Resistance pilgrimage to
saint John Nepomuk (2014)
D. Grof
10th May, 2014
Despite the weather forecast and the remoteness of the
place (close to the Czech-Austrian border line), 30 traditional Catholics
gathered this Saturday to participate in the pilgrimage to saint John Nepomuk,
the martyr of the confession seal and the national saint. This was the first
Resistance pilgrimage and the first Holy Mass celebrated by a Resistance priest
in the Czech republic.
The event was prepared by the supporters of the
Catholic Resistance and could only take place due to kindness of Fr. Martin
Fuchs, a former SSPX priest from nearby Austria (see the interview with Fr.
Fuchs here),
to whom we express our deep gratitude.
All the pilgrims had a
special booklet made for the occasion with all prayers in Latin and Czech at
their disposal.
Blessing of a religious
banner
The event began with blessing of a religious banner
which has been hand made by one of the participants of the pilgrimage.
Banner of “Christus Rex”
Besides Fr. Martin Fuchs we
were also happy to welcome a NO priest inclined to Tradition.
Worship at the saint John
Nepomuk statue
St. Joannes Nepomuceni – ora
pro nobis!
Pilgrimage with the Rosary
prayer
The route of pilgrimage itself had about 5 kilometres.
Enough to pray our rosaries...
The Holy Mass
The Holy Mass was celebrated in a beautiful village
church which could be used due to the fact that it is owned by the municipality
not the conciliar Church.
Before the Holy Mass
Excerpts from Fr. Martin
Fuchs´s sermon
(Note: Fr. Fuchs
gave his sermon in English which is not his mother tongue. No corrections have
been made.)
Fr. Fuchs
giving his sermon
Near the
Austrian National Shrine of Mariazell, there is a house of bones: The skulls of
the dead are piled up there. Let us dwell there for a little moment. Let us
meditate for a while.
In these
heads things were invented that changed the world, more or less.
...
Let us
imagine, there would even be a head of Jesus Christ ..., the head of which it
is said in the Sacred Heart Mass at the introitus: "Cogitationes cordis eius in generatione et generationem: ut eruat a morte
animas eorum et alat eos in fame." "His thoughts are reflected from generation to generation, to
liberate the souls of death..." Therefore, holding fast to the ideas of
this head is so important. It is our duty to hold onto these ideas, the
Catholic faith. It was for the thoughts of our Lord – who gave us the sacrament
of his mercy – that Saint John Nepomuk died as a martyr. ... This saint could not obey the order of King
Wenceslaus IV. who wanted to know what his wife, Queen Sophia, said in her
confession. ... The persecutor can be a gentile, a heretic or even a Catholic,
as we have seen it in the martyrdom of saint John Nepomuk. ... A martyr is a
real confessor of the true faith who dies freely by a persecutor of the Catholic
faith.
In our days we will probably not be killed but we are suffering because
of persecutors of the Catholic faith and we are suffering freely to keep the
true faith.
We will ask saint John Nepomuk for his intercession.
That is why
we don’t want any agreement or tolerance edict by neomodernist Rome. We know
exactly that this is a danger for the greatest good we have: our Catholic
faith. If somebody speaks about “tolerating”, he expresses that he will
tolerate something that is not good enough, that is even evil. And this evil is
to be tolerated. That means:
Rome
considers the Society of Saint Pius X. as an evil. You can draw the
consequences! Archbishop Lefebvre would certainly be very sad to see the
Society in the situation it is now. But we will pray and resist! Amen.
***
After the Holy Mass all the pilgrims went to a village
restaurant for lunch where there was also enough time to freely talk to Fr.
Fuchs and among ourselves. The conversation was very lively and friendly.
Departure
Finally the time to depart has come. The organizers of
the pilgrimage were more than happy to hear almost univocal wish for another
pilgrimage or meeting in the next future.
We really enjoyed the pilgrimage, the friendly
atmosphere, the presence of both priests. There was only one thing we disliked:
the same day in the evening we got to know – not to our surprise – the news
about bishop Fellay´s visit to neomodernist Rome (see here)
and thus we reminded the words from Fr. Fuchs´s sermon: “Archbishop Lefebvre would
certainly be very sad to see the Society in the situation it is now. But we
will pray and resist!”
Yes, we will pray. And
resist!
