FadaEsmond90:
I was dismayed to see a write-up from the Chancellor of the Onitsha Archdiocese, in the social media castigating Fr. Michael Chigbata and Fr. Joseph Onuorah for seeking to know and to perpetuate their Catholic origin – Latin Mass of Sacred Tradition.
I therefore, thought it twice to let you all know the truth! And to spread the truth!




Catholic Church has a tradition, that is why it is APOSTOLIC. The Latin Mass of Sacred Tradition has been from the beginning, but was codified in the COUNCIL OF TRENT by Pope St. Pius V on 14th July 1570.
However, Pope Paul VI in 1969 brought in an Experimental Mass, which is popular today as ‘Novus Ordo Missa’ It is face-me-I-face-you where a priest acts as a presider. Now using the Experimental Mass of Novus Ordo to suppress the Latin Mass of Sacred Tradition, which can never be abolished.
Archbishop Lefebvre fought vigorously to perpetuate this Latin Mass of Sacred Tradition by establishing the “Society of Saint Pius X” (SSPX), having Pope St. Pius X as a patron saint, who fought vigorously against ‘modernism.’ Modernists are those element in the Church (both clergies and laity) who seek to update the Church to conform with the world.
Seeing that Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) would die with him, if he has no bishop to succeed him, decided to consecrate four bishops. That roused the anger of bishops of the world and he was consequently excommunicated along with the other four bishops in the year 1988.
However, in 2009 Pope Emeritus, Pope Benedict XVI lifted the ban of Excommunication on Archbishop Lefebvre (then late) along with those four bishops and the Society. Although excommunication ban was lifted the ‘Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) refused to accept new teaching arising from the Vatican Council II. Such as ‘Lumen Gesum: The Church in the Modern World,’ that sowed the seed of ‘Ecumenism with other faith.’ SSPX rejected this doctrine because it contradicted the formal teaching from the Council of Trent: “That outside the Church (the Mystical Body of Christ), no salvation.”
Because SSPX would not embrace the doctrinal issues arising from Vatican Council II, ‘Canonical Status’ was denied to them. Canonical Status means ‘they are not in conformity with others.’
Pope Emeritus, Benedict XVI on 7th July 2007 issued an Apostolic Letter “Summorum Pontificum, which says that each Catholic priest of the Latin rite may celebrate this Latin Mass of Sacred Tradition without permission from the Apostolic See (Pope) or from his Ordinary (bishop).’
Two priests in Onitsha Archdiocese, Fr. Michael Chigbata and Fr. Joseph Onuorah willingly joined the Society of Saint Pius X, to discover and to perpetuate their origin – Latin Mass of Sacred Tradition, which almost all the Saints celebrated including Blessed Iwene Tansi. People may be labelling them with all sorts of names, but Jesus is saying: “Blessed are you when people abuse you and persecute you and speak all kinds of calumny against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward will be great in heaven” (Mth.5:11-12).

Nice break down
But they never joined the SSPX
It is our prayer that Nigeria returns to tradition and that is part of it. It least a lot of persons are now asking questions about the Traditional Latin Mass. When they learn about it, some of them will like to find out about it and eventually embrace the truth of the Holy Catholic Church.

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[size=8pt]They never joined the SSPX. SSPX has her own chapels in Enugu (Priory), PH, Onitsha (Awada), Lagos, Oji River, Abuja.