Ceremony for the Laying of the Cornerstone of the Seminary Chapel

The blessing and laying of the cornerstone of the seminary chapel for Our Lady of Guadalupe Seminary will be held on Saturday August 9 at 10:00 a.m. by Most Reverend Fabian Bruskewitz, bishop of the diocese of Lincoln, Nebraska . A Mass follows the ceremony. All are invited.

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Construction goes forward on the Seminary Chapel

Visit the Chapel Architects’ Site

Most Reverend Fabian Bruskewitz breaks ground on the new seminary chapel. Also in the picture from the Left are the Very Rev. Fr. Joseph Bissig, FSSP, Rector of the Seminary, Rev. Fr. Charles Van Vliet, FSSP, Burser and construction manager, the Very Rev. Father John Berg, FSSP, Superior General, and on the far right Rev. Fr. George Gabet, FSSP, District Superior.

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The Fraternity of St. Peter Announces Groundbreaking for Seminary Chapel!!

It is with great joy that we announce that the Fraternity of St. Peter is now planning to begin construction on the Our Lady of Guadalupe Seminary, chapel in Denton, Nebraska.

You are invited to come and participate in the groundbreaking ceremony to mark this historic event on Wednesday, December 5.  The occasion will begin in the temporary chapel, the Aula Magna at Our Lady of Guadalupe Seminary, with a Solemn High mass at 11:00 a.m. celebrated by Very Rev. Fr. John Berg, FSSP, the Superior General of the Priestly Fraternity.  The mass will be followed by a procession to the site of the new chapel.  Most Reverend Fabian Bruskewitz will preside over the Blessing and groundbreaking ceremony.  A reception will follow in the seminary refectory.

We ask for your continued prayers and support to make this dream a reality!  Although we have raised most of the funds necessary, we invite you to participate in the final push to complete this monumental project.Please click below to see how you can participate in this project and in the support of the fraternity.

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November 2008 Ordinations

Minor and Diaconal ordinations November 15 in Lincoln by Bishop Salvatore Cordileone, auxiliary Bishop of San Diego:

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  • Porters and Lectors: Massimo Botta, Joseph Deguzman, Mark Kemna, Michael Passo, Anthony Uy, Charles Vreeland, Kevin Young.
  • Exorcistes and Acolytes: Gregory Bartholomew, Gregory Eichman, Karl Marsolle, Brian McDonnell, Kevin O’Neill, Kenneth Walker.
  • Deacon: Brian Austin 

Priestly ordination of Rev Deacons Dominic Popplewell and Marko Rehak November 22 by Bishop Mark Coleridge, Archbishop of Canberra-Goulburn, in Canberra, Australia.

Priestly ordination of Rev Mr. Antony Sumich November 29 by Bishop John Meeking, Bishop Emeritus of Christchurch in Auckland, New Zealand.

A message from the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter.

Many of the faithful are aware of the opposition which the Holy Father has faced in his efforts to reconcile the Society of Pius X. The current pressure from the media and others seems to not only threaten Pope Benedict’s work with SSPX. It also seems as though some would like to see it work as a means to undermine his very teaching and governing authority for his pontificate.

Given these oppositions which the Holy Father faces; given the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter’s particular role in working as a bridge for those who have grown apart from the Church in the last forty years; finally, given that we hold St. Peter as our patron and have a particular attachment to his successor, the Fraterniy of St. Peter has asked all of its the members to offer increased prayers at this time for strength for Pope Benedict XVI.

A good number of priests and seminarians have contacted the General House to ask if the Fraternity could have particular prayers offered for this intention. All the members of the Fraternity are being asked to offer the following novena beginning on February 14 and concluding on the feast of the Chair of St. Peter. All the faithful in the Apostolates are encouraged to join in these prayers and that the Masses on that Sunday (Quinquagesima) would be offered for this intention as well.

Ordinations to the subdiaconate January 31th, 2009 and subsequent ordinations to the diaconate on March 14th, 2009 in Lincoln at St. Francis of the following men:

• Peter Bauknecht
• Simon Harkins
• Garrick Huang
• John Richertt
• John Shannon
• Jose Zepeda
• Priestly ordination on May 30th, 2009 of the following men:
• Brian Austin
• Matthew Goddard
• Michael Stimson

Please remember these men and the entire Fraternity of St. Peter in your prayers that they may be continued to be Blessed.

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Consecration of the World on the Feast of Christ the King to the Sacred Heart

Annual Renewal of the Consecration of the North American District to Our Lady

A message from the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter.

Many of the faithful are aware of the opposition which the Holy Father has faced in his efforts to reconcile the Society of Pius X. The current pressure from the media and others seems to not only threaten Pope Benedict’s work with SSPX. It also seems as though some would like to see it work as a means to undermine his very teaching and governing authority for his pontificate.

Given these oppositions which the Holy Father faces; given the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter’s particular role in working as a bridge for those who have grown apart from the Church in the last forty years; finally, given that we hold St. Peter as our patron and have a particular attachment to his successor, the Fraterniy of St. Peter has asked all of its the members to offer increased prayers at this time for strength for Pope Benedict XVI.

A good number of priests and seminarians have contacted the General House to ask if the Fraternity could have particular prayers offered for this intention. All the members of the Fraternity are being asked to offer the following novena beginning on February 14 and concluding on the feast of the Chair of St. Peter. All the faithful in the Apostolates are encouraged to join in these prayers and that the Masses on that Sunday (Quinquagesima) would be offered for this intention as well.

NOVENA FOR THE POPE:

Pope Benedict XVI Encourages the Confraternities

What an amazing spectacle in Rome, St. Peter Square on Saturday, November 10th 2007, during the papal audience for thousands of members of so numerous Italian confraternities! Each one apparently was represented with embroidered banners, hoods, various scapulars and emblems, reflecting the diversity of gifts and charismas inspired by the Holy Spirit in the Mystical Body of Christ, attesting also to the value and timeliness of the bond contracted over the last 12 months by nearly 1,700 Catholics, now members of the Confraternity of Saint Peter.

Indeed, on today’s Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter (February 22, 2008), it is one year since our little Confraternity of Saint Peter was founded. The superiors of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter (FSSP) had as their objective to offer, to all those who desire, a more particular bond of spiritual association with our institute. This initiative met the aspirations of many faithful throughout the world who support the FSSP with their prayers, their donations and their sacrifices and who wanted to formalize their commitment to our community, to its members and to its works.

Workers for the Harvest

The FSSP is indeed a priestly institute numbering 317 priests and seminarians, all sharing a traditional view of the priesthood. We thank God that we have been able to ordain an average of 13 new priests per year since 2000. This represents one new priest every 28 days over the last eight years. Now, if a priestly vocation is above all a gift from the Master of the Harvest, it is certainly encouraged and nurtured through the intercession of many families, parishes, Catholic associations, schools, etc. who pray the Lord for holy priests, so urgently needed nowadays.

Dear reader: you are certainly not missing on the list of these intercessors! The members of the FSSP are well aware of what they owe to your support, to your trust and loyalty. Please accept our heartfelt thanks and our sincere appreciation.

Some of you, who, due to age, distance or for other reasons, are prevented from a regular access to our chapels, nonetheless can find in the Confraternity a simple way to participate in the labor of sanctification which is conducted by our institute. Among the members of the Confraternity there are also people who, without usually resorting to our traditional charisma, appreciate its value and want to encourage it as a precious asset for the evangelization of our times. These various situations show a common attachment to our traditional ministry in the service of the whole Church. In return, our priests and seminarians pray for the members of the Confraternity of St. Peter and for their families, particularly during the Masses that the members ask to offer each year, and more generally, because of the confraternal bond they have contracted with us: “Institutes which have associations of Christ’s faithful joined to them are to have a special care that these associations are imbued with the genuine spirit of their family.” (cf Code of Canon Law, Can. 677§2).

Communion of Saints

By combining our respective needs and aspirations, the Confraternity of St. Peter characterizes this universal exchange of merits and suffrages professed in the Creed as “communion of saints”. By becoming a member of the Confraternity of St. Peter, each person of 14 years or older (whether secular or consecrated: religious and clergy are definitely welcome) indicates his or her desire for a prayer made more ardent and fruitful when applied to this particular family, which is our traditional priestly Fraternity. This choice does not restrict the effectiveness of prayers and sacrifices, but rather it concentrates and stimulates them for the benefit of the Mystical Body of Christ as a whole, i.e. the universal Church.

The members of the Confraternity not only pray for our priests and seminarians: they also pray for the other members of the Confraternity of St. Peter. To date we count 1,700 members of all ages and walks of life, in Europe, in Africa, in America, in Asia and Oceania. Every day they recite a decade of their Rosary for the intentions of the Confraternity, followed by the Prayer of the Confraternity for vocations.

What solace this is for each member who can, amid the small and big daily worries, say to him- or herself that every 24 hours all other members of the Confraternity have prayed for her or him! What a joy it is to know, when we feel lonely or helpless, that in the space of the same day, from so many places on the globe, we have sent to Heaven with the same words such a powerful fraternal intercession! What a wonder when, already here on earth, we may witness what relief God might generously have deigned to procure to a priest, to a seminarian, to a mother, to a teenager through the merit of this daily prayer! Finally, how grateful we shall be when, at the twilight of our lives, we will learn that our poor soul, if imperfect and if tepid, could not have obtained such success against temptation, made such a progress in virtue without the prayers of the other members of the Confraternity of St. Peter!

We receive all graces indeed from Christ through Mary, brought to our soul through the channels of his Body, which is the Church. By offering each year the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and the daily prayers, to which the members are committed (Prayer for the vocations and one decade of the Rosary), the Confraternity draws our intellects and hearts every day closer to Christ the High Priest and to his Mother Immaculate. Such spiritual progress, although obtained by other souls through different means, is sought by our members within the Confraternity, which has proved a reliable answer to their needs, not preventing them either from using additional devotions which the Spirit of Wisdom and Love might inspire them.

“Follow their footsteps!”

Let us conclude by quoting our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, in his address to the Italian Confraternities three months ago: “[…] I encourage you to multiply the initiatives and activities of each of your Confraternities. I ask you above all to take care of your spiritual formation and to tend to holiness, following the examples of authentic Christian perfection who are not absent from your Confraternities’ history. Not a few of your brethren, with courage and great faith, have distinguished themselves in the course of the centuries as sincere and generous labourers of the Gospel, sometimes even to the sacrifice of their life. Follow in their footsteps! Today, it is still most necessary to cultivate a true ascetical and missionary impetus in order to face the many challenges of the modern age. May the Holy Virgin protect and guide you, and may your Patron Saints assist you from Heaven! […]”.

Rev. Fr. Armand de Malleray, FSSP
General Chaplain of the Confraternity of St. Peter

On Friday 22 February 2008, at the FSSP motherhouse in Wigratzbad.

Many of the faithful are aware of the opposition which the Holy Father has faced in his efforts to reconcile the Society of Pius X. The current pressure from the media and others seems to not only threaten Pope Benedict’s work with the SSPX. It also seems as though some would like to see it work as a means to undermine his very teaching and governing authority for his pontificate.

Given these oppositions which the Holy Father faces; given the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter’s particular role in working as a bridge for those who have grown apart from the Church in the last fifty years; finally, given that we hold St. Peter as our patron and have a particular attachment to his successor, the Fraternity of St. Peter asks all of its the members to offer prayers for strength for Pope Benedict XVI.

Although this novena was originally offered from February 14 until the Feast of the Chair of St. Peter on February 23, 2007, reconciliation has not yet been achieved, and the Holy Father still faces opposition from many fronts. We ask the faithful in our Apostolates, and all supporters of the Fraternity, to continue to offer this novena periodically for the intentions of the Holy Father and for his strength.

NOVENA FOR THE POPE

In Latin:

Pater Noster, 3 Ave Maria, Gloria Patri

V. Orémus pro Pontífice nostro Benedícto.
R. Dóminus consérvet eum, et vivíficet eum, et beátum fáciat eum in terra, et non tradat eum in ánimam inimicórum eius.

V. Tu es Petrus.
R. Et super hanc petram ædificábo Ecclésiam meam.

Orémus:

Omnípotens sempitérne Deus, miserére fámulo tuo Pontífici nostro Benedícto: et dírige eum secúndum tuam cleméntiam in viam salútis ætérnæ : ut, te donánte, tibi plácita cúpiat, et tota virtúte perfíciat. Per Christum Dóminum nostrum. R. Amen.

In English:

Our Father, 3 Hail Marys, Glory be.

V: Let us pray for our Pope Benedict.
R: May the Lord preserve him, and give him life, and make him blessed upon the earth, and deliver him not up to the will of his enemies.

V. Thou art Peter,
R. And upon this Rock, I will build My Church.

Let us Pray:

Almighty and everlasting God, have mercy upon your servant, Benedict, our Sovereign Pontiff, and guide him in your goodness on the way of eternal salvation; so that, with the prompting of your grace,  he may desire what pleases you and accomplish it with all his strength. Through Christ Our Lord.

V. Mother of the Church.
R. Pray for us.

V. St. Peter.
R. Pray for us.

In your kindness, please remember the following Fraternity priests and Priestly friends of the Fraternity in your prayers.

Fr. Kenneth Walker

Born: September 13, 1985
Priest: May 19, 2012

Died: June 11, 2014

Fr. Michel de Fommervault

Born: February 22, 1923
Priest: June 24, 1947
First Induction: August 11, 1997

Died: May 12, 2010

Fr. Nicholas Zolnerowicz

Born: March 28, 1923
Priest: September 4, 1962
First Induction: August 11, 1997

Died: May 29, 2004

Fr. Charles Fiores

Born: November 20, 1934
Priest: June 3, 1961
Member since: December 13, 2002

Died: February 18, 2003

Sylvain Santer, Acolythus

Born: March 23, 1979
Died: October 11, 2000

Fr. Mario Hausheer

Born: March 25, 1961
Priest: July 4, 1987
Member Since: December 19, 1988

Died: August 11, 1993

Requiem Aeternam Dona Eis, Domine.