THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH Her Doctrine and Morals Pentecost Sunday 19 May 2013

The Sunday Sermon

Dear Friends,

Today we are reminded of the workings of the Holy Ghost. This Third Person of the Blessed Trinity, also known as the God of Love, has been with the Catholic Church from the beginning and will continue with Her until the end of time.

The world and the devils are hard at work imitating and undermining the works of the Holy Ghost. We have often considered the anti-Christs and anti-popes, but we seldom think of the anti-Spirit. This, is however what we are dealing with more often than not. The devils present themselves as angels of light. And in this manner they introduce a false “spirituality.” They mock the true Holy Spirit in this manner, scandalizing the majority who are unable or unwilling to discern these spirits.

There is no doubt that there is a spirit moving and guiding the Modernists and every other heresy and schism, but it is not the Holy Spirit. We might call this influence upon the false religions an anti-Spirit. As the devil is labeled the ape of Christ, so do the devils mock the Holy Ghost. It is necessary that there be scandals, as our Lord has said (the false churches, false popes, false Christs, and false spirits bring a superabundance of scandals) and so we repeat with our Lord, but woe to those by whom they come. It would have been better for these men that they had never been born. In the exorcism ritual of the Catholic Church we see that the devils are called the “teachers of heretics.”

We must ever be vigilant and test the spirits making sure that we are not being deceived. The anti-Spirits, just as the anti-Christs and anti-popes, will never cease in their endeavors to lead souls away from God. The false or illusory “peace” and “comfort” that comes with accepting and/or recognizing these false religions comes at the sacrifice of true and everlasting peace and comfort with God in Heaven.

We see in the Old Testament that after the flood man doubted God’s words and began to build a tower so as to escape any future flood that God would send them, and as a punishment God divided their tongues (languages). Hence, this tower is known as the tower of babel. St. John Chrysostom tells us that the Holy Ghost came upon the Apostles in tongues of fire and gave the Church the capacity to unite all people once again. When Our Lord gave the command to the Apostles to teach all nations, they were at a loss as to who was to go where. The Holy Ghost made this clear on Pentecost by the language that was given to each one.

We find the devils imitating and mocking this gift of tongues in false religions. Men babel, swoon and faint under the influence of a spirit, and it is not the Holy Spirit. The true gift of tongues made the Apostles understood by their fellow men, the devils’ “gift” is unintelligible – it is nothing more than demonic babbling. The devils are trying to divide and conquer through their “tongues” as God divided the tongues of men in the Old Testament. God and the Church are seeking to unite in one body all the various tongues.

The devils seek to falsify and mock the workings of the Holy Ghost in this unity also. We find the anti-spirit enticing a universal acknowledgment and acceptance of each and every false religion bringing forth a unity of false ecumenism. The only religion that is denied recognition or acceptance in this new “One World Church” is the True Church guided by the True Holy Ghost.

We celebrate this Pentecost Sunday with wonder and awe of the workings of the Holy Ghost within The Church, but we are saddened at the great number in our own day that do not hear the Holy Ghost because they will not hear The Church. In declaring the freedom of their own unique spirit, unique devotion, and unique religion, they are dividing the flock of Christ; they are destroying the work of the Holy Ghost.

The Church embraces all men, but only when they believe and are baptized. Those who do not believe or are not baptized have no real unity with the Mystical Body of Christ. The belief must be all that Christ has taught us through His Church. To deny any teaching of the Church is to deny them all and therefore to deny Christ. These as St. Pius X tells us, are no longer members of the Church, they have been cut off. There is and can be no unity with these people.

In the rite of Baptism the person being baptized vows to renounce the devils and all their works in order to embrace Christ and all His works. With this the baptized person becomes an enemy of the world and of the devils and of all who are under the influence of these devils. There is not unity with these and there never will be.

True unity in the Holy Ghost can only come through renunciation of the devils and all false religions, and embracing Christ in His One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church.