sspx_mandatum — English transcript

Source: video posted by @MLJHaynes (sspx_mandatum.mp4, 9m16s). Transcribed with whisper-cpp base.en. English passages only; French/Latin portions of the recording are omitted. Obvious ASR errors corrected (e.g. “St. Pius the Tenth”, “Zaitzkofen”); personal names left as transcribed and may be inexact.

It is the Catholic and Roman Church, always faithful to the holy traditions received from the apostles, who in entirely exceptional circumstances demands that we provide for the upholding of these traditions — that is, the deposit of faith — and that we take the means necessary to transmit them faithfully to all men for the salvation of their souls.

From the Second Vatican Council up to the present day, the authorities in the church have been animated by a spirit that is contrary to that of the faith, and have been acting against holy tradition. They will no longer endure sound doctrine, turning away their hearing from the truth and turning towards fables, as St. Paul says to Timothy in his second epistle. Therefore, before God, we consider it a sacred duty towards holy church and towards souls to proceed with the consecration of bishops who are entirely faithful to her holy tradition and to her constant magisterium. Moreover, everywhere in the world, we hear souls beseeching us that, by the preaching of the truth and the administration of the sacraments, the bread of life which is Christ might be given to them.

That is why, out of compassion for this multitude, we have the most serious duty to transmit the grace of the episcopate to these dear priests, so that they themselves might confer the grace of the priesthood on many clerics formed according to the holy traditions of the Catholic church. And we consider that every punishment and censure brought to bear against this step will have no validity. Following this pressing demand of the always faithful Roman and Catholic church, we choose these poor priests here present as auxiliary bishops of the priestly society of St. Pius the Tenth, with the one and only purpose of serving the holy Roman church.

Father Pascal Schreiber, rector of Sacred Heart Seminary at Zaitzkofen, Germany; Father Michael Goldady…