My
dear friends,
The
See of Peter and the posts of authority in Rome being occupied
by anti-Christs, the destruction of the Kingdom of Our Lord
is being rapidly carried out even within His Mystical Body
here below, especially through the corruption of the Holy
Mass which is both the splendid expression of the triumph
of Our Lord on the Cross - Regnavit a Ligno Deus - and the
source of the extension of His kingdom over souls and over
societies. Hence the absolute need appears obvious of ensuring
the permanency and continuation of the adorable Sacrifice
of Our Lord in order that "His Kingdom come."
The corruption of the Holy Mass has brought the corruption
of the priesthood and the universal decadence of Faith in
the divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
God
raised up the Priestly Society of St. Pius X for the maintenance
and perpetuity of His glorious and expiatory Sacrifice within
the Church. He chose Himself some true priests instructed
in and convinced of these divine mysteries. God bestowed
upon me the grace to prepare these Levites and to confer
upon them the grace of the priesthood for the continuation
of the true Sacrifice according to the definition of the
Council of Trent.
This
is what has brought down upon our heads persecution by the
Rome of the anti-Christs. Since this Rome, Modernist and
Liberal, is carrying on its work of destruction of the Kingdom
of Our Lord, as Assisi and the confirmation of the Liberal
theses of Vatican II on Religious Liberty prove, I find
myself constrained by Divine Providence to pass on the grace
of the Catholic episcopacy which I received, in order that
the Church and the Catholic priesthood continue to subsist
for the glory of God and for the salvation of souls.
That
is why, convinced that I am only carrying out the holy will
of Our Lord, I am writing this letter to ask you to agree
to receive the grace of the Catholic episcopacy, just as
I have already conferred it on other priests in other circumstances.
I will bestow this grace upon you, confident that without
too long a delay the See of Peter will be occupied by a
successor of Peter who is perfectly Catholic, and into whose
hands you will be able to put back the grace of your episcopacy
so that he may confirm it.
The
main purpose of my passing on the episcopacy is that the
grace of priestly orders be continued, for the true Sacrifice
of the Mass to be continued, and that the grace of the Sacrament
of Confirmation be bestowed upon children and upon the faithful
who will ask you for it.
I beseech
you to remain attached to the See of Peter, to the Roman
Church, Mother and Mistress of all Churches, in the integral
Catholic Faith, expressed in the various creeds of our Catholic
Faith, in the Catechism of the Council of Trent, in conformity
with what you were taught in your seminary. Remain faithful
in the handing down of this Faith so that the Kingdom of
Our Lord may come.
Finally,
I beseech you to remain attached to the Priestly Society
of St. Pius X, to remain profoundly united amongst yourselves,
in submission to the Society's Superior General, in the
Catholic Faith of all time, remembering the words of St.
Paul to the Galatians (1:8-9): "But even if we or an
angel from heaven were to teach you a different gospel from
the one we have taught you, let him be anathema."
As
we have said before, now again I say: "if anyone teaches
you a different gospel from what you have received, let
him be anathema." My dear friends, be my consolation
in Christ Jesus, remain strong in the Faith, faithful to
the true Sacrifice of the Mass, to the true and holy priesthood
of Our Lord for the triumph and glory of Jesus in heaven
and upon earth, for the salvation of souls, for the salvation
of my own soul.
In
the hearts of Jesus and Mary I embrace you and bless you.
Your father in Christ Jesus,
+
Marcel Lefebvre
