Society of St. Pius X

Southern Ontario

Served by the priests from

St. Michael’s Priory

&

Our Lady of Mount Carmel Academy

November 2017

Church of the Transfiguration

11 Aldgate Avenue Toronto, ON, M8Y 3L4

416-503-8854 or 416-251-0499

Holy Face of Jesus Church 181 Lake Street

St. Catharines, ON

905-704-0038 or 416-251-0499

Church of the Canadian Martyrs 364 Regent Street

Orillia, ON 705-730-6730 or 416-251-0499

St. Peter’s Church 144 Huron Street New Hamburg, ON

519-634-4932

Our Lady of Mount Carmel Academy

2483 Bleams Road East New Hamburg, ON, N3A 3J2

519-634-4932

St. Philomena Mission Lexington Hotel, 50 Brady St.

Sudbury, ON 705-524-2243 or 416-251-0499

www.sspx.ca

in a time of crisis, what must we do?

Dear faithful,

Before His Passion, Our Lord spoke to His apostles saying: “It is written: I will strike the Shepherd and the sheep will be dispersed.” (Mt. 26,31) The current crisis which the Church is undergoing was often compared to Our Lord’s Passion by Archbishop Lefebvre. The Faith of all who believed in Our Lord was severely tested when He was nailed to the cross and died. How can God die? The truth is that Our Lord was both God and Man uniting the Divine and human natures in one Divine Person. As God, He could not die. As man, he could and did for our salvation. The Church is

the Body of Christ. He is the Head, we are the members. Like Him, it is divine and human. Divine because it is the Body of Christ, Divine in its life - sanctifying grace; but it is human in its members who become divinised by contact with their head but who remain more or less sinners as long as they are on earth. How can the Church suffer, how can it be crucified, how can even the Vicar of Christ betray His principal? In so far as the Church is divine, it cannot; insofar as it is human, it can.

God has struck the shepherd. The Vicar of Christ and the shepherds of our souls instead of feeding the sheep ravage them. They cavort with the sectaries of false gods, they refuse to dispense the Truth to those who ask them, they refuse to lead their people to heaven. “Where there is no guide, the people will perish.” (Prov. 29, 18) Why God has allowed this terrible trial, we do not know exactly but we can be sure that it is just and that it is in punishment for our sins.

In a time of crisis what must we do? We must follow the rule of faith which was laid down for us by St Vincent in the fifth century: “We must believe all that was believed everywhere by everybody.”

I have often then inquired earnestly and attentively of very many men eminent for sanctity and learning, how and by what sure and so to speak universal rule I may be able to distinguish the truth of Catholic faith from the falsehood of heretical pravity; and I have always, and in almost every instance, received an answer to this effect: we must, the Lord helping, fortify our own belief in two ways; first, by the authority of the Divine Law, and then, by the Tradition of the Catholic Church. Moreover, in the Catholic Church itself, all possible care must be taken, that we hold that faith which has been believed everywhere, always, by all. (St. Vincent of Lérins, Commonitorium.)

In the Crisis of the Church, we must stick fast to what has been handed down to us. We must respect the rank of the bishops of the Church, but we must not follow

their novel and poisonous teachings. We must pray for them, but not be led astray by them to new and strange doctrines.

We must likewise follow the rules of St. Ignatius for the discernment of spirits:

It is proper to the evil Angel, who forms himself under the appearance of an angel of light, to enter with the devout soul and go out with himself: that is to say, to bring good and holy thoughts, conformable to such just soul, and then little by little he aims at coming out drawing the soul to his covert deceits and perverse intentions.

With regard to souls who make little effort to avoid mortal sin, the devil has simply to keep presenting temptation in order to keep souls in the state of sin. But for those souls who are seeking to serve God, the devil must transform himself into an angel of light in order to deceive them and lead them astray. This can be done to good Catholics who are deceived by false obedience (“Francis is the Pope: therefore, everything he says must be good”); sedevacantism (“Francis does bad things, therefore he cannot be the Pope”); Feeneyism (“it sounds tough, so it must be good”); and “home-aloners” (“there are no valid priests left, I must stay at home”). In one way or another, the devil tries to keep these good people away from Mass and the Sacraments or close to bad doctrine and compromise.

Let us resolve to pray the Family Rosary, to avoid sin, to do our duty, and to study our Faith. In due time, the Resurrection of the Church will follow on her Passion as surely as Our Lord’s Resurrection followed on His Passion.

Father David Sherry.

Confirmations: Bishop Tissier de Mallerais will be visiting us. A ceremony of confirmation in Toronto is scheduled for Friday November 3 @ 7:00pm.

Websites: 1. Website for the SSPX in Southern Ontario:www.toronto.sspx.ca

2. the official information website of the SSPX: http://fsspx.news/en

Note about the SSPX Mass in Ottawa: Be advised of the new location of Holy Ghost Mission, hall of a former Anglican church, 317 Chapel Street, Ottawa, ON, K1N 7Z2. Sunday Mass 10:00am.

St. Michael’s Priory - Tel: 416-251-0499

o Fr. Dominique Boulet d.boulet@fsspx.email Cell: 204-963-4524

o Fr. Freddy Mery

o Fr. Raymond Lillis r.lillis@fsspx.email

o Parish Secretary stmichaelspriory@rogers.com

Our Lady of Mount Carmel Academy - Tel: 519-634-4932

o Fr. David Sherry d.sherry@fsspx.email

o Fr. Marc Potvin m.potvin@fsspx.email

o Parish & Academy Secretary stpeters@sspx.ca

Activities:

• Church of the Transfiguration, Toronto: • Special:

o All Day of Adoration in Toronto, November 16 o Franciscan 1/3 Order meeting, Sunday November 19 o Home Schoolers Day, Thursday November 15

• Regular: o Confessions on Sunday 30 minutes before each Mass. Friday

6:30pm, 1st Saturdays 8:30am and on request o Rosary before the Bl. Sacrament Wednesday 7:00pm o Legion of Mary meetings: Tuesday 7:00pm o 2nd collection for St. Joseph Bursary, 2nd Sunday of the Month o 2nd collection for Building Fund, 4th Sunday of the Month o Altar Boys practice, 3rd Sat. of the Month, Saturday November 18

• Holy Face of Jesus Church – St. Catharines: o Confessions usually one hour before Mass o 1st Friday & Saturday devotions to resume in October o Every Tuesday, from 7 to 8pm, Holy Hour devotion to the Holy Face

• Church of the Canadian Martyrs, Orillia: o Confessions usually one hour before Mass o Home Schoolers Day, Monday November 20

• St. Peter’s Church, New Hamburg: o For details, see the monthly bulletin from St. Peter’s o SSPX Third Order meeting, Thursday November 23

Militia Immaculatae Fr. Raymond Lillis is our national chaplain for the Militia Immaculatae. Following the presentation given by Fr. Stehlin last August, he will introduce the MI to our chapels in Southern Ontario. Here is the schedule of Fr. Lillis talks on the MI:

• St. Catharines, on Sunday November 5

• Orillia, on Sunday November 12

• Toronto, on Sunday November 19

Eucharistic Crusaders Intention for October For the dying and the souls in Purgatory

Souls of the departed: Please pray for the repose of the souls those whose anniversary appears in November. ++ Rev. Fr. Paul Greuter, Ann Hordy, Sister Gabrielle Maria, Filomena Veiga, Katharine Clark, Barbara Janicka, Lorretta Schenck, Elisabeth Karolina Kraus, Angeles Suriaga, Edilberta del Rosario, Ann McKervey, Cathy Nienaber, Caroline De Jesus, Gerry Merritt, Margaret Ogradnick, Anita Marie Caldwell, Marie Madeleine Prochasson, Baldomero Diaz & Espirita Estolas Bascao. Requiescant in pace.

Indulgences for the Poor Souls in Purgatory

1. From November 1st until November 8th, the faithful may gain each day

one plenary indulgence for the souls in Purgatory, with the following conditions:

• If they visit a graveyard or cemetery and pray for the departed • If they go to confession within the 8 days before or after • If they go to communion on the same day • If they reject all attachment to sin, even venial sin • If they pray for the intentions of the Pope.

Needless to say, here are the intentions of the pope, as defined by the Church, no matter the personal intentions of the reigning pope:

• The exaltation of the Church • The propagation of the Faith • The eradication of heresy • The conversion of sinners • The concord between Catholic rulers • The other necessities of Christian peoples 2. On All Souls Day (November 2nd)

Another indulgence may be gained with the same conditions, while visiting a church and reciting one Our Father and one Apostles Creed.

Visit of Fr. Kowalski Fr. Marian Kowalski, SSPX Poland, will be visiting Toronto at the end of November, in particular to give a mission to our Polish speaking parishioners. Some talks will also be given in English. See the posting of the schedule of Fr. Kowalski visit.

1. I Ask Faith from the Church - the Catholic Faith! On April 7, 1980 Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre celebrated the Holy mass at the Church of St. Simon Piccolo, in Venice, Italy. He gave the sermon in Italian, apologizing for not being very fluent. (abridged)

Perhaps there are some among you who are having doubts. They are maybe wondering why Archbishop Lefebvre has come here to Venice, without having been invited by Cardinal Cé. My presence here creates a situation which, in the Church, is not normal. This is true. When I was Archbishop of Dakar, if a bishop had come to my diocese without having asked me and without having been invited, I would have been very surprised. I realize this, that we are dealing with an abnormal situation. We must ask ourselves what the present situation in the Church is.

A Society to Serve the Church

Never, never would I have wanted to do anything contrary to the Church! All my life has been devoted to the service of the Church. In my fifty years of priesthood, thirty-three of them as a bishop, I have done nothing but serve the Church as a missionary, as a bishop in France, as Superior General of the Holy Ghost Fathers, and as a missionary bishop.

(…) Ten years ago, I began this work - this Society of St. Pius X - with the intention of wanting always to serve the Church. Why, then, is Cardinal Cé, Patriarch of Venice, not happy that I have come here? Why does he not understand the reason? How can I best explain? Obviously, he is not happy that I have continued my duties unchanged since the day of my ordination to the priesthood. I have never changed in any way, whether it was when I established new seminaries in Africa, or when, as Apostolic Delegate of His Holiness Pope Pius XII, I visited the sixty-four dioceses of French Africa(…), laying down to the diocesan bishops the standards for the new ones to be opened.

I have never changed. I have preached and done what the Church has always taught. I have never changed what the Church said in the Council of Trent and at the First Vatican Council. So, who has changed? Myself or Cardinal Cé? I don’t know, but I think that considering the way things are - that is, the fruits of the changes made in the Church since the Second Vatican Council - as Catholics we can observe the fruits for ourselves, you can see it with your own eyes.

How are things going in the Church today? Ask His Grace Monsignor Pintonello, former Chaplain to the Armed Forces, who has made a detailed report on the present conditions of the Italian seminaries: a disaster! A real disaster! How many seminaries have been sold or closed? (…) What will become of the Church? All this is unbelievable! They have changed, yes. They have changed, but why? They have done this, of course, with the idea of saving the Church, of doing something new. Before the Council there was a real decrease of fervor and therefore they thought that by changing, the Church would

become more alive. But one cannot change what Jesus Christ has established. The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Sacraments, the Creed, our catechism, the Sacred Scriptures - all come from Jesus Christ. To change them is to change the establishment of Jesus Christ. Impossible! One cannot say that the Church has been mistaken; if something is wrong one must look for the reason somewhere, but not in the Church. They also say that the Church must change as modem man changes, that as man has a new way of life, so too the Church must have another doctrine - a new Mass, new Sacraments, a new catechism, new seminaries - and, in this way, everything has gone to ruin. Everything has been ruined!

The Enemies come from Within the Church

The Church is not responsible. It is not the Church but rather the priests who are responsible for the deterioration of Catholicism. Pope St. Pius X, your Holy Patriarch of Venice, in the first pages of his encyclical Pascendi, writes that already in his time there were errors and heresies not outside but inside the Church; within the Church and not only among the laity but, more to the point, amongst the priests. St. Pius X saw these enemies from the very beginning of this century. Today we can add that if St. Pius X were still alive, he would see them not only amongst the priests but amongst the bishops and cardinals as well. It is certain, unfortunately, that there are even some cardinals who are diffusing error. (…) We are dealing with a very serious situation.

Throughout the world, everywhere I have been, I have visited groups of Catholics like you, who ask themselves: "What is happening in the Church?" The Church is hardly recognizable today. The ceremonies - the half-Protestant, half-Catholic liturgy - are a circus; it is no longer a Mystery. The Sacred Mystery of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass - a great Mystery, heavenly and sublime - is no longer considered such. One no longer feels the supernatural character of the Mass; those who are present have a feeling of emptiness and no longer know whether they have been at a Catholic ceremony or at some kind of secular gathering. This is an inadmissible situation. The faithful, good and simple people, are opposed to it. Because they intuitively know that there is something which is not right in this reform. They see seminaries empty; the novitiates of religious communities empty throughout the world. This, too, is inadmissible: for the good of the Church, we must resist, without being against the one who holds the authority. Never!

I Do Not Want the Faith to Be Changed

I have always had a great respect for the Holy Father, the bishops, and the cardinals. I am not capable of pronouncing uncharitable words in the confrontation with Cardinal Cé, but that does not stop me from affirming Catholic doctrine because I want to remain a Catholic. When I was baptized, the priest asked my godparents: "What does this child ask of the Church?" They replied: "Faith. He asks Faith from the Church." And even today I still ask Faith from the Church - the Catholic Faith. Why do the godparents ask

Faith of the Church for the child? They do so to enable him to obtain everlasting life. If it is the Faith that obtains everlasting life, then it is this Faith that I want- and I don’t want to change it! The Catholic Faith is the Catholic Faith. The Creed is the Creed. They cannot be changed. One cannot change the Catechism; one cannot change the Mass, transforming it into a meal as the Protestants have. The Mass is a Sacrifice, the Sacrifice of the Cross and, as the Council of Trent says, it is the same Sacrifice as Calvary, with the only difference being that one is bloody and the other unbloody. But the two are the same; the same priest - Jesus Christ, and the same Victim - Jesus Christ. If the Victim is truly Jesus Christ, God, our Creator and our Redeemer, who shed all His Blood for our souls, it is impossible to receive Him in our hands like just any piece of bread. And it is therefore impossible for a Catholic not to have respect and adoration, if he truly believes that in the Blessed Sacrament is Jesus Christ - God Himself - the Creator, our Judge, who will be seen coming in the clouds of heaven to judge the entire world. Like you, I am also scandalized, I am saddened, and it pains my heart to see it - they even show it on television - pictures in which a cardinal or bishop approaches the Blessed Eucharist without making a genuflection or any other sign of respect towards the Blessed Sacrament - nothing! Once again, this is inadmissible and does not reflect the attitude of the Catholic Church. We must keep the Faith in this tempest that the Church is going through - a tempest that has lasted for a long time and that we hope will soon be over so that the Church can return to the Faith that she had before. We must have a little patience.

I go to Rome five or six times a year to plead with the cardinals, the Pope himself, to return to Tradition and to give back to the Church her Catholic spirit. I quote again from St. Pius X: "Who are the friends of the people? The true friends of the people are neither the revolutionaries nor the innovators but rather the traditionalists." Those are the words of St. Pius X to the French bishops. The true friends of the people are neither revolutionaries nor the innovators - and it was precisely the innovators who condemned St. Pius X - but rather the traditionalists. We want to be in the same spirit of St. Pius X whom for this reason I have chosen as patron of our Society, which is recognized by the Church.

Unjust Condemnation of the SSPX

My Society, in fact, was officially recognized ten years ago by Rome and by the Bishop of Fribourg in Switzerland in which diocese it was founded. Afterwards, progressive bishops and Modernists saw in my seminaries a danger for their theories. They were enraged with me and said to themselves: "We need to destroy these seminaries, we need to finish off Ecône and the work of Archbishop Lefebvre, because it presents a danger to our progressive and revolutionary plan." They addressed themselves to Rome in this calumnious manner and Rome consented. But as I said to His Holiness John Paul II, the suppression was carried out in a manner contrary to Canon Law. Not even the Soviets pronounce judgments as the cardinals at Rome have done against my work. The Soviets have a tribunal, a kind of tribunal to condemn someone, but I have not even had this tribunal - nothing! I have been condemned without having had anything, not even

a forewarning or a summons - nothing! One fine day a letter arrived to tell me that the seminary would have to be closed. (…) The Catholic Church cannot just forget her Tradition, it is impossible. It is the enemy, as St. Pius X said, the enemy who is working within the Church because he wants the Church to be finished with her tradition; because he is in a fury against her Tradition.

It is up to you to judge the facts. In my seminaries, we have over 200 seminarians and many vocations to the religious life. When a house opens it is soon filled with many new vocations. Why? Because the youth seek to find the Church - Tradition. There, where one finds Tradition, one also finds the Church. Through a priest all finds its ideal; all his heart is in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. To go unto the altar of God, to offer the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, to give Our Christ, the true Victim - to souls. Thus, the fullness of the priesthood and the priests. My seminarians, such as those at Ecône, know this; they prepare themselves for the priesthood upon this basis.

(…) In closing, I ask all who are gathered around this altar, a true altar with a true priest, I ask you to continue the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. We pray also for your children that they may see and know the Catholic religion, that they may frequent Catholic schools. Indeed, there are great trials for Catholic parents. These children must also conserve Tradition. We invoke, to this end, our highly venerated Patriarch of Venice, Pope St. Pius X, who was a saint who foresaw the future. During this Mass let us ask the Blessed Virgin Mary to whom we must have a great devotion, especially through the invocation of the most holy Rosary, let us ask her to terminate this crisis in the Church and return to the Church the peace and grace of Almighty God.

Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, Venice, on April 7, 1980

Source: FSSPX.NEWS

3. Can the Souls in Purgatory Pray for Us?

As we pray this month for the holy souls in purgatory a question may arise: Can the souls in purgatory pray for us — and do they?

Most Catholics assumed that the answer was “yes;” but, after doing some research in the Catholic Encyclopedia, it was found that the question has been open to opinion, or least it used to be before the sixteenth century. There is no definitive teaching of the Church, however, on the subject; even the ordinary magisterium, which is infallible as to what has been held by the faithful throughout the centuries, does not provide a unanimous affirmative. What is unanimous, and scriptural, and defined (Trent), is that our prayers on earth alleviate the Church suffering, and, most especially, the holy sacrifice of the Mass. How is that? By reducing their suffering and shortening the time of their purgation. What greater motive could we have to show our love for our departed family and friends? And, lest we forget the Saviour’s command, what greater charity

could we have than offering prayers for our departed enemies, or those who hurt us in some way during our life?

St. Thomas (II-II.83.11) denies that the souls in purgatory pray for the living, and states they are not in a position to pray for us, rather we must make intercession for them.

Saint Robert Bellarmine (De Purgatorio, lib. II, xv,) disagreed with Saint Thomas citing his arguments as unconvincing. Bellarmine taught that precisely because they are secure in their salvation, and permanently united to God, that they have a greater love for Him than the wayfarers, although he did not concede that they are aware of our particular circumstances. The Tridentine doctor, Francisco Suárez (De poenit., disp. xlvii, s. 2, n. 9), Bellarmine’s contemporary and fellow Jesuit, asserts more. He argues thus: “that the souls in purgatory are holy, are dear to God, love us with a true love and are mindful of our wants; that they know in a general way our necessities and our dangers, and how great is our need of divine help and divine grace”.

Saint Alphonsus in his work the “Great Means of Salvation”, chap. I, III, 2, after quoting many renowned theologians as favourable to his opinion, concludes: “so the souls in purgatory, being beloved by God and confirmed in grace, have absolutely no impediment to prevent them from praying for us. Still the Church does not invoke them or implore their intercession, because ordinarily they have no cognizance of our prayers. But we may piously believe that God makes our prayers known to them”. He also cites the authority of Saint Catherine of Bologna, a fifteenth century Poor Clare mystic, saying that “whenever she desired any favour [she] had recourse to the souls in purgatory, and was immediately heard”.

Source: http://catholicism.org

Mass Times for November 2017

Feasts Toronto St. Catharines

St Peter’s New Hamburg

OLMC New Hamburg

Orillia/ Sudbury

Oct 29 1. Christ the King Sunday

8:00am 10:30am 5:00pm

10:00am 7:30am 10:00am

5:00pm Vespers & Ben.

Orillia 10:00am

30 2. Ferial 7:15am - 8:00am 11:10am

31 3. Ferial 7:15am 6:00pm

- 8:00am 11:10am

Nov 1 4. All Saints Day 7:15am 7:00pm

6:00pm 10:00am 6:30pm

5:00pm Vespers & Ben.

OR 6:00pm

2 5. All Souls Day 6:30am 7:15am 7:00pm

6:30am followed by 2 others

7:15am (2) 6:30pm

6:30am (2) 10:25am

OR 6:30am Followed by 2 others

6. Feasts Toronto St. Catharines

St Peter’s New Hamburg

OLMC New Hamburg

Orillia/ Sudbury

3 7. Ferial & 1st Friday of the Month

7:15am 7:00pm

No Mass 6:30pm Mass + devotions

6:30am

4 8. St. Charles Borromeo

9. & 1st Saturday of the Month

7:15am 9am HH 10:00am

Mass 9:00am Devotions to follow

Mass 8:00am Devotions to follow

8:00am Mass 5:00pm Devotions to follow

5 10. 22nd Sunday after Pentecost

8:00am 10:30am 5:00pm

10:00am 7:30am 10:00am

5:00pm Vespers & Ben.

Orillia 10:00am

6 11. Ferial 7:15am No Mass 11:10am

7 12. Ferial No Mass No Mass 11:10am

8 13. Ferial No Mass No Mass 11:10am

9 14. Dedication of the Basilica of Our saviour

No Mass No Mass 11:10am

10 15. St. Andrew Avellino

No Mass No Mass 11:00am

11 16. St. Martin 8:00am 9:00am 8:00am 8:00am

12 17. 23rd Sunday after Pentecost

8:00am 10:30am 5:00pm

10:00am 7:30am 10:00am

5:00pm Vespers & Ben.

Orillia 10:00am

13 18. St. Didacus 7:15am 8:00am 11:10am

14 19. St. Josaphat 7:15am 6:00pm

8:00am 11:10am

15 20. St. Albert the Great

7:15am Rosary 7:00pm

8:00am 11:10am

16 21. St. Gertrude 7:15am 8:00am 11:10am

17 22. St. Gregory the Wonderworker

7:15am 7:00pm

8:00am 6:30am

18 23. Dedication of the Basilicas of Sts. Peter & Paul

7:15am 8:00am

8:00am 8:00am

24.

25. Feasts Toronto St. Catharines

St Peter’s New Hamburg

OLMC New Hamburg

Orillia/ Sudbury

19 26. 24th Sunday after Pentecost

8:00am 10:30am 5:00pm

10:00am 7:30am 10:00am

5:00pm Vespers & Ben.

Orillia 10:00am

20 27. St. Felix of Valois 7:15am 8:00am 11:10am Orillia 11:00am

21 28. Presentation of the BVM

7:15am 6:00pm

8:00am 11:10am

22 29. St. Cecilia 7:15am Rosary 7:00pm

8:00am 11:10am

23 30. St. Clement I 7:15am 8:00am 5:30pm

11:10am

24 31. St. John of the Cross

7:15am 6:00pm

6:30pm 6:30am

25 32. St. Catherine of Alexandria

8:00am 11:00am

8:00am 8:00am Sudbury 6:00pm

26 33. Last Sunday after Pentecost

8:00am 10:30am 5:00pm

10:00am 7:30am 10:00am

5:00pm Vespers & Ben.

Sudbury 10:00am

Orillia 10:00am

27 34. Ferial (OL of the Miraculous Medal)

7:15am 8:00am 11:10am

28 Ferial 7:15am 6:00pm

8:00am 11:10am

29 35. Ferial 36. (St. Saturninus)

7:15am Rosary 7:00pm

8:00am 11:10am

30 37. St. Andrew 7:15am 8:00am 11:10am

Dec. 1st 38. Ferial & 1st Friday of the Month

7:15am 7:00pm

No Mass 6:30pm Mass + devotions

6:30am

2 39. St. Bibiana 40. & 1st Saturday of

the Month

7:15am 9am HH 10:00am

Mass 9:00am Devotions to follow

Mass 8:00am Devotions to follow

8:00am