Welcome to the SSPX podcast. During this week, we are revisiting five lectures given by Father

Daniel Theeman, the rector of Holy Cross Seminary in Australia, about the history of the Society of St. Pius X.

These were given on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the SSPX in November 2020.

Today's lecture is the fourth in the series and covers the period of the 1990s, a time

of extraordinary growth for the mission of the SSPX. In the name of the Father and of the Son

and of the Holy Ghost, amen. So today we will continue our story of the history of the society.

And of course, it's not an easy thing to put into a short series of sermons

because sometimes we focus on one event and sometimes we put a lot of events together.

So today we will be looking at the decade that followed the Episcopal Consecretions. So we'll be looking, if you will, at the 1990s.

And the story of today will begin with the death of the Archbishop, which takes place on the 25th of March, 1991, right at the beginning of that decade so less than three years after the

consecration of the bishops the archbishop passes away this date of the 25th of March we can see in

that a kindly choice of providence because although you probably know i hope you know maybe you know

that the 25th of march is the feast of the enunciation of our lady

theologically speaking it is at the enunciation that our lord becomes priest

our lord the second person of the Trinity, is the great high priest, as we know, of the new covenant.

But he is high priest because he is man.

So God the Father and God the Holy Ghost are not priests.

It is because he is both God and man

that our Lord is a mediator between the two.

So the Christian priesthood is inaugurated, we might say, in the womb of our lady on the enunciation.

So Archbishop Lefeb dedicated his life to the Christian priesthood passes away on the day,

the anniversary of the day when Christian priesthood passes away on the day, the anniversary of the day,

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