Issue 16 - October/Novmber 2020
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Mary, The Cause of Our Joy! |
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Our Lady of the Rosary - Our Lady of Fatima! |
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Our Lady of Fatima Chapel
in Massachusetts
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Fr. Hewko was able to obtain a magnificent, handmade statue of Our Lady of Fatima, from Fatima, Portugal! Father also had an exquisite crown found for Her sweet head and a beautiful Rosary with which to grace Her hands! It is Father Hewko's earnest hope that She will be able to visit a short while at the different homes of devoted families once a secure traveling case can be procured.
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A beautiful-in-Her-suffering statue of Our Lady of Sorrows also graces the Our Lady of Fatima Chapel. The statue arrived in time for Her
Feast of the Seven Sorrows.
Next to Our Lady of Sorrows are placed the Instruments of the Passion of Our Lord. Our Mother of Sorrows holds Her Son's Crown of Thorns in Her own hands and to Her left, are placed the Sponge which was offered to Her Son soaking with vinegar and gall, the Lance which pierced His Sacred Side, the Thirty Pieces of Silver for which He was betrayed, the die with which lots were cast for His vesture, the Rooster which reminded St. Peter of his betrayal, the three large Nails which pierced His hands and feet to the Cross, the instruments of the Flagellation, and the Ladder which was used to lower Her Son's Sacred Body after His Death on the Cross.
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Postcards of the Resistance
'Front Lines'
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Holy Baptism and First Communion ... |
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...of Fr. Hewko's Aunt Nancy! At 82 years old, Father's Aunt (in the white dress) was blessed to receive these Holy Sacraments from her priestly nephew. Deo gratias!
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In Texas - A Visit with a Traditional Priest |
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Fr. Hewko was able to visit with Fr. Louis Campbell, a long time Traditional priest in his eighties. Fr. Campbell's St. Jude's Shrine in Houston has had a Traditional Mass every Sunday since Vatican II! |
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Part of an altarpiece being repaired, showing Our Lady's mercy to the Suffering Souls |
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Fr. Campbell gives everyone the chance to breathe, literally! |
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In Kansas - A beautiful Wedding |
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Meet the newly married Mr. and Mrs. Luke and Rachel (née Cline) Wingerter, married on the Feast of St. Raphael, October 24th! May this Holy Archangel watch over them all their days!
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After having consecrated their marriage to the Immaculate Heart of Mary near the Altar, Luke and Rachel process out as husband and wife! "What God hath put together, no man can put asunder!" St. Mark 10:9 |
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St. Augustine of Canterbury, sent by Pope Gregory the Great in 595 as the "Apostle to the English," first met the pagan King Ethelbert and his queen on this spot, marked by the Celtic Cross in Canterbury, England. St. Augustine converted him to the Catholic Faith and soon the rest of the nation followed!
Father Hewko was able to say Mass under this Cross,
with the faithful devoutly assisting!
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Many mysteries of the Faith are represented here on this intricate Celtic Cross:
the Annunciation, Our Lady of the Apocalypse, the Crucifixion, etc.
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Translation of the Latin
After many dangers and difficulties by land and by sea Augustine landed at last on these shores of Richborough in the Isle of Thanet. On this spot he met King Ethelbert and preached his first sermon to our countrymen.
Thus he happily planted the Christian Faith which spread with marvelous speed throughout the whole of England. A.D. 1596
That the memory of these events may be preserved among the English, Granville George Leveson Gower, 2nd Earl of Granville - Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports has erected this monument. A.D. 1884
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Typical Medieval English Church |
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This beautiful stone Church is reminiscent of the English Catholic ages of the Faith, before it's seizure by the Anglicans during the Protestant Reformation, who turned them into houses of Anglican 'worship' and whose Ordinations and Consecrations were condemned by Pope Leo XIII as utterly invalid.
(How long will it take for the new-Conciliar Sacraments to likely be declared invalid, as they are strikingly similar to the Anglican Rites?)
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Modern Sites of English Martyrs |
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Oaten Hill in Canterbury in the south east of England is the site of execution of several English Catholic Martyrs.
The Old City Bar parking lot was one such site for three priests and a layman who were martyred for the Catholic Faith here. They were hanged, drawn, and quartered on this spot on October 1, 1588.
The priests were the Blessed Fathers Robert Wilcox, Gerard Edwards, and Christopher Buxton. These holy men were martyred for the 'crime' of being priests. Blessed Robert Widmerpool, a schoolmaster, was martyred for the 'crime' of giving aid to a priest.
These holy Martyrs counted themselves as greatly blessed for being condemned to die in the same city as the great St. Thomas à Becket who was martyred here in 1170.
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To the left, a picture of Father Hewko with the same two young Resistance knights- in-training, at the hill of the martyrdom of the Augustinian priest, St. John Stone.
A few excerpts of his life and martyrdom:
During the quest for supporters for the contemplated divorce of Queen Catherine, Fr. Stone was approached by the agents of the King. Being a doctor of theology, every effort was made to win his influence and to gain the weight of his opinion at the Council convoked at Canterbury; but he was resolute in his denunciation of the divorce as being contrary to the tenets of morality and justice.
During the time of the Reformation Parliament, Fr. Stone publicly denounced from the pulpit of the Augustinian Friars the claim of King Henry VIII to spiritual supremacy over the English Church.
On December 14, 1538, during the reign of King Henry VIII, the Bishop of Dover visited Canterbury and called on the Augustinian friary with an order to close it down as part of the 'Dissolution of Monasteries' in England. He found the Augustinian Friars to be in great poverty. As each friar was expelled he had to sign two documents: one acknowledging the king as supreme head of the church in England, and another declaring their surrender of their friary to be voluntary. Fr. Stone alone among his brothers refused to sign, and spoke in clear terms of his objections to the king's claims over the Church.
On December 27, 1539, Fr. Stone gave his life for the Faith: "Behold I close my apostolate in my blood, in my death I shall find Life, for I die for a holy cause, the defence of the Church of God, infallible and immaculate!" Fr. Stone said, as the executioners prepared to do their work. Fr. Stone was hanged, drawn and quartered. His heart and viscera were thrown into the fire. Because he was considered a traitor, his head and body were put on display at the entrance to the city of Canterbury.
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Mrs. Barry of England has a great devotion to St. Cuthbert Mayne, a priest who was harshly imprisoned and martyred during the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
Mrs. Barry is lovingly known as the 'Apostle of St. Cuthbert Mayne' and despite her needing two canes, Mrs. Barry is a great fightress for the Faith!
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A few excerpts from the life of the Saint...
After meeting St. Edmund Campion and other Catholics at Oxford University, St. Cuthbert Mayne converted to Catholicism and was ordained a priest in the Roman Catholic Church at Douai in 1575 and on 7 February in the following year he obtained the degree of Bachelor of Theology of Douai University. On 24 April 1576, he left for the English missions.
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Missionaries from Douai were looked upon as papal agents intent, on overthrowing the Queen. On 8 June 1577, the High Sheriff of Cornwall, Richard Grenville, conducted a raid on Tregian's house during which the crown officers "bounced and beat at the door" to St. Cuthbert Mayne's chamber. On gaining entry, Grenville discovered a Catholic devotional article, an Agnus Dei, around St. Cuthbert Mayne's neck, and took him into custody along with his books and papers. While awaiting trial at the circuit assizes (trials) in September, St. Cuthbert Mayne was imprisoned in Launceston Castle. At the end of his trial, the jury found St. Cuthbert Mayne guilty of high treason on all counts, and accordingly he was sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered. St. Cuthbert Mayne responded, "Deo gratias!"
A gallows was erected in the marketplace at Launceston, and St. Cuthbert Mayne was executed there on 29 November 1577. Before being brought to the place of execution, St. Cuthbert Mayne was offered his life in return for a renunciation of his Religion and an acknowledgment of the supremacy of the Queen as head of the church.
Declining both offers, he kissed a copy of the Holy Bible, declaring that, "the Queen neither ever was, nor is, nor ever shall be, the Head of the Church of England". He was not allowed to speak to the crowd but only to say his prayers quietly. It is unclear if he died on the gallows but all agree that he was unconscious, or almost so, when he was drawn and quartered. One source states that he was cut down alive, but in falling struck his head against the scaffold.
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Mrs. Barry has in her possession several wonderful pictures of the public processions from the 1940's and 1950's to the site of St. Cuthbert Mayne's place of martyrdom. During these processions the clergy carried the relics of the Saint and these pilgrimages, as is custom, culminated in Masses in his honor... |
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A picture of a relic of the skull in a reliquary of St. Cuthbert Mayne.
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Mrs. Barry was herself one of these sweet little girls making their First Holy Communion on one of the Pilgrimages in honor of St. Cuthbert Mayne!
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October/November 2020
To the Remaining Fighters for Catholic Tradition,
How frequently Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre warned and was forced to act against the posts of authority in Rome being occupied by anti-Christs (August 29, 1987, Letter to Future Bishops). How the years 1974, 1975, 1976 leave us with the memory of this incredible clash between Ecône and the Vatican, between the Pope and myself and of the absolute need to remain faithful to God and to His Church! (March 29, 1988, Statement of Msgr. Lefebvre: Can Obedience Oblige us to Disobey?).
This conflict is precisely what rallied all faithful Catholics around the world to the defense of the true Catholic Doctrine, to the True Mass of All Time, and to find the voice of Our Divine Good Shepherd echoed in the voice of Abp. Lefebvre, who suffered a veritable moral martyrdom for His honor!
But with Vatican II a spirit of adultery has been blowing through the church, a spirit which, in the Declaration of Religious Liberty, allows the principles of religious liberty of conscience for internal and external acts. … This is the principle of the Declaration of the Rights of Man against the Rights of God! … This Declaration provoked the laicization of Catholic States, which is an insult to God and to His Church, reducing the Church to the status of equality with false religions! This is exactly the spirit of adultery for which the people of Israel were so often rebuked! (Public Statement of Archbishop Lefebvre, October 19, 1983).
In this Statement, the Archbishop quotes the following: It is I Who am the Lord thy God, a mighty and jealous God, using the iniquity of fathers on their sons to the third and fourth generation of those who hate Me (Exodus 20:5); and Adore not any strange god. The Lord His Name is Jealous, He is a jealous God! (Exodus 34:14).
The very fact that Abp. Lefebvre titles his greatest work, They have Uncrowned Him proclaims the fact that the entire fight for Tradition revolves around that central Dogma of the Faith: ‘Who are you with? Christ the King, or against Him? Are you with the Catholic Church of Tradition or the Man-centered Ecumenical Church of Assisi?’
It is no small significance that the Archbishop wrote to the four bishops he consecrated, almost a year previous to the 1988 Consecrations, saying: I will bestow this [episcopal] grace upon you, confident that without too long a delay, the See of Peter will by occupied by a successor of Peter who is completely Catholic, and into whose hands you will be able to put back the grace of your episcopacy so that he may confirm it (Letter to the Future Bishops, August 29, 1987).
Notice, again and again, the unbending condition for any agreement, canonical recognition, signing of any declarations, or approvals with Modernist Rome, is always that Rome must profess the Social Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ and fall in line with all the predecessors before Vatican II, who had previously condemned all its errors!
Certainly by now, it is clearer than ever that Rome is gripped in the darkness of Modernism and moral corruption and that Pope Francis is trying to deal the deathblow. We are far from a perfectly Catholic Pope! His total backing of the Globalist Agenda and his latest approval of sodomite civil unions show Abp. Lefebvre was absolutely right!
But where are our four bishops now? Where are their voices trumpeting against these scandals and rebuking these false shepherds? Is it possible they have been reduced to silence by jumping the gun and giving tacit Agreement with Modernist Rome before Rome’s return to Tradition?
Wouldn’t such an action prove traitorous to the Catholic Faith and the clear uncompromising stand of our founder, Abp. Lefebvre? Didn’t Abp. Lefebvre repeatedly warn against any false 'recognitions' or 'canonical solutions or normalizations' with Modernist, unconverted Rome? Didn’t he PROPHETICALLY caution them not to seek any 'unilateral recognition' and 'agreement' until we have a perfectly Catholic Pope? What would Abp. Lefebvre say today, if he read the non-retracted, non-condemned, non-revoked Doctrinal Declaration of April 15, 2012 that publicly proclaims (in so many words) that the SSPX accepts the errors of Vatican II, the New Code, the New Mass, and the New Sacraments?
Now, it’s eight years since, and contrary to those who say: “There’s no agreement,” “There’s no change,” “Everything is the same,” the Conciliar-SSPX is now incardinated into several dioceses throughout the world, three Sacraments (i.e. Matrimony, Holy Orders, and Confessions) have “jurisdiction,” since 2015, from the local diocesan Modernist bishops and all marriages must now be submitted to them! And the Sacramental Records of some Concilar-SSPX priories are given to the local diocesan bishops!
Pope Francis has expressed hope to reconcile the differences and find solutions in the near future to recover full communion with the priests and superiors of the Fraternity [of the SSPX] (National Catholic Register, Joshua J. McElwee report, April 6, 2016).
Furthermore, with the “Great Reset” upon us, which is nothing other than Communist Global Domination, as foretold by Our Lady of Fatima, as a punishment for sin and for the Pope and clergy ignoring Her demands, we hear nothing but silence from the four bishops! (Three, absolute silence, mindful too of Bp. Tissier de Mallerais’ poor health, and one, who at least writes Comments, but too often weaved-in within them are promotions for the New Mass “miracles,” encouragement to find grace and nourishment from the New Mass, that Abp. Lefebvre made a mistake in setting up a structure with a Superior General at the head, etc., etc., etc. Such talk never came from Abp. Lefebvre and causes nothing but confusion for the already bewildered flock!)
We know Our Lord’s promise that He would never abandon His Church nor leave us orphans. Perhaps as a rebuke to their shameful silence and betrayal of Abp. Lefebvre, God has raised up out of nowhere a prelate who finally talks some Catholic sense and calls for the dumping of Vatican II altogether, with it’s phony New Mass and Reforms! Where did this incredible grace come from?
Granted, his priesthood is from the Traditional Rite, but Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò (79 years old) was consecrated a bishop in the New Rite (which means he should be conditionally re-consecrated because of the doubtfulness of the New Rite). But be that as it may, he is speaking and writing to the Pope, to President Trump, and to faithful Catholics all over the world, as a real Catholic bishop should! He frequently praises Abp. Lefebvre and is picking up the slack where the four left off. He is neither sedevacantist nor favoring some false “hermeneutics” to justify Vatican II and its Reforms (like Bishop Scheider).
Pray, that his example inspire the four bishops (plus the three consecrated by Bp. Williamson) to return to their duty of teaching fearlessly the Traditional Catholic Faith and once again, publicly, condemn the Second Vatican Council, the New Mass (with no soft nuances!), the New Code’s errors, the scandals and errors of Pope Francis with the throng of Modernist bishops!
How would we know this to be genuine? When they publicly condemn, loud and clear, the Doctrinal Declaration of 2012, the six Conditions for the Agreement and resume conditional ordinations for incoming Novus Ordo priests, as Abp. Lefebvre did (with few exceptions). They need to further retract the SSPX’s approval for vaccines derived from aborted baby cells.
Just as we know we can happily obey Rome and the Pope when they return to Tradition and proclaim the Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ, as Abp. Lefebvre said so many times; so too, the priests and faithful of the true Catholic Resistance can happily return to the Traditional-SSPX when the Conciliar-SSPX has returned to its first purpose!
Who knows the mysterious plans of God? But let us thank His Most Sacred Heart for giving us now, at least one prelate speaking as a bishop should!
I guess the real question is, how many will listen? God has sent the “emergency safety-net” of His own Virgin Mother in Fatima, and still not many listened. He sent an Abp. Lefebvre who left such clear guidelines for his sons to follow, and yet still was ignored since 2012 by those same sons, what more can Heaven do with us? Perhaps this recent voice of Abp. Viganò will be our last chance?
Never fear, fight on! God loves to shine forth His power and glory in the most desperate of cases, and it will shine again, through His Holy Virgin Mother Mary! “One day, through the Rosary and the Scapular, I will save the world!” (Our Lady to St. Dominic).
“Who is She that cometh forth as the morning rising, fair as the moon, bright as the sun, terrible as an army arrayed for battle?” (Canticles 6:9). May Her Victory come soon!
In Christ the King,
Fr. Hewko
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- Correspondence mailing address and Mass Requests and Stipends: Rev. Fr. David Hewko, 16 Dogwood Road South, Hubbardston, MA 01452
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