and your right.
 
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Is the SSPX becoming more regular, or less regular, as time goes on? Consider that each year, there are fewer SSPX priests who ever worked in a diocese, or under a bishop ordinary. Over time, a greater percent had few or no teachers who ever worked or trained in most kinds of “regular” Catholic apostolates.

In terms of personnel the SSPX are, on the whole, less “regular” in formation and experience than 10 years ago, and will be, on average, less regular next year than now, as men retire.

This is especially true if new priests grew up in chapels, they may never have belonged to a parish or been in a diocesan lay ministry of any kind. This is very different, or less “regular”, than the background of SSPX priests years ago.
 
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Is the SSPX becoming more regular, or less regular, as time goes on? Consider that each year, there are fewer SSPX priests who ever worked in a diocese, or under a bishop ordinary. Over time, a greater percent had few or no teachers who ever worked or trained in most kinds of “regular” Catholic apostolates.
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The number of SSPX faithful who were baptized and raised in an SSPX chapel, or perhaps converted from a non-catholic faith, also increases every year. The number of SSPX people who have never belonged to a regular diocesan parish church is increasing.
 
I have to be honest, I don’t see how a group who denies that the ordinary form of the mass is licit can be united with the church.

This is the ordinary form we are talking about. It’s not some ancillary form only occasionally used in the church.
 
That’s just it, Ma’am: They can’t! Rejecting the Church’s Mass is utterly incompatible with unity with that same Church.
 
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See what I get confused about is that the SSPX can validly hear confessions and absolve sins and also in circumstances can witness marriages licitly. How can you be irregular yet still have these faculties? And this is only in the last five years.
 
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How can you be irregular yet still have these faculties?
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The short answer is: because the Pope gave those facilities to them, and the Pope can do whatever he wants in regards to granting facilities. But our Church has seven Sacraments. Just because you have two does not mean you can do the other five licitly.
 
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Zach said:
I’m thinking of attending a SSPX mass
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I think they like a nice cool church. Their chapel in Pittsburgh isn’t far from my mum’s, I notice all of the air conditioning condensers on the side of the building.

Seemed rather extreme to me, as its a tall masonry old-school building. Building like that draw the hot air straight up like a chimney. I can’t imagine that it would be that warm inside even without a/c.
 
where are “sspx” parishes?; i’ve never seen them

i just “googled” it; i’ve no clue where “sspx” parishes even exist
 
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does “sspx” have priests, bishops, dioceses, some sort of organized hierarchy?

where do they attend Mass?

do they build their own physical churches; if so, where are they? I AM SO CONFUSED>>
 
ok ; can i enter my “zip code” in the website & discover “where is the nearest” “sspx” “chapel” ?
 
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ok ; can i enter my “zip code” in the website & discover “where is the nearest” “sspx” “chapel” ?
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No, you just pick your state from the drop down menu.

Its a pretty small outfit, only 3 locations here in Pennsylvania, in Pittsburgh, Pittston and Eddystone
 
sspx doesn’t have that many locations in US EDST; which is a shame

i would really be interested in learning more
 
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