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SSPX News Archive 2000 August 18: Mr. Jean Pierre Le Roy just arriving from France, came to present the Order of the Knights of Our Lady. The Order of the Knights of Our Lady was started in 1947 in France and has for goal to work for the establishment of the Social Reign of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Its traditional branch was revived in 1989 and has now spread through the world. It was started in the Philippines in 1998. June 12, ALOR SETAR (near Penang): Our Blessed Lady is certainly dropping some special graces in this Malaysia: Fr Couture, having resumed contacts with the students of the Northern Malaysian University (see April 15 above), went to visit their youth group. A very fruitful evening followed up: 2 hours’ catechism on the Holy Mass, one hour of confession, the discovery of and the assistance at their first Traditional Mass for 40 students, and finally a slide presentation on the excavations underneath St Peter’s Basilica in Rome. These 40 students are the core of a slightly larger group of Catholic students, holding themselves together in the midst of 12,000 Muslim students. Let us pray for the follow-up of this important contact. June 11 Pentecost Sunday, KUALA LUMPUR: The Holy Ghost surely went to work in this other ‘Upper room’, which is our little chapel, by suddenly doubling the size of the congregation. April 17, KUALA LUMPUR: First day of a three day Parish Mission. April 15, KUALA LUMPUR: Fr Couture had the longest Palm Sunday Procession as he carried one of these beautifully prepared Filipino palms from Manila, on the plane (a 5 hour trip), across all of Malaysia (predominantly an Islamic country) all the way to Kuala Lumpur. As his plane made a stopover in Kota Kinabalu, in the hall of the airport, three young Catholic ladies from Malaysian Tourism approached him and asked him some Rosary-souvenir from Rome. All three were university students in the Northern University of Malaysia, near the Thailand border. One of them was in fact the president of a Catholic youth group of the University, the other two were also members of this group. Fr Couture offered to them to visit their group in the future, thus hoping to find a way to expand the apostolate in this difficult country. April 10, KUALA LUMPUR: Fr. Vachon made an emergency journey for the first funeral of this mass center. April 1, KUALA LUMPUR: Fifth and last First Saturday of the series organized for the KL faithful. March 30, KUALA LUMPUR: In the evening Bishop Tissier gave a conference on the sad event of the famous act of asking forgiveness done by the Holy Father last March 12. The Bishop showed how this contradicted previous rules of the Church, especially in Pius XI’s Encyclical Mortalium Animos and in a decree of the Holy Office in 1949. Bishop Tissier left late that evening for Switzerland. During his voyage, he administered the Sacrament of confirmation to 125 persons, in the Philippines, and 6 in Malaysia. Some of our faithful in the Philippines have an interesting interpretation of a passage of the book of the Apocalypse, chapter 7, verses 1–3. This passage speaks of the four angels standing on the four corners of the earth to whom it was given to punish the world. Another angel cried to them: “Hurt not the earth, nor the sea, nor the trees, till we sign the servants of our God in their forehead.” Signing on the forehead? It looks very much like the sacrament of confirmation! It sure is amazing to see how many people at the four corners of the earth have been ‘signed on their forehead’ by the four bishops of the SSPX in the last 12 years! The total number of confirmed certainly reaches many dozen of thousands (in some places in Mexico alone, it exceeded the thousand mark!) March 29, KUALA LUMPUR: In the evening, Bishop Tissier gave a lecture on the non-suppression of the Tridentine Mass by Pope Paul VI in 1969. March 28, KUALA LUMPUR: First episcopal visit in 5 years! The new chapel of the Sacred Heart of Jesus was finished only hours before the arrival of Bishop Tissier. Fr. Vachon also came from Singapore (5 hours by bus) to enable the first Solemn High Mass in the history of the chapel. The Bishop first blessed the chapel, then administered confirmation to 6 candidates, then celebrated the Solemn High Mass. 1999 December 5-7, KUALA LUMPUR: The faithful followed with great devotion the first Saturday ceremonies of a series of five consecutive months. |