Along with other Traditional Bishops throughout the world?
People Asking To Whom It May Concern;
The stories of Our Lady of Good Success, Mother Mariana and other books published about the Great Apostasy which imply the defeat of the AntiChrist and the restoration of the Church .
To understand the seriousness of the situation in the Church as a result of the Vatican II council you need to understand theology. Catholics are bound by the deposit of faith, which consists of “The Hierarchy, the Bible and Tradition,” not by private revelations, private opinions of prelates, doctors of the church or the Saints.
As I have said many times before is that again, never in the history of the Catholic Church have we ever been without a true Pope besides the period of interregnum, and these periods have lasted only days, months or a few years from when a Pope has died or resigned and the next elected. During these same periods there has been Cardinals still tending to the affairs of the Church that were appointed to do so. Also, no matter what ANYONE ELSE SAYS, the church has never had any Pope in church history that ever became a formal, public heretic.(Broke Infallibility) Now to understand this term, public, means to have indoctrinated into the universal church a teaching which has contradicted past teachings of the church that are known as the deposit of the faith. Formal means that the person involved in the heresy has been approached by members of the church and have expressed their concern towards these teachings and once the accuser makes the decision to continue to institute these changes he then becomes a formal, public heretic. This is confirmed by Vatican Council I 1869. and in church teaching under “Infallibility.”
As a result of the actions of Pope Paul VI and the approval of the Vatican II council, Paul VI became automatically excommunicated right after the “Ottaviani Intervention.” (9-25-69) The excommunication occurred on November 19, 1969 when Paul VI publicly demanded, through the news media and referring to the”Ottaviani Intervention,” that “all must adhere” to the the Vatican II Council. A policy which exists to this very day.
The institutional Catholic church at or around this time became the Apostate church and the True Church went into the wilderness (Apoc:12), pope less. and the “Great Apostasy,” began, which lasts about 40 to 50 years according to ALL sources..
The Sede Vacantist position:
What is significant here is that after, say, 1969 or so, we lost not only the juridical structure of the papacy, but a legitimately recognized juridical hierarchy. What is the result is not only a break in line of popes, but the juridical or legitimate ability to elect a successor to the papacy having no acceptable or universally recognized formal jurisdiction. Therefore, as of today, there is no longer the normal means to elect a papal successor to continue the Papal office, something even sede vacantists have no plans to do and even if they did, very few would accept the results. Nor can we look to the Vatican II Church to have them elect a Pope, since they have apostatized and are cut off from the Church. Therefore, the papal line of succession taught by Vatican Council I has ended. Therefore, if anyone says that it is not according to the institution of Christ our Lord himself, that is, by divine law, that St. Peter has perpetual successors in the primacy over the whole Church; or if anyone says that the Roman Pontiff is not the successor of St. Peter in the same primacy: let him be anathema (D1825). If you look this up in the Dogmatic writings of the Church, it clearly states that Popes have to have an unending line and we have never had a break in the Line. NO MATTER WHAT ANYONE ELSE SAYS OTHER WISE. My friends, this is the main reason which has divided the Traditional Catholics for the last 50 years. Do we have the answer to this dilemma, yes we do and its up to the faithful to accept it if you want to be on the winning team and not live on a false hope.. It seems, at least, most of the traditionalists believe and accept that we are living in the days of the “Great Apostasy.” But most have different positions on the outcome and the identity of the AntiChrist or AntiChrists.
St. Paul, Second Thessalonians, Chapter 2 tells us: … Let no one deceive you in any way, for the day of the Lord will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the Man of Sin is revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and is exalted above all that is called God, or that is worshiped, so that he sits in the temple of God and gives himself out as if he were God….. And then the wicked one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will slay with the breath of his mouth and will destroy with the brightness of his coming.”
Once again, St. Paul and the other Apostles makes it clear that it’s the AntiChrists who institute the “Great Apostasy” (In the scriptures it’s defined as a Schism) It’s not the other way around, which many of the traditional fathers have it backwards. Many of the sede vacantists do not acknowledge these Vatican II popes as the AntiChrists to this day even when I have shown them where each one of them is in the Scriptures, up until Benedict XVI. Even the Church defines under “AntiChrist,” a consensus that He will most likely be a false pope. However again, he is not a single one individual but a series of them which Christ makes that clear in referring to the end times, He says many AntiChrists and false prophets, (Matt: 24: 24) but only one AntiChrist, (false high priest) can sit on the chair at a time. These conclusions are available to those who wish to send for them. So again my friends, this V-2 Great Apostasy and it’s AntiChrists can only be defeated by the truth of Our Lords return, again and again, on the last Pentecost Sunday. There is NO REVERSAL OF A DIVINE TRUTH anymore than God could stop His Crucifixion. Also if this were not true than THEIR WOULD NEVER BE A SECOND COMING OF CHRIST, or a REASON FOR HIM TO COME BACK. Why would He say “…if those days were not shortened not even the elect would be saved.?” Traditionalists are the elect. Now does this mean you have to be a sede vacantist? The truth is that every Catholic who rejects the Vatican II council and the new Mass is subjectively a sede vacantist whether they realize it or not.
In concluding, my dear faithful, we must all come to recognize the realization that as it stands up to this present time, the line of successors has been broken without any acceptable way to mend it and according to most Doctors of the Church the Bible tells us that the “Great Apostasy,” only lasts about 40 to 50 years before Christ comes back which doesn’t give us much time to mend the line or come to a common Logical Conclusion.
Grace be with you;
In Christ, Joseph B. D. Saraceno March 9th, 2013 M/O St. Joseph
Revised November 2015 Month of the Holy Souls