This is going to be a bit messy through all of the cross arguments and linkage, but here it goes. S.D. Wright, who is a sedevacantist like yours truly, posted a response to a tweet from someone called Anthony, who was having a bit of a late night online meltdown about Catholics of our particular persuasion. Wright’s response was mainly directed at this snippet from the aforementioned Anthony:
“I’ve never heard a Sede tell me how coming to that position has helped their spiritual life. I’ve never heard a Sede conversion story that led to someone finding peace in their soul.”
That’s most probably because us Sedes take such a position for granted. It’s so obvious that it doesn’t bare mentioning. Kind of like having to declare that water is wet, or the sky is blue, or communists should be thrown out of helicopters and their relatives sent the bill for the Jet A1. You may as well just say communists and leave the other part implied.
But perhaps the obviousness of such a truth is what leaves those on the outside blind to it. So in the interests of religious harmony, allow me to explain the massive benefits of becoming a Sede.
In my corner of Substack I am besieged on a daily basis by writers wringing their hands to the sky and wailing tears of disbelief at the ever more heretical and diabolical decisions and messages spewing forth from the cesspit of devil worshippers inhabiting the public entity formerly known as the Catholic Church. Here are some just from this weekend, and in the order in which I find them in my subscription page:
Palm Sunday under Sleeping Shepherds
Best Words from a Pope in 15 Years?(Spoiler alert – oh, you know the drill).
Vatican Asks the Last Remaining European Catholic Confessional State Not to be Too Catholic
Middle Management Cracks Down on the TLM
Cardinal Roche’s Unity Means Submission
On and on it goes. I am at the point now where I don’t read most of this stuff. It washes over me like the tears of liberals in the job market holding their worthless and expensive degrees. I simply don’t care, not because I am heartless or a bad Catholic. On the contrary, it is because I am a good Catholic that I don’t care anymore.
Because these people are not Catholics, and neither is their institution. They do not speak for me, they do not represent me, and we are not allies in any sense. On the contrary, they wish me and my kind dead and buried. We are enemies. And as a good Catholic I love my enemies, which means that I want the best for them, which in this case would entail either that they convert to the Catholic faith or we condemn them to death and let God sort them out.
My spiritual life has been immensely strengthened by becoming a Sedevacantist. I now understand the true mass and appreciate its beauty, and its depth of meaning. I am no longer dismayed by the fact that in the past I was not able to reconcile my feelings of emptiness when I attended a novus ordo mass. Now I know that that mass is an abomination put in place by protestants, Jews and Freemasons. I would be dismayed if in fact it had ever moved me at any point.
And I enjoy immense peace in my soul through my decision to become a Sedevacantist. The machinations and manipulations of the heretics in the former Vatican have no effect on me. I look at them with pity, but also I am overjoyed at times by their inability to constrain themselves. Their increasingly hysterical exaggerations are having the very real effect of exposing them to everyday Christians for what they are. They are caught in a vice of their own design. As they continue to push the boundaries of what they think they can get away with, more and more Christians seek out the true remaining Church in an effort to escape from such obvious public heresy.
We are living in a truly blessed time in Christian history, because God is providing all of us with a clear message on the true state of things, both in this period in time but also in the grandest scheme of all things. Those with eyes to see and ears to hear truly have a great deal to witness in these days.
It is the people such as Anthony who are most at sea right now. Those still clinging to a hope that someone will rise up in the Vatican and put things right. The satanists in that institution hold such people in disdain, while for me I just feel sorry for them. They are the agnostics of the current spiritual war, having climbed up on the tower of truth but lacking the courage to leap into the true baptismal waters. Sedevacantism gives you the inner peace of knowing that things are right with the true Church while enriching your inner spiritual life by fully understanding that God indeed has never abandoned His Church.
Come on in, Anthony. The water is fine, and warm, and pure.
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