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Please be seated.
The readings of this fifth Sunday after Pentecost
the Epistle is the first of St. Peter, chapter 3:
Beloved
be all like minded in prayer,
compassionate
lovers of the brethren
merciful
reserved, humble
not rendering evil for evil or abuse for abuse
but contrariwise, blessing
for onto this
are you called, that you may inherit a blessing.
For he that will love life and see good days,
let him refrain his tongue from evil,
and his lips that they speak no deceit.
let him turn away from evil and do good;
let him seek after peace, and pursue it:
for the eyes of the Lord are upon the just,
and His ears are to their prayers,
but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.
and who is there to harm you , if you are zealous for what is good.
but even if you suffer anything for justice sake,
blessed are you.
So have no fear of their fear, and do not be troubled;
but sanctify the Lord Christ
in your hearts.
These were the words of the Epistle.
Please stand up for the Holy Gospel.
At that time Jesus said to His disciples;
unless your justice exceeds that of the Scribes and Pharisees,
you shall not enter the kingdom of heaven.
You have heard that it was said to the ancients:
Thou shalt not kill;
and that whosoever shall kill shall be liable to judgement;
but I say to you,
that everyone who is angry with his brother
shall be liable to judgement,
and whoever says to his brother Raca,
shall be liable to the council;
and whoever says: Thou fool,
shall be liable to the fire of hell.
therefore if thou offer thy gift at the altar,
and there thou remember that thy brother hath anything against thee,
leave thy gift
before the altar
and go first to be reconciled with thy brother,
and then come and offer thy gift. These were the words of the Gospel.
Please be seated.
Today is the Fifth
Sunday
after Epiphany
uh...
Pentecost.
cough. Sorry I am a little...
I have a little sore throat.
And it
is very interesting as I told you many times before
when you read the Gospel you have to pay attention to every word
because
it will indicate something that
you might not have
recognized, you might not have understood
in the first reading if you were not careful
to analyze every word.
And so today I am going to speak a bit about the Epistle
of St. Peter.
and what is interesting is that St. Peter says that
we have been called
into
benediction.
We have been called
to the inheritance of
a blessing
of a benediction.
In Latin,
it says
benedictio
that comes from benedicere, which means
"bene" - good, well, and
"dicere" - to say
to speak, so
benedictere means to
to speak
well.
to somebody.
In other words to wish him good,
to wish him well.
That's the
the uh... exact translation of benedicere
and from that word, that
verb benedicere to
to wish well to speak well to somebody
comes the word benediction.
It is the noun of
of the action of
speaking
well
to somebody.
That's the benediction.
and we say in English "blessing" but I prefer the word benediction like in French
it is closer to the Latin, and
we have to analyze every word, that
first we have been
called to
an inheritance
of benediction.
So if we analyze
these three
expressions, these three words
we understand that the
the word inheritance, that we are supposed to inherit
a benediction, To be heirs
of a benediction from God,
But we have been called to it.
Now that's a difference
It is to say
we do not
have a right
to that benediction.
We are not
properly speaking
children of God in that sense.
We are because we are creatures, but
to have that inheritance
of a benediction from God, we have been called to it.
God
is calling us so we have no right to it,
but we have been called to it so we are children
of God by adoption.
He has called us to become
His children,
that we are being
that we would be willing to become His adoptive children. It is a call. We have no right to it.
Properly speaking, only
the Word of God
and Our Lord, because He is united with the hypostatic union
is
the child, the Son.
Only to Him, our Lord,
only to Him,
is given that inheritance.
For us we have
been called to it.
Out of mercy, out of goodness of God,
God wants us
to receive
to inherit His benediction.
Now what do we mean by benediction
of God?
We mean the greatest beatitude, we mean the greatest good,
because everything
that God says happens.
This is the difference between us and God.
We say a lot of things, we talk a lot
but sometimes we don't realize what we have promised,
But when God says that
may there be light, light
is created out of nothing.
When He says: This is my body, this is my blood,
it's over,
the bread is no more bread, the
wine is no more wine,
they have
changed their substance
by the word of God put into the mouth of His priest.
Whatever God says
happens,
so when God says
Well,
when God says good things
to us, it happens.
This is what we mean by the benediction of God,
God is saying good things to us,
they will happen.
Already here on this earth
we realize
already
this benediction of God
because already by this calling
to the eternal benediction,
we already
are being blessed by God.
Already in our lives, when we accept
this call,
we experience that blessing,
We experience that change for the good.
We experience that God is
realizing what
He says to us.
He is doing good to us by His word,
and it is a preparation
for the final
and greatest benediction.
The one that will be for all eternity,
our beatitude in heaven. God
as says St. Paul, has prepared things that we cannot imagine for those that
He loves.
Try to imagine, we cannot, but try nevertheless,
If He is so good right
now to us
what will He do in heaven
for his friends.
That will be an eternal, great
process of God
speaking good things to us,
realizing good things to us.
Like Our Lord said in
the last judgement,
He will call his friends: Come
the blessed
of my Father's, come
all of you
who have
received this benediction
from my Father, come
and enjoy it for all eternity.
This is why we are children of benediction.
This is why St. Peter says:
In return
we should do the same
towards our brethren.
We should also
bless people,
not curse them, not
be angry at them, not
say evil things against them,
but try to imitate God in His patience,
try to imitate God in his His good will towards people.
And indeed God
wants us not only
to bless
not only to give a benediction to others,
but also to do good like that.
See, to "benefacere"
"bene" - good, well,
"facere" - to do.
In God it's the same.
To say well,
to say good things to people, and to do good things
in God it is the same.
In us
we have "benedicere", "benefacere".
We have to
wish well,
and do well.
When Our Lord at the last judgement, He said He will come
and He will tell them, come
the blessed of my Father, receive the benediction.
They asking why? And
He doesn't say, "Because you were a doctor of theology,
or because you were performing miracles," or what not.
He says, because I was sick
and you visited me,
I was in prison,
you visited me. I was in sorrow, you consoled me,
I was hungry, you fed me.
In other words, you not
only wished well,
to my brethren,
but you did well.
And if we want to do well to
everybody.
If we want
as many souls as possible to be saved,
which is the greatest good we can wish for them,
which is the greatest blessing
we could wish for them,
to be saved - to save their souls.
One of the first actions
that we can do is to help them
to provide them
with the means
of salvation.
To try to instruct them,
to try to make them discover
our faith,
to give them uh...
some medals, to give them some
little leaflet, little book about religion.
Do not be afraid
to show our faith.
And some times it doesn't take much
to help somebody
because the one who will do
really
transformation will not be
us, by our words or actions. It will be God,
But He wants us to participate,
He wants us to have a participation in His goodness,
in His
call
to benediction.
He wants as many people to receive and accept that call as possible.
And so the greatest charity, sometimes,
is
with a lot of patience and
goodness in our hearts,
is to
tell somebody that
he or she is not doing the right thing.
To tell the truth, not to act
as if it was normal,
Not to act as if
what that person does is acceptable.
It is like with a kid
with a child,
if you never
reprove a child,
he will never be able to improve.
And it's the same thing with our neighbor, sometime
a little talk,
you have to be careful about the circumstances,
but it may happen one time that this is the right moment
for me to talk.
and to pray for these people always, obviously,
and unfortunately,
with the Second Vatican Council
this has changed.
They have
been giving
a false love,
an appearance of love to their brethren,
by trying to accept them
as they are.
That is not true love.
That is to mislead them,
and they will be responsible.
They will be accountable for
at the last judgement for them.
They will be, they will have to answer, why have you stopped
preaching the truth?
Why have you stopped to reprove
the evil doers?
The role of the church is to do both.
To preach the light
and to fight the darkness.
We have an example
of that, in the new ritual of the Concilar Church.
of course the Conciliar Church, not the Catholic Church,
Father Gabriele Amorth
was talking
about this new ritual and he studied
every page, every one
of the 1,200
pages of this new ritual which came about in
1995 or so,
and he said that
every
mention,
in the different prayers and blessings,
every mention
of a fight against the devil,
every prayer to have God
uh... repel the devils, and every prayer to have
the good angels help us against the devils,
have been suppressed.
from all those blessings.
And also you cannot find any more
a blessing for the
houses,
and you cannot
find anymore a blessing for the schools.
They have taken away
what we needed,
they have taken away
the exercise of that power from the priest,
The priest has the power.
Sorry, but
if you take away from his book of blessings
all those powerful prayers
against the devil,
he cannot exercise his power. You see,
you don't take away the power itself but he cannot exercise it,
because there's no prayer anymore
against the devil.
So we are supposed to bless, we have been called to
an inheritance of blessing.
We are supposed to do like God, we are supposed to
wish well and do well to our neighbors
and the new church takes this away.
Moreover many times also
we have to fear
that the new church has also taken away
not only the prayers and the ritual but
the power itself
from the priesthood.
I will give you one example,
When I was in Winnipeg a few years ago, I looked at
the website
of the Arch
diocese of Winnipeg,
and last year as well when I was doing
my sermons
against the shenanigans of the Society,
I have checked this up again last year and it was still there.
The Archbishop of Winnipeg,
Monsignor
Weisgerber,
and in his website
he gives
his mission statement like we did in our website.
It's a very different kind of mission statement, you can believe,
and he says that
he is
absolutely convinced.
He has absolutely no doubt, he is absolutely convinced that
there isn't
a difference,
he says even these words; There isn't
any
difference
whatsoever
between
clerics
and lay people.
That is what he calls his pastoral vision,
and I am quoting, "There isn't
any
difference
whatsoever, between the clergy
and the laity,"
and he explains why he believes that
and he says because we have all been baptized with the same baptism
and we are, we all have the same priesthood
in virtue of our baptism,
And he says that the only difference there is between the clergy and
the laity,
is that the clergy
has received
some
power of authority
over the faithful, so
the Bishop says, I will ordain you and you will receive an authority over that parish,
But there is no
sacramental power, there is no
sacramental difference
between the clergy and the laity.
Now
the big problem with this,because now it is clear that this is what
he believes, which is a heresy,
so this man is probably a heretic
that when he performs
an ordination,
from time to time
he does.
In the last 10 years,
I don't know, maybe 5 ordinations or something.
I am not sure if he was asked to consecrate another Bishop, it is possible, he is an Archbishop, but
I would have to verify.
In any case,
whether he consecrated another Bishop or whether he ordained priests,
there is a serious
and positive doubt
about the validity
of these consecrations and these ordinations.
Because if he does not believe that by the
priesthood, by this ordination
you receive
the sacerdotal character.
If he does not believe that he received the power
to forgive sin.
If he does not believe
that he received the power to consecrate
the body and the blood of our Lord.
If he does not believe that he has the power to bless
people and things,
we may fear
that when he performs these
ceremonies,
he may refuse
to give such powers.
We may believe
we may fear
that he would say, Well
I have heard that
in the old times when he grew up, because he is 70 something,
they used to say that
as a priest you receive these powers, but
those are
you know magic,
things of the Middle Ages,
and it is just a slight of the hand, its just
a kind of a superstition.
And, therefore, I'm not going to give that.
It doesn't exist.
That's the big
that is the big problem.
That is why we really have a positive doubt about the validity
of his ordinations.
Because of the possibility, too, that he would refuse
to give these powers because he doesn't believe in them.
Now how many
of those Bishops
in the world
how many of them share
in that same unbelief.
Where did he get that from?
He got that unbelief
from his studies,
when he was a seminarian, of course.
That's what he learned in the new seminaries.
And so he is probably not
the only one around
who believes in these things,
and even if he said such things
in 2005,
eight years ago,
he has not been punished, he has
uh... disciplined by Rome.
So this is the New Church
that Bishop Fellay, and those who follow him,
want us
to join.
To mingle
with heretics, to mingle with people who perform ordinations
that are doubtful.
How many people in the church today believe that they will receive
the sacraments,
and they are not receiving them
because
their priest has not been validly ordained,
or the Bishop.
It is hard to know, probably many of them.
So it is the great
masterpiece of Satan
to have a church
which seems
to have a priesthood
but doesn't,
And there is no way to know for sure,
and now they want us to go back.
They want us to mingle and mix with them.
And they are not,
they are not saying what I say to you, they are not saying it today.
That's what the Society should do,
not trying to go back,
not trying to be recognized
by the Conciliar Church.
We should stand up and say: Look
at what this Archbishop says.
He is a heretic.
What are you doing about this? You have
to re-consecrate, you have to re-ordain
your priests.
because the faithful, it would be grave sin
for the faithful
to receive
a doubtful sacrament.
It would be a grave sin against the First Commandment
for somebody
to go to a church, and
having a doubt,
Is this priest really validly ordained? Is this
holy host really consecrated?
To go and to receive communion there,
that would be a mortal sin.
If you have that doubt, and nevertheless, you say, well
it might not be valid but I will receive it nevertheless, that is a grave sin
against the first commandment.
A grave sin against the honor and worship of God.
Because you accept to receive and to give
your adoration to something that may not be God.
That's what moral theology says.
This is what the Society should tell the new Rome. Look
what you have done to your people.
Instead of doing good to them,
Instead of
blessing them, wishing them well
you have taken away the blessings, you have taken away the protection from the medal,
you have taken away
the valid sacraments
and you, yourself, because of that, are on the road to hell.
This is what the Society should say.
We have to pray for the Society, that
their leaders,
at the moment of their death, may not be accused by God
of participating by their silence
in the sins of the Conciliar Church.
In the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Amen.