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 We are what you once were. . . .

We believe what you once believed. . . .

We worship as you once worshipped. . . .

If you were right then, we are right now. . . .

If we are wrong now, you were wrong then. . . .

 

 

Letter of  St. Athanasius to His Flock

 

May God console you!...

What saddens you ...

 is the fact that others have occupied the churches by violence,

while during this time you are on the outside.

It is a fact that they have the premises -- but you have the apostolic Faith.

They can occupy our churches, but they are outside the true Faith.

You remain outside the places of worship,

but the faith dwells within you.

Let us consider: what is more important, the place or the Faith?

The true Faith, obviously. Who has lost and who has won in the struggle - 

the one who keeps the premises

or the one who keeps the Faith?

 That therefore the ordinances which have been preserved

 in the churches from old time

 

until now may not be lost in our days,...

 rouse yourselves, brethren,...

seeing them now seized upon by aliens.

 True, the premises are good when the Apostolic Faith is preached there;

they are holy if everything takes place there in a holy way.

You are the ones who are happy;

you who remain within the Church by your Faith,

who hold firmly to the foundations of the Faith

which has come down to you from Apostolic Tradition.

And if an execrable jealousy has tried

 to shake it on a number of occasions,

 it has not succeeded.

 They are the ones who have broken

away from it in the present crisis.

No one, ever, will prevail against your Faith, Beloved Brothers.

And we believe that God will give us our churches back some day.

Thus, the more violently they try to occupy the places of worship,

 the more they separate themselves from the Church.

They claim that they represent the Church;

but in reality, they are the ones who are expelling themselves

from it and going astray.

Even if Catholics faithful

to Tradition 

are reduced to a handful,

they are the ones

who are the true

  Church of Jesus Christ.

   

--Apud Caillau and Guillou, Coll. Selecta Ss. Eccl. Patrum, vol. 32, pp. 411-412

"What happened over 1600 years ago is repeating itself today." -- Msgr. R. Graber, Bishop of Regensburg, 1974, "Athanasius and the Church of Our Time," p. 23

St. Athanasius, who suffered exile, excommunication, and attempts on his life, from that time has been known as the Defender of the Faith. He succinctly paints the picture of a Church in the grip of heresy, and defends the Catholic Faith of those who hold to the Traditions, however small their number may be.

The Catholic Church survived the Arian crisis, and so it will survive the present one. For our part, it is our duty to remain faithful to the unchangeable teaching and Sacred Tradition of our Holy Catholic Church, and not to compromise our Faith in any way with the present trend of Liberalism and Modernism sweeping the Catholic Church worldwide.

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