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- V. Rev. Fr. Gregory Bellarmine SSJC+
- Gregory+ was an evangelical minister who was introduced to Catholicism through the Independent Catholics in the USA. There he met Bishop Lawrence Miller with whom he learned of the Traditional Catholic Faith. Under Bishop Miller was founded the SSJC. Consistent with Church law ancient and modern, Gregory was received as a married priest and later appointed by Bishop Miller as the Second Superior General. Currently there are missions serving in the USA, the Phillipines and in the UK.
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Saturday, 11 February 2012
Bishop Miller on the Deposit of Faith - Oct 23 2002
How dare you kneel in the Lord's Presence !
Well here I go again. Another bone to pick with my Brother Bishops on the Roman side of the house. I can't help it because they do things that just make me wonder if Darwin wasn't right. The latest issue involves their recent policy on not kneeling when receiving our Blessed Lord in Holy Communion.
Well here I go again. Another bone to pick with my Brother Bishops on the Roman side of the house. I can't help it because they do things that just make me wonder if Darwin wasn't right. The latest issue involves their recent policy on not kneeling when receiving our Blessed Lord in Holy Communion.
Bishop Miller's Intro to the SSJC - Sep 18 2002
Welcome to the homepage of the Society of Saint John of the Cross, an Institute of Episcopal Right founded by His Excellency, the Most Rev. Lawrence M. Miller, SSJC. We are pleased that you have found us. We are a traditional Catholic community whose motto is "Simplicity in all things." We consider the present "Catholic church" to be in apostacy as a result of liberal influences of modernists and others. From the election of John XXIII until the present time, the church has steadily declined in all areas to the point that it is no longer recognizable as Catholic. Only those Traditional groups, sects, and bodies which survive today, some with great difficulty, reflect what was once Catholic. Most of these are Old Catholics or have Old Catholic Apostolic Succession. All the rest including the various so-called Traditional Catholic groups under Rome, are in our judgment in the same condition as their mother church.
Canon XV of the First-Second Synod - True Obedience -
Traditional Catholics are not in Schism - Conciliar Catholics are:
"But as for those persons, on the other hand, who, on account of some heresy condemned by holy Councils, or Fathers, withdrawing themselves from communion with their president, who, that is to say, is preaching the heresy publicly, and teaching it bareheaded in church, such persons not only are not subject to any canonical penalty on account of their having walled themselves off from any and all communion with the one called a Bishop before any conciliar or synodical verdict has been rendered, but, on the contrary, they shall be deemed worthy to enjoy the honor which befits them among Orthodox Christians. For they have defied, not Bishops, but pseudo-bishops and pseudo-teachers; and they have not sundered the union of the Church with any schism, but, on the contrary, have been sedulous to rescue the Church from schisms and divisions."
"But as for those persons, on the other hand, who, on account of some heresy condemned by holy Councils, or Fathers, withdrawing themselves from communion with their president, who, that is to say, is preaching the heresy publicly, and teaching it bareheaded in church, such persons not only are not subject to any canonical penalty on account of their having walled themselves off from any and all communion with the one called a Bishop before any conciliar or synodical verdict has been rendered, but, on the contrary, they shall be deemed worthy to enjoy the honor which befits them among Orthodox Christians. For they have defied, not Bishops, but pseudo-bishops and pseudo-teachers; and they have not sundered the union of the Church with any schism, but, on the contrary, have been sedulous to rescue the Church from schisms and divisions."
Please Stop Persecuting us and Leave us to Practice our Faith
"We have the God-given right to practice our Faith without constant repressive interference from either the State or the Vatican prelates"
As a result of Vatican II, we who remained faithful to the religion of our childhood experienced a persecution by our very own hierarchy . . . which sadly continues to this day.
As a result of Vatican II, we who remained faithful to the religion of our childhood experienced a persecution by our very own hierarchy . . . which sadly continues to this day.
St. Athanasius in a time like our own:
"They can occupy our churches, but they are outside the true Faith. You remain outside the places of worship, but the faith dwells within you. Let us consider: what is more important, the place or the Faith? The true Faith, obviously. Who has lost and who has won in the struggle -- the one who keeps the buildings or the one who keeps the Faith? The true Faith, obviously.
"Thus, the more violently they try to occupy the places of worship, the more they separate themselves from the Church.
"Even if Catholics faithful to Tradition are reduced to a handful, they are the ones who are the true Church of Jesus Christ."
"Thus, the more violently they try to occupy the places of worship, the more they separate themselves from the Church.
"Even if Catholics faithful to Tradition are reduced to a handful, they are the ones who are the true Church of Jesus Christ."
Real or Traditional Catholics or Simply Catholic
Although our heart speaks that we are Roman Catholics, for we we hold fast to the ancient Faith of the Holy Roman See before Vatican II, we must instead openly declare ourselves to be Faithful Roman Catholics or simply Catholics.
We present ourselves as Traditional Catholic so as not to confuse the faithful as to who we are in relation to the New Religion that presently occupies Rome. We and they are no longer of the same spiritual substance both in matters of doctrine and discipline.
We present ourselves as Traditional Catholic so as not to confuse the faithful as to who we are in relation to the New Religion that presently occupies Rome. We and they are no longer of the same spiritual substance both in matters of doctrine and discipline.
Our Original Rule of the Society of St John of the Cross - Not Abrograted
RULE FOR LIVING IN THE WORLD
The prime mover of the Oblates is to adhere to this advice given by Saint John of the Cross to religious:
Live in the world as if you lived there all by yourself with God. Don't look for anything. Don't get involved in all the comings and goings. Don't have great expectations. Just do what you are supposed to do and say your prayers.
This summarizes the way of life for our communities, for those of us who live anywhere in the world or outside of it or beyond all the world and in whatever time.
The prime mover of the Oblates is to adhere to this advice given by Saint John of the Cross to religious:
Live in the world as if you lived there all by yourself with God. Don't look for anything. Don't get involved in all the comings and goings. Don't have great expectations. Just do what you are supposed to do and say your prayers.
This summarizes the way of life for our communities, for those of us who live anywhere in the world or outside of it or beyond all the world and in whatever time.
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