11 Questions with Fr. Pagliarani (in English, 2019) - SSPX

ns with Fr. Pagliarani (in English, 2019) - SSPX



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11 Questions with Fr. Pagliarani (in English, 2019) - SSPX
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https://sspx.org/en/ - Fr. Davide Pagliarani visited the United States for the first time since becoming Superior General of the Society of St. Pius X. Although he was available only for canonical visits during the Prior’s Meeting in Winona - and additional meetings at St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary - Angelus Press was able to ask him some questions for his first ever English-speaking interview.

00:56 – Question 1: You are relatively unknown in the English-speaking world beyond your recent election as Superior General. Can you introduce yourself?

Actually, I think this is not just a problem of the English-speaking countries. To give an example, a few weeks back in Paris, a priest asked me my name. So it's always a bit embarrassing to say I’m the new Superior General - so I was a bit embarrassed but he was embarrassed as well. Yes, actually I spent most of my time as a priest either in Italy or in the Far East in Singapore for three years and recently in the far south in Argentina for almost seven years – until last July.

01:55 – Question 2: You are the fourth Superior General of the Society of St. Pius X. What are the challenges and opportunities for Tradition in 2019?

I think our opportunity and our task as well, our duty, is to keep the treasure we have, to appreciate it as it merits – our Faith, the Holy Mass. I think it's important that this treasure is for us a living treasure, like the living water of the Samaritan woman. This is so important. We need more and more I think to appreciate this treasure with a prayerful life and a life were full of fervor - spiritual fervor. Yes. Maybe we need to rekindle once in a while, and this year can be the occasion to rekindle - we are preparing for the Jubilee of the Society [of St. Pius X] - to rekindle in our spiritual life this attachment this deep attachment to this treasure.

03:23 – Question 3: It has barely been six months since your election. Have you been traveling much?

Yes, actually I'm not traveling a lot because it is a wish of the Chapter, of all the superiors, that the Superior General remains at the General House as much as possible in order to be always available for the different needs of the Society – and joinable by the different priests or superiors who are wishing to talk to him. My duty is a duty of fidelity to the spirit of the Founder – Archbishop Lefebvre. My first duty is to do my best in order to keep (even if the situation is very different) to keep the spirit and teaching that the founder entrusted to the Society.

04:36 – Question 4: Are there signs of growth that you can share? For example: new priories or missions in the Society?

Right now there are everywhere signs of growth, not only in the States but everywhere! Which is on the one hand a sign of blessing, we're blessed by that. During the last few years more and more Catholics who are getting aware of the crisis of the Church, and little by little they are getting aware of as well of their causes. So this is a quite interesting point for us - we have to follow it. We have to help them. But at the same time we cannot go everywhere, we cannot go everywhere. We need to take care of our priests. And we still have vocations, but our priests they need time to settle, they need time to share the community life, which is a very important part of our statutes and of our duties. So, we will do our best to go where Providence is calling us but at the same time first of all we can't forget it we have to take care of our priests.

06:32 – Question 5: As a former Seminary Rector, can you speak about the importance of seminaries and vocations, especially in the modern world?

Our seminaries are the heart of the Society [of St. Pius X]. The Society is built on its seminaries, and it exists because of its seminaries. So the Church as well doesn't need anything else but holy priests. So it is impossible to find out a better way to serve the Church. Through our seminaries we are cooperating to the goal of the universal Church. That was the great intuition of the Council of Trent, the great intuition of Bishop Lefebvre. And the more this great ideal of the priesthood is going down, is losing, the more I think it's important our fidelity to this task – which is our mission as well.

07:54 – Question 6: For you, what are the main concerns for traditional Catholic families today?

The main concern, the main concern of Catholic family today is the same we have as priests - the soul of their children. The world is doing its best in order to deceive them. So all the parents are concerned about that, as we are concerned as well. I think we have to teach the children together with the parents. And the parents have to teach their children together with the priests. Teach them all the virtues that the children cannot learn elsewhere...

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Eaden
Eaden
1 year ago
God bless the Society!! God bless all priests who keeps the faith!!!

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Child of God
Child of God
1 year ago (edited)
As a traditional Catholic, I'm looking for MORE OF YOUR VIDEOS. Please give us more. We are out there. God bless and may HE help you with our battle to return traditional CATHOLICISM to our Mother Church. When will the LATIN MASS RETURN?

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Gippsland Organics
Gippsland Organics
1 year ago
A beautiful and holy man doing a near impossible task.

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Dan Dostie
Dan Dostie
1 year ago
God bless you father you're in my prayers

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Robert Sparkes
Robert Sparkes
1 year ago
Father seems to know what's going on...I like his approach in not speaking too much on certain matters...It's Biblical...

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Tara Zopla
Tara Zopla
1 year ago
Thank you Father Pagliarani. I especially liked his comment to stay hopeful. So easy to forget in times like these, yet it is an underlying concept of our beautiful Faith.

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Abner Arcilla
Abner Arcilla
1 year ago
I was caught, when Father says, the solution comes, when stop worrieying, sama aswell solution comes when i stop worrieying. Its true,
"Its a way of the Cross".

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Janette Davis
Janette Davis
1 year ago
What people want to know is Rome is creating a New World Order and a One world Church so where will that leave the Tridentine Latin Church? I am not in any church at present. I notice ex Novus Ordo priests teaching that Jesus never  set up a Priesthood and they seem to have a hatred for the mass.

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Fco Henrique M. de Lima
Fco Henrique M. de Lima
1 year ago
Alguém legende para português por favor 😥



Robert Ottolino
Robert Ottolino
1 year ago
Seems like a really nice guy!



Annie Laurie
Annie Laurie
1 year ago
Thank you for this opportunity to listen to Father Pagliarani.  Also, I love the music!  What is it?

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Em S
Em S
1 year ago (edited)
Does the SSPX recognize Bergoglio as the Pope despite the fact that Bergoglio was never canonically-elected and therefore is not a legitimate superior of the Church? And if so, would you agree that being in communion with a false pope makes you a schismatic? Please answer me without skirting the questions.