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The
Society’s purpose is the priesthood and all that pertains
to it and nothing but what concerns it; i.e., the
priesthood as Our Lord Jesus Christ willed it when He
said, “Do this for a commemoration of me.”
SSPX's
Statutes
The
Priestly Society of St. Pius X was founded by Archbishop
Marcel Lefebvre to form holy priests as the Roman Catholic
Church has done for centuries, focusing particularly on
doctrinal and sacrificial nature of the Priesthood of Our
Lord Jesus Christ.
The SSPX
also exercises an apostolate to assist other priests to
better understand and practice the ministry of their
priesthood (see
excerpts from the SSPX's Statutes).
To better
facilitate this assistance, the SSPX's United States
District has a Priests' Training Program in Kansas City,
Missouri, where priests may learn how to offer the
traditional Roman Mass and administer the traditional
sacramental rites, as well as learn about how Modernism is
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What other priests are saying... |
An Interview
with Fr. Massimo
"What did you experience the first time
that you attended the Mass of All Time?..." "What is life like in
the SSPX?" Fr. Massimo gives many interesting answers!
1-28-2011 |
We are looking for DOCTRINE!
Bishop Fellay comments on what priests in the Novus Ordo
are seeking
1-24-2011 |
Fr. Massimo: “This is why
I went over to the SSPX”
A young Italian priest explains his
reasons for coming to Tradition
1-24-2011 |
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The Mass: the heart of the priesthood;
some doctrinal and spiritual aspects
The
Theology and Spiritual of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass
An important expose by Fr.
Franz Schmidberger that the traditional Roman Mass requires
Catholic doctrine. This article summarizes what the battle
over the Mass is about: the purity of the Catholic doctrine
A
Brief Critical Study of the Novus Ordo Missae
Commonly referred to as
the Ottaviani Intervention, this study was made in 1969 just after
the publication of the Novus Ordo Missae. It predicted a crisis of
the priesthood would accompany the New Mass, as being faced today
Does the New Mass fulfill the notion of Catholic liturgy?
...Here lies the first reason for the illegitimacy of the rite
of the New Mass—that it does not correspond to man's knowledge
of God...
6-7-2011
Free the Mass and and the Face of the Earth shall be Renewed
A pre-Summorum Pontificum
article that compares the Tridentine Mass versus the Novus Ordo
Priests' Thoughts: Meditations on the Holy Sacrifice of
the Mass
Comments from Dom Gueranger, Cardinal Pie, Fr. de Condren
3-2008
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About the priesthood |
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Priests' Easter retreat in Canada
The SSPX's Canadian District
hosted its annual Easter priests' retreat in the
newly-acquired complex in St-Cesaire. Coming from Canada
and the USA, 15 French-speaking priests attended a 6-day retreat
preached by Fr. Wegner, District Superior of Canada...
4-13-2012 |
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20 more subdeacons!
Sitientes
Saturday fell on March 24th this year, and we have two brief
reports to give from the SSPX’s seminaries in the United States
and Switzerland... 4-2-2012 |
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55 priests meet at Winona
At St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary, 55 priests attended the USA
District's annual Priests' Meeting from February 13-17....
2-22-2012 |
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Priestly Ordination at St. Mary's, KS
A new priest for the Society of St. Pius X, Fr. Daniel Chavarria, was ordained in St. Mary's, KS by Bishop Bernard Fellay on Saturday, February 4th...
2-6-2012 |
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Priestly Holiness by Archbishop Lefebvre now available!
Angelus Press is pleased to announce that Priestly Holiness, a
posthumous collection of writings on the priesthood by
Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, is now available. This beautiful
hardcover volume will make an excellent gift for priests,
seminarians, and anyone interested in understanding the true and
sublime dignity of the Catholic priesthood. |
In the
words of Archbishop Lefebvre (from the back cover):
The true priest loves souls, gives himself to them,
sacrifices himself for them for the love of God. He gives
himself to souls as he gives them the Eucharist. He gives
them Jesus by teaching and by Holy Communion. All of his
priestly life thereby becomes a Mass. The holy priest
lives his Mass and brings all those around him to live it,
as well. He leads them to understand that all of our lives
ought to be a Mass, a total oblation, a continual
sacrifice of ourselves, out of love of God and out of love
of neighbor. That is the ideal of the true priest, an
ideal which brings him a lasting joy and peace of soul.
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Engagements to the SSPX; Dec. 8th
The
Feast of the Immaculate Conception (Dec. 8) is the day reserved
for when the clerics of the Society of St. Pius X make their
engagements to their religious family...
12-14-2011 |
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The
Beautiful Hands of a Priest
First Priestly Blessings after the 2011 SSPX Ordinations in USA.
Includes pictures and a poem about the priest and his
consecrated hands...
6-22-2011 |
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SSPX's
Ordinations of Priests and Deacons
June 17th was a wonderful day for visiting the seminary grounds in Winona as superb Minnesota weather accompanied serious men ascending the last steps to ordination. The 11 deacons and 5 priests were ordained by Bishop Fellay....
6-20-2011 |
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Priests' Easter Retreat
This week a spiritual retreat is taking place at Our Lady of
Sorrows Retreat Center in Phoenix, AZ, attended by 36 priests...
4-27-2011 |
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2011 Priests' Meeting
The USA District's annual Priests' Meeting was held at St.
Thomas Aquinas Seminary in Winona, MN from February 21 to 25...
2-28-2011 |
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The priesthood in crisis |
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Communion on the tongue unsanitary?
Communion on the tongue is unsanitary... This statement
(often made by in-the-hand proponents) reveals an ignorance of
the Roman Church’s traditional practice and the rubrics for the
distribution of Holy Communion on the tongue....
2-15-2012 |
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The priests who disliked Mass: Fr. Byran Houghton
"...Every priest had daily said the Old Mass with the required
carefulness and with apparent devotion. How could 98% of them
willingly accept to change it... What made them accept the
changes?... Yet this was the fact of the matter: they could not
possibly have loved the Old Mass. It was nothing more than a
rite which one could change as simply as one changes clothes.
But if they did not like Mass, certainly they were incapable of
adoration..."
8-10-2011 |
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Traces
of Schism in Austria
Over 300 of Austria’s 4,200 priests have pledged to take part in
a “Call to Disobedience”, an initiative launched in June... 7-27-2011 |
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“Father Z” gives a hopeful profile of modern seminarians
“Father Z” is a far cry from neo-modernist pastors and prelates
who are still suffering from the traumatizing effects of the
revolution of Vatican II. His insights into contemporary
priestly formation are literally rejuvenating....
7-27-2011 |
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Fr. Corapi: Catholic priest or
vagus preacher?
The
case of this priest is certainly not unique in the United
States. But Fr. Corapy is a Catholic Star in the media world,
and especially has taken a hard blow at seeing himself barred
from the Catholic television network EWTN, which divulged his
conservative sermons to millions...
6-29-2011 |
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Crisis
Exemplar: Fr. Michael Pfleger
The recent news of Cardinal Francis George’s rehabilitation of
dissident Chicago archdiocesan priest, Fr. Michael Pfleger,
after his public refusal to be transferred as the 30-year pastor
of St. Sabina’s Church, clearly shows that the Church is awash
in a crisis...
6-7-2011 |
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Pastor's Corner: The Origins of the Sexual Abuse Crisis
Why did the Roman Catholic Church experience a sexual abuse
crisis? There are no simple answers, according to a five-year
study by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice (...) [T]his
report, which is quite fair for the most part, makes one slight
mistake: it “forgets” to mention the impact of Vatican II on the
question of the priestly crisis....
6-3-2011 |
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Free MASS KIT for the clergy
An instructional kit for learning how to offer the traditional
Roman Mass. |
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Kit includes:
- Latin-English
Sacramentary insert of the Ordinary and Canon
of the Latin Tridentine Mass (1962 Missale Romanum)
- set of Latin altar cards
- Latin-English sacristy
vesting card
- instructions for use of the
sacramentary insert and cards
- 120
minute long instructional video that explains and
demonstrates the celebration of the traditional Mass,
including how to vest, etc.
- Angelus Press catalog
containing
list of liturgical items available
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Mass kit
items: click image to enlarge |
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Other Free Offers for the Clergy
The SSPX offers a
selection of free books about the priesthood and the current
Church crisis, and how it affects priests and Catholic Tradition.
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ECCLESIASTICAL MINISTRY
Fr. Emmanuel Marie André
This great little manual
helps priests to live their priesthood united to the
Sovereign High Priest Whom they represent. |
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THEY HAVE UNCROWNED HIM
Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre
This book gets to the root
of the present crisis in the Church: liberalism and the
removal of the Social Reign of Christ the King. |
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THE PROBLEM OF THE
LITURGICAL REFORM
Priests of the SSPX
Details how the false
understanding of the "Paschal Mystery" is at the core of
the liturgical crisis. |
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ARCHBISHOP LEFEBVRE AND THE
VATICAN
Fr. Francois Laisney
A fascinating look at the
history of the Archbishop's relations with the Vatican.
Amply demonstrates the persecution of Catholic Tradition.
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