Jan.
31

And why do we continue? Because we pursue the goals of the Church. [Archbishop Lefebvre: 20 Years of Struggle]

Jan.
30

We must always reflect upon and spiritually situate ourselves in the fact that we are of the Church and that we continue the Church. [Archbishop Lefebvre: 20 Years of Struggle]

Jan.
29

But we cannot be accused of having changed anything in the Church. [Archbishop Lefebvre: 20 Years of Struggle]

Jan.
28

What we hope for, of course, is that everything would be normal, that we should find ourselves no longer in this apparently illegal situation. [Archbishop Lefebvre: 20 Years of Struggle]

Jan.
27

But they would do well to remember that they are destroying the Church, not the particular laws but the fundamental laws through this new Code of Canon Law which is thoroughly inspired by this bad spirit of modernism which has been expressed in the Council and after the Council. [Archbishop Lefebvre: 20 Years of Struggle]

Jan.
26

We are reminded at every opportunity: Archbishop Lefebvre is suspended and his priests are suspended, they are not authorized to accomplish their ministry. This is to invoke in this case the particular laws. [Archbishop Lefebvre: 20 Years of Struggle]

Jan.
25

The particular laws are made to support the fundamental laws, which is the salvation of souls, for the glory of God, for the continuation of the Church. It is perfectly clear. [Archbishop Lefebvre: 20 Years of Struggle]

Jan.
24

In order to save the fundamental laws of the Church, we are forced not to observe certain particular laws. In all of this who is right, who is wrong? Clearly right are those who pursue the mission of the Church. [Archbishop Lefebvre: 20 Years of Struggle]

Jan.
23

The fundamental principles of the Code of Canon Law are being destroyed! How are we expected to submit and obey? [Archbishop Lefebvre: 20 Years of Struggle]

Jan.
22

This definition of the Church as the People of God in which all of the ministries basically can be found and in which there is no longer any distinction between the clergy and the lay people, is contrary to the dogma. [Archbishop Lefebvre: 20 Years of Struggle]

Jan.
21

When the affirmation is made that there are two supreme authorities in the Church, it cannot be denied that this is contrary to the mission of the Church. [Archbishop Lefebvre: 20 Years of Struggle]

Jan.
20

The new Code of Canon Law contains articles which are contrary to the mission of the Church. When it is permitted to give Holy Communion to a Protestant, it cannot be denied that is contrary to the mission of the Church. [Archbishop Lefebvre: 20 Years of Struggle]

Jan.
19

We oppose certain particular laws of the Church in order to save these fundamental laws. By using some of these particular laws against us, the fundamental laws are destroyed. It is contrary to the welfare of souls, contrary to the mission of the Church. [Archbishop Lefebvre: 20 Years of Struggle]

Jan.
18

In view of this, we have acted according to the fundamental laws of the Church to save souls, to save the priesthood, and to continue the Church. It is effectively these fundamental laws which are at stake. [Archbishop Lefebvre: 20 Years of Struggle]

Jan.
17

Many of the things which we have accomplished are of themselves and strictly speaking against the letter of the law, but why did we do these things? Quite simply because we believed that that which was undertaken against us was illegal and that they did not have the right to suppress our Order. [Archbishop Lefebvre: 20 Years of Struggle]

Jan.
16

And yet this was the reason why I was struck with suspension and why the priests who accepted to be ordained suffered interdiction. [Archbishop Lefebvre: 20 Years of Struggle]

Jan.
15

This is true. It is a strange state of affairs indeed to appear illegal simply by continuing to celebrate the Immemorial Mass and by continuing to ordain priests according to what was the legality up until the Council. [Archbishop Lefebvre: 20 Years of Struggle]

Jan.
14

Since their actions considered objectively are carried out in a spirit of destruction of the Church, we found ourselves practically speaking under the obligation to act in a manner which appears contrary to the legality of the Church. [Archbishop Lefebvre: 20 Years of Struggle]

Jan.
13

In fact it is they [the Modernists] who have distanced themselves from the legality of the Church and we, on the contrary, who have remained within the legality and validity. [Archbishop Lefebvre: 20 Years of Struggle]

Jan.
12

This we have always refused to do. Since we refused this, it is obvious that we placed ourselves in opposition to those who appear to be the legal Church. We were the outlaws of the Church and they appeared to respect the law. We believe this appearance to be in exact sense. [Archbishop Lefebvre: 20 Years of Struggle]

Jan.
11

One cannot accept something which was done illegally, with a bad spirit, against Tradition and against the Church, and for the destruction of the Church. [Archbishop Lefebvre: 20 Years of Struggle]

Jan.
10

Confronted with this imposture and the illegality with which all of this was accomplished and above all confronted with the spirit in which this persecution was orchestrated, a modernist, progressivist and masonic spirit, we felt duty bound to continue. [Archbishop Lefebvre: 20 Years of Struggle]

Jan.
9

All of this was imposed by force, by coercion. We also were to be coerced at all costs into abandoning this liturgy and by the same token to close our seminary. [Archbishop Lefebvre: 20 Years of Struggle]

Jan.
8

And so they exhibited the Ordo of Archbishop Bugnini and created out of thin air the obligation of the New Mass, which was imposed by the services of the Vatican and by the bishops of France. It was unfortunately in this manner that the old Mass was abandoned by communities such as the abbey of Fontgombault, under the pretext that it was necessary to obey the bishops. [Archbishop Lefebvre: 20 Years of Struggle]

Jan.
7

"Since you continue with this liturgy, you are against the Vatican Council. Since you are against the Council, you are against the pope. It is inadmissable. Therefore we suppress your order." The reasoning was simple. [Archbishop Lefebvre: 20 Years of Struggle]

Jan.
6

In reality, the true reason we have been and are persecuted―illegally once again―by Bishop Mamie, by the cardinals of Rome and the bishops of France, is our attachment to the Immemorial Mass. [Archbishop Lefebvre: 20 Years of Struggle]

Jan.
5

We are persecuted only because we maintain Tradition and in particular the liturgical Tradition. [Archbishop Lefebvre: 20 Years of Struggle]

Jan.
4

We were rooted in the Church as a good branch in a tree. This is fundamental to the providential action accomplished by the Society, and reinforces us in our existence and in our activities in general. Being truly of the Church, officially recognized by the Church, we have been persecuted. [Archbishop Lefebvre: 20 Years of Struggle]

Jan.
3

Thus our foundation took care to add to the studies a deep spiritual formation by this additional year, which constitutes a kind of novitiate, and which leads to the knowledge of what spirituality is and to the practice of the interior life―purgative, illuminative and mystical life which requires a true conversion of heart. [Archbishop Lefebvre: 20 Years of Struggle]

Jan.
2

This is the reason why we have added to the studies of philosophy and theology one year of spirituality. This year of spirituality completes the preparation of the seminarians to the priesthood by putting them in a truly spiritual atmosphere. It is certainly not an innovation in the modernist direction but rather in the direction of the tradition of the Church. [Archbishop Lefebvre: 20 Years of Struggle]

Jan.
1

We have no other goal nor have we ever innovated except in the sense of tradition, by restoring some elements which were lacking in the formation given to seminarians, especially at the spiritual level. [Archbishop Lefebvre: 20 Years of Struggle]