holy ghost
good evening
last friday we studied the
the transfer or the moving of the relics
of saint philomena from naples
to muniano with all the events attached
to that
so that would have been in the year
1805. let's jump forward about
to the year 1830 something the beginning
of the beginning of the 1830s
thereabouts
there's a very holy woman who lives in
france and her name is
pauline jerichot who's now blessed
pauline jerichot and she was a friend of
the curie of ours
and as you know the curie of ours saint
john vienne was one of the first
very well well-known devotees of saint
philomena
and he was making her devotion known
already as soon as pope um
pius you know greg great about her
i'll say piezo no pope pius vii
gave permission to build altars
in honor of saint um saint philomena
so this woman pauline jerichot
she had a very good idea she wanted to
she was very dedicated to
all the work of the catholic church in
the missions and so she wanted to
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set up a special devotion to help all
the missionary work throughout the world
she began in her own area in france
where she lived
in lyon and she asked
the textile workers in various factories
if they would give one penny a week
to support the foreign missions and they
consented to that all the workers would
give her one penny a week
from their earnings to give to the
foreign missions and
this was amazing because after a few
years
she was saving so much money and giving
all those funds to rome
that rome actually created a commission
just for that purpose
which is known to this day with which
actually has a lot of power
so something we call the propaganda fide
the propagation of the faith that
started with this woman pauline jerichot
the good friend of the curie of ours
so when she got to be 35 years old
she became gravely ill with a heart
disease
she consulted the curie of ours
and he said uh your cure or your
the solution to your problem a lot of
times it's not the cure of the body
it's just a great commitment of the soul
to god which gives them a better
better death but he said go to the tomb
of saint philomena
she wasn't known as saint philomena yet
she was just filling me up but go to
philomena he said
go to her tomb now remember that's the
cure of ours he lives in france
so to get to where philomena is you have
to
have to get into italy and then go all
the way south
uh to get to muniano which is more south
than rome and more south than naples
so she made the trip even though she was
very very ill
on the way she met the pope gregory the
16th
she met him on her way to naples and
munano
the pope knew she was coming should be
passing through rome and he had a great
kind of a debt to her he had great
respect for her because
she had started this commission of rome
called the propaganda
and a lot of funds were coming into rome
thanks to her
and going out to the missions so he made
it a point to see her and to meet her
it seems like they already knew her knew
each other from before from
correspondence
so he met her and he could see that she
was very very
ill and he said
when you get to munyano
uh please greet philomena for me
and also when you get to the next life i
ask you for your prayers
from paradise said the pope to
pauline jerichot and she said
holy father
if i go to muniano and return would you
please canonize
philomena and he answered well of course
i'll do that
because that would be a first-class
miracle
meaning you're almost dead already if
you go to munyano and return
return because philomena cured you
there'd be no doubt that she's a saint
i'll canonize her and at that moment the
pope turned to his
aides his helpers and he said she's
never going to come back
very good so pauline left
rome on the 8th of august here we have
these dates coming up again last time it
was because
what was it philomena did not want to
arrive at munyano
before her feast day so about five days
passed
in delays of journey between
naples and munyano that made it possible
for her her to arrive on the 10th
of august and she did now we have
something similar similar happening
uh pauline
arrived in munyano on the 8th of august
she looked more like a corpse than a
human being
the people of munyano had heard that she
was on her way
she was well known the pope was making
her story well known
perhaps the cure of ours was making her
story well known in any case the people
of munyano knew
that this very important person was on
her way to see saint philomena
expecting a cure so when she arrived
pauline arrived to munyano
they knew of her and they assured her
that she would be cured
when she arrived she arrived on saturday
which was the eighth of august nothing
happened
same thing happened on sunday night the
9th of august
all kinds of ceremonies high mass etc
nothing happened by monday
the people of the town were indignant
with a holy enthusiasm in the very
italian style
and they started to bang on the grave of
saint philomena
so she has a crystal urn
above an altar in the church and these
people are flocking up to the altar kind
of
banging on the grave saint philomena
you've got to cure this person if not
we won't pray to you anymore if you
don't cure her
you won't be important for us anymore
saint filamento you must cure pauline
at that moment
and this was the uh this was monday
morning
the 10th of august pauline collapsed
to the floor as if she had died
they started benediction in the church
and she instantly felt a huge
surge of energy going through her body
and she
recovered completely she recovered
completely her health
on the morning of august the 10th the
feast day of saint philomena
so there were huge processions in
thanksgiving which followed this event
and pauline returned to rome where the
pope had said
she'll never come back she returned to
rome
and she walked right well after getting
permission etc she walked right into the
chambers of the pope
gregory xvi he could not believe it he
said is it really you
or are you some kind of apparition he
bid her
ordered her to run through the vatican
chambers
and hallways to prove that she was it
was her that she was alive and she had
plenty of health
which she did kind of odd to run through
the chambers of rome but she the vatican
but she didn't
he insisted that she stay in rome for a
year to make
sure that it was truly a miracle and
that someone wasn't playing a trick on
her
and that this really was pauline
jerichot and not someone imitating her
identity so she stayed for a year in
rome
with frequent meetings of the pope he
was convinced of the miracle
and he canonized saint philomena
in january of 1837 and this is very
important very important
he canonized her solely on her power
of miracles that's so important
there was no historical study they
didn't have any historical evidence
they had the relics they had a name
they had a test what he called the
symbols of her
martyrdom scourges
anchor and arrows
and they had no history
there's a book right there in front of
regina which is called the martyrology
which we read every morning that has
every martyr that you can
possibly imagine up until about the year
1960
uh mentioned in there and
philomena is not in there
but you can't deny that those that grave
was truly there with those relics truly
there
and all these miracles started happening
as a result of those relics
and um so he canonized her without any
doubt
that was your 1837. so wouldn't you
believe it in the year 1960s so
one century and about 20 years pass when
there's all kinds of humanism in the
church
and what do they do they call doubt upon
these relics whether
they really belong to such a person if
there really is a person named same
philomena
and since there's nothing historical
about her they took
her off the universal calendar of the
church
without saying she's not a saint anymore
but just making it
um just about impossible to continue
with
public veneration to her without any
disapproval from some authority of the
church
so that was unfortunate and maybe we'll
undo that someday
but she was canonized solely on the
power
of her miracles by a pope so i don't
know why it would happen in the 1960s
that someone else and it wasn't
necessarily the pope which is the pope
said
didn't say anything against it different
theologians and priests got together to
say that
she's not truly a saint because we have
we have no historical evidence
well if a pope canonized her without any
historical evidence
how can you un-canonize her so to speak
uh
because you have no historical evidence
that seems like we have um
you know a contradiction going on in
rome
in any case soon after a mass and an
office of the breviary were established
just
for her which is very special because
that's unusual that someone who has no
historical evidence in the church
gets a mass in their honor usually they
would say well just follow the mass of a
virgin martyr the common of a virgin
martyr
but in her case there was a mass made
especially for her it was placed
actually on the
date of august the 11th because you may
know that the day august 10th
is already dedicated to saint lawrence
and and also an office in the breviary
was dedicated to her so that's pauline
jerichot
and she did the right thing by um
following the order of saint curie of
ours saint john vienne to go to
the tomb of saint philomena
very good last week speaking about the
holy mass we were in the
third purpose of prayer
which is the begging of pardon for sins
there were the two others
adoration and thanksgiving which applied
to god and now
we were on the two last purposes which
was the propitiation
and the petition or begging for the
things we need for our salvation
and these two are uh i don't know if you
say dedicated to man but let's say
for man's benefit uh propitiation
is the most outstanding
of the purposes of the holy mass because
we can we can adore god in other ways
but the mass of the best we can thank
god in other ways but the master the
best
but to beg pardon for sins
we cannot make an efficacious
or a adequate
reparation for our own sins so we are
completely dependent on the holy mass
the holy sacrifice of the mass
to make an adequate and in what they say
efficacious
um reparation for our sins
that comes from the holy mass uh and
then the last one is going to be the
begging for the graces that we need so i
left off with
this point about if you have mortal sins
uh mortal sins check the more abundant
flow of graces which god would otherwise
give to a soul
so
just a moment yeah yeah
uh we need the holy mass
first of all we need one needs to get
himself out of mortal sin
does the mass take care of that directly
no
but the mass gives the atmosphere so
that a person in mortal sin
will feel the
impetus the urge to
beg pardon for his sin to go to
confession to
reconcile himself with god and that will
come from the mass
believe it or not when a person is in
mortal sin
they don't have the strength on their
own to say i'm going to go to confession
and get this all worked out
if they do go to confession and get it
all worked out it's because
someone is praying for them or they
themselves are
saying prayers or they are assisting at
mass and that all comes together as a
grace of reconciliation but if it
weren't for the mass
they wouldn't get to confession
uh very good and then
it's necessary that the mass be said
repeatedly
for one same person i know we covered
this last week but it's worth
while repeating uh you might say well if
the mass is infinite
how is it that one person needs several
masses
and the answer is yes the mass is
infinite on the part of our lord
he's giving an infinite sacrifice of
adoration and thanksgiving to his father
he's even given giving infinite
propitiation to his father for our sins
and also making him
infinite petition for the graces that we
need but
as soon as you get into this prohibition
sorry
that's that's our lord sacrifice and
then but then on the part of the church
and the part of every soul of the church
we start to see imperfections
the church is holy in itself
because the church is instituted by the
lord jesus christ
and has holy members but not all the
members are holy so they're going to be
some limits
the mass is offered by our lord and the
church
and we are members of the church so the
mass is going to have
limited effects on different people
for whom it is set that will be based on
just how well the members of the church
are participating in the holy mass
just how well the priest is disposed to
offer mass when he says holy mass
and just how disposed is the person
whose intention is on the envelope you
know when you give the the
envelope to the priest have a mass said
that person might be disposed to
receiving grace
or that person might be very closed you
know i don't want to have anything to do
with the church
well some grace might still get in but
not a whole ton of grace you see
but if that person is well disposed
maybe a little more grace will get in
and a little more a little more etcetera
that's why mass has said repeatedly for
the same intention
even though the mass is infinite
what about people who are only in venial
sin
the mass actually is sufficient to
remove venial sins
i think you should still keep going to
confession all of us should keep going
to confession
because that's giving us grace all the
time to respond to grace
and also it's giving us grace not to
commit the same venial sins
and it's making us more disposed to
receive holy communion but the mass
actually
by attending it is removing your venial
sins
i don't know if it's removing them all
completely together but it's
it is directly removing them and
uh there happens to be when when you
receive holy communion in the mass
uh the priest says an absolution over
you
before you receive all the communion so
that's removing venous sin also
nevertheless we should all keep going to
mass and as often as we should we could
we can we should go to mass because
by doing that we're
not only uniting ourselves the sacrifice
of the mass which all of us should do
anyway
you probably all pray what's called a
morning offering when you wake up in the
morning
there are different formulas for it but
they usually say
i unite myself to all the masses which
are offered this day.
and that way of all the millions of
masses that go on every day
you are receiving fruit from those mass
those masses and beyond that if you also
attend mass or a system mass
you are even receiving more fruit
so why do you want to go to mass often
it's so that you can give god the best
adoration in thanksgiving
possible and also you can receive the
best propitiation for your sins and also
get the best help for your life
your the life which sanctifies you as
often as possible by going to holy mass
so it does remove in your sins and it
does make you
very pleasing to god and it also gives
you the opportunity to give the best
adoration of god
so the holy sacrifice for those who have
vino sin which is all of us
supplies principally for the
satisfaction which we would otherwise
otherwise render to god
and for the souls in purgatory the
faithfully departed
it actually the holy mass actually takes
time away from
their time in purgatory i repeat
the mass is infinite but we are finite
and limited
so even the souls in purgatory for not
having the best of intentions
all the time they have a limited effect
how much the mass is going to help them
that's why we continue to offer masses
for them
you may know that in the world there are
many natural disasters i used to live in
the
central america central america is
as you know between north america and
south america and
not that i'm an evolutionist but it's
very possible that all
of what is south america used to be
joined to what's africa
and it's separated i don't know how many
years ago and how big a deal it was and
how long it took
but if you take south america it looks
like it fits right into africa all right
so if that thing moved that huge massive
land moved from
africa all the way over to the new world
it would have started crunching into
what's north america nowadays
uh right around with central america now
so that whole area is all volcanoes and
seismic activity under the ground and
above the ground
uh it's beautiful for all those
mountains i think guatemala alone had 27
volcanoes at least half of them were
active
and and
it's beautiful and it's very fertile and
it has great weather
but it's dangerous and people get used
to mudslides
just taking out hundreds of people and
they get volcanoes erupting
and lava taking out your houses and
covering up people
that's a place of many many disasters
and
there's nothing as far as nature is
concerned there's nothing
wrong about that that would happen if
you run two planets and
two land masses into each other and they
have all this you'd have all this
seismic activity
well if you have millions of people
living there now there's going to be a
problem
so it's normal that the earth behaves
this way
but we've got people living there now
you've got to ask for god to spare his
wrath so that people don't get killed
so that's just one example of central
america
i'm sure these kind of things happen all
over the world
which is it's normal that the earth
destroys us
and we deserve it because of our sins
but if we use the holy sacrifice of the
mass
if we use processions and rosary novenas
and all kinds of things like that
we're going to be staying or detaining
the arm of wrath of our lord
and it's really quite effective you know
the earth needs to
explode a little bit here and there
that's called vulcanization it needs to
happen
but the holy mass can actually
put a check on those things
when the lord is appeased he withdraws
his threatening hand
the world is indebted to the
propitiatory sacrifice of the holy mass
the blood of jesus christ for pardon
grace and mercy
when the sacrifice is no longer
celebrated there will be a dreadful
judgment
and those are not my words that's the
the last part is the words
of saint paul from hebrews 10 when this
sacrifice is no longer
celebrated there will be a dreadful
judgment
and along those lines
it seems the last 50 or 60 years of the
church
church men and priests and at least the
human element of the church
has gone a long way in getting away from
the whole idea of
sacrifice of the mass and that's why we
have masses nowadays where
they're not very serious there's very
little reverence
they even make a lot of effort at making
the mass
blasphemous and an object of
ridicule it's really really a pity
all right let's read those words again
when the sacrifice is no longer
celebrated
there will be a dreadful judgment we
live in a very bloody
society i know things look nice and
people live a long time and we have
social security and insurance and all
kinds of things like that that perhaps
we didn't have
over 100 years ago but that's if you
get to arrive into this world you know
i guess i'm talking about the crime of
abortion so many millions of people are
eliminated by that thing
so much blood is shed from that
that crime it goes together with
the blood of our lord not being shed on
the altar
no matter which way you go either we
will have
the mercy of our lord upon the altar
which is the shedding of his blood
or man becomes a monster and all those
crimes of abortion that is monstrous
that is the shedding of blood and i
think and more than i think
it's a reality that shedding of blood is
happening as a result of
not having not having the shedding of
blood of our lord on the altar
there's no way you can get away from it
you think well all this blood
crime blood sacrifice we don't need it
just let's be good people
we don't need blood either for worship
or for crime when we're not criminals
we are if you take away penance and
sacrifice
we turn into monsters and it is our lord
and his blood on the altar
that keeps us from turning into monsters
now he thought about that when he was
dying for us you know this is very
painful
not just the physical part but
especially the moral part all this
abandonment
there's like a thousand physical deaths
of our lord was the abandonment he went
through
but i'm sure he thought nevertheless all
of this is necessary so that
men can live by my sacrifice they can
live the life of grace by my sacrifice
because without the sacrifice they're
not going to be connected to my father
they're not going to be reconciled to my
father all depends on my sacrifice so
remember that
we keep coming back to this point our
lord in heaven
is a mediator he's constantly showing
his wounds to his father
that is his greatest adoration of his
father in heaven and it's constantly
begging for pardon for our sins in
heaven
the wounds of our lord while on earth
infinitely continually
on earth on the altar our lord sacrifice
is perpetuated what he did on the cross
is made present every time on the altar
begging the same pardon for sins from
his father
and making propitiation for us
getting the grace we need so that we
don't keep falling
notice that we've just finished
considering considering
propitiation notice that it comes before
the last purpose of prayer which is
begging for the graces that we need to
be sanctified
what is perfishing you know two for god
and two for men two for god were
adoration thanksgiving
purposes of prayer and two for man
propitiation
and petition uh why does propitiation
come before petition
because
propitiation is setting us right with
god
uh we need that first and then we can
pray for the graces we need to be
further sanctified
but first we must we must be said right
and that's propitiation
finally the fourth end which is petition
our lord said to his apostles his
apostles shortly after his resurrection
ask for anything in my name and it will
be given to you
until now you have not asked for
anything in my name
i know we keep coming back back to that
theme a lot as well
what our lord particularly meant is that
before the crucifixion
uh heaven
was set at a distance from earth
with the crucifixion or after the
crucifixion of our lord
the gates of heaven are thrown open
because of the sacrifice of our lord
so when our lord says you've not asked
for anything in my name
up until now he's saying
your prayers have not depended on my
sacrifice
in order to be heard by my father now
your prayers are intimately connected
with my sacrifice
especially in the holy mass but the holy
mass is the center
of all grace now the holy mass is the
source of all grace so by being
connected to this mass
which is my prayer to my father you are
going to receive
anything you ask for repeat
because of the sacrifice of our lord on
the cross our prayers are united to this
sacrificer and through him we will
receive whatever we ask for
now keep in mind we may receive anything
but is anything which is useful in the
order of grace
and salvation
we pray for the graces
we pray for them because we have not
merited to them our lord jesus christ
has merit to the graces
he can insist i want this i want the
other
i want so and so to have this grace i
want the other person to have that grace
he can do that he married to the graces
he's the dispenser
we did not marry the graces we receive
of them so therefore we must
pray for the grace since we have not
merited it
and uh
you may notice that sometimes
it seems we don't receive one thing or
another
and why is that first of all because it
is better for us
it will conduce to our salvation
sometimes we may pray for one thing and
our lord gives us something else
he's answering our prayer but he's
saying
that's not what your soul needs right
now what your soul needs is this and
i'll give it to you
he has still answered her prayer or
we make a prayer and we pray hard and do
a novena all kinds of things like that
uh and we don't get what we asked for
at this time but god might give it a
couple weeks later
or a year later or he might give it at
the end of our life
he knows when to give us the gifts
because he knows
at what point of maturity is our soul
you know if he gives us this gift it's
like if you give an 18 year old a brand
new car
he's probably not going to respect it as
much as a 30 year old would respect it
you see or if a 30 year old
30 year old had to work for the
automobile
similar god will give us those gifts
when we are
fit to receive them and we'll use them
in the best possible way
but in either case god is answering our
prayer
uh natural gifts are only granted
relative to our eternal salvation
all right so you can pray for whatever
natural gift you want that's fine
but understand that that will be granted
only if it's somehow connected with your
salvation
everything we pray for must conclude
with the words
but thy will be done something like our
lord's prayer
in the garden of gethsemane he prayed
three times
one hour each uh please remove this
chalice from me
which was flattening him to the ground
the chalice of salvation the chalice of
suffering
but every time he finishes prayer
nevertheless not my will but thine be
done
we have to finish our prayer the same
way please give me this please give me
this
it's so necessary that i have this but
nevertheless not my will but thing be
done
and anything that we pray for must be
something that will
somehow advance the kingdom of god
that's the petition or the begging for
grace
part of the mass now i'd like to
go over with you a difference that has
come up in the
no mass or the novus ordo mass
um last week
no we didn't have time two weeks ago i
didn't get this far
last week the week before i did we
looked at how
they still call in the nova sort of mass
they say the mass is a meal
and we haven't looked at that yet they
still say it's a sacrifice
which is interesting they still say it's
thanksgiving which is good
and they say it's a memorial but this is
what we saw a couple weeks ago
they've played with that word memorial
for a protestant they'll say
that they don't call it mass but they'll
say divine service or something like
that
is a memorial of christ
all right what they mean is this is
where we commemorate the life of christ
but for the catholic he knows the mass
is a memorial also
but it is an active memorial
where the blood of our lord jesus christ
really is made present
again the shedding of our blood in a
violent way
is mystically represented upon the altar
and this violent shedding of blood
is paying for sins it is an active
memorial
which is completely different than this
protestant sense of memorial
but you'll see in the novus ordo
mass etc they'll use the word memorial
but only in the protestant way
there we are and then the mass is
sacrifice
that's important um talking about the
nova sort of mass
10 paragraphs mention or allude to the
notion of sacrifice
this obviously is the touchiest point
for ecumenical
eucharistic theology they don't like the
word sacrifice
sacrifice implies that somebody's guilty
guilty how he committed a sin who man
but man is perfect yeah free masonic
perfect man
no man is not perfect so that's what
gets them away from the idea of
sacrifice
man cannot sin man does not need anyone
to pay for his debts
everything's fine whereas in tradition
we insist that no
we are sinners we are guilty we have
offended thee
and if it weren't for your mercy on the
altar i would be damned
that's anti-free masonic thinking
there's good in us we have our baptism
we have the life of our lord jesus
christ in us
but we have bad tendencies and thanks to
the life of grace and the sacraments of
the mass
we can somehow stay on top of those bad
tendencies
and even take our our tendency towards
the evil
practice penance and sacrifice and
become saints out of it
but we have to admit that we're we have
an evil tendency i can't say we're f
we're essentially evil that's not true
we're baptized
we're but we have an evil tendency
however with the life of grace that can
be controlled
and we can even put ourselves on the
cross with our lord by going through all
the
penance and sacrifice that requires
so we insist on sacrifice they'll
mention it they
novus ordo they will mention it uh
just to kind of change the meaning of
sacrifice
of the ten paragraphs that allude to the
sacrificial aspect
six also employ terms relating to
meal so as soon as they say sacrifice at
least in six out of the ten cases
as soon as they say sacrifice they also
say and this is the time for banquet
with our fellow men
to sort of un to play down this idea of
sacrifice
the sacrificial terminology avoids
explicit references to the mass
as a sacrifice of propitiation
that is that it makes satisfaction to
god for sin
i just don't want to make sure i'm not
passing on my footnotes here
this teaching is sometimes called the
great stumbling block of the reformation
neither lutheran calvin or kramner
liked the idea of sacrifice
sacrificed in the eucharist through the
offering of prayer
praise self-giving and charity to the
poor
they did not like that and they would
never
mention sacrifice of propitiation so
those characters
go back five centuries i keep talking
about freemasonry and all the rest of it
but hey this protestant theology
pseudo-theology is where this idea
already begins of
man does not need a sacrifice
thomas cranmer so he's the great
reformer
uh you know protestant reformer of
england uh he said
he believeth me by saying that i deny
the sacrifice of the mass
the controversy is not whether in the
holy communion be made a sacrifice or
not
but whether it be a propitiatory
sacrifice or not
so kramer is already saying the mass is
a sacrifice
but is not paying for any sins
i don't know that's like saying uh
we have wine but there's no no alcohol
in it
there's a sacrifice but it's not paying
for any sins
why have a sacrifice if it's not paying
for sins
sacrifice the shedding of blood why are
you shedding blood
i'm going to give up the most important
thing we have life
to pay for my offense against god ever
since
abel you know the son of adam that has
been the mentality
so thomas kramer said yes it's a
sacrifice but it's not propitiation
all right um
jungman uh someone else explicitly
mentions the dispute
in his 1976 commentary he says
even protestant theologians such as are
not averse to
getting along with catholics declare
that the catholic doctrine of the mass
as an expiatory sacrifice is the
greatest single stumbling block
it is considered variously the catholic
church's radical error
or the doctrinal difference that divides
churches
that should be kind of a consoling point
for us we see a lot of confusion
a lot of various
errors a lot of different people saying
this is the truth and that is the truth
and someone else of the truth
but really only the catholic only the
catholic
can say we have the sacrifice of the
mass
the sacrifice of the mass is a
propitiatory sacrifice
which pays for our sins
every single protestant group that you
will meet with will not admit
that there is a mass with a propitiatory
sacrifice
and they're all disagreed amongst
themselves
and they are but at the same time none
of them will accept this idea that the
mass
pays for sin that it is a propitiatory
sacrifice
uh they say it's a stumbling block
that's the one thing they cannot accept
of so we can be consoled
in the catholic church the idea that we
still have the holy sacrifice of the
mass
means that we're still connected to the
truth
everyone else all these other groups
that have split away for the last 500
years and
split amongst themselves and all the
rest of it
what causes this mentality of split and
split and split and split
it is simply getting away from the
eternal
sacrifice of our lord jesus christ
you can take all the protestant groups
uh you know methodists and
presbyterians and episcopalians and
seventh-day adventists
they might be able to agree with each
other
upon one thing and the only thing they
will agree upon between each other is
that
the catholic church is wrong and the
other side here we are in the catholic
church looking at them
and we'll say there's one point
which is the source of all of their
division
and error and you know
um instability etc
that one point is they have no
propitiatory
sacrifice for the sins
so you know we must pray for them that
they come back to the truth uh father
summers and i were just listening to a
story
last week while we were on retreat uh
about a priest considering
a priest back in 1940s or 50s just
giving us the
day by day experiences life of a priest
and one of them was
i've never thought too much about it
before but perhaps i should start
considering it
he said up until now when i saw pastors
that belonged to the protestant sects
i've greeted them and thought
poor fellow he's so far from the truth
um
i just hope he i just hope he doesn't
have a bad effect on good
on catholics uh and sort of and
then he would keep a distance from them
which to a certain status correct
because
when we make too much friendship with
them there might be the tendency to give
up the truth
but he said you know perhaps from now on
i'll start considering this truth and
he's right
the catholic church considers herself
the mother of all souls
and a she's the mother of catholics
baptized catholics but also the
protestants they are heretics
they have something of our lord jesus
christ but they've gone into different
errors
they might even have valid baptisms
and in that case the priest should think
even of these protestants and their
protestant minister says
somehow christians that have fallen away
from the fold but they can somehow come
back in again if they come back to the
truth
so that priest made it a point in his
life that he was going to remember to
pray
for the protestants and also the
protestant ministers that they come back
and not just consider it sufficient it's
to greet them in a friendly way
but rather to also pray and do some
sacrifice for them
so that's what we should do also when we
consider this error
that the protestants have and also the
modern catholics have
that they they empty
the propitiatory sacrifice of our lord
jesus christ
very good we'll say our prayer
name the father and son holy ghost hail
mary full of grace the lord is women
blessed is the truth jesus
name the father
you