3/23/2023 0 Comments Steve skojec sspxThere were a lot of bad priests before and leading up to Vatican II. Steve, you respect the Alter Christus who is in the priest, but you needn't worship and idolize that sinner in whom Our Lord has deigned to operate for some reason. Just as a parents has to stay up with a sick child, you are under obligation to serve the needs of the faithful without demanding constant obsequy and adulation. No one deserves the priesthood and you have no right to glory in it. ![]() ![]() You were not chosen to be priests FOR YOUR GLORY but for the good of the faithful. I'm not going to sit here writhing with guilt for thinking that was an extremely crappy thing to do because "oh, he's a priest and we need to respect/worship our priest." ![]() I once witnessed a Trad priest turn down a lady who was desperately asking for him to hear her confession, and seemed in urgent need of it, because. There's part of you trying to let this out, but part of you that's still repressing it, causing your turmoil. So the first step to healing is admit that you've been wronged and that his behavior was unacceptable. Until then you're going to remain wound up like this Until you get past the feelings of guilt, then you can actually have pity for these crappy priests and pray for them. Many priests suck, and they sucked long before this Crisis. Once you can get past this passive-aggressive repression and part feeling sorry for yourself (acting victim), and just embrace the truth that "This priest sucks.", you're not going to get over it and have a chance to heal. We've had crappy priests since time immemorial, with Judas himself at the Last Supper. Until you can embrace this as a legitimate judgment, you'll keep torturing yourself with guilt about feeling that way. Let it out, Steve, and just repeat this: "This priest sucks." and/or "This is a crappy priest." I reserve for Myself only the guidance of thy interior, and especially of thy heart, for, having established therein the empire of My pure love, I will never yield it to others.Steve's turmoil is caused by a continuation of what brought him here, an excessive guilt-driven need to worship priests. Suffer them to act as they please with thee I shall know well how to find means for the accomplishment of my designs, even though they may appear to be opposed and contrary thereto. Henceforth, I shall adjust my graces to the spirit of thy Rule, to the will of thy Superiors and to thy weakness so that thou must regard as suspicious everything that might withdraw thee from the exact observance of thy Rule, which it is My will that thou shouldst prefer the will of thy Superiors to Mine, whenever they may forbid thee to do what I command thee. Margaret Mary Alacoque was told by her superiors that they did not believe in her visions and asked for God to show the truth of His presence by making her useful through her exactitude to her religion and the rule, Jesus responded: "Tell your Superior that I shall render thee more useful than she thinks, but in a manner known at present only to Me. ![]() Scripture, Tradition, and the institutional Church are our only safeguards on God's truth. But God rewards obedience, and this is why I have always struggled with the consecrations.
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