On Saturday, July 25, the feast of St. James, the scattered sheep’s campaign to reclaim ground from the Synodal hirelings reached yet another confrontational milestone with the episcopal consecration of the Most Reverend Michael Mary Sim, F.SS.R., at Golgotha Monastery on the island of Papa Stronsay.
Not only did those involved draw a clear line in the sand with this act, but the occasion also marked a significant moment in the colorful history of the Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer, who earlier this year broke all ties with Rome.
Bishop Michael Mary, 73, was consecrated by Bishop Pierre Roy of the Canadian-based Our Lady of Joy Mission. Roy served as the main consecrator while Bishop Rodrigo Ribeiro da Silva and Bishop Fernando Altamira were co-consecrators.
Bishop Roy’s fiery sermon
In his thirteen-minute homily, Roy launched a scathing attack on, and denunciation of, the Novus Ordo religion, presenting it not merely as a defective liturgical settlement but as a rival spiritual order opposed to the Catholic faith itself.
Roy started swinging straight out of the gate when he said that “for nearly 70 years now, the modernists have persecuted the Catholic Church,” maintaining that they have “taken over the holy institutions of the Catholic Church” and “used them to persecute the true Catholics.”
One of His Excellency’s strongest statements came when he said, “the religion of Vatican II and the Catholic faith are incompatible.” He reinforced his point by exclaiming “we cannot practice our Catholic faith in the false religion of Vatican II,” describing the Novus Ordo as “a strange land” that “is not our country. It is not where our hearts dwell.”
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Roy’s denunciation became even more sweeping when he declared, “the time of the Novus Ordo is coming to an end. The Novus Ordo doesn’t have the promises of eternal life. It will not survive. It will disappear.”
Roy also used apocalyptic language, quoting Scripture, telling the congregation “Babylon, the great city, will fall, will fall,” stating that it has become “the habitation of devils” and the home “of every unclean spirit.”
He then applied this imagery directly to Rome, declaring, “this is what we see in the Vatican today,” and observing that “in the last 70 years we have seen all kinds of abominations in the holy city of the Vatican.”
Not mincing his words, Roy further said “demons [were] worshipped under the form of Pachamama,” and referenced “the abominable Assisi meetings.”
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Concluding, he told the faithful to “leave behind the darkness of any association with the new church” before finally inviting them to “breathe again the freedom of the children of God.”
The road to the consecration
Saturday’s consecration can be seen as the culmination of a four-decade journey that hardly ran in a straight line.
Desiring to preserve traditional religious life and liturgy, Father Michael Mary founded the Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer in 1988 with the blessing of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, basing it on St. Alphonsus Liguori’s spirituality.
In 1999, the community settled on the island of Papa Stronsay in Orkney, where Golgotha Monastery became both its spiritual home and center of apostolic activity.
For an extended period of time, the community attempted the impossible feat of remaining traditional Catholics within the structures of the postconciliar beast and following dialogue with Modernist Rome, which granted them full communion in 2008. The congregation was given canonical recognition by the Diocese of Aberdeen in 2012.
The honeymoon did not last long, and the Redemptorists gradually grew disillusioned with the anti-Catholic antics of the postconciliar church. Members of the community increasingly expressed concern over doctrinal ambiguities and liturgical developments.
Criticism of particular teachings, while still recognizing the pope, eventually developed into the publication of a series of theological studies and public statements examining the question of papal authority and the crisis in the Church.
By May 2026, the community announced that it had reached the conclusion that the Holy See was vacant, sede vacante, after what it described as a lengthy process of study, prayer, and theological reflection.
A few months after the declaration, discussions surrounding the future of the congregation began in all earnestness, and, for the sake of the preservation of Holy Orders and the administration of the sacraments, the community announced that Fr. Michael Mary had accepted election to the episcopacy.
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Bishop Pierre Roy announced his intention to consecrate Fr. Michael Mary in a letter published online on June 18. Both Roy and Mary have expressed support for the Unam Sanctam initiative, which seeks to gather Traditional clergy together to discuss possible solutions to the current crisis, including a potential imperfect council to elect a pope.
Taking place less than a month after the Society of St. Pius X’s own consecrations without a papal mandate, Saturday’s ceremony reveals the chasm between the Synodal religion and the Catholic faith is growing wider, deeper, and more visible by the day.
