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The Joys of the Apostolate in Asia – SSPX Interview Series – Episode 15

SSPX Podcast

SSPX / Angelus Press

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Today, the second part of the interview that we did back in late 2019 with Fr. Patrick Summers, the District Superior of Asia. This is a continuation of the interview we re-released last week, so if you haven’t heard that yet, just go back one episode in your podcast player or here on YouTube – but today, we’ll continue our discussion by diving a bit more into the SSPX apostolate in Japan. But first, last week we talked a lot about challenges. So to kick off this part of the interview, I wanted to ask about some of the good things – the beautiful parts of working in Asia, the edifying things that give Fr. Summers a great joy.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Today on the SSPX podcast, the second part of the interview that we did back in late

0:09.1

2019 with Father Patrick Summers, the District Superior of Asia. This is a continuation of the

0:14.2

interview that we re-released last week. So if you haven't heard that yet, just go back one episode

0:19.3

in your podcast player or here on YouTube, and you can listen to that.

0:22.6

But today, we'll continue our discussion with Father by diving a bit more into the SSPX Apostolate in Japan.

0:28.6

But first, last week we talked a lot about challenges.

0:31.6

So to kick off this part of the interview, I wanted to ask about some of the good things,

0:35.6

the beautiful parts of working in Asia, the edifying

0:39.1

things that can only be found there that give Father Summers a great joy. And again, as we stated

0:43.9

last week, this interview is about five years old, but we really loved this interview so much to

0:48.8

highlight the good work that the SSPX is doing in Asia and an apostolate that is vast and that

0:54.1

many of us in the Western Hemisphere

0:56.1

just don't think about that often.

0:58.1

So now, let's join Father Summers for part two,

1:00.4

the great joy of the Apostolate in Asia.

1:09.8

There must be something that one of the faithful or a group of the faithful have done

1:14.3

that have really made you take a step back and look and say, okay, well, this is, you know,

1:20.9

you know that your work is worth it every day, but it really makes you take a step back and look.

1:24.2

I was all ready to tell you about my sacrifices, but okay.

1:27.5

No, it's not always about you, father. Well, you know, no, no, no, no, let's see. I was actually

1:35.3

going to do several things. I mean, one was, as I said before, there are some country working

1:40.4

that are more politically difficult, and we don't actually publicize them at all.

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