The National Catholic Register (EWTN) reports that the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity (SOLT), a post-conciliar religious institute founded in 1958 under the auspices of the usurper Paul VI, has adopted the traditional practice of Ember Days as a pragmatic strategy to boost vocational numbers. The article cites “Father” Dave Brokke, SOLT “vocations director,” claiming a rise from seven to eighteen men in formation over three years since the 2023 General Chapter vote. This utilitarian revival of an immemorial discipline, severed from the lex orandi of the true Mass and the una voce of the true Magisterium, exposes the neo-church’s irreducible naturalism: it treats liturgical tradition as a technique for institutional growth rather than as the cultus due to the Rex Regum whose rights it denies.
The Canonical Nullity of SOLT and Its Simulated Priesthood
The Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity was erected in 1958 by the arch-heretic Angelo Roncalli (John XXIII) and confirmed by the apostate Paolo Montini (Paul VI). Its members are ordained in the novus ordo rite of 1968, which, by its defective form and intention, fails to confer the Sacrament of Holy Orders. As Pope Pius XII defined in Sacramentum Ordinis (1947), the matter and form of Orders must signify the potestas consecrandi and the potestas absolvend; the Montinian rite substitutes a vague “presbyteral ministry” for the sacerdotal character. Consequently, SOLT “priests” are not sacerdotes but laymen simulating the priesthood. Their “Blessed Sacrament” is bread; their “Mass” is a Protestantized cena; their “vocations” are recruitments to a paramasonic structure occupying ecclesiastical buildings. The article’s reference to “novices pray[ing] before the Blessed Sacrament” documents idolatry, not adoration, for extra veritatem nullum sacramentum.
Ember Days: Discipline of the True Church, Not a Charm for the False
Ember Days (Quatuor Tempora) were instituted by the Apostolic See to sanctify the seasons through fasting, prayer, and ordination in the true Church. Pope Leo I (Serm. de Quadrag.) attests their apostolic origin; Pope Gelasius I fixed ordinations to Ember Saturdays. The 1962 Missale Romanum — the last expression of the lex orandi before the conciliar rupture — retains them as days of fast and partial abstinence. The conciliar sect, however, abolished their obligation in 1966 (Pauli VI Paenitemini) and excised them from the 1969 Calendar. SOLT’s 2023 “vote” to “add” them is not a restoration but a novelty: a sectarian body arbitrarily selecting a discarded discipline while rejecting the sacerdotium and imperium that gave it efficacy. As St. Pius X condemned in Lamentabili sane exitu (prop. 53): “The Church is an enemy of the progress of natural and theological sciences” — here inverted: the neo-church weaponizes tradition as a natural science of “vocational yield.”
Linguistic Decay: Bureaucratic Pragmatism Replaces Supernatural Language
The article’s vocabulary betrays the mens modernista. “General Chapter,” “vocations director,” “formation numbers,” “discernment program,” “aspirant,” “novice” — these are corporate-human-resource terms, not the language of vocatio divina. “Father” Brokke speaks of “intentional way of asking God for vocations,” “dedicate at least 12 days a year to fasting and praying,” “mystical body of Christ and we’re all connected.” This is activism, not contemplatio. The Syllabus of Errors (prop. 58) condemns: “No other forces are to be recognized except those which reside in matter, and all the rectitude and excellence of morality ought to be placed in the accumulation and increase of riches by every possible means” — here, “riches” are vocational statistics. The “fruit” cited is numerical, not sanctity; the “harvest” is institutional, not eschatological. Silence on gratia sanctificans, status gratiae, judicium particulare, infernum — the silence itself is the gravest heresy.
Theological Bankruptcy: Naturalistic Ecclesiology and False Obedience
SOLT’s charism — “show the relationship of Our Lady with the Most Holy Trinity,” “united will of charity,” “serve as missionaries… bringing that communion” — is a naturalistic parody of the Mystici Corporis. Pope Pius XI in Quas Primas teaches: “His reign extends not only to Catholic nations… but His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ”. SOLT, like the entire conciliar sect, denies this Social Kingship by recognizing the usurpers in the Vatican, collaborating with “bishops” of the neo-church, and accepting religious liberty (Dignitatis Humanae). Their “mission” is missio sine mandato, for missio canonica requires a true bishop with jurisdiction — none exist in the visible structures since 1958. The “vocations” they foster are vocations to schism, heresy, and simulated sacraments. As Bellarmine teaches (De Romano Pontifice 2.30): “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope… a non-Christian in no way can be Pope… he cannot be the head of something of which he is not a member”. SOLT’s obedience to the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) and his predecessor Bergoglio severs them from the Caput of the Church.
Symptomatic of the Conciliar Revolution: Activism as Substitute for Faith
The Ember Days “success story” is a microcosm of the conciliar revolution’s method: suppress the cultus (1969), replace it with activitas (1970s), then re-import fragments of the suppressed cultus as techniques for “growth” (2023). This is the hermeneutic of rupture disguised as “renewal.” The article cites the USCCB document admitting Ember Days “no longer oblige” but hoping for “renewed appreciation” — a confession that the neo-church’s legislation is lex non obligans because it lacks auctoritas divina. The “miracle” of 27 men from Franciscan University appearing on an Ember Saturday is presented as divine validation; in reality, it demonstrates the neo-church’s power to attract those formed in its own seminaries of Modernism. Quas Primas warns: “When God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed”. SOLT builds on sand; its “vocations” are vocatio ad perditionem.
The Only Remedy: Return to the True Mass and True Hierarchy
No “practice of Ember Days” can bear supernatural fruit outside the Una, Sancta, Catholica, et Apostolica Ecclesia which subsists in the remnant faithful adhering to the 1958 Missale, the Pontificale Romanum, and the Sede Vacante thesis. The true Ember Days are kept by true priests offering the true Sacrifice on true Ember Saturdays, ordaining true levitae for the gloria Dei and salus animarum. The conciliar sect’s mimicry is simulatio diabolica. As the Syllabus (prop. 55) condemns: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” — SOLT’s “service to areas of deep need” identified by “bishops” is precisely this separation: a humanitarian NGO wearing ecclesiastical costume. The article’s final pious sentiment — “The Lord is going to use it… nothing goes to waste” — is the theologia crucis inverted: God does not “use” idolatry; He judges it. Qui non est mecum, contra me est (Mt 12:30).
Source:
Practice of Ember Days Bearing Fruit for Missionary Religious Community (ncregister.com)
Date: 14.09.2026