SSPX Sisters Visit Oak Grove

April 25, 2023
Source: fsspx.news

Several SSPX Sisters from the novitiate in Browerville will visit IHM Academy from May 5th to 7th.

  • Friday, May 5th,  they have an evening planned with the high school girls, from 4:00-7:00 pm at the Academy. The girls may remain at school after dismissal at 3:30pm. Dinner will be provided. 
  • Saturday, May 6th, there is a mandatory recollection for all children who will be receiving their First Communion on May 7th. The recollection will begin with the 8:00am Sung Mass (the children will sit with the Sisters), and will end at noon. 
  • Saturday, May 6th, from 2:30-4:30, the Sisters will have activities at the school for girls in grades 2-8. Please contact the Academy Office by MAY 3rd to sign up. 

A message from Fr. Emily.

Dear Faithful,  

  

On this First Sunday after Easter, called also the Sunday of Quasimodo, after the first word of the Introit of the Mass, the Sisters of the Society renew their Religious Vows, the Postulants take the Religious Habit and receive the White Veil, the Novices pronounce their First Vows of Religion and receive the Black Veils and some of the Professed, pronounce their Final Vows.   

  

The Sunday of Quasimodo is a great Feast for our Sisters of the Society and I wish to invite you on this special occasion to join them in their prayers and thanksgiving. I wish also to encourage you to pray that they may receive many more vocations in their congregation asking God to arouse in the heart of many young girls the desire of giving themselves to the religious life.   

  

But, do our young girls and young ladies know sufficiently who are the Sisters of the Society of St. Pius X?   

  

As, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre founded the Priestly Society of St. Pius X, as a response to the current crisis in the Church, he also founded for the same reason, a Congregation of Sisters who will be, by their consecration to God, the auxiliaries of the priests in their apostolate.   

  

Archbishop Lefebvre has confided this new foundation of the Sisters of the Society to the care of his own sister, Mother Marie-Gabriel Lefebvre. Mother Marie-Gabriel has thus become the co-founder of the Sisters of the Society of Saint Pius X,  with her brother, Archbishop Lefebvre.  

  

Archbishop Lefebvre wished for these three branches of the Society; the priests, the brothers, and the sisters, that they may have a missionary spirit as he, himself, and his sister had during their whole life since both of them were members of the Missionary Congregation of the Holy Ghost. This missionary spirit focuses essentially on the zeal for the salvation of souls but solidly establishes its apostolate upon a profound life of prayer and contemplation.   

  

On this great Feast Day for our Sisters, in order  that  you may learn more about them, I propose that you listen to this Podcast made with the cooperation of Sister Mary Gemma, the Superior of the Community of our Sisters in St. Mary’s, KS.   

  

Sister Mary Gemma explains in this Podcast the main characteristics required to form a good Sister.  Especially, a great love for the Church, for the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, and the Holy Priesthood of Our Lord, which He has transmitted to the priests of the New Testament.   

  

Please find the link below and listen to the Podcast presented by Sister Mary Gemma about the Sisters of the Society of Saint Pius X and pass it on to many young girls and young ladies to help them discern a religious vocation.  

  


https://sspxpodcast.com/category/vocations-series/  

  

As you know, I am presently preaching the 10-Day Retreat at the seminary in Dillwyn for the seminarians who have completed their Year of Spirituality. I wish to recommend this retreat and these young Levites to your good prayers, that they become the holy priests that the Church is waiting to send working into the vine of the Lord for the salvation of souls.   

  

Sincerely yours in the Risen Christ,  

  

Fr. Jacques Emily 

Prior  

April 16, 2023 

Quasimodo/Low Sunday