Fr. Gabriel Lavery

@TLM_Ryan @BishopBarron Fruits of apostasy. The Novus Ordo church is not the Catholic Church and can never be. It's missing the four marks of the true Church. Those who seek a "restoration" through that false church are greatly deceived.

@BishopBarron Fruits of the council. We must go back to pre-conciliar practices. It’s the only thing that shows, consistently, an ability to grow and maintain.

It was with real sadness that I learned that the monks of the Abbey of La Trappe in Normandy are considering closing down their operation. As the name suggests, this monastery is the mother house of the Trappist Order, a reform of the Cistercian movement and a particularly intense form of Benedictine life, famous for its austerity and silence. I came to know of La Trappe through Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk of the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky, whom I read with great passion when I was a young man. La Trappe shaped Merton, who in turn opened so much of the spiritual life to me. Founded over nine hundred years ago, La Trappe has survived the Black Death, the Hundred Years' War, the Protestant Reformation, the French Revolution, and the world wars of the twentieth century. That this venerable monastery cannot find enough vocations to keep it alive is, in my judgment, a sign of the spiritual disaster that has befallen Europe in the last hundred years: an ideological secularism that is rotting the soul of the West. Let's redouble our prayers that the monks of La Trappe might find a way to preserve their great Abbey. It is needed especially now.

@observeratus @matthew_sede @NovusOrdoWatch He can't, because this is an error completely invented by Thesis clergy. Not a single theologian supports it and it is perilously close to contradicting the anathema issued by the Council of Trent on the subject... if it doesn't actually contradict.

@matthew_sede @NovusOrdoWatch Show us, from approved theology manuals.

It's the tired old "God wouldn't let that happen" argument. Meanwhile they think that the official teachings and decrees of the Holy See are subject to review and validation by self-appointed "experts" like Marshall, Kwasniewski, Sammons.

@Liam15789932, you are correct in saying that this is not Catholic teaching. However, this error is not held by most sede clergy. It is a highly erroneous teaching invented by certain clergy who hold the Thesis Cassiciacum. They have misused the term "sacramental jurisdiction," which is not used by very many theologians, and have invented a new distinction, claiming it is something entirely different from the power to rule which is what all jurisdiction is. This directly contradicts the 1917 code of canon law which states that jurisdiction is the power to rule, whether it is in the internal forum, sacramental or non-sacramental, or in the external forum. The few theologians who do use the term sacramental jurisdiction use it in the correct sense of jurisdiction to *rule over subjects* exercised in the sacrament of Penance, *not* as something completely different from other jurisdiction. It is extremely unfortunate that the Thesis clergy continue to push this completely untheological and indefensible error of claiming a distinction between jurisdiction to rule and jurisdiction to give the sacraments, which they define as mere permission, not true jurisdiction to rule.

@matthew_sede @NovusOrdoWatch Has Sedevacantism moved to the stage whereby they make up the rules for themselves because that isn’t Catholic teaching.

4) Some calendars leave off the following statement which the US bishops said is an integral part of the easier 1951 fast rules because they used powers granted by Pius XII who insisted that the bishops add this requirement of compensation. Compensation is the urging of another good work as replacement for easing the rules of fasting, but without making any particular good work strictly obligatory under pain of sin. The paragraph added by the US bishops is as follows: "We earnestly exhort the faithful during the periods of fast and abstinence to attend daily Mass; to receive Holy Communion often; to take part more frequently in exercises of piety; to give generously to works of religion and charity; to perform acts of kindness toward the sick, the aged, and the poor; to practice voluntary self-denial especially regarding alcoholic drink and worldly amusements; and to pray more fervently, particularly for the intentions of the Holy Father." The SSPV calendar has this paragraph but leaves off the phrase "especially regarding alcoholic drink and worldly amusements." This seems to be from copying this paragraph from the Fr. Connell edition of the Baltimore Catechism where the phrase was left off, apparently by accidental omission. The official regulations published in 1951 and repeated in the years following always contain this phrase. Although there is no Holy Father at the moment, we can still pray for the intentions of all true Popes as theologians explain them, such as the various needs of the Church and the conversion of heretics and infidels. Why not also use this time of Lent to pray for a true Pope? Pius XII added this requirement in his 1949 decree "in view of the critical circumstances of the present time." Things are much more critical now.

3) One member of the so-called "resistance" announced that the two smaller meals together can't be more than the main meal. That's misleading as worded. The law requires that the two smaller meals cannot equal an ordinary full meal for that individual. It has nothing to do with how big the main meal is on that particular day. Some Catholics mistakenly think as long as they eat more at the main meal that day they can eat more at the smaller meals. Clearly this would defeat any purpose of fasting.

A 🧵with a few corrections to various versions of Lenten regulations I have seen announced by traditional clergy: 1) The CMRI calendar for 2026 has a revision in the wording for some reason and now says the fast obliges those "59 years of age inclusive." This is, of course, incorrect since those who are 59 years of age are not bound. Previous years of the calendar used the official wording of the US bishops from 1951 as follows: "Everyone over 21 and under 59 years of age is also bound to observe the law of fast." Of course, in Church law, unlike civil law, one is not 59 years of age until midnight at the end of his 59th birthday. So, the official commentary that came with the 1951 fast and abstinence rules explains: "The duty to fast begins on the day after one's 21st birthday and continues until midnight of one's 59th birthday." This is abundantly clear. The following passage from 1957 by a doctor of Canon Law, Fr. John Danagher, C.M., explains this well: "A person is not bound to fast on his twenty-first birthday. Once the obligation begins, it perdures until the beginning of the sixtieth year, according to the wording of Canon 1254, §2. That is why our regulations, given in English, read that one must fast if he is under fifty-nine years of age. We speak of a man as being fifty-eight years old until the day of his fifty-ninth birthday. Once he passes that date, while we commonly say that he is fifty-nine years old, he has actually begun his sixtieth year. That is the dividing line, canonically, between fasting and non-fasting" (Homiletic and Pastoral Review, Vol. 57, p. 344. Emphasis added.) The whole article, which is quite good, may be read here: archive.org/details/sim_ho…

@james_tusonAU @JaKatholic @libertyqueenbee The four marks which identify the one true Church of Christ and distinguish it from false churches which do not have these marks. They are that the Church is: One, holy, catholic (i.e. universal), and apostolic. Lesson 12 of the Baltimore Catechism if you have it.

@FrLavery @JaKatholic @libertyqueenbee I'm new to this area on twitter, what are the four marks?

This guy is seriously of bad will. He’s also a heretic with a partner (Rob) who has anger issues & both have virtually no good knowledge of the faith. Frightening that someone might listen to them. Any sedes giving this guy an audience are being used to increase his brand.

@NovusOrdoWatch Dr. K. is on an mission to make sure no one ever so much as thinks about being Catholic. He's miserable in his Novus Ordo church and wants to make sure everyone else is just as miserable.

For Dr. Kwasniewski, the visibility argument is only good enough to 'refute' Sedevacantism. It's never good enough for him to actually submit to his oh-so visible 'Pope'.

@RhettButlerJMJ @SSPXEN He's not the Pope and those aren't true Cardinals. That's the only answer consistent with the Catholic Faith.

@SSPXEN If the Vatican does not allow the SSPX to consecrate bishops while continuing to allow the Chinese Communist Party, the CCP, to consecrate bishops, it will clearly demonstrate that the schismatics are the Vatican hierarchy led by Pope Leo and Cardinal Fernandez, not the SSPX.

Can the SSPX Be Forbidden To Do What Is Permitted to the Chinese Communist Party? dlvr.it/TQxldB

@D1870473838573 @SUBWAY I was wondering the same. Not that they should have needed to, of course.

@FrLavery @SUBWAY Given this looks like it was made in a document, why didn't they run it through Spellcheck?

At @SUBWAY today. The ability to spell and write correctly is a dying skill. Public schools are too busy brainwashing students with their liberal agenda and making sure they have totally lost their morals by the time they graduate.

@FSSPXFR @TC_HELLCAT Your error is not in resisting modernism. It is in thinking that you have to remain in communion with modernists in order to remain Catholic. And in thinking that it is possible to suffer persecution for the name of Christ, inflicted BY the man you claim has Christ's authority.

They say: “We recognize the Pope” “We reject his council” “We reject his liturgy” “We reject his magisterial reforms” “We reject obedience to his governance” “But we are not schismatic” Wrap your head around that ecclesiological paradox if you can…

The premise is that any church that claims to be the one true Church must have the four marks of the Church. Look at the parishes in your diocese. Can you identify where all four marks, or even one of them, is in those parishes? No. They are nearly indistinguishable from Anglicans and other Protestants. Case closed. You can go to your local diocesan "Latin Mass" if you want artificially flavored religion that makes you *feel* like you belong to a church with the four marks, but you'll still be part of an organization that is spreading heresy every single day in every so-called diocese in the world. You can't excuse it as the behavior of a few rotten bishops. It's literally the entire Novus Ordo, with it's "pope" leading the way. Some high Anglicans can have some of the nice externals too, but any Catholic knows better than to think that is what makes a church Catholic.

@libertyqueenbee Sedes calling people heretics is crazy. I will not sugar coat it. The current Pontiff is the legitimate pontiff, you guys are wrong, and you will probably go to hell if you do not repent. You are risking your soul on a premise that is shaky at best.

@realsedepicante Right. If a mere fraction of the nonsense that goes on in Novus Ordo dioceses were to happen among true Catholic clergy (aka traditional bishops and priests), the V2 apologists would be saying: "See what a joke they are! There's no way that's the Catholic Church!"

Man......sede drama is so boring when compared to the daily lives of Novus Ordos.

@HierB4TheAC In the pews in church 🤷

@FrLavery Father is there a place one can watch or listen to your homilies? Or even read them?

St Alphonsus, St John Bosco, St Anthony Claret, St Francis de Sales, and numerous others all wrote books against the Protestants and other false teachers of their day, in order to worn the faithful against wolves. Clearly they believed that prayer alone without taking the means to strengthen the faithful by instruction in correct doctrine is not enough. There is a duty, likewise, today to warn against current errors which are the worst in the entire history of the Church.

When you have to say "I'm not trying to be some schismatic" while saying that the official teachings of your "pope" are wrong, you know you no longer have the Catholic Faith regarding the papacy. Try harder to be Catholic, Kennedy. Just admit the man isn't Pope.