With Straight Face! (Bede)

Series: Trinitytide

August 29, 2018
Fr. Vaughn Treco

180829 - Homily - With Straight Face! (Bede)

Episode Notes

Homily - With Straight Face! (Bede)

For Herod had sent and seized John, and bound him in prison for the sake of Hero'di-as, his brother Philip’s wife; because he had married her. For John said to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.”

(Mark 6:17-18)

DEAREST FRIENDS:

Today, the Holy Spirit of God puts to the priests and prelates of the Holy Roman Catholic Church a penetrating question:

  • How can you welcome to men and women to eat the Bread of Eternal Life and the drink the Chalice  of Salvation who disobey the very commandment of God that Saint John the Baptist offered up his life to defend?

And, today, these priests and prelates with straight face give answer: 

  • Because we will no longer be constrained by Your Revelation whether that which you breathed into the Sacred Scripture or in the Holy Tradition which you entrusted to the Holy Apostles!

And, Jesus said unto them:

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous, saying, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’

Thus you witness against yourselves, that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets.

O Saint John the Baptist, Herald of the Lamb of God: Pray for us!

O Lord Jesus Christ, Savior of the World:Have mercy on us!


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