SSPX PRIESTS, SISTERS, SEMINARIANS JOIN THE SLAVES OF THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY: YOU WILL NOT HAVE TO AFFIRM A VISIBLE-TO -US -BAPTISM OF DESIRE

Members of the SSPX when they recite the Nicene Creed in the Profession of Faith say ‘I believe in one baptism for the forgiveness of sin’.They really mean three baptisms.

They also have to believe irrationally in a visible baptism of desire. All this can be prevented in another traditionalist community in the USA.They require priests. The Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary do not believe in a visible baptism of desire.They have no problem with the Nicene Creed.

The religious and lay persons of the Society of St.Pius X are commended for their affirmation of the tradtional teachings of the Catholic Church however they have one issue in common with the liberals, whom they correct. They assume that the baptism of desire and being saved in invincible ignorance is a defacto,explicit exception to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus.This is irrational.Since we do not know any case of a non Catholic on earth in 2012 saved with the baptism of desire etc.

Then because they assume that there are three baptisms known to us in the present time, known to us in personal cases, they assume that there are three baptisms for the forgiveness of sin for all people on earth. Theoretically correct,dejure ( in principle) yes - but defacto this is not true. Explicitly in the present time there is only one baptism for the forgiveness of sin it is the baptism of water given to adults with the Catholic Faith. We can only administer the baptism of water and cannot give anyone the baptism of desire and neither do we know whom God will judge as a martyr(baptism of blood).

So when we pray ‘I believe in one baptism for the forgiveness of sin’ it means every one on earth needs the baptism of water for salvation,only.

The SSPX bishops and priests are not recognizing this issue in public. They are also critical of Vatican Council II’s teaching on other religions since they assume that Lumen Gentium 16(invincible ignorance) refers to explicit cases of non Catholics saved in invincible ignorance and this is an exception to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus. They assume that Vatican Council II contradicts the literal interpretation of the dogma and so the traditional teaching on other religions.

The Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary do not have this problem and they need priests in their community.They are served by a priest from the diocese.The diocese of Worcester,Manchester and Boston all assume, like the SSPX,  that implicit baptism of desire is an explicit exception to the literal interpretation of the dogma.

So priests who can affirm the literal, traditional intepretation of the dogma along with implicit baptism of desire, known only to God (and saved in a manner known only to God) could  switch to the Catholic religious community Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.Their services would be needed there and they can hold on to correct doctrine with a clear conscience.-Lionel Andrades

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