Dear Friends, My sermon for Sunday, January 5, 2014, is attached. Gods Blessings, Fr Cambpell The Holy Name of Jesus, January 5, 2013 “His name was called Jesus” (Lk.2:21) Today is the Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus, and also the eve of the Feast of the Epiphany. We might ask ourselves at such a time what the Church teaches us about the coming of God’s Divine Son into this sinful world. Who was He, what was His mission, and how did He go about fulfilling it? A television program a few days ago began by referring to the Lord as “Jesus, who became the Christ.” Well, they said, a few of His disciples spoke about Him to those who would listen, and in the next generation, after an evolutionary development of the stories about Him, the Gospels were written by those who never knew Him. This was enough to tell me that I need watch no more of the program, since if Jesus was not the Christ (the Messiah, Anointed One) at His birth, He could not “become” the Christ later. Heaven itself speaks through an angel to the shepherds: “Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy which shall be to all the people; for today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you, who is Christ the Lord” (Lk.2:10,11). St. Matthew gives us the testimony of none other than the wicked Herod, after rumors were brought to him about the birth of “the king of the Jews”: “But when King Herod heard this, he was troubled, and so was all Jerusalem with him. And gathering together all the chief priests and Scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Christ was to be born” (Mt.2:3,4). St. Matthew, himself one of the Apostles, also tells us: “He (Jesus) said to them, ‘But who do you say that I am?’ Simon Peter answered and said, ‘Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God’” (Mt.16:15,16). There we have the testimony of His closest disciple, Peter, that He was the Christ, and did not “become” the Christ through the fantasizing of a later generation. It is true that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, redeemed all men by shedding His Precious Blood upon the Cross for our salvation. The price was paid, but fallen human beings, carrying the mark of Original Sin, still must become heirs of Heaven by believing in Jesus Christ as the Son of God and Savior, and being baptized. The Council of Trent says this about Justification: “Justification… is not only the remission of sins, but sanctification and renovation of the interior man through the voluntary reception of grace and gifts, whereby a man becomes just instead of unjust and a friend instead of an enemy, that he may be an heir in the hope of life everlasting” (D.799). “Oh,” say the conciliar popes, especially John Paul II and now Francis I, “everything was already accomplished at the moment of the Incarnation. All human beings are conceived and born in Grace, whether Catholic, Muslim, Hindu or Jew, or of no religion whatever. We are all good and capable of good works.” Fr. Johannes Dörmann describes this “New Theology” in his exposé of John Paul II’s doctrine of Universal Salvation: “All men belong to the Church of the living God: It is all cultures and religions which make up the people of God, who are on pilgrimage towards the same transcendental goal, as was symbolically expressed at Assisi (where representatives of the world religions met to pray with John Paul II in 1986). It is the mystical body of Christ in the wider sense, which in virtue of the Incarnation includes all mankind. It is the Church of ‘anonymous Christianity,’ which has not yet become aware of its nature… This Church, made up of all churches and church communities, is the ‘ecumenical Church.’ One of these is the Conciliar Church, which re-defined her own essence at Vatican II in the following terms: ‘The Church, in Christ, is in the nature of sacrament – a sign and instrument, that is, of communion with God and of unity among all men’ (Lumen Gentium, 1,1)” (Fr. Johannes Dörmann, Pope John Paul II’s Theological Journey to the Prayer Meeting of Religions in Assisi, Part II, v.i, pp.34,35). For his part, Benedict XVI muddied the waters by ridiculing and dismissing the defined Catholic doctrine of Original Sin, Which John Paul II already did. So who needs Baptism to take away Original Sin if it doesn’t exist? It all connects. If there is no Original Sin, then we are all conceived without sin. Mary’s Immaculate Conception was nothing special. What’s left of the Catholic Faith after they get through with it? It falls like a house of cards. And Francis, no great theologian himself, is just following the party line. He makes wild statements because he has nothing to stand on but the false teachings of the conciliar “popes” and their Vatican II. But: “Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is the Antichrist who denies the Father and the Son. No one who disowns the Son has the Father. He who confesses the Son has the Father also. As for you, let that which you have heard from the beginning abide in you. If that abides in you which you have heard from the beginning, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father. And this is the promise that he has given us, the life everlasting” (1Jn.22-25).
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