"And I beheld, and heard the voice of one eagle flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice: Woe, woe, woe to the inhabitants of the earth.... [Apocalypse (Revelation) 8:13]
Saturday, August 13, 2016
Archbishop Lefebvre speaks...
Archbishop Lefebvre speaks...
A list of some great quotes from Archbishop Lefebvre who taught we cannot accept the Council and that we cannot come under the hand of Modernist Rome UNTIL they first converted. Bishop Fellay and his gang may want to read their founder's own words once again...
“It appears to us much more certain that
the faith taught by the Church over twenty years cannot contain error
than that there is absolute certainty that the Pope really is the pope.
Heresy, schism, ipso facto excommunication, and the invalidity of the
election are all potential reasons why a Pope was never really the Pope
or should cease to be the Pope. In such a case, clearly a very
exceptional one, the Church would find herself in a situation similar to
that which she experiences after the decease of a Sovereign Pontiff.
For, in a word, a very serious problem presents itself to the conscience
and the faith of all Catholics since the beginning of the papacy of
Paul VI. How is it that a Pope, the true successor of Peter, assured of
the assistance of the Holy Ghost, could preside over the destruction of
the Church, the most profound and extensive in her history, in such a
short space of time, something which no heresiarch has ever succeeded in
doing? To this question there will one day have to be a reply.”
(Archbishop Lefebvre, Declaration to Figaro, shortly after his
suspension by Paul VI, August 27th, 1976)
“If our priests came to abandon the true
liturgy, the true Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the true Sacraments, then
it would no longer be worth while to continue. It would be suicide!
When Rome asked: “But surely you can adopt the new liturgy and continue
your seminaries, that won’t make them disappear,” I answered: “Yes, it
will make out seminaries disappear. They would not be able to accept the
new liturgy, it would amount to introducing the poison of the conciliar
spirit into the community. If others were unable to hold on, it is
because they adopted this new liturgy, all of these reforms and this new
spirit. As for us, if we accept the same things, we will have the same
results.
This is why we must absolutely maintain our Traditional line, in spite
of the appearance of disobedience and the persecutions of those who use
their authority in an unjust and often illegal manner.” (Archbishop
Lefebvre, Conference given during a priestly retreat Econe, September
1986)
“We must not be afraid to affirm that
the current Roman authorities, since John XXIII and Paul VI, have made
themselves active collaborators of international Jewish Freemasonry and
of world socialism. John Paul II is above all a communist-loving
politician at the service of a world communism retaining a hint of
religion. He openly attacks all of the anti-communist governments and
does not bring, by his travels, any Catholic revival.” (Archbishop
Lefebvre, “Marcel Lefebvre: The Biography” by Bishop Tissier, pp.
602-603)
“Eminence, even if you give us
everything–a bishop, some autonomy from the bishops, the 1962 liturgy,
allow us to continue our seminaries–we cannot work together because we
are going in different directions. You are working to dechristianize
society and the Church, and we are working to Christianize them.”
(Archbishop Lefebvre to Cardinal Ratzinger, 1987)
“We must not forget also the prophecies
of the most holy Virgin Mary. She warned us: without the Conversion of
Russia, without conversion of the world, without prayer and penance,
communism shall invade the whole world. What does that mean? We know
very well that the goal of the secret societies is a world government,
with Masonic ideals, i.e the rights of men, equality, fraternity and
liberty, understood in an anti-christian sense, against Our Lord. These
ideals would be promoted by a world government, which would establish a
kind of socialism for all countries and then a congress of religions,
encompassing all religions, including the Catholic Religion, in the
service of this world government, as the Russian Orthodox are in the
service of the soviets. There would be two congresses: a universal
political congress, which would control the whole world, and this
Congress of religions, which would support this world government, in a
mercenary way.” (Archbishop Lefebvre, sermon given at Paris on the
occasion of the celebration of his 60th anniversary of ordination,
November 19th, 1989)
“The pope stated on many occasions that
he was in favor of modernist ideas, in favor of a compromise with the
world. In his own words, it was ‘necessary to throw a bridge between the
church and the secular world.’
The pope said that it was necessary to attempt humanist ideas, that it
was necessary to discuss such ideas; that it was necessary to have
dialogs. At this stage, it is important to state that dialogs are
contrary to the doctrines of the Catholic faith. Dialogs presuppose the
coming together of two equal and opposing sides; therefore, in no way
could (dialog) have anything to do with the Catholic faith.
We believe and accept our faith as the only true faith in the world. All
this confusion ends up in compromises, which destroy the Church’s
doctrines, for the misfortune of mankind and the church alike.”
(Archbishop Lefebvre, interview, 1978)
“So by way of conclusion, either we are
the heirs of the Catholic Church, i.e., of Quanta Cura, of Pascendi,
with all the Popes down to the Council and with the great majority of
bishops prior to the Council, for the reign of Our Lord Jesus Christ
and for the salvation of souls; or else we are the heirs of those who
strive, even at the price at breaking with the Catholic Church and her
doctrine, to acknowledge the principles of the Rights of Man, based on a
veritable apostasy, in order to obtain a place as servants in the
Revolutionary World Government. That is it. They will manage to get
quite a good place as servants in the Revolutionary World Government
because, by saying they are in favour of the Rights of Man, religious
liberty, democracy and human equality, clearly they are worth being
given a position as servants in the World Government.” (Archbishop
Lefebvre, address to his priests at Econe, 1990)
“I do not see how one could found a
seminary using the New Mass. I would not find in it the strength, even
with the greatest good will. The True, Traditional Latin Mass, is the
heart of the seminary, of the priest, of the Church, of the Gospel, of
Our Lord. St. Pius V saw this well: the True Ancient Mass is also
faith’s barrier against heresy. (Archbishop Lefebvre, November 23rd,
1972)
“The devil’s greatest victory is to have undertaken the destruction of the Church without making any martyrs.
But the Church against her past and her Tradition is not the Catholic
Church; this is why being excommunicated by a liberal, ecumenical, and
revolutionary Church is a matter of indifference to us.(Archbishop
Lefebvre, The Biography of Marcel Lefebvre by His Excellency Bishop
Bernard Tissier, Kansas City, Missouri: Angelus Press, 2004, pp. 547.)
“Ecumenism
is not the Church’s mission. The Church is not ecumenical, she is
missionary. The goal of the missionary Church is to convert. The goal of
the ecumenical Church is to find what is true in errors and to remain
at this level. It is to deny the truth of the Church. (Archbishop
Lefebvre, April 14th, 1978)
“Yes, I am a rebel. Yes, I am a
dissident. Yes, I am disobedient to people like those Bugninis. For they
have infiltrated themselves into the Church in order to destroy it.
There is no other explanation.” (Archbishop Lefebvre, Conference on the
Infiltration of modernism in the Church, Montreal Canada, 1982)
“. . . .most recently, the Pope has been
into the synagogue of the Jews in Rome. How can the Pope pray with the
enemies of Jesus Christ? These Jews know and say and believe that they
are the successors of the Jews that killed Jesus Christ, and they
continue to fight against Jesus Christ everywhere in the world. At the
end of the Pope’s visit, the Jews sang a “hymn” that included the line
“I believe with all my heart in the coming of the Messiah,” meaning they
refuse Jesus as the Messiah, and the Pope had given permission for this
denial of Christ to be sung in his presence, and he listened, with head
bowed!” (Archbishop Lefebvre, talk on Assisi meeting, 1986)
“We consider as null…all the
post-conciliar reforms, and all the acts of Rome accomplished in this
impiety.” (Archbishop Lefebvre, Joint Declaration with Bishop de Castro
Mayer following Assisi, December 2, 1986)
“Two
religions confront each other; we are in a dramatic situation and it is
impossible to avoid a choice, but the choice is not between obedience
and disobedience. What is suggested to us, what we are expressly invited
to do, what we are persecuted for not doing, is to choose an appearance
of obedience. But even the Holy Father cannot ask us to abandon our
faith.
We therefore choose to keep it and we cannot be mistaken in clinging to
what the Church has taught for two thousand years. The crisis is
profound, cleverly organised and directed, and by this token one can
truly believe that the master mind is not a man but Satan himself. For
it is a master-stroke of Satan to get Catholics to disobey the whole of
Tradition in the name of obedience [...] St. Thomas Aquinas, to whom we
must always refer, goes so far in the “Summa Theologica” as to ask
whether the “fraternal correction” prescribed by Our Lord can be
exercised towards our superiors. After having made all the appropriate
distinctions he replies: “One can exercise fraternal correction towards
superiors when it is a matter of faith.” (Archbishop Lefebvre, “Open
Letter to Confused Catholics”, 1986)
John Paul II “now continually diffuses
the principles of a false religion, which has for its result a general
apostasy.”(Archbishop Lefebvre, Preface to Giulio Tam’s Osservatore
Romano 1990, contributed by the Archbishop just three weeks before his
death)
“It is not for me to know when Tradition
will regain its rights at Rome, but I think it is my duty to provide
the means of doing that which I shall call “Operation Survival,”
operation survival for Tradition. Today, this day, is Operation
Survival. If I had made this deal with Rome, by continuing with the
agreements we had signed, and by putting them into practice, I would
have performed “Operation Suicide”. There was no choice, we must live!
That is why today, by consecrating these bishops, I am convinced that I
am continuing to keep Tradition alive, that is to say, the Catholic
Church.” (Archbishop Lefebvre, sermon given at Consecrations of four
Bishops at Econe, June 30th, 1988)