Mary, The Cause of Our Joy! - Summer 2025

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Fr. Hewko's Letter from the above issue:

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Summer 2025

Dear Faithful Fighting in the Trenches,

“Woe to the world should it lack monasteries and convents! Men do not comprehend their importance, for if they understood, they would do all in their power to multiply them, because in them can be found the remedy for all the physical and moral evils…No one on the face of the earth is aware from where comes the salvation of souls, the conversion of great sinners, the end of great scourges, the fertility of the land, the end of pestilence and wars, and the harmony between nations. All this is due to the prayers that rise up from monasteries and convents!”(Words of Our Lady to Mother Mariana de Jesus, Quito, Ecuador (1563 - 1635)

One of the catastrophic effects of the Second Vatican Council was the aggiornamento, the so-called “updating,” of the Religious Orders. In the name of aggiornamento the entire rules, statutes, and constitutions of religious houses were changed, bringing in the spirit of the world and the abandonment of the former habits, penances, and prayers of the Religious Orders founded by saints and approved for centuries by Mother Church. It truly was the crowbar Satan cunningly swung to break the backbone of the Catholic Church!

This was the reason why Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre resigned from the position of Superior General of the Holy Ghost Fathers in 1968, the largest missionary order in the Church! He refused to lend a hand to the dismantling and destruction of his congregation.

Shortly after Vatican II, the changes to the Mass began in stages, first introducing English prayers, omissions of the Signs of the Cross and genuflections, then erupting in the contemptible New Mass of Pope Paul VI in 1969. Abp. Lefebvre soon detected the anti-Catholic spirit of this novelty and told Modernist Rome that he can never accept the New Mass nor possibly form priests with it. How right he was! Soon he would label it the “Messe batarde,” the Mass “that represents a different faith; no longer the Catholic Faith,” that Mass that “poisons and corrupts the Faith,” which, furthermore, “cannot fulfill the Sunday obligation.”

With the recent pontificate of Pope Francis, which unleashed every effort to eradicate the last-standing-traditional-bent religious orders, the modernization of nearly all religious orders, congregations, and pious unions in the world have been accomplished! They have been compromised and contaminated with the smoke of Satan, coming from Vatican II! Even the beloved Society of St. Pius X, a pious union of priests founded by the Archbishop himself, has compromised the Faith at the Doctrinal level, as proven by the treasonous public documents of the Doctrinal Declaration of April 15, 2012, the General Chapter Statement of July, 2012, and the accompanying Six Conditions for the Agreement with Rome.

Faced with this universal collapse of the Faith, the conclusion for us Catholics is obvious. We must not give up, nor must we abandon the fight for Tradition by a false obedience to Modernist Rome, but, on the contrary, we must offer a vigorous, unwavering resistance to Modernism and stay attached to Catholic Tradition! The blueprints of reconstruction have already long been established by Mother Church, as Pope St. Pius X declared in Our Apostolic Mandate, and the guiding directives and example given by Abp. Lefebvre clearly marks the path to follow! This program is:

Firstly, the Catholic priesthood with a solid counter-Revolutionary formation rooted in the great anti-Liberal Popes and authors such as: Cardinal Pie of Poitiers, Bp. Emile Freppel, St. Pius X, Fr. Denis Fahey, Bp. De Castro Meyer, Louis Veuillot, and Abp. Lefebvre.

Secondly, the defense of the integral Tridentine Mass and traditional sacraments.

Thirdly, the revival of the monastic and religious orders.

Fourthly, the revival of solid traditional Catholic education at every level! All of it aimed at the proclamation of the Social Reign of Christ the King over all nations.

Fifthly, the Catholic parishes and smaller missions, with large families gathered around good schools and the True Mass at their very heart.

It is true, the SSPX had accomplished most of this “Traditional Restoration Program” and it was successful in many parts of the world. But as the fish rots first in the head, so with the compromise at the Doctrinal level in 2012, the SSPX is destined to go the route of all traditional communities who had compromised the Faith, which is a gradual slide to Modernism. Just for example, look at the towering fortress of defense of Catholic Tradition that Bp. De Castro Meyer had established in Campos, Brazil. Now, since their Agreement with Rome in 2003, they are saying the New Mass with altar girls and Communion, in the hand! One cannot compromise the Holy Faith and get away with it! Impossible!

So our humble beginnings at the Oratory of the Sorrowful Heart of Mary have seen the first year of priestly formation with more arrivals for the Fall of 2025. It all belongs to Her and may She see it fructify under Her care and vigilance!

But now, the opportunity has arisen of an adjacent property with the perfect landscape and buildings for an initial Convent for sisters consecrated to Our Lord Jesus Christ. May St. Joseph be pleased to see to it and the success of the fundraiser to obtain the property for $300,000.00, with $180,000.00 in addition, to pay for the necessary repairs. They are: a new roof, new boiler, entire log-replacements for the log cabin house, an extension for the sister’s chapel, barn repairs, and insulation, etc.

Our Divine Lord cannot NOT want beloved brides who seek Him with all their hearts and marry Him by the consecrated life! Our apostolate of the priests need them. This anti-Catholic world needs them! The Church devastated by Vatican II needs them! YOU need them!

“As dust is scattered when blown by the wind, so our adversary the Devil, is put to flight in confusion and terror by the voices of those who chant [the psalms] with humble devotion.” (St. John Chrysostom, Comm. in Ps. 145)


In Christ the King,

Fr. David Hewko