Envy was the main reason why the Priestly Society of Saint Peter (FSSP) was expelled from the diocese of Quimper, France, writes PaixLiturgique.fr (13 September).
The two FSSP parishes in the diocese gathered hundreds of faithful when even the cathedral was empty, celebrated liturgies in abundance and had rich collections.
While vocations to the Novus Ordo are dwindling in the diocese of Quimper, vocations to the suppressed Roman rite are flourishing in the same area.
One of the two FSSP parishes, Saint Matthieu, alone has sent three seminarians to the Priestly Fraternity of Saint-Pierre in recent years, an average of one vocation a year for the last four years.
This year, another seminarian is entering one of the traditional seminaries.
There are also vocations to the SSPX, several of whose priests come from the diocese of Quimper, including Abbé Troadec, who is stationed in the area, Abbé Salaün in Grenoble, Abbé Guéguen, currently in Canada, and others.
Abbé Salenave, from Quimper, joined Bishop Williamson a few years ago. This year a man from Brest (diocese of Quimper) is joining the SSPX brothers.
PaixLiturgique.fr stresses that to promote vocations, one needs good Catholic families, good priests as role models, a good Catholic environment, good catechism and good sacraments: "In short, everything that the diocese of Quimper no longer has."
Officially, there are three Novus Ordo seminarians for the diocese of Quimper. But one is seriously ill and on long-term sick leave. Another is at the seminary in Rennes. One will be ordained a deacon in Quimper Cathedral on 15 September.
Until the disastrous Second Vatican Council, the diocese was a hotbed of vocations. In 1947, 54 priests were ordained in this diocese alone.
In recent years, the diocese of Quimper (325 parishes) ordained two priests in 2023, one in 2021, one in 2019, one in 2018, one in 2017, two in 2016, one in 2014, one in 2013, two in 2012, one in 2010. Source
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