Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of a sermon given on the Sixth Sunday after Pentecost, July 5, 2026.
In today’s readings, we see that the multitude was following Our Lord in the wilderness for three days.
There is a reason they went out into the wilderness. They were not being fed where they were at before. They had nothing to eat.
In today’s Gospel, Christ is moved with compassion for these hungry souls. They didn’t just sit around. They got up and went to see our Lord. They went … to Écône!
Écône is a place in Switzerland where the SSPX’s seminary is located, and it is there where the SSPX recently consecrated new bishops for Catholics who are starving for Tradition.
In the Gospel, the multitude came to Our Lord in the wilderness. The leaven of the Pharisees had become corrupt. The wine of the Synagogue had run dry.
“They have no wine,” Our Lady said. You could say the same thing today: the wine of the Conciliar Church has run dry, and the leaven of today’s authorities in Rome does not nourish souls.
What are we to do in response? We are to do what we see in the Gospel today — to go out into the wilderness and find Christ in order to be fed, to be nourished.
Persecuted by the Synagogue
Those who followed our Lord were willing to go on a journey, a journey that had challenges, inconveniences, and crosses. They were probably called “fanatics.”
Many were divided over Our Lord. “This man is a prophet!” some said. “He is the Messiah!” the disciples of John exclaimed.
The Pharisees opposed those titles. They saw Our Lord as a threat, a threat to their power. They didn’t care about the souls Our Lord was nourishing who were previously starving under their leadership. They only cared about preserving their own power. And they did it under the cover of law — under the 1983 Code of Canon Law, you might say.
“The law, the law!” the Synagogue repeatedly cried out as it persecuted Our Lord. That is why so often in the New Testament, St. Paul fought against the “spirit of the law.”
That does not mean he was encouraging lawlessness. But it was clear at that time that the Synagogue was weaponizing the law to justify themselves and to persecute and destroy the ones they themselves should be feeding, those who sought out Our Lord in the wilderness.
At root, the Pharisees were afraid to lose their power. They were so afraid that they neglected to feed those who they were supposed to care for.
The Church feeds the lost sheep
The sacraments give grace to our souls. It is the Catholic Church that distributes this miraculous grace-giving bread to its flock.
In today’s readings, we see how the Modernist Church of today is comparable to the Jews who denied Christ. It too is run by proud and corrupt Pharisees who use the law to kill rather than to give life. They are in love with power, with control. They care not about the sheep. And so the sheep must go out to the wilderness to be fed out of necessity.
Are we in a time of “necessity,” or a state of emergency? It’s a question that we have to ask.
The modernists say: “No necessity. No emergency. Everything is great. The only emergency, the only thing that is wrong, is you! The fact that you are going out there into the wilderness to see Jesus Christ, to be fed, to be nourished, how dare you!”
And so they have the buildings. And we, like St. Athanasius, in order to keep the faith, are driven into the “wilderness” — in farmhouses, basements, hotel rooms, etc. This is a tougher path but it is the more rewarding path.
The hungry souls who were with Our Lord were near fainting. Our Lord allowed them to persevere for a period of three days before he performed His miracle. That shows that He wanted to see perseverance on their part, to see them persevere before giving them the miracle. Today, we must do the same.
The Society of St. Pius X
The hungry souls who seek Jesus Christ are nourished in the wilderness. As newly consecrated SSPX Bishop Michael Goldade said, the modernist church is a barren wasteland.
His Excellency is correct. It is a spiritual desert where barrenness and heresy are rampant. Whatever it touches, it kills.
Is this not why you are here? At this church? Is that not why so many thousands and thousands of people from all over the world who are representing the true universal Catholic church went to Écône? Do they not recognize the state of necessity also exists?
I am glad the SSPX had the courage to do the consecrations. But the sermon was soft, I must admit. It was not in the old Lefebvre style. If you go back and read the original consecrations sermon from 1988, it was much stronger. The language today was a little softer. That wouldn’t be my strategy.
The Dispatch
We want to keep the same strength as before. We do not want to acknowledge this authority in Rome as legitimate, because that only gives them power and it emboldens them to say, “yes, we excommunicate you, and now you have to respond to us.”
What the SSPX should have done is say to the Vatican, “You are the schismatics! You are the ones in schism! We preserve the true faith!”
Nevertheless, what happened was a good and beautiful thing, and they drew a line in the sand — a tangible line.
Rotten fruits
Whatever the modernist church touches, it kills, it destroys, it dismantles, it infects. It weakens the Mystical Body. It does not at all strengthen or bring life.
There are many souls dying of hunger and fainting. There is a state of emergency. You cannot rely anymore on the government to enforce real justice. In fact, it’s inverted. The just are punished and the wicked are rewarded.
We cannot let the faith be dismantled. We must preserve the faith and the salvation of souls. Those are the highest laws in this time of necessity.
When there truly is a state of emergency, you can’t point to the common laws and say, “you’re breaking this law here. You’re breaking the law of traffic.” Yes, but we’re in a nuclear war!
Ecclesiastical laws give way in a time of necessity. But the Modernists are saying we are not in a necessity. This is good, in a way. It will bring more to see Tradition. It’s also going to bring other repercussions, both good and bad. So it clarifies things, this line in the sand clarifies things.
The conciliar ‘authorities’ are usurpers
Fake “friends” of Tradition will now be forced to submit to Vatican II, to submit to modernism, and to acknowledge the entire conciliar system.
They will be required to say there are no errors in Vatican II, in this synodal church. They are in a difficult position. It cannot be done!
Today, Jesus Christ recognizes that we must take extraordinary means. The Pharisees responded to the multitude by persecuting them. They wanted to “excommunicate” Jesus Christ and those who followed him.
They tried to persuade souls to leave him. They knew Christ was a threat to their power. They preferred to allow souls to starve rather than admit that they have failed.
Jesus Christ has given the mandate to the Apostles to feed his sheep, to preach, teach, and baptize, to proclaim the faith, to convert the nations. The consecration of bishops is necessary for the preservation of faith, for the priesthood, for the sacraments, for the truth, for Tradition.
The Modernist Church of Vatican II has ceased to obey the mandate of Jesus Christ. It serves another master, another agenda, a new world order of antichrist, an order that does not serve souls, nor save, nor feed, nor advance the kingdom of Christ by converting the nations. It has done the polar opposite.
It has caused the multitude to be weary. They are fainting. They must look elsewhere. And they do well to look elsewhere.
Notice well how the media is saying, “This Traditionalist sect is in schism, is in rupture.” That’s all you see! The whole world crying out. And with whom do they cry out with? With Leo, Fernandez, the Vatican usurpers. So the world and the Vatican they are in a cabal together. They are all one. And they all join to condemn one thing and one people only: faithful Catholics.
It is these souls who go into the wilderness to be fed by Jesus Christ, by the true faith, to uphold and preserve tradition and truth. And they are willing to lose whatever they have rather than lose the faith.
So that is what you hear today. “Traditional extremist group, a breakaway group consecrates bishops!” You see how they are one with the world? There is no criticizing of the Vatican II religion. The Vatican and the world are in perfect unity and harmony. There is nothing between them. This is because the world recognizes their opponents. They know who they hate. They know their enemy. They know who they fear. So they all join together. This is very telling.
Tradition has the momentum
So who is the sect? Who is disobedient? Who are the rebels? Who has separated themselves?
Is it not the modernist sect who has rejected Christ? This new religion of Vatican II?
They simply cannot admit that it was all a failure. The malicious actors intended this failure all along because that was their purpose. And many went along with it and were deceived thinking there was going to be a springtime.
There was no springtime and there will be no springtime for that desert wasteland. The only spring time and new life will ever be in the true church that Jesus Christ founded.
Tradition has an opportunity to unite more deeply and should move forward with this momentum now. We can also expect the enemies, both human and infernal, to retaliate, to persecute, to react strongly because they do not want us to be united.
They do not want us to profit from this momentum. They want to make you doubt, to distrust, to turn us on each other. They want us to fight amongst ourselves.
Now, St. Paul did say that there must be factions. And we also know there will be heresies. We must have this sort of division. But we still strive for true peace and unity in Tradition, in the faith, in Jesus Christ, in the Trinity.
So be ready. Do not be taken by surprise. Be prepared for trials, for an increase in temptations and to fiery darts. Do not be swayed. It may come from anywhere — from friends, from those who pretend to be friends, from family, from those who call themselves apostles but really are not.
So let us fight the heretics and the liars and persevere while being patient in this trial which pleases Jesus Christ. Be fervent for the love of Him, for the love of His church, for the love of souls and even for the love of the enemies. Perhaps some of them don’t know what they do but many of them do. So let us not be afraid.
