Sunday Sermon - 6.11.23
LATIN MASS READINGS: SECOND SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
EPISTLE: 1 John 3:13 Wonder not, brethren, if the world hate you. 14 We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not, abideth in death. 15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer. And you know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in himself. 16 In this we have known the charity of God, because He hath laid down His life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. 17 He that hath the substance of this world, and shall see his brother in need, and shall shut up his bowels from him: how doth the charity of God abide in him? 18 My little children, let us not love in word, nor in tongue, but in deed, and in truth.
Hating another is a violation of the Fifth Commandment of Thou Shall Not Kill. Be done with all hatred for another person, especially those in your family and any fellow Christians. Give your hatred up and give it over to Our Lord. Leave those who you hate into His perfect hands and you remain charitable to them. This doesn’t mean you have to LIKE them, but you do have to LOVE them. Pray for them and act in charity towards them. If they are dangerous or harmful to you, it is fine to separate them from you and erect boundaries that they cannot cross. Just keep praying for them.
When you are in Mass today, pray to Christ in the Tabernacle that you forgive all who have sinned against you and that you turn them over to Him and give away you anger and vengeance to Him. Vengeance is His. You keep praying for them. Love them in deed and truth.
GOSPEL: Luke 14:16 But He said to him: A certain man made a great supper, and invited many. 17 And he sent his servant at the hour of supper to say to them that were invited, that they should come, for now all things are ready. 18 And they began all at once to make excuse. The first said to him: I have bought a farm, and I must needs go out and see it: I pray thee, hold me excused. 19 And another said: I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to try them: I pray thee, hold me excused. 20 And another said: I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come. 21 And the servant returning, told these things to his lord. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant: Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the feeble, and the blind, and the lame. 22 And the servant said: Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room. 23 And the Lord said to the servant: Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. 24 But I say unto you, that none of those men that were invited, shall taste of my supper.
God invites everyone to the Wedding Feast of the Lamb. He invites everyone to the New Covenant. But who will accept His invitation? God will not be mocked and His patience, while exceedingly great, does have a limit. Our time on this earth is limited and TODAY is a day acceptable for salvation. Make sure you are ready for the Wedding Feast of God and keep your soul clean. Go to Confession if you haven’t been this month.
NOVUS ORDER: SOLEMNITY OF THE BODY & BLOOD OF CHRIST
OLD TESTAMENT: Deuteronomy 8:2 Remember the long way that the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, in order to humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commandments. 3 He humbled you by letting you hunger, then by feeding you with manna, with which neither you nor your ancestors were acquainted, in order to make you understand that one does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.
14 then do not exalt yourself, forgetting the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, 15 who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, an arid waste-land with poisonous snakes and scorpions. He made water flow for you from flint rock, 16 and fed you in the wilderness with manna that your ancestors did not know, to humble you and to test you, and in the end to do you good.
God tests us to see if we will be faithful to Him. Do we love Him only when things are easy and we are blessed? Or do we love Him when times are hard? Will we remain faithful to Him no matter the season?
Just like wedding vows, where the couple pledges to be faithful in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health, in wealth and in poverty, that is how we should be with the Lord. Because the Church is the Bride of Christ. He wants to be united to us even closer than a husband and wife. He wants us to be in Him and with Him. Let nothing keep you from Him and never leave Him no matter what bad things may happen.
NEW TESTAMENT: 1 Corinthians 10:16 16 The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a sharing in the Blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a sharing in the Body of Christ? 17 Because there is one Bread, we who are many are one Body, for we all partake of the one Bread.
This is not only symbolic, but literal. Jesus gives us EVERYTHING, even Himself literally. He gives us His Body and Blood! He holds nothing back from us. He will pour out every grace imaginable if we will just accept it from Him. So are we willing to give what we have to Him. Will we give Him ourselves, body and blood? Will we hold something back from Him?
GOSPEL: John 6:51 51 I am the living Bread that came down from Heaven. Whoever eats of this Bread will live for ever; and the Bread that I will give for the life of the world is My Flesh.’ 52 The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, ‘How can this Man give us His Flesh to eat?’ 53 So Jesus said to them, ‘Very truly, I tell you, unless you eat the Flesh of the Son of Man and drink His Blood, you have no life in you. 54 Those who eat My Flesh and drink My Blood have eternal life, and I will raise them up on the last day; 55 for My Flesh is true food and My Blood is true drink. 56 Those who eat My Flesh and drink My Blood abide in Me, and I in them. 57 Just as the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever eats Me will live because of Me. 58 This is the Bread that came down from Heaven, not like that which your ancestors ate, and they died. But the one who eats this Bread will live for ever.’
As mentioned above, this is not symbolic but literal. The Eucharist IS the Body and Blood of Christ. It looks like bread but it is not. It looks like wine, but it is not. Christ gives us His LITERAL Body and Blood in the Eucharist. So how will you accept Him?
SEQUENCE - LAUDA SION
Laud, O Zion, your salvation, Laud with hymns of exultation, Christ, your king and shepherd true: Bring him all the praise you know, He is more than you bestow. Never can you reach his due.
Special theme for glad thanksgiving Is the quick'ning and the living Bread today before you set: From his hands of old partaken, As we know, by faith unshaken, Where the Twelve at supper met.
Full and clear ring out your chanting, Joy nor sweetest grace be wanting, From your heart let praises burst: For today the feast is holden, When the institution olden Of that supper was rehearsed.
Here the new law's new oblation, By the new king's revelation, Ends the form of ancient rite: Now the new the old effaces, Truth away the shadow chases, Light dispels the gloom of night.
What he did at supper seated, Christ ordained to be repeated, His memorial ne'er to cease: And his rule for guidance taking, Bread and wine we hallow, making Thus our sacrifice of peace.
This the truth each Christian learns, Bread into his flesh he turns, To his precious blood the wine: Sight has fail'd, nor thought conceives, But a dauntless faith believes, Resting on a pow'r divine.
Here beneath these signs are hidden Priceless things to sense forbidden; Signs, not things are all we see: Blood is poured and flesh is broken, Yet in either wondrous token Christ entire we know to be.
Whoso of this food partakes, Does not rend the Lord nor breaks; Christ is whole to all that taste: Thousands are, as one, receivers, One, as thousands of believers, Eats of him who cannot waste.
Bad and good the feast are sharing, Of what divers dooms preparing, Endless death, or endless life. Life to these, to those damnation, See how like participation Is with unlike issues rife.
When the sacrament is broken, Doubt not, but believe 'tis spoken, That each sever'd outward token doth the very whole contain. Nought the precious gift divides, Breaking but the sign betides Jesus still the same abides, still unbroken does remain.
What is Redpilled Catholicism opinion of the Baptists that are not Protestants? Criticizing Protestant is a sort of straw man argument since the Protestants have so many weaknesses. I mean, Protestantism started in England because some fat king wanted a divorce. In specific, what about Felix Manz, Jacob Falk, and Henry Reiman that the Protestants drowned? In specific, standard pre-destination Baptists, not John of Leiden that had 16 wives. Anabaptist just means to rebaptized, so many are not what would normally be called Baptists.