THE DOMESTIC ENEMIES OF FAMILY AND MARRIAGE

  THE DOMESTIC ENEMIES OF FAMILY AND MARRIAGE!

In pursuit of the truth - http://www.cinopsbegoneblogspot.com - Pentecost Sunday, May 15, 2016

Pentecost Homily by Bishop Athanasius Schneider

 

    In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, Amen.

    My dear brothers and sisters:

    Today, we celebrate the solemnity of Pentecost, commemorating the visible descent of the Holy Ghost on the Apostles, when the Holy Ghost filled the hearts of the faithful with his Divine presence, and their souls with his seven-fold gifts, and above all with the gift of Divine love. It is from that day that the fire of Divine love started to burn in their souls.

 

    What are the effects of that Divine fire? It is the transformation of our weak and inconstant human love in to a supernatural love. Thanks to that supernatural love, we are able to love God with all our strength, and to love our neighbor as ourselves.

 

    Above all, the fire of Divine love in our soul gives us the virtue of fortitude. That virtue of fortitude, has for two thousand years, given the faithful the capacity to prefer death to the betrayal of their baptismal promises, to prefer rather than to sin, to die rather than to betray their priestly vows, to die rather than betray their religious vows.

 

    Today, there are families, young people, priests and bishops who, are often marginalized, ridiculed and persecuted by the dictatorial power of the new world-wide neo-Marxist ideology of gender, and the cult of the earth and the climate.

 

    `Moreover, there are also families, young people, priests, seminarians, and even bishops who are marginalized and ridiculed, sometimes even in the ecclesiastical domain, because of their fidelity to the integrity of the Catholic Faith, and to Divine Worship according to the tradition of the apostles and or our ancestors.

 

    Pentecost is also the day when we celebrate the visible birth of the Church, which is the great family of all the adopted sons of God. There is also, of course, another Divine creation called the human family, is made up of a father, a mother and their children. Our Saviour Jesus Christ raised raised the natural family to the dignity of being the domestic Church thanks to the sacrament of Marriage. In our time, the natural family and the Christian family have become the principal object of attack for the destruction of the civilized world by the neo-Marxist  gender ideology.

 

    Paradoxically, we are living in the age of the family precisely because it is under attack. It is today that the family is called to witness to the Divine beauty of its essence sand of its vocation.

 

    In order to remain faithful to that vocation, the Catholic family should, in the first place, practice daily communal prayer. Pope Pius XII said in a discourse: 12 February 1941.

 

        "WE BEG OF YOU, MAKE IT YOUR HEART'S CONCERN TO RETAIN THAT MOST BEAUTIFUL OF TRADITIONS OF CATHOLIC FAMILIES: EVENING PRAYERS TODGETHER. GATHER TOGETHER, AT THE END OF EACH DAY, TO IMPLORE GOD' BLESSING, AND TO HONOR THE IMMACULATE VIRGIN BY A ROSARY IN PRAISE OF HER. FOR ALL THOSE WHO GO TO SLEEP UNDER THE SAME ROOF... ACCORDING TO THE BELOVED CUSTOM OF OUR FOREFATHERS, A BRIEF READING OF A SAINT, ... FOR EACH DAY AS A MODEL AND PROTECTOR .... tHCENTRE OF OF YOUR EXISTENCE SHOULD BE CHRIST CRUCIFIED, OR AN IMAGE OF THE SACRED HEART OF jESUS: mAY CHRIST REIGN IN YOUR HOME, AND MAY YOU REUNITE AROUND HIM EACH DAY."

 

    O Catholic Families, fathers and mothers of families, young men and young women: do not be afraid to fight against sin, against the seductive spirit of neo-Paganism. Do not be afraid to fight to defend the commandments of God. to defend the integrity of your Faith and your chastity. Don't be afraid to be heroic!

GEORGE H. KUBECK