This is a republished reflection on the suffering endured by the very first member of the Third Order of Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, who suffered much at the hands of her family members and even at the hands of the poor whose welfare she provided so generously when her husband, Louis, was the Landgrieve of Thuringia.
News reached of the death of the Reverend Patrick Perez reached me early yesterday morning. As is well known in traditional circles, we went to what we thought at the time was Holy Mass at Our Lady Help of Christians Church in Garden Grove, California, whenever we were in southern California between early-2002 and February of 2006.
Although I maintained no contact with him after I spoke with him in July of 2006 to discuss Father Anthony Cekada’s study on the invalidity of the conciliar rite of episcopal consecration (see New Bishops, Empty Tabernacles and Novus Ordo Watch’s Unholy Orders: 50 Years of Invalid Ordinations), I remembered him in my prayers every day during his life and will remember the repose of his immortal soul every day in my prayers for the Poor Souls.
Reverend Perez was was very kind to us during our visits to Our Lady Help of Christians, and he also wrote the introduction to the second edition of my GIRM Warfare (which has been entirely revised and updated to reflect my understanding of the true state of the Church in this time of apostasy and betrayal). We are saddened to learn of his death at age sixty-one.
Even though the circumstances of the state of apostasy and betrayal are such that we may find ourselves estranged from former friends and colleagues, if not family members, we must pray every day for a good reconciliation in eternity. Reverend Perez was very close to Our Lady, and she always takes care of her own.
Please join us in praying for the happy repose of the immortal soul of Reverend Patrick Perez.
Caritas super omnia!
Requiem aeternum dona eis, Domine; et lux perpetua luceat eis. Requiescant in pace. Amen.
A new article should be ready for publication by Sunday, November 21, 2021, the Twenty-sixth and Last Sunday after Pentecost and the Commemoration of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.
Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, pray for us.
Pope Saint Pontian I, pray for us.