June 28, 2015 CT/NY Conference
His Excellency Bishop Williamson conference begins at the 25:14 mark
God bless the Resistance!
Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus
St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, ora pro nobis!
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Eleison Comments – Number CDXI – (411)
Eliot Weekend
Catholics, do not be narrow. Our Lord said
That sheep outside his fold have him as head.
The weekend seminar held here in Broadstairs at the beginning of
May on poems and plays of the famous modern poet, T.S. Eliot (1888–1965), was a
great success. Eliot is a writer difficult to understand, because he insisted
on making sense of the senseless modern world, but Dr David White’s six
lectures (in 36 hours!) inspired in his more than two dozen Catholic listeners
a real interest in Eliot. He was chosen as subject of the literary seminar
because he wrote part of his most famous poem, the Waste Land, in nearby
Margate. A high point of the seminar was an excursion to the seaside pavilion
where Eliot did the actual writing, and where Dr White recited the Waste Land
to seminar participants in front of a grey sea, beneath a grey sky – the
atmospherics were perfect!
Many Catholics object to writers who are not openly Catholic,
however famous they may be. But in the mid-1920’s, soon after writing the Waste
Land, Eliot nearly became a Catholic, and from then on until his death the
solution he presented in his writings for the modern world’s problems centered
around Our Lord Jesus Christ. This may not be obvious at first view, either because
he was writing for lukewarm Christians, or because he was still himself
wrestling with modernity, but let his real belief in Christ be illustrated by a
poem from his Four Quartets, singled out by Dr White for explanation, section
IV of the fourth quartet, “Little Gidding”:—
1. The dove descending breaks the air
2. With flame of incandescent terror
3. Of which the tongues declare
4. The one discharge from sin and error.
5. The only hope, or else despair
6. Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre –
7. To be redeemed from fire by fire.
8. Who then devised the torment? Love.
9. Love is the unfamiliar Name
10. Behind the hands that wove
11. The intolerable shirt of flame
12. Which human power cannot remove.
13. We only live, only suspire
14. Consumed by either fire or fire.
During the Second World war, Eliot was living in London, and at
night he acted as an Air Raid Warden, patrolling the streets to minimize the
danger and damage of German air raids. The first of the poem’s two verses is
like those plastic double images which contain two pictures, depending on how
you tilt the plastic. The second verse draws the tremendous lesson from the
double image.
Thus 1) the “dove descending” is both the Holy Ghost descending at
Pentecost and the enemy bombers coming down on London. 2) The “flame of terror”
is both the fire of the Holy Ghost and the enemy’s incendiary bombs. 3) The
“tongues” are both those of the Holy Ghost on the heads of the Apostles and
those of the fire-bombs, while 4) the “discharge” is both the Redemption by
Christ and the releasing of the bombs by human politics. 5) The first of these
is our only hope, the second is the hopelessness of war. 6) On which funeral
pyre do we choose to burn? 7) The fire of Redemption is to save us from the
fire of damnation.
Second verse: thus 8) it is God who designs World Wars to save us
from eternal fire. 9) He is not well known, but it is 10) his Love which is
allowing the politicians to cause 11) the torments of war, 12) which are
redeemable by Christ alone. 13) In conclusion, human life ends only 14) in
fire, either that of divine Love or that of eternal damnation.
The Third World War is coming. When it comes, how many Catholic
preachers are there who will dare to preach that it is the divine Love which
will have been behind its appalling sufferings, no less being necessary in
order to put us back, by God’s design, on track to Heaven? The non-Catholic
Eliot was saying it 70 years ago.
Kyrie eleison.
Deo Gratias! Two Catholic bishops to challenge Rome on consecration of bishops!
Laus Deo!!
Two renegade Catholic bishops on Tuesday at a remote monastery in Nove Friburgo, Brazil, expressed their willingness to consecrate a new generation of bishops in apparent challenge to Rome.
French Bishop Jean-Michel Faure, said the new group “rejected Pope Francis and his new religion” and would not engage in a dialogue with Rome until the Vatican reversed some of its actions.
Richard Williamson and Faure, who were both excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church when the former made the latter a bishop without Vatican approval. Faure said the fact they planned to consecrate bishops was important because it means their schism can continue as a rebel form of Catholicism.
“We follow the Popes of the past not the current one. It is likely that in maybe one or two years we will have more consecration.
“There were already two candidates to be promoted to bishop’s rank,’’ he said. Faure said the group was first addressed as Roman Catholic now St Pius X, and later the Resistance. He said the St of St Pius X (SSPX) was a larger ultra-traditionalist group that was excommunicated in 1988 when its founder consecrated four new bishops, including Williamson, despite warnings from the Vatican. Faure said they rejected the modernizing reforms of the 1962-65 “Second Vatican Council’’ and stuck with Catholicism’s old Latin Mass after the Church switched to simpler liturgy in local languages.
He said the resistance group would not engage in dialogue with Rome. “We resist capitulation, we resist conciliation of St Pius X with Rome,” he said. Faure said he was not sure what it would take for Rome to return to its old traditions but conflict could be a catalyst. “If there is another World War maybe the Church will go back to the way it was before,” he said.
A report said former Pope Benedict readmitted the four SSPX bishops to the Catholic fold in 2009, but the SSPX soon expelled Williamson because of an uproar over his Holocaust denial. It said in contrast to Benedict, Pope Francis pays little attention to the SSPX ultra-traditionalists, They claim to have a million followers around the world and a growing number of new priests at a time that Rome faces priest shortages.
The report stated that under Catholic law, Williamson and Faure are excommunicated from the Church but remain validly consecrated bishops.It explained that the duo could ordain priests into their schismatic group and claim to be Catholic, albeit without Vatican approval.
It added that by contrast, women supposedly made priests by dissident Catholic bishops are not validly ordained because Catholic law reserves the priesthood only for men.
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