The Consecrations of July 1

After 38 years, Écône will once again become the setting for consecrations—without the approval of neo-modernist and neo-Protestant Rome, but with the approval of eternal Rome, the guardian of truth and wisdom. Since we have no contact whatsoever with those involved in this momentous event, we can only judge it from the outside. From this perspective, everything seems to be unfolding within a framework that Archbishop Lefebvre would have fully approved of.

But we must still ask ourselves a few questions. If the Society is truly determined to face excommunications, as Archbishop Lefebvre did, all the concessions granted by Rome will fall away. All the ties by which Rome had bound the Society will be severed. Marriages, confessions, and ordinations will take place as they did in Archbishop Lefebvre’s time. Is this truly the way it should be? Time will tell. As for those elected, we hope they possess the same dispositions that Archbishop Lefebvre desired for those consecrated in 1988. As for the consecrating bishops, do they have the same intentions as Archbishop Lefebvre did in 1988? There again, time will tell. It is not easy to erase 25 years of engagement with conciliar Rome in an instant, but anything is possible if they have the grace to possess the same dispositions that Archbishop Lefebvre had on June 30, 1988.

May Our Lady of Good Counsel obtain for them this grace to renew the struggle of the holy bishops Archbishop Lefebvre and Bishop de Castro Mayer, who defended us against the attacks of the modernists entrenched in Rome.

+ Thomas Aquinas, O.S.B.