It was known that it was because of them that Archbishop Lefebvre had abandoned the first liturgical reforms of Paul VI, initially followed in the Seminary, and it was also known that the district of the United States, along with England and Germany, did not followed the rubrics of John XXIII, as in Ecône, but those of Saint Pius X.Īn issue of The Roman Catholic regarding the invalidity of the new rite of priestly ordination set fire to the dust in the Seminary of Ecône, since in 1981 they still taught that it was permissible to attend the new Mass! It was then decided to “normalize” the North American district, at least that directed by Clarence Kelly, and the Ridgefield Seminary, directed by Fr Sanborn, through the imposition of the Roncallian liturgy and the related mindset on the whole SSPX. Many seminarians, along with me, looked with sympathy, while others with hostility, to the brothers of the American district.
It occurred to see him when he came to Ecône. I entered the Seminary in October 1977, so I did not know Fr Cekada who, in the meantime, had been ordained in June. It is because of this that I met and noticed him during that short stay, despite our age difference. Fr Cekada was attending his final year and everyone talked about his kind and l humorous style. I met Fr Cekada in January 1977, while paying a visit to the Seminary of Archbishop Lefebvre. To these facts, which are already well-known, I would like to add some personal memories. Dolan and, at the same time, teaching at Most Holy Trinity Seminary, directed by Bishop Sanborn, first in Michigan and then in Brooksville (Florida). In 1983, along with other eight priests, Fr Cekada left the SSPX, and in 1989 he moved to the Church of St Gertrude The Great in West Chester, (Ohio) where he died after collaborating with Mgr. After returning to the USA, Fr Cekada taught in the Seminary of Armada (Michigan) and then in that of Ridgefield (Connecticut), while living from 1979 to 1989 at Oyster Bay Cove, New York, and working on The Roman Catholic magazine.
In 1975 he entered the Seminary of Ecône, where he was ordained a priest by Archbishop Lefebvre on 29 June 1977. Francis Seminary before joining the Cistercian Order first in the United States and then in Hauterive (Switzerland) he was constantly looking for a more Traditional liturgy and unchanging doctrine.
In Milwaukee he continued his studies at St. The 11th of September 2020 marked the passing away of Fr Anthony Cekada, whom the Traditionalist Catholic world in Italy had the opportunity to know thanks to the Mater Boni Consilii Institute and its publication of two books and some articles written by the same Fr Cekada.Įveryone who knew him and even those who did not, both the friends and acquaintances, have already had occasion to eulogize him as a man, a priest and a liturgist and thus his biography, which Fr Cekada himself partly reported in the preface to his last book, “Work of Human Hands”, has become well-known.īorn in La Jolla (California) on 18 July 1951, at a very young age Anthony Cekada was admitted to the Minor Seminary in Milkwaukee (Wisconsin), where he also attended the local Conservatory.
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