Day: October 25, 2014

Dr. White on Dickens in Broadstairs

Dr. White on Dickens in Broadstairs posted in News & Announcements on October 25, 2014

Many followers of Bishop Williamson’s and Dr. White’s work who were unable to attend the latter’s lectures on Dickens in England on August 2–3, 2014, have asked about purchasing recordings of the conferences. As part of the launch of the Bishop’s new site, Dr. White’s lectures have also been made available. Each of his three talks is available separately, but those interested in the full set can get them here for immediate downloading, or by mail in audio CD or cassette format. The set is discounted, so customers save 10 or 20 percent off the cost of purchasing each talk individually. Each of these informative and entertaining conferences begins with one of the doctor’s “Bishop Williamson limericks.” Don’t miss them!

Customer accounts, PayPal orders, & EC 378

Customer accounts, PayPal orders, & EC 378 posted in News & Announcements on October 25, 2014

As part of our ongoing website development, three technical errors have been observed and are being or have been fixed: first, the deletion of some customer accounts last weekend (Oct. 17); second, the inability to download mp3’s immediately after placing and paying for an order via PayPal; third, errors with the first and second transmissions of EC 378.

In the first case, thanks to a customer from Australia, we believe that the error has been eliminated and payments processed via the site through PayPal will now go through as expected. In the second, we are in the process of notifying affected customers that their passwords have been reset. The inconvenience this will occasion is the need, at customers’ convenience, to reset passwords to those of their choosing. In the third case, our own tests suggested that the first transmission of EC 378 was somewhat of a disaster, and the recent re-transmission was clean & successful. We have heard from some readers, however, that the recent attempt to re-send EC 378 resulted in simply a blank, black email. Thanks to this feedback we have identified another programming error, that we believe we have fixed. (Would you believe that three “F’s” in the wrong place were the problem?) We would appreciate hearing from anyone who has seen this problem and who needs yet another copy of EC 378. The third time, as they say, is a charm.

We appreciate your patience & continued interest in our new site. Do bear with us, as the undertaking has been massive and plagued with a fair number of glitches and bugs, as one might expect for an endeavour of this magnitude. Please continue to let us know at admin@eleisoncomments.com or web-admin@stmarcelinitiative.​com about errors you observe. The more we know about what’ wrong, the more quickly we can get it fixed.

Meanwhile, thank you for your interest in His Excellency’s work and please do continue to visit the site.

Inside Story – II

Inside Story – II posted in Eleison Comments on October 25, 2014

When the idea of a Rosary Crusade for the Consecration of Russia was first put to Bishop Fellay in June of 2006, he did not yet know that the idea was in fact a directive from Our Lady – the messenger had been too shy to tell him. So he did not knowingly go against Heaven’s will when on returning to Switzerland after his meeting with the messenger, he decided to take up the idea of a Crusade, but to apply it primarily to the liberation of the Tridentine Mass, leaving Russia’s Consecration among the secondary intentions. So, as Our Lady told her messenger, while she would bless the first Crusade as a sign that the messages were really from her, it would not be to confirm that the liberation of the Mass was what she really wanted. The true answer to the crisis of Church and world lay in Russia’s Consecration, as would soon be made very clear to the Bishop.

So, given the backing of Our Lady, the first Crusade was an unexpected success, both in the number of rosaries prayed by the people, and in Pope Benedict XVI’s fulfilment of Bishop Fellay’s long-standing wish by the declaration in his Motu Proprio of July 2007, that the Tridentine Mass had never been abrogated.

However, already in August of 2006, Our Lady had directed her messenger to send to Bishop Fellay a letter in which he was this time fully informed of all the details of her original request, including that it came from Heaven. To this letter the Bishop had responded positively, saying that he would use the boost from the first Crusade to launch the second, and that it would be best if he himself took the matter in hand. But one year later, soon after the Motu Proprio until the end of 2007, Our Lady directed the messenger to write to him, again and again, to remind him of her wish for a second Crusade that would be properly dedicated to the Consecration of Russia.

Still Bishop Fellay hesitated to commit himself, so in early 2008 Our Lady came back even more insistently with the same request for the Crusade to be dedicated to the Consecration. The problem was that Bishop Fellay had long been working on his own plan to solve the Church crisis by a reconciliation between the Society of St Pius X and Rome, and Our Lady’s request did not fit in with that plan. Therefore the more progress he seemed to be making with the Romans towards reconciliation, the more difficult it was becoming for him to keep his promise of doing what she asked, because he knew that what she asked would upset the Romans. Indeed . . .

It was at about this time that the messenger, being unaware of why the Bishop was continuing to stall over Our Lady’s request, asked her if the reason was that the Bishop was not sure that the request was indeed coming from Our Lady. “No,” came the simple answer, as Our Lady lowered her head and shook it gently from side to side, “that is not why.” Our Lady did not say what the real reason was, she only said that it was not because the Bishop did not believe that it was herself making the request.

We approach the climax of the drama. Drama it was. In early 2008 the Blessed Virgin’s message concerning the Consecration of Russia was becoming urgent, as she knew that the Bishop was seriously thinking of making use of the second Crusade for his own purposes. This time he wanted to use it to achieve the second of the pre-conditions for discussions with Rome – the lifting of the so-called excommunications of the four SSPX bishops in 1988.

Kyrie eleison.

(*Famous line from a poem by the Scot, Robbie Burns (1759–1796), meaning “go often wrong.”)