He initially seemed to give every reason for hope, since he had already spoken clearly in his “Réflexions” on the occasion of a meeting of the superiors of the Society in Albano on the 7th October 2011, and then again most clearly in the joint letter with Bishops Williamson and Tissier de Mallerais to the General Council of the Society in April 2012 against a “canonical agreement”.Īfter the General Chapter of the SSPX in Summer 2012 with its pitiful “six conditions” for an “honourable surrender” after the exclusion of Msgr. In particularly, the Carmel looked towards the relevant responsible Bishop de Galarreta. The turbulent events especially within the Society itself from Autumn 2011 onwards did not help to allay these concerns and to reassure them.
Should they now be delivered to them by their own protectors? Pius X in order to be protected precisely from this conciliar Rome. This increasingly filled the Carmelites of Brilon-Wald with unrest, since they had entrusted themselves to the Society St. Fellay, struck a new path (which by the way was openly admitted by the First Assistant Father Niklaus Pfluger at a priest meeting of the German district in Stuttgart in September 2011) which was more and more clearly directed at a “canonical regularisation” a “canonical agreement” with conciliar Rome. New and strange ways and a necessary decision It is also important to see in his actions always an extraordinary and not an ordinary jurisdiction, until that day that the things return in God’s Church to the god-given order.” That is what was said in the letter of the Superior General in 1991. “Neither he nor the Society have the slightest intention of seizing the other communities in any way.
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Pius X, but as a Catholic bishop, and every religious congregation “was absolutely free to turn towards him or not”. Schmidberger, not as member of the Society of St. He exercises this office in the spirit of service, according to Fr. Fellay and after his election as Superior General of the Society in 1994 to Mgr. Lefebvre this “supplied authority” was given initially to Mgr. Franz Schmidberger in a circular letter to all the allied religious communities on 28th May 1991.Īfter the death of Abp. Archbishop Lefebvre exercised a “supplied authority” over this and other monasteries, whereby he was more a “father, councillor and friend than a juridical authority”, to use the words of the then Superior General of the Society, Fr. In order to be protected from the Modernism of the “conciliar” church, which destroys religious and the religious life, the Carmel at Brilon-Wald, as the mother monastery, entrusted themselves to Archbishop Lefebvre and his Society of St. At the moment the Carmel consists of six professed sisters and a novice who all live in seclusion. It was founded from the Carmel at Quiévrain which itself was founded by the biological sister of Archhbishop Marcel Lefebvre. Joseph in Brilon-Wald has existed since 2nd February, 1984.
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