Why Nobody Praises Catholic Wisdom (Transfiguration)

Homily - Why Nobody Praises Catholic Wisdom (Transfiguration)

You shall not add to the word which I command you, nor take from it; that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you. 

Keep them and do them; for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.’

DEAR FRIENDS:

TODAY, THE MORAL PRACTICE of the sons and daughters of the Holy Roman Church, and that of our modern neo-pagan neighbors is almost indistinguishable!

• Unmarried Roman Catholic couples commit the sin of fornication at the same rate as their unbelieving friends;

• Self-Identifying Roman Catholic married couples are as likely to use artificial contraception as the general populations of the counties in which they reside;

• Roman Catholic young people, and adults alike who go to Mass regularly secure the services of abortion clinicians as their Liberal Protestant counterparts;

• The sons and daughters of the Holy Catholic Church accept as good homosexual homosexuality as their non-Christian friends;

• When asked if they believe that  people of the same sex should have the legal right establish so-called marriages with one another, Roman Catholics are more likely to say “Yes” than are their atheist confreres!

GIVEN THESE FACTS, and given that each of these beliefs and moral practices go directly against both the teaching of Sacred Scripture and the immutable teaching of the Holy Tradition entrusted by our Lord Jesus Christ to the Holy Apostles...

• Can modern Roman Catholics not be justly accused of  leaving the commandment of God, and holding fast rather to the traditions of men?

SO WHY ARE WE SURPRISED that Modern Man is no longer impressed either by the sons of the Catholic Church nor by the prelates who govern her?

THIS IS WHY neither the simple not the intelligent of our day express wonder about us:

• FOR SINCE WE no longer keep the commandments of God nor do them; our wisdom and our understanding is thought to be nothing but common in the sight of our neighbors...

THIS IS WHY no one today says;

“Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people!”

DEAREST FRIENDS:

As you come to receive the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ...

I beg you to ask the Lord for the grace of repentance... The grace to reject the wisdom of the world...

And the grace to return in the obedience of faith... To the only true wisdom... The teaching of our Lord Jesus Christ!