Traditionalist St. Vincent de Ferrer Community Elects New Superior

The General Chapter of the Traditional Franternity of Saint Vincent de Ferrer better known in France as Fraternité Saint-Vincent-Ferrier (FSVF) has selected a new General Superior, Father Dominique-Marie of Saint de Larunerfor to lead the Catholic order for the next six years.  Cardinal William Levada, President of the Papal Commission Ecclesia Dei confirmed the election which took place ten days before on the 23rd of September 2011.

The new General Superior P. Doninique-Marie de Saint Laumer was born in 1957.  He has belonged to the Order of St. Vincent Ferrer since its founding in 1979.  He received the priestly orders in 1988.  From now on he will bear the office of Prior.

The Fraternity of Saint Vincent Ferrer is a traditional society of the Catholic Church.  Its spirituality is founded in the Dominican order,  which is why its membership is known as "Old Dominicans".  The community is therefore isn't a  part of the Dominican Ordo Praedicatorum, but in view of its particular orders, which were founded in 1979 by French priest Louis-Marie de Blignières.  The Fraternity was canonically erected and recognized in 1988 through the Papal Commision of Ecclesia Dei as an Institute of Papal Right.

The traditional Order prays the Dominican Liturgy in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite according to the Missal of 1962.  Father Dominique-Marie de Saint Laumer is the second General Superior of the Community, of which Pater Louis-Marie de Blignières has been director since its founding.

The location of the Community is the Cloister of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Chémeré-le-Roi, France.  Since 2007, it counts fifteen members, of whom seven are priests.  They also produce a theological publication, "Sedes Sapientiae" also distributed by the Fraternity.

The founder and General Superior Louis-Marie de Blignières till now, came originally from Sedevacantism,  which left the Catholic Church in to form a schismatic group following the Second Vatican Council at the end of the 60s.

In 1981 the first members renounced their orders. The Community gave up their sedevacantist position and approached the Catholic Church again. 1986 saw the official reconciliation with Rome. In 1988, the official act was to return to full communion with the Church through the recognition of the community and its canonical erection by  the Church. The members of the Order were thus allowed to study at pontifical universities and colleges. The community operates its own website: www.chemere.org

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Text: Giuseppe Nardi

A Second Chance for Cloister Weingarten? Fast Growing Community Wants to Move In

The decadent Benedictines have left the Monastery as of September 2009. In the meantime the priests, who are wearing in any case black habits, have come for a look around.

(kreuz.net, Weingarten) It's possible that the New Rite ironclad French Priestly Society ‘Communauté de Saint Martin’ will take over the abandoned Benedictine Cloister Weingarten in the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart.

Priests of the Society have already inspected the Cloister.

This was according to the speaker of the Old Liberal Diocese, Thomas Broich, of the ‘Schwäbischen Tageszeitung’.

The upper Swabian Benedictine Cloister Weingarten closed its doors at the end of September 2009.

The Cloister has one of the world famous Baroque Basilicas, which was founded in 1056.

Like Holy Water to the Devil

The neo-Conservative Priestly Society of St. Martin was founded by Cardinal Giuseppe Siri of Genoa († 1989).

The first members were refugees from France who were trying to flee the decadence of their homeland.

So they are active, besides France, only in Italy and Cuba.

The Society has shown powerful growth.

It has about seventy priests and deacons as well as about forty seminarians, who always wear Soutanes.

The group is strongly oriented to the New Rite and follow the guidelines like no one else.

Therefore there it is practically the de facto particular rite of the Society.

The talks have already been widely fruitful

Besides the large ecclesiastical political differences between the Bishop of Rottenburg-Stuttgart and the Priestly Society, the Diocesan speaker describes the talks as "intensive and good".

A positive outcome for the management of the Cloister would be conceivable --- says the speaker:

"Both sides need to take time for evaluation and thought."

In February Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Maria Renz (53) of Rottenburg-Stuttgart will travel to France for further discussions.

Perhaps the 'Society of St. Martin' will see the finger of God in that the location of the Cloister Weingarte is on the Martin's Mountain.

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