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Issue 26 | Spring 2024

Sorrowful Heart of Mary SSPX-MC

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Spring 2024

Dear Few, Happy Few!

In every renewed surge of persecution against the Church it seems the Good God is always

pleased to dwindle His friends down to a few. Why few? Because:

1.) It’s a lot easier for the majority of men to follow the crowd,

2.) It obliges those who remain faithful to understand the principles of the Faith and to truly love Christ the Savior, for Whom they must be ready to die, and

3.) God is pleased to purge His followers, as gold is tried in the fire.

How often He is pleased to sift the wheat from the chaff! But we must be careful and walk prayerfully and humbly, for it sometimes happens that good wheat falls to become chaff and chaff becomes outstanding wheat! St. Paul was chaff, but became the best of the Lord’s wheat, and a Bishop Nestor who was good wheat became chaff and a heresiarch!

The faithful few begin to feel the pinch and sting of the price of fidelity to Christ when they are singled out, ignored by once smiling friends, persecuted, and find themselves quite alone, humanly speaking. Abp. Marcel Lefebvre once said that even if the whole world went with the Conciliar Church and he stood abandoned by all, he still has Christ the King and all the saints in Heaven with him. He could point to all the Popes of Tradition and the shining ancient Magisterium and say “I stand with the Catholic Church not the “Conciliar” Church! They were right in previous ages, they will be right in this apostate age, despite the fact that the whole world seems to have turned its back on the Faith and Mass of all time!”

Fidelity of the few seems to please Our Lord very much. Fewness echoes back to the Flood of Noah, for only eight were saved in the ark. Few survived the fire and brimstone of Sodom and Gomorrah, because they were faithful to God. Few marched around the walls of Jericho and few were sifted out, by God’s will, to fight with Gideon’ army. Judith and her maids, won the victory over General Holerfernes; fewer still, would refuse to bend their knees to the pagan gods with Daniel the Prophet. The Maccabees entered battle with the insanely small number of 300 against 48,000 Syrians, and won! Our Lord reveals “Many are called, few are chosen.” And, “How narrow is the gate, and strait is the way that leadeth to life: and few there are that find it!” (Mt. 7:14). Few were His Apostles, and even that small number was shaken with the denials of St. Peter and suicide of Judas!

The first three hundred years of the Catholic Church was a constant purging under the ten violent waves of the Roman persecutions. Then, in the age of the great Fathers of the Church, how few stood with Tradition when the “the whole world groaned to find itself Arian!” as St. Jerome recorded. St. Athanasius was the laughing stock of bishops, he was condemned in frequent synods, excommunicated by a weak Pope, and ran for his life numerous times! The few faithful Catholics were scornfully labeled “Athanasians” by the prevailing Arians. But Truth stands on its own, no matter how few profess it!

Shall we not forget the few Catholics in the time of the English persecutions when only one bishop, St. John Fisher, and a handful of priests stood publicly opposed to the new Religion? What of the relatively few found constant in all of France, when over half the bishops and priests signed the Oath of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy in 1790, and only the Catholics in the Vendee region rose up unanimously to resist the New Masonic Regime?

What of the relatively few who resisted the Communist persecution of the Church in Spain from 1936 to 1939? Also in Mexico, from 1926 to 1930, where the Cristeros and clergy boldly resisted the Freemasonic persecution? But with each of the three successive waves of attacks, the Cristeros were increasingly betrayed and deserted by the bishops and priests, down to 1937 and beyond. Then, when the liberal bishops handed all the names of the Cristeros generals to the Masons, they were hunted down like wild animals and hung up on telephone poles, for years to come. In each case, the majority of Catholics went along with the status quo, slid with the popular current, and turned their backs on those defending Truth.

Then, lo and behold, the Second Vatican Council hit the Church from 1962 to 1965! This was the “French Revolution” in the Church bringing in the new Masonic Regime! This was the “October Revolution” of the Communists penetrating within the walls of the Vatican! 250 bishops stood with Tradition, 250 bishops were progressive Modernists and the other 2,000 bishops floated somewhere in the middle!

Shall we go on? After the nuclear blast of Vatican II, when the dust somewhat settled, Abp.Lefebvre found himself quite alone in defending Tradition. There were a few bishops clandestinely applauding him from the sidelines, but only one publicly rallied with him around the banner of Christ the King, that was Bp. De Castro Mayer. When Modernist Rome tried to stop the first wave of Catholic Resistance by leveling an, albeit, null and void suspension ‘a divinis’ against Abp. Lefebvre, in 1976, many defected from the true Resistance, but he forged forward.

Then, in 1988, Abp. Lefebvre was forced to consecrate bishops for the survival of the Catholic Faith and valid sacraments. The Catholic Faith must continue! Tradition must continue! Modernist Rome, now in the grip of Judeo-Masonic forces (as proven by the document Nostra Aetate and scandalous ecumenical-Assisi meetings) leveled a null and void “excommunication”.

This nearly scared the skin off many who stood with Abp. Lefebvre. But Modernist Rome had a quick solution. They promised the fence-sitters: “We’ll let you have your nostalgic Mass and rites, as your particular ‘charisma’, but you must accept certain aspects of Vatican II as well as accept the New Mass as ‘legitimately promulgated’, and we even promise you a bishop in the future.” Those priests who abandoned the True Catholic Resistance with Abp. Lefebvre now joined the first wave of the Fake Resistance set up by Ecclesia Dei with St. Peter’s Fraternity! Abp. Lefebvre said they were doing the Devil’s work. Their key error: putting Liturgy above Doctrine.

Shall we continue with the next attempts of the Devil to infiltrate and neutralize the world’s last bastion of Catholic Resistance; the Society of St. Pius X? It was cleverly prepared by the GREC meetings that Bp. Fellay approved of, by sending priests to their discussions in the 1990’s.

Then, Modernist Rome made its attempts to lure the SSPX leaders into fresh sessions of dialogue, knowing full well that the now-deceased Abp. Lefebvre adamantly refused all discussions until Rome returns to Catholic Tradition. For him, there must be no discussions “until Rome re-crowns Our Lord Jesus Christ as King of all nations and peoples.” This was a principle based on the primacy of the Faith. Admire the beauty of it! For Abp. Lefebvre and the saints, it is always Faith before Liturgy; Doctrine above morality and canon law! Christ the King always first!

But the ancient serpent seduced the leaders of the SSPX by thinking that they could do better than our Founder, convincing them that “now is no longer the time for the outdated ‘88-ism’, things are different now”, “we have new friends in Rome” and, as for the Society’s abnormal situation, “Rome will not tolerate it any longer” (Bp. Fellay). So, dialogue was re-opened in 2010, brashly casting aside all the warnings of our Founder. The bar was lowered from: first and foremost defending the Faith, to now: “having our approval for the traditional Liturgy.”

Now, the SSPX leaders will settle with: 1. the lifting of the so-called “excommunications” and 2. the phony semblance of having the “abrogation lifted” to say the ‘62 Latin Mass Missal, as the conditions for trusting Rome’s good will. The error: placing Liturgy above Doctrine.

Then, in 2012, the tragic Vatican II Revolution within the SSPX took place. The General Chapter of that summer overthrew the principles laid down by Abp. Lefebvre and the 2006 General Chapter, and the leaders signed the Doctrinal Declaration along with the “Six Conditions For The Agreement With Rome.” This was the “thirty pieces of silver” paying for the “unilateral recognition” from unconverted Rome! “Because they have deceived My people, saying: Peace, peace: when there is no peace.” (Ezekiel 13:10).

In 2012, there arose simultaneously the second wave of the Catholic Resistance. Most priests and faithful slid with the new direction of the Conciliar-SSPX, all the while pretending “nothing has changed, everything is the same”. Yet, priests were expelled and silenced, faithful were refused Communion, talks and publications were disseminated in support of the new liberal direction. The Angelus magazine announced a new ‘non-militant approach’ to defending the Faith and that would now focus on liturgical chant, aesthetics and architecture. Pressure was now applied to the priests to stop condemning the Agreement with Modernist Rome and start seeing the positive side of the Conciliar Church (in fact, Bp. Fellay will stop calling it the “Conciliar Church” altogether), they must tone down the condemnations of immodest dress and immoral vac*#+*nes from the pulpits, they must not mention political figures, etc., etc.

Finally, in 2015 and 2017, the “thirty pieces of silver” of the Doctrinal Declaration paid off, in full. Pope Francis granted the SSPX the “favors” of jurisdiction for confessions, marriages, and holy orders. Bp. Fellay will remark: “This is not a trap!” But in fact, the neutralizing of the Society founded by Abp. Lefebvre was complete! They are at last reduced to silence! (Aside from a few insignificant peeps from uninfluential quarters).

Now, in this milieu, even fewer priests and faithful, worldwide, rose up with the second wave of the Catholic Resistance. But there were still enough to rebuild. There was still hope for a resurgence. A seminary was started in Kentucky in 2013, a handful of priests were still speaking out, and most were wholeheartedly committed to continue the work of Abp. Lefebvre. However, this was the opportune time to stifle once again, any possible resurgence of the work of Abp. Lefebvre. This time there arose the second wave of the Fake Resistance, headed by Bp. Williamson!

By 2017, not one of the bishops consecrated by Abp. Lefebvre would be found to fearlessly maintain his position; they had all been successfully neutralized! Bp. Williamson would soon squelch any hopes of resurgence by mocking the true Catholic Resistance, labeling it a reaction of “Resistants” who needed to, once and for all, “put away the toys” in their hopes of continuing Abp. Lefebvre’s work. Erroneous opinions were then recklessly introduced in his conferences and Eleison Comments, such as: “the New Mass can nourish your faith,” “the New Mass gives grace,” “this is not the time for structure and organization,” “this is not the time for seminaries as envisioned by the Council of Trent,” “scientific proof supports the New Mass miracles,” “The Thuc line poses no problem now,” etc., etc. Thus, was issued-in an entire blizzard of novelties and confusion totally and systematically opposed to the positions of Abp. Marcel Lefebvre!

Now, by 2024, not one of the six or seven bishops consecrated by Bp. Williamson publicly oppose his erroneous opinions so dangerous to the Faith! Not one is heard (at least until now), to openly maintain the doctrinal position of Abp. Lefebvre, our founder! How did the champion of Catholic Tradition come to be so quickly buried and forgotten by his own sons? How could they forget his warnings about the danger of compromise with Modernist Rome, Vatican II, and the New Mass? Why are they all silent and work in silence? Where is the missionary spirit? Why do so few courageously stand with the true Catholic Resistance as publicly and unmistakably upheld by Abp. Lefebvre? Why the criminal silence against the scandals of Modernist Rome and the diocesan bishops? What happened to the primacy of the Faith? What happened to the primacy of Doctrine? What happened to the fight for the public Rights of Christ the King? What ever happened to working for Rome’s conversion to Tradition? What happened to the goal of re-Christianizing politics, economics, the family and all social institutions? What happened to rebuilding the Catholic City?

Fulfilled now are the prophetic words of Our Lady of Fatima, “only She can help you!” Only the powerful Queen of the Holy Rosary can solve this! Let us beg Her as Her devoted children, to step in quickly and grant the Church at last, a truly Catholic Pope, fearless bishops and priests who proclaim the Social Reign of the Sacred Heart of Jesus! Let us fervently pray and offer penances for all our traditional bishops, they can still regain their first fervor! “I have one somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first charity!” (Apocalypse 2:4).

Indeed, Truth does not depend on numbers! God is pleased with a faithful few who know their nothingness and totally depend on Him and on the one He gave us as our exclusive help in this atheistic age; the Queen of the Holy Rosary! In Her hands is placed the Oratory of the Sorrowful Heart of Mary in Wentworth, New Hampshire. All it’s apostolate belongs to Her! The work of Abp. Lefebvre continues! Keep fighting, we few, we happy few!

In Christ the King,

Fr. David Hewko

“Let the storm rage and the sky darken — not for that shall we be dismayed. If we trust as we should in Mary, we shall recognize in her, the Virgin Most Powerful who with virginal foot did crush the head of the serpent.”
– Pope St. Pius X

Contacts and Resources

Rev. Fr. David Hewko can be reached at 315-391-7575 or fr.d.hewko@gmail.com
Correspondence mailing address and Mass Requests and Stipends: Rev. Fr. David Hewko, Oratory of the Sorrowful Heart of Mary, 66 Goves Lane, Wentworth, NH 03282
Donations: Checks can be made out to Sorrowful Heart of Mary Inc., 66 Goves Lane, Wentworth, NH 03282; or electronic donations can be made via PayPal.
Sermons, Catechism, Conferences, and Mass Schedules can be found primarily on SSPX-MC website, as well as the St. Mary’s Kansas Resistance website, and The Catacombs website.

Issue 25 | Advent 2023

Sorrowful Heart of Mary SSPX-MC

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Advent 2023

Dear Friends of Those Who Seek Our Lord’s Face, as the Shepherds and Magi did so eagerly, Greetings and blessings in this holy Advent!

Once again, let us turn to Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre to clarify more ongoing drizzles of confusion.

1. Error: “It’s time to give a green (or yellow) light to the Thuc line.”
Truth: Here’s Abp. Lefebvre’s answer about priests seeking consecration from the Thuc line: “Archbishop Lefebvre totally condemned their actions and warned all Catholics to have nothing to do with them. ‘They will bring ruination and scandal on the Church,’ the Archbishop replied, when asked his opinion of the scandal-ridden ‘consecrations’. Archbishop Lefebvre also stated the the actions of Ngo-Dinh-Thuc, the former Vietnamese Bishop who participated in the so-called ‘consecrations’ are quite questionable in view of the fact that he is the same individual responsible for the Palmar de Troya fiasco… Soon after the questionable ordinations, Bishop Ngo-Dinh-Thuc renounced his actions and published a letter saying that the ‘orders’ he had conferred were null and void because he had withheld his intention of conveying orders to the Palmar de Troya sect. Given his past performances, there is no reason to believe that his present fiasco is any more credible…Referring to Ngo-Dinh-Thuc, Archbishop Lefebvre said, ‘He seems to have lost all reason’.” (The Angelus, June, 1982. See also: thecatacombs.org).

2. Error: “It’s not 1988, so it’s time for seeking a canonical solution, a personal prelature, or unilateral recognition from Modernist Rome and we approved this by signing six conditions for the agreement, in 2012.”
Truth: To this illusion, Abp. Lefebvre said: “We must not be under any illusions. We are in the thick of a great fight, a great fight! We are fighting a fight guaranteed by a whole line of Popes. Hence, we should have no hesitation or fear, hesitation such as, ‘Why should we be going on our own? After all, why not join Rome, why not join the Pope?’ Yes, if Rome and the Pope were in line with Tradition, if they were carrying on the work of all the Popes of the 19th and first half of the 20th century, of course! But they themselves admit that they have set out on a new path. They themselves admit that a new era began with Vatican II. They admit that it is a new stage in the Church’s life, wholly new, based on new principles. We need not argue the point, they say it themselves. It is clear, we must drive this point home with our people, in such a way that they realize their oneness with the Church’s whole history, going back well beyond the Revolution. Of course. It is the Fight of the City-of-Satan against the City-of-God! Clearly! So we do not have to worry. We must after all trust in the grace of God.” (Abp. Lefebvre, September 6, 1990 Conference in Econe, Switzerland).

3. Error: “The New Mass gives grace. The New Mass can nourish your faith.”
Truth: Abp. Lefebvre answers in no uncertain terms: “These New Masses are not only incapable of fulfilling our Sunday obligation, but are such that we may apply to them the canonical rules which the Church customarily applies to ‘communicatio in sacris’ with Orthodox and Protestant sects.” (Conference, November 8, 1979). “It is all wasted because the holy Sacrifice of the Mass, desecrated as it is, no longer confers grace and no longer transmits it.” (Abp. Lefebvre, Open Letter to Confused Catholics, ch. 3).

4. Error: “We cannot reject the scientific evidence for the New Mass Eucharistic miracles.”
Truth: But Our Divine Lord Himself warns: “For there will rise up false Christs and false prophets, and they shall show signs and wonders, to seduce (if it were possible) even the elect.” (St. Mark 14:22). “It must be understood immediately that we do not hold to the absurd idea that if the New Mass is valid, we are free to assist at it. The Church has always forbidden the faithful to assist at the Masses of heretics and schismatics even when they are valid. It is clear that no one can assist at sacrilegious Masses or at Masses which endanger our Faith. All these innovations are authorized. One can fairly say without exaggeration that most of these [New] Masses are sacrilegious acts which pervert the Faith by diminishing it.” (Abp. Lefebvre, November 8, 1979).

5. Error: “This is not the time for seminaries. This is not the time for structure and organization.”
Truth: Abp. Lefebvre thought diametrically the opposite: “Our Lord wants Catholic priests, such as He Himself made! The pope cannot not want Catholic priests! The Church cannot not want Catholic priests!…Hence, it is wholly untrue to say that we are in danger of becoming a sect or schismatics. It is far otherwise. It is we who are most nearly in union with our Holy Father the Pope and with the Catholic Church!” (Sermon of Abp. Lefebvre, September 8, 1975 in Mariazell, Austria). “It is our bounden duty, though all unworthy, to fight for the honor of God, the Catholic Faith, and priestly renewal as integral and as vital for Holy Church.” (Abp. Lefebvre, Letter to Libre Belgique, August 21, 1975).

6. Error: “Batten down the hatches!”
Truth: “As for me, I will not resign; I will not content myself with being present, my arms dangling, at the death-throes of my Mother the Church … .We have to fight more than ever for the Social Reign of Our Lord Jesus Christ! In this battle we are not alone: we have with us all the Popes up to Pius XII, inclusively. All of them combatted Liberalism in order to deliver the Church from it. God did not grant that they succeed, but this is no reason to lay down our weapons! We have to hold on. We have to build, while the others are demolishing. The crumbled citadels have to be rebuilt, the bastions of the Faith to be reconstructed: firstly, the holy Sacrifice of the Mass of all times, which forms saints; then, our chapels, which are our true parishes; our monasteries; our large families; our enterprises faithful to the social doctrine of the Church; our politicians determined to make the politics of Jesus Christ!” ( Abp. Lefebvre, They Have Uncrowned Him, ch. 34, p.250-251).

Abp. Lefebvre believed in the Catholic Resistance as a true movement of Catholics, faithful to Tradition and determined to rebuild from the ground up, relying totally on the grace of God and Our Lady of the Rosary! Despite the chaos of our times, we resist and fight in the line of all the great Popes, Bishops, priests and laymen who would not mix Liberalism with Catholicism!

“The Revolution is the legal negation of the Kingship of Christ on earth, it is the social destruction of the Church,” said Msgr. De Segura. The conniving of the enemies of Christ prevailed at the Second Vatican Council. It is the Revolution! The Catholic Resistance is chiefly to proclaim the Kingship of Christ, working for the re-construction of the Church at every level and tirelessly resist the Modernist errors destroying her! Fight on, little flock! Great will be your crown in Heaven!

“Blessed are ye when they shall revile you, and persecute you, and speak all that is evil against you, untruly, for My sake: be glad and rejoice, for your reward is very great in Heaven!” (St. Matthew 5:11).

In Christ the King,

Fr. David Hewko

Contacts and Resources

Rev. Fr. David Hewko can be reached at 315-391-7575 or fr.d.hewko@gmail.com
Correspondence mailing address and Mass Requests and Stipends: Rev. Fr. David Hewko, Oratory of the Sorrowful Heart of Mary, 66 Goves Lane, Wentworth, NH 03282
Donations: Checks can be made out to Sorrowful Heart of Mary Inc., 66 Goves Lane, Wentworth, NH 03282; or electronic donations can be made via PayPal.
Sermons, Catechism, Conferences, and Mass Schedules can be found primarily on SSPX-MC website, as well as the St. Mary’s Kansas Resistance website, and The Catacombs website.

Declaration of Archbishop Lefebvre

Econe, 1974

We cleave, with all our heart and with all our soul, to Catholic Rome, the guardian of the Catholic Faith and of the traditions necessary for the maintenance of that Faith and to eternal Rome, mistress of wisdom and truth.

On the other hand we refuse and have always refused to follow the Rome of the neo-Protestant trend clearly manifested throughout Vatican Council II and, later, in all the reforms born of it.

All these reforms have contributed and are still contributing to the destruction of the Church, the ruin of the Priesthood, the abolishing of the Sacrifice of the Mass and of the Sacraments, the disappearance of the religious life, to naturalist and Teilhardian teaching in the universities, seminaries and catechetics, a teaching born of liberalism and Protestantism and often condemned by the solemn magisterium of the Church.

No authority, not even the highest in the hierarchy, can force us to abandon or diminish our Catholic Faith, clearly laid down and professed by the magisterium of the Church for nineteen hundred years. “But,” said St. Paul, “though we or an angel from heaven preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed” (Galatians I. 8).

Is not that what the Holy Father is telling us again today? And if there appears to be a certain contradiction between his words and his deeds as in the acts of the dicasteries, we abide by what has always been taught and turn a deaf ear to the Church’s destructive innovations.

It is not possible profoundly to modify the “lex orandi” without modifying the “lex credendi”. To the new Mass there corresponds a new catechism, a new priesthood, new seminaries, new universities, the charismatic and Pentecostal Church–all opposed to orthodoxy and to the age-old magisterium of the Church.

Born of liberalism and modernism, this Reform is poisoned through and through. It begins in heresy and ends in heresy even if not all its acts are formally heretical. Hence it is impossible for any informed and loyal Catholic to embrace this Reform or submit himself to it in any way whatsoever.

The only way of salvation for the faithful and the doctrine of the Church is a categorical refusal to accept the Reform.

It is for this cause that with no rebellion, no bitterness, no resentment, we carry on our work of training priests under the star of the timeless magisterium, convinced that we can render no greater service to the Holy Catholic Church, the Sovereign Pontiff and future generations.

It is for this cause that we hold firmly by all that has been believed and practiced in the Faith, in morals, in worship, in the teaching of the catechism, the molding of a priest and the institution of the Church, that eternal Church codified in her books before the modernist influence of the Council made itself felt, awaiting the time when the true light of Tradition shall scatter the darkness clouding the skies of eternal Rome.

In so doing, by the grace of God, the help of the Virgin Mary, of St. Joseph and St. Pius X, we are assured of remaining faithful to the Holy Roman and Catholic Church, to all the successors of Peter, and of remaining “fideles dispensatores mysteriorum Domini Nostri Jesu Christi in Spiritu Sancto.” Amen.

A Note from SSPX-MC:

Join us in the battle for the reign of Christ as King, the preservation and promulgation of the Holy Roman Catholic Faith through the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in the Tridentine Latin Rite of all time, offered by holy priests sound in the true doctrine and firmly rejecting and refusing all modernism, as passed down to them through the great Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. The Sorrowful Heart of Mary Apostolate, SSPX- MarianCorps is currently serving mission chapels throughout the United States but also including Canada, Mexico, Great Britain, Australia, and New Zealand (sadly, contingent to travel restrictions as of 2020). Please view our Mission Chapels page for details of these locations. We are honored to house the sermons of Fr. David Hewko and Fr. Hugo Ruiz every week, many times daily, as soon as they are made available to us. Please pray these works reach souls through the hands of Our Blessed Mother for their salvation and for the honor and glory of God. Let us stay united in the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church, being found always close to Our Sorrowful Mother at the foot of the Cross, for it is here we will find the throne of Divine Mercy.