THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH Her Doctrine and Morals Twenty-Sixth (Last) Sunday after Pentecost 25 November 2012

The Sunday Sermon

Dear Friends,

Today we consider our end. What is presented in today’s Gospel refers both to the destruction of Jerusalem that has already taken place and prophetically to the end of time. Let us today consider the prophetic side and how it applies to us. We may consider the end of this world or our own mortal end. In either case time will cease for us at that moment. Christ will come for us individually in the Particular Judgment or collectively in the General Judgment. 

When He comes we need not search Him out, He will appear without doubt. For the good, those who love Him, it will be a time of great joy; for the evil, those who have loved something else, it will be a time of great fear.

This prophetic side of the Gospel tells us how we should behave. Only a fool would see all the signs and then pretend that these are not the signs. We see such foolishness all around today in so many “traditionalists” that see the “abomination of desolation standing in the Holy Place,” (The Novus Ordo religion that has invaded and usurped the property and position of the Roman Catholic Church.) but still refuse to flee from this impostor who practices ecumenical harlotry with all the other false religions and “gods” in the world today. 

If we have left this house of evil, we must never turn back to retrieve anything from her. Whatever we have left there is lost to us. It matters not whether we are on the roof top or in the field, we must flee from this house unconcerned for anything that is left behind: loved ones, family, friends, pleasant experiences etc. Even if there are people as dear to us as an infant at the mother’s breast, we must not allow them to hold us back from racing forward to God. God will have it that we must not allow anyone or anything to be placed in between Him and us. Let us read St. Augustine’s admonition and take heed that we run faithfully and without hesitation: 

“Let us run in love and charity; forgetting the things of time. This way calls for the strong; it will not have the slothful. The robbers of temptation abound. At every turn the devil lies in wait; everywhere he tries to enter in and take possession; and whoever he possesses, he recalls from the way, or impedes him. He recalls him, and then ensures that he does not go forward; or that he turns aside from the way, caught in the snares of false beliefs or in the heresies of schism, or led into some form or other of superstition.” 

“He tempts him through fear or through desire. But first through desire; through promises and pledges or through the allure of pleasures. When he finds a man who despises these things, and has as it were closed the door to desire, he begins to tempt him through the door of fear. If you now wish to gain no more in this world, and so have closed the door; should you still fear to lose what you have, you have not closed the door to fear. So, be strong in faith. Take heed that no man seduce you to evil through some promise; and let no one force you into deception by any threat. Whatever the world may promise you, the kingdom of heaven is greater; whatever the world threatens, the punishment of Hell is worse. And so if you wish to rise above all human fears, fear the eternal punishments that God threatens. And do you wish to crush the impulses of concupiscence? Desire the eternal life that God promises us. By this you close the door to the devil; by this you open it to Christ.” 

“Turning then to the Lord our God, let us earnestly beseech Him that the power of His mercy may strengthen our hearts in His truth, that it may strengthen and give peace to our souls. May His grace abound in us, and may He have mercy on us, and remove all scandals from before us, and from before His Church, and from before all those we love and may He by His power and through the abundance of His mercy enable us to please Him forever; Through Jesus Christ His Son our Lord, Who with Him and with the Holy Spirit liveth and reigneth forever and ever. Amen.”