The Catholic Trumpet: Fr. Hewko - "Faith Higher than Sacraments"

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"Faith Higher than Sacraments"
[Transcription of Fr. Hewko's Sermon for the Feast of St. Athanasius - May 2, 2025]

The Catholic Trumpet [Slightly adapted and reformatted, emphasis mine] | July 8, 2025

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, Amen.

This is the very northern regions of British Columbia, and today is first Friday of May 2025, May the 2nd. So it's a wonderful combination of two great events.

One, first Friday, where we make reparation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus for all blasphemies and insults against Him. We want to pull out at least a thorn, several thorns out of His Sacred Heart by receiving communion and reparation, and pray in this Mass at the foot of Calvary with the Immaculate Heart of Mary at the foot of the cross. You know, one of the most powerful prayers we could ever offer, and this is the privilege of a priest every day, and I have found when you pray these and offer these, the Father, God cannot refuse the offering of this prayer.

He cannot refuse it, because it's the highest prayer that we can give to God, and that is, He's given it to us in the great devotions that He has revealed from the crucifix, His crucifixion, and down to our time, and how many great popes have emphasized these great devotions, and they are: Every Mass, we can offer the Sacred Heart of Jesus with all His burning love and all His wounds, and then you can offer His Holy Face, the face of Jesus Christ, which is pure, innocent, manly,  and the adoration of all the angels and saints in Heaven, the joy of the Virgin Mary, the bliss and happiness unspeakable of God the Father and the Holy Ghost. So, to offer the Sacred Heart, the Sacred Face, and then the five wounds of Our Lord, the wounds of His hands, the wounds of His feet, there is no greater prayer that can be offered, and that's exactly what the Catholic Mass is, the offering of the wounds of Jesus Christ, His burning heart, His priestly heart, and His Sacred Face, and that is the highest treasure we have, and it's ours to give, not just at Mass, and that's the happiness of a priest, every day he can offer this treasure of the Sacred Heart, the Sacred Face, and the Sacred Wounds for the whole world, for the conversion of sinners, for the whole souls in Purgatory, to save souls from Hell, and in reparation for blasphemy, sacrilegious insults, [and] offences against Almighty God and the Sacred Heart.

But you, who cannot offer Mass, you can offer the Sacred Heart, the Sacred Face, the Sacred Wounds, any time in the day, with all the Masses, well, probably the very few Masses offered throughout the world that are truly valid, and the true Sacrifice. So we should do this often. I have found, when I do this, no prayer is refused, nothing I have ever asked [is refused when] offering the Heart of Jesus, His wounds, [and] His Sacred Face. And then you add to that, since Our Lady of Fatima, the Immaculate Heart of Mary, the Burning Heart of Mary, which on June 13, 1917, appeared, she held it in her hands and showed the three children, but the heart was all surrounded by thorns, bleeding, that's the heart of the Virgin Mother, bleeding, bleeding tears, bleeding blood for souls who are lost, so many souls lost. Look at our modern world that drinks in sin like water, where the most horrendous murders have become convenience, abortion, where the most horrendous crimes and blasphemies have become the normal language of people, the most filthy things regarding holy purity have become normal  to people, and now little children at a young age exposed to things that no grown man would ever see in his whole lifetime years ago, because of the corruption of our days, the immodest fashions, and so forth. So look how many souls, poor, poor souls that are lost.

And so if we offer the Heart of Jesus with the Immaculate Heart of Mary, it's hands down, it's a win, win, win, win, win, win, you're going to get your prayers answered, you will. That's something God cannot refuse: the Face, Heart, Wounds of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Eternal High Priest and King, and then the Immaculate Heart of Mary, you just can't say no, you cannot say no, especially when you offer these things for souls, for particular souls, particular people by name. And do that often, because God, He loves the Heart of His Son, He loves the Sacred Face and the wounds of His Divine Son, and He loves with a love unspeakable His Beloved Mother and the Immaculate Heart. So that's what we need to do, because these devotions have been emphasized by Popes, emphasized by Saints, emphasized over and over again by Our Lord and Our Lady and Saint Joseph, maybe you can add a third one there, that's another hands down win. Offer the heart of Saint Joseph, the pure and manly heart of Saint Joseph, how can God refuse.

So when we pray and God doesn't seem to answer, and He seems to delay our request, He does that so that we persevere in praying and not give up, because if we pray and we get our answer right away, well that was easy, we give up prayer. But sometimes God doesn't want us to get our answer right away, but later, and He will always answer and in a better way we can possibly imagine. Look  at Saint Monica, her heart was broken when Saint Augustine left for Northern Africa to study. And in Carthage, he left home, Togast, he was from Togast. And Saint Augustine left home and yeah, he lived a wild life, he had an illegitimate son, but you know what, that son became a saint  and a monk, Deodatus was his name. We don't know what happened to the wife or the woman [but] she probably died a holy death, I'm sure, and he himself became a repentant, a repentant soul, was baptized at age 30 and not only became a priest, but a bishop, and not only a great bishop, but one of the unbelievably greatest defenders of the faith in the history of the Church, Saint Augustine. Every priest knows this, every monk and nun know this, you don't go a day hardly without praying Matins without some sermon of Saint Augustine or some quote of his, that's how great he is. So look, look at Saint Monica when Saint Augustine was 25 years old, she just probably said, "Lord, how come you don't answer my prayers, why is my son so far away and so gone and so lost", and by that time he was in the Manichaean Harley-Davidson gang, Harley-Davidson bike gang, he was in a real sect, a really wacky sect called the Manichaeans, I mean really wacky, where they praise starvation and suicide as something good. So poor Saint Monica, look at her heart, look at her dilemma, but God didn't answer her prayers until Saint Augustine turned 30. And if He waited even for another 10 years when he was 40 or 50, God knows when is best to answer the prayers, but it's for us not to give up, it's for us to keep asking, keep knocking, that's what we have to do, and this is the case called perseverance. We must persevere, and God knows what He's doing, He's a good doctor, He's the best coach, He's the best captain, He knows sometimes He does answer our prayers right away, [but] sometimes He does actually, He often does, [and] sometimes He doesn't, but He always hears our prayer. And as the Psalms put it, God stoops down and lowers His ear to near our mouth, the mouth of our heart to hear our prayer, and that's how He loves, that's the closeness of God to each one of us, so again I repeat, the infallible prayers that God will never refuse: to offer the Five Wounds, the Sacred Heart, and the Sacred Face, and then you throw in there the Immaculate Heart of Mary and Saint Joseph, that prayer will not go unanswered, and better than we can ever imagine.

Please let me, bear with [me] on your patience a little bit by comparing two great champions of the Catholic Faith, and that both are great, and both are from similar times, one is Saint Athanasius, whose feast day is today. Saint Athanasius had to flee for his life five times, he was falsely condemned, he was excommunicated not by a true pope, but a weak pope, Pope Liberius, who happened to be the first pope not canonized, why? Because he was weak in condemning the Arian heresy, he should have condemned it, and he should have named the heretic by name, which is what the Catholic Church has always done. Father Arius was a Catholic priest, and he started this heresy, which actually came from a Bishop Eusebius before him. So Saint Athanasius, he combated this heresy, and he didn't pull any punches. Saint Jerome also didn't pull any punches against this heresy, this heresy was vicious, and it was deceitful,  and it was very convincing, because they could quote scripture, right? Protestants continually quote scripture to back their heresies, but they interpret scripture as Saint Peter, our first pope says, "to their own destruction", because they misinterpret it, and that's what the Arians were doing. They were saying, "Well, the Bible says, look, it says, Jesus said, 'the Father is greater than I'", “My God, My God, why hast Thou abandoned me?” “I do the works, but it's My Father who works in Me.” So the Arians took those quotes, and said, “See, the Father is greater than the Son, the Son is not equal to the Father, He's lower, He's a creature, the Son is a creature, He was created by God long before the earth was created,” so it sounds very pious, it sounds very, you know, but it was heresy. Because Christ, Jesus Christ, is not just a creature, He is one with the Father and the Holy Ghost, so they leave out the quotes in the Bible that say, when Our Lord says, “I and the Father are one, I and the Father are one, it's the Father who works in me, and I live in the Father, [the] spirit of my Father lives in me, and I live in Him,” so they forgot those quotes, like the Protestants often do, they pick out quotes to favor their heresy. The only authority that interprets scripture properly is the Holy Catholic Church and the Church of Tradition, and that's why we turn to the great saints, St. Augustine, St. Basil, St. John Chrysostom, St. Hilary of Portier, St. Gregory, to have the right interpretation of scriptures, and the great councils of the Church, especially the Council of Trent, that hammered the Protestant heresies of our time, and also Vatican I.

So Archbishop Lefebvre, he was the Saint Athanasius of our time, why? Because he loved Our Lord, and he was not going to sit back and watch Holy Mother Church be kicked, be stabbed, be violated, and he rose up to defend Holy Mother Church, and that's something every bishop and priest is bound to do, to defend the honor of Mother Church, defend her doctrine, which has always been taught, the same catechism, the same Mass, the same sacraments, but what happened at Vatican II, all these things [were] a revolution to destroy the Catholic Church from within, and it was all done with nice words and fancy documents, but very deadly, ambiguous phrases, and you know, we often hear the priests, well you should often hear the priests condemning it publicly, and speaking against it, because look, Vatican II today is still taking souls to Hell, it's still making modernists of all the bishops and priests, still destroying the Mass, it's still taking souls to Hell.

It just probably took one of the most recent popes to Hell, God knows, he certainly promoted Vatican II, may God have mercy on his soul, but what [are] the fruits of Vatican II? It's disaster, it's overthrow of religion, overthrow of all devotion, overthrow of everything sacred, and why? Because Vatican II was loaded with heresies that attack Christ, that attack Him as God, attack Him as the only Redeemer, attack Him as priest, because remember, it's in the very text of the Vatican II on the liturgy, that say the Mass should be adapted to the culture of the people. That's right in the text of Vatican II, inculturation, and bishops are encouraged to adapt the language, adapt ceremonies, to fit the culture of the people. So the culture of modern West is rock and roll, and guitars, or folk dance, or folk music, or in Poland, polka dances, or in Mexico, mariachi dances, and they incorporate that into the Mass, it's the most illogical thing. But the texts are right in Vatican II, so Vatican II is the problem, it is the engine that has been messed up, messed with, and toyed with, so that it doesn't function anymore, but does damage. So that's the greatness of Archbishop Lefebvre, who stood up right during the council, and said “I accuse the council,” that was the great role of Archbishop Lefebvre, and later with him, Bishop de Castro mayer, actually with him at the council, there were 250 bishops, that were traditional, out of the 2,500 bishops, 2,700 bishops, only 200 were traditional, and even after the dust settled, it was only two bishops who continued to fight for the Faith, the rest slid right along. So let me just quote from Archbishop Lefebvre himself, this is a great interview in 1990, this is published in one of the great Catholic papers of the SSPX in its golden days, this was issued in May-June 1991, The Catholic Guardian, issue number 14, this was a Canadian publication, and the good priests back then used to preach this, Father Girouard used to preach this, Father Boullée used to preach this, all the Canadian district priests whom I know well, they were great priests, Father Violette, they all used to preach this.

But let's see what does [the] Archbishop say, he says here, the question is, it's an interview with Fideliter magazine, “Since the episcopal consecrations in June of 1988, there have been no more contacts with Rome, however, as you told us, Cardinal Odey telephoned you, saying we must come to an arrangement, make a little apology to the Pope, and he is ready to welcome you, then why not try this final step, and why does it seem impossible to you?”, so this is 1990, so Cardinal Odey is saying to Archbishop Lefebvre, "Look, just apologize to the Pope, tell him you're sorry that you consecrated four bishops, tell him you're sorry you attacked the New Mass and attacked Vatican II, and everything will be just fine", well, here's what Archbishop Lefebvre says, what does he say, yeah, I'll write I'm very sorry, I'll send it off tomorrow, does he say that? No, here's what he says, “It is absolutely impossible in the present climate in Rome, which is becoming worse and worse, we must be under no illusions, the principles now directing the conciliar church are more and more openly contrary to Catholic doctrine, speaking to the United Nations Commission of the Rights of Man, Cardinal Casaroli recently declared, quote, I wish to spend a little time on a specific aspect of the fundamental freedom of thought and action according to one's conscience, hence freedom of religion, the Catholic Church and its supreme pastor who has made of the rights of man one of the main themes of its preaching, have not failed to recall that in a world made by man and for man, the whole organization of society only has sense to the extent that it makes of the human dimension a central preoccupation, close quote, Cardinal Casaroli. Hearing that from the mouth of a cardinal!

He does not mention God, for his part, continues Archbishop Lefebvre, for his part Cardinal Ratzinger, in presenting a long document on relations between the magisterium and theologian states, he says for the first time with clarity that decisions of the magisterium may be not the last word on the matter in hand as such, but a sort of provisional disposition, the coronal remains stable, but particular aspects on which the circumstances of the time have an influence may be in need of further rectifications,” so this is Benedict XVI, Cardinal Ratzinger, saying truth can change with some adaptions, “In this respect we may highlight the declarations of the popes of the last century, the anti-modernist decisions rendered a great service, but they are now out of date,” close quote, Cardinal Ratzinger, in other words, in other words, Pius IX's Syllabus of Errors was great for his time, but this is now the 1960s, 70s, 80s and 90s, we need to adapt the doctrine, Syllabus of Errors doesn't apply anymore, nor does Pius X's condemnation of modernism, that's good for back then, but not for now, that was the modernism of Pope Benedict, and then the archbishop says, “And there you are, modernism is a closed chapter, these reflections of Cardinal Ratzinger are absolutely senseless,” and notice he gives the name, "Lastly, the Pope is more ecumenical than ever, all the false ideas of the council are continuing to develop and to be restated with ever more clarity, they are more and more coming out into the open, it is therefore absolutely unthinkable that we should accept or collaborate with such a hierarchy.” Next question is about the profession of faith of Cardinal Ratzinger, “Do you think that the situation has deteriorated ever since you entered upon the conversations prior to the episcopal consecrations, which resulted in the drawing up of the protocol of May 5th, 1988?”

Answer of Archbishop Lefebvre, “Oh yes, for example, the fact of the profession of faith which is now being required by Cardinal Ratzinger since the beginning of 1989, this is very serious, because he is asking all those who have rejoined  Rome, or who might do so, to make a profession of faith in the Council's documents and in the post-Conciliar reforms, for us that is out of the question, we will have to wait a while before we can envisage any prospect of agreement, for my part, I think that only the good Lord can  intervene, for humanly speaking, there is no chance of Rome reversing the tide. For 15 years we have been in dialogue with Rome in the effort to give to tradition the honor due to it in it’s rightful place within the church. We have come up against a continual refusal. What Rome is presently granting in favor of tradition is a purely political gesture, a diplomatic move to make people  rejoin Rome, but it is not out of any conviction in the benefits of tradition.”

So you see Archbishop  Lefebvre, he didn't fall for their deceits, their tricks, their traps, and he's held firm in tradition, and he once said, “I cannot form priests in the New Mass”, because Rome once asked him, "Just say the New Mass once and there'll be peace between us", and the Archbishop said, “I can't, the New Mass is an insult to God, I can't do that”.

Next question, this regards Saint Peter's Fraternity, “When people see that Dom Gerard, who was abbot of the Benedictine monastery in France, and the fraternity of Saint Peter have obtained from Rome the right to keep the old liturgy and the catechism without, they say, giving anything away, some people are troubled that they find  themselves in difficulties with Rome, and they may be tempted in the long run to rejoin Rome, like the others, out of weariness, such people, they say, have managed to come to an agreement with Rome without giving anything away.”

So this was the argument why the SSPX made the agreement in 2012, “We're not giving up anything,” but they did, they accepted in the Doctrinal Declaration, they accepted the New Mass as legitimate, they accepted [that] Vatican II enlightens tradition, and tradition enlightens Vatican II, they accepted the new profession of faith, condemned here by Archbishop Lefebvre, they also accepted the new Code of Canon Law with no distinction, so here's Archbishop Lefebvre's response, and he would say the same about the new SSPX right now, “When they say they have not given anything away, that is not true, they have given away the possibility of opposing Rome, they can no longer say anything, they must keep quiet, given the favors which have been granted them, it is now impossible for them to denounce the errors of the conciliar church, little by little they are adhering to Rome, if only by the profession of faith which is being asked of them by Cardinal Ratzinger, I think that Dom Gerard is in the process of bringing out a little book written by one of his monks on religious liberty, and which is going to try to justify it”, so that book later was printed, a horrible book, two thousand something pages, all garbage, trying to defend religious liberty that all the previous popes have condemned, so what happened to Le Barroux, all these monks, they went liberal, and Archbishop Lefebvre continues, “From the point of view of ideas, gently they are slipping, and they will finish by agreeing with the council's false ideas, because Rome has granted them a few favors for tradition, they are in a very dangerous situation.”

And don't think any of us are not out of such danger either, if you or I accept the New Mass in the slightest degree, and accept that it sanctifies souls, that it gives grace, that it nourishes your faith, you accept that, you are in danger of losing all the faith, all of us, you accept one compromise with Vatican II's errors, you are in danger of losing the faith. Look what happened to hundreds of bishops, priests, nuns, we are talking thousands of consecrated souls, swept into apostasy by compromise, by accepting the errors of Vatican II and the New Mass, none of us are not in danger of falling as well. We must be humble, we must pray, and we must hold fast to tradition, because even the tall trees, the fighters of tradition, Bishop Williamson, Bishop Fellay, Bishop Gallaretta, Bishop Tissier, these were giants, and they have crumbled, they have accepted error.

It's frightful, and the Archbishop, you know, I could quote Archbishop [Lefebvre] forever and ever and ever, condemning the New Mass, condemning Vatican II, it's just constant with him, and it's so clear, we're his sons, we're supposed to hold his position, hold to the faith, and the archbishop says, "look at the danger, if we don't fight it, you're going to slide with them", so he says here, “In the course of the audience, which the pope granted to Dom Gerard, into a delegation of monks from Le Barroux in France, the pope expressed the desire to see them evolving further, he did not hide his thinking, they must submit still more to the archbishop of Avignon, and they must take care not to act in such a way as to depreciate the conciliar reform, on the grounds that they have been granted exceptions to the council's liturgical rule, also they must make an effort to bring back to Rome, all those who are not yet under obedience to the Holy Father." So they bring him into the conciliar church, very slippery. "Pressing invitations were made to them in this sense, and such indeed as the aim of the privileges which were granted to them, that is why Dom Girard wrote to mother Anne Marie Simolin, to father innocent Marie of the Dominicans in France, to the Capuchins of Morgon, and to other persons in the hope of ever reaching me, when Dom Girard returned from Rome, he launched this offensive to attempt to convince all those who do not follow him, to follow in his wake, and to rejoin with Rome.”

So their efforts were, get all these traditional groups, Dominicans, Benedictines, Capuchins, get them all to capitulate, and come into the conciliar church. You see this is the war! it is very serious, because  if you and I compromise on Vatican II and the New Mass, we're goners. And yes Saint Mary Magdalene sinned much against the flesh, but she repented and saved her soul, and if you and I can sin against the flesh, we can repent and save our soul, but if you and I lose the Faith, forget it, you're gone. Even in this world, even in this life, those who have lost the faith, short of a miracle, they're already in Hell, they have a foot in Hell, and that's why we need to pray for poor sinners, pray for atheists, pray for Jews, pray for Muslims, but the Faith, if we lose that, we lose everything.

Next point from Archbishop Lefebvre, “Everything that was granted to these groups was only agreed to with the purpose of bringing about, that all those who belong to or are connected with the society should separate from it and submit to Rome”, that's when the SSPX was solid and good and fighting, so what wisdom of Archbishop Lefebvre, if only our bishops of the society kept this. Next question, “Dom Girard is thus taking up the role that was Monsignor Pearls at the time of the visitation in 1987,” all right, so he goes on and on and on here. Let me just jump ahead to another point from Archbishop Lefebvre, he says this, “This idea of interpreting signatures to signify an approval of conciliar documents”, all right, so what's being said here, Archbishop Lefebvre was accused by one of these priests in France of signing two documents that he later condemned, Dignitatis Humanae, Gaudium et Spes, and Lumen Gentium, three corrupt and rotten documents of Vatican II, full of heresy. Archbishop Lefebvre was at the council and he signed the sheets, but the Archbishop answers and says “I didn't approve of these documents, all these sheets that my name is on was the attendance sheet,  it just meant I was there in attendance, that's all,” so he was just clarifying that exaggeration. Next question, “Some of the faithful are being tempted to stay on good terms with those who have rejoined Rome, such as Saint Peter's, now we can say the new SSPX, even to attend Mass or ceremonies celebrated by them, do you think there is a danger here?”

In other words, can I go to the Mass of compromised groups like Saint Peter's, the new SSPX, Christ the King Institute, the indults, this is a question. So here's Archbishop Lefebvre's answer, can you take a guess what it'll be? “Well, if you have [nowhere] else to go to, you can go to that Mass”, you think that's what he's going to say? “Well, if that's all you need to nourish your faith, go ahead”, is that what he's going to say? “They promote the New Mass or they fail to condemn it, but it's okay, you can nourish your faith with that, after all, there's New Mass miracles”, do you think that he's going to say that? Listen to his own words, and I'll tell you what, Archbishop Lefebvre was, he was a French gentleman, he was a real gentleman, Saint Athanasius would have been more aggressive, Saint Athanasius, you read his writings, he doesn't pull punches, he levels insults, he levels almost cuss words, but he doesn't cuss, but he sure puts them in their place. If Saint Athanasius lived during this crisis, people would have been scandalized by his aggressiveness, and his, we would say, lack of politeness, because  he wouldn't pull any punches, he would just unleash against these modernists. So Saint Athanasius, you know, he called Father Arius, "a child of hell", "son of Satan", "another Lucifer", he didn't pull punches. Sometimes you got to call a spade a spade, in fact, it's better to, and that's why you notice in this interview, Archbishop Lefebvre is not hiding names, he's giving names: Cardinal Ratzinger, he's a modernist snake, here's what he says, “stay away from him,” Pope John Paul II, a globalist, he gives names, Cardinal Casaroli, a globalist. So sometimes you see in the lives of saints, they give the names, and they have to expose those who will lead them into hell, lead them into error. That's why the church condemns heresiarchs, those who invent heresy.

So Archbishop Lefebvre, what does he say to this question? Can I go to these compromised masses? Here's his response, “I have always warned the faithful, for example, with regard to the sedevecantists, people say their Mass is good, so we go to it, true, there is the Mass, the Mass is good, but there is also the sermon, there is the atmosphere, these are conversations and contacts before and after Mass, which bring about a whole slow change of a person's ideas, hence there is a danger, and that is why in general, the Mass and the  surroundings are one whole, one not only goes to Mass, one is blending into a whole environment, obviously there are people who are attracted by the beautiful ceremonies,  who go also to Foucamboult, which is a Novus Ordo monastery, where they have gone back to the old Mass, there people are in a climate of ambiguity, which in my opinion is dangerous.” Now that's a monastery with monks singing Gregorian chant with the old Mass, and he's saying this is dangerous, because they accept the new Mass, they accept parts of Vatican II. "There people are in a climate of ambiguity, which in my opinion is dangerous, as soon as one finds oneself in this environment, in submission to the Vatican, in submission finally to the Second Vatican Council, one finishes by becoming ecumenical.”

There it is, you dance with the devil, you're gonna get broken legs, you lay down with dogs with fleas, you're gonna wake up with fleas, you sit down to dinner with the devil, you're gonna be poisoned, and this applies to all of us, me too, me too, because we are always invited, “Come back to the SSPX”, “Come back to the new SSPX, Father, everyone will be happy to see you back,” and I have three nephews who are priests of the Society, and I can't, because they have accepted Vatican II, and so far has accepted the New Mass as legitimate, as an official statement by Bishop Fellay, who was the Superior General. That's a serious thing. That's a serious thing. That's like, I don't know how to compare it, that's like the foreman is head of the construction of building a bridge, coming out and saying, “We don't believe concrete works anymore, we have to use foam.” Foam, if you use foam, it's not going to hold diesel trucks, it's not going to hold the weight of cars going over the bridge, are you out of your mind? "Well no, because we have to adapt to the modern engineering, modern engineers say that concrete's outdated, [we’ve] got to use foam now." So let me ask you, would you drive your truck or tractor over that bridge, won't last long, but that's exactly what Bishop Fellay did, and all those who have compromised with Vatican II and the New Mass, they replace concrete of the true Catholic Faith and it's integrity with foam. And it's all collapsing, they're all compromising, they're all becoming, like Archbishop Lefebvre says, “ecumenical”, and what did Cardinal Ratzinger say as Pope Benedict XVI, he said, I quote, “We will slowly get these traditional communities to abandon their rigid positions and to accept the council and the reforms,” close quote, and look how many groups have fallen you know, and this is not just some bickering between Catholic groups. And why are [there] these fragmentations, why are Catholics always fighting over these [things], well it's just, it comes down to the Faith, that's why.

What's the first question when we're baptized by our God, by the priest, through our godparents, “What do you seek from the church?” “Faith”, and "What does the Faith give unto you”, “eternal life”. So the Faith gives us eternal life, but if we lose it, we lose eternal life. That's how important the Catholic Faith is. So that Saint Paul says, “If I or an angel from Heaven preach to you a different Faith, a different gospel, don't listen to him, it's not from God”. And that's how we have to treat all novelty, all heresies, it's not from God, Vatican II is a certain definite novelty, and we're still fighting it, and there's still SSPX priests, and now resistance priests compromising with Vatican II and the New Mass, and they are the fake resistance. That's why they're called the fake resistance, because what are they fighting? They tell the people, "Yeah you can go to the", down in Post Falls, the priests tell them, Bishop Zendejas  tells them, “You can go to the SSPX Mass, no problem, when we're not here.” So what happens?  They all go to the SSPX Mass, all of them that are going to the fake resistance Mass, so those priests come in, and when they come in, they rent a hall and have Mass, and what are they fighting? Why do they go make a sacrifice to say Mass in Post Falls, when they can just go to the SSPX? What's the point? And for them there is no point, and I argue the purpose of the fake resistance was to dissipate the Catholic resistance, to lose focus on the Faith, and the doctrine, and the purity of the defense of the Faith, and the line of Archbishop Lefebvre, to confuse it, to make it all confused, so people don't know what's up, what's down, “New Mass gives grace,” “Well Bishop Williamson's saying this, New Mass miracles, all right, well maybe, if I guess, if it gives grace, and there's miracles, why can't I go to it?”, and maybe your generation listening here now, won't go to the New Mass, but I'll tell you what, you teach your children, there's grace in the New Mass, they can nourish their Faith, there's New Mass miracles, believe me, and write this down, because it will happen, your grandchildren will go to the New Mass. “Grandpa said it's okay, Grandpa said it gives grace, why can't I go?”

So you see, we're not just playing politics, if I go lose the Faith, I go to hell. I don't want to go there, and I don't want you to go there, that's why we have to fight for the Faith.  And then we got to call out liberals by name, and I like Archbishop Lefebvre, look what he's, I mean this, you got to read the whole interview, I'm not going to do that to you, because we'll be here forever, but let me just close with another point here, question to Archbishop Lefebvre, “The Pope is very popular, (that's John Paul II), he mobilizes crowds, he wishes to gather all Christians together according to his ecumenism, of which he has said that he was making it the cornerstone of his pontificate, at first sight that seems to be a noble thought, to wish to bring about the gathering together of all Christians", so let's have peace, friendship, let's have no more fights, but let's have hand holding, and peace, and love, and sounds all good, doesn't it, answer of Archbishop Lefebvre, and I tell you Saint Athanasius would be far more aggressive in his language, "the Pope is wishing to create unity outside of the Faith, it is a communion, a communion with who? With what? In what? It is no longer a real unity, unity is only possible in the unity of the Faith, that is what the Church has always taught, that is why there were missionaries to convert people to the Catholic Faith, now we must no longer convert anybody, the Church is no longer a hierarchical society, it is a communion, everything is falsified, that is the destruction of the notion of the Church and of Catholicism, it is very serious, and that explains why so many Catholics are leaving the Faith, when you add to that all the scandalous remarks made in the course of the synod on the priesthood in Rome, statements such as those of Cardinal de Courteret and Cardinal Daniels”, notice he's giving names, “one wonders how there can still be any Catholics left, after the meeting of Assisi and similar statements, one understands why there are many people going off to the Mormons that Jehovah witnesses and elsewhere, they are losing the Faith, it's quite normal”, and then another, I'll close with this, another response of Archbishop Lefebvre, “Rather than a question of liturgy, you often say, it is now a question of Faith, which stands between us and present-day Rome?” Answer, “Certainly the question of the liturgy”, that's the Mass, and the sacraments, “is very important, but it is not what is most important”, let's sink that one in, it is not what is most important, the Mass and the sacraments are important, but it's not what is most important, and that's the problem with the fake resistance, Mass and sacraments, Mass and sacraments, Mass and the new SSPX, Mass and sacraments, Mass and sacraments, but the Faith, they end up becoming ecumenical, because they swallow Vatican II and the New Mass. This is the war we're in folks, it's a real war, with real bullets flying, real traps to avoid, real bombs, we're in war, and it's no fun, I know, but God put us in this time, we either slide or we fight, answer of Archbishop Lefebvre, “what is most important is the question of the Faith, as far as we are concerned, the question is settled, we have the Faith of all time, of the council of Trent, of the Catechism of Saint Pius X, of all the councils, and of all the popes prior to Vatican II."

And if Saint Athanasius [were] alive today, he'd say exactly the same thing, with more colour, more adjectives, but he would say the same thing, and he would hammer heresies, like he did in his day, "for years they have striven in Rome to show that everything that was in the council was perfectly in conformity with tradition, now they are taking off the mask, Cardinal Ratzinger had never stated his mind with such clarity, there is no tradition, there is no longer any deposit of Faith to transmit, tradition in the Church is what the pope today says it is, you must submit to what the pope and the bishops today say, for them that is what tradition is, their famous so-called living tradition, the only reason for our being condemned, now they are no longer seeking to prove that what they say is in conformity with what Pope Pius  IX wrote, or with what the Council of Trent promulgated, no that is all over, that is out of date, as Cardinal Ratzinger says, it is clear, and they might have said so sooner,  it was not worth their getting us into talks and discussions with them, now we have the tyranny of authority, because there is no rule, there can no longer be any reference to the past, in one sense the situation is becoming more clear, it is more and more proving that we are right, we are dealing with people who have a different philosophy from ours, a different way of seeing things, who are influenced by all the modern subjectivist philosophers, for them there is no fixed truth, there is no dogma, everything is in evolution, that is a wholly Masonic way of thinking, it is truly the destruction of the Faith, fortunately we ourselves are continuing to lean on tradition."

And that's what we're all about, so dear faithful, we must beg the Mother of God to persevere, pray to Saint Athanasius, the great Saint Athanasius, who was the poor guy, had to flee for his life, many times he was hunted down like an animal, and he always had good humor, but when he was in exile with the monks, he wrote some great books, and those works still still exist, and then another Saint, another great Athanasius, which will probably be canonized someday, is Athanasius, General François Athanase Charrette of the Vendée, he's another champion, and there was a movie made of him in France, and Michael Matt at the remnant, he adapted it, so you have the English subtitles, it's a pretty good film, I have to say it's pretty good, but Charrette, he was like the Archbishop Lefebvre, the Saint Athanasius of the French Revolution, he would not surrender, and he was in war, and they just told him many compromises,  "Just accept the republic, accept the new regime, accept the new religion", and when he died, he was shot, of course they captured him, because they hunted him like an animal, literally, and he was finally surrounded and arrested, they wanted him not dead, but alive, and he requested, "I don't want a compromising priest, one who signed the oath", in our day, we would say, "I don't want a priest who agrees with the New Mass, Vatican II, or the new Code", that for us should be, shut the door, "I love you father, God bless you father, peace, but come back when you abandon these liberal positions", and that's what Charrette did, and he said, "I don't want any of your juring priests to absolve me", so he arranged it with his friends, that as he passed under the bridge, a non-juring priest would be there in disguise, and give Charrette, Athanasius of Charrette, absolution, as he passed under the bridge, which that good priest did, and Charrette, he refused [the] blindfold, and he only had one request, "Shoot me when I bow my head." And that's what he did, he offered his soul to God, he professed the Catholic Faith, "Long live the Catholic Faith, long live the king", he bowed his head, and they shot him, Charrette, Athanas Charrette.

So these are the great heroes we need to look to, these are the saints that are in Heaven, and there's a lot of liberals down in Hell, and all those compromising bishops, and priests, and nuns, a lot of them down there, there really are, it's a frightening thing, so let's profess the Faith, and in doing so, you'll become saints, because it's a tough fight, and you'll become saints, you'll become holier, you'll draw closer to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, because in the end, Her Immaculate Heart will triumph, and let's ask Her that Her heart triumphs in each one of us, by a victory over sin, by a  victory of professing the Faith, by the victory of obtaining Heaven with Jesus, and Mary, and Joseph, which happiness I wish for all of you.

O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.         
O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.         
O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.           
and for those who do not have recourse to thee, especially all communists, and freemasons, and other enemies of Holy Mother Church, amen.

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and the Holy Ghost, amen.