Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, June 23, 2013 ByRev. Fr. Louis Campbel Falling Off a Log The world is in spiritual darkness. The world does not know God. It does not fear God, nor does it love Him, since one cannot love what one does not know. Moreover, the world does not care. In fact, it despises God. It goes its own way and makes up its own rules, even if they contradict God’s Commandments. This is why the judgment of God hangs over the world like a sword ready to strike. The powers of nature are shaken, as Our Lord said they would be before He comes again: “But immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give her light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of heaven will be shaken” (Mt.24:29). How necessary it is to find God, and find Him soon! But God does not reveal Himself to those who are looking for Him in all the wrong places. Many look for Him in the study of philosophy. Others look to outer space. Well, science has found “the God particle.” Some turn to the Eastern religions, like the Beatles, and write songs to Hindu gods. Others turn to paganism and witchcraft. The worship of Lucifer is spread far and wide. The Church of Vatican II joins other religionists in ecumenical endeavors, “searching for God.” At the recent seminar with the Jews – Jews and Christians Together to Deepen Reflection on the Spiritual Dimension of the Dialogue – one of the Rabbis said: “To find together the way to God is as difficult ‘as climbing a mountain,’ however, ‘together we can help one another to become the persons that we should be,’ in a word, to become ‘better persons’” (Zenit.org, June 13, 2013). Apparently it is too difficult to find God through interfaith dialogue, but at least “we can all become better persons.” But becoming better persons is not enough if we do not find God. Ordinary human goodness falls far short of what it takes to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. It was also said by one of the rabbis at the seminar: “If in both religions, the commandment is love of neighbor, how can I love one I do not know?” But the commandment to love one’s neighbor takes second place after the commandment to love God, and the Commandment to love God is also common to both religions, the Christian and the Jewish. I guess you can’t love God if you can’t find Him. There is nothing wrong in itself with getting to know the Jews. But what is the point of getting to know the Jews better if this closes the door to knowing God? Well, is getting to know God as difficult as “climbing a mountain”? Not at all! How then can we find God? It’s as easy as “falling off a log.” The answer may be staring us in the face, as in the case of the Apostle Philip: “Philip said to him, ‘Lord, show us the Father and it is enough for us.’ Jesus said to him, ‘Have I been so long a time with you and you have not known me? Philip, he who sees me sees also the Father. How canst thou say, “Show us the Father”? Dost thou not believe that I am in the Father and the Father in me?’” (Jn.14:3-10a). There we have the answer! To find God we must find Jesus Christ. To know Jesus Christ is to know the Father, for “I am in the Father and the Father in me.” Jesus Christ is Emmanuel, God with us! What then is the Vatican doing in this unfruitful dialogue with the Jews? If the name of Jesus Christ, the Divine Son of God, cannot be mentioned at the seminar as the Way to the Father, there is no point in taking part. In fact, to take part in these dialogues is to lose the Catholic Faith. St. John makes it absolutely clear: “Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God. And everyone who loves him who begot, loves also the one begotten of him. In this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and do his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments; and his commandments are not burdensome. Because all that is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that overcomes the world, our faith. Who is there that overcomes the world if not he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?... 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.” (1Jn.5:1-5;2:22, 23). Hear the words of Jesus Christ Himself in His “dialogue” with the Jews: “Do not murmur among yourselves. No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draw him, and I will raise him up on the last day. It is written in the Prophets, ‘And they all shall be taught of God.’ Everyone who has listened to the Father, and has learned, comes to me; not that anyone has seen the Father except him who is from God, he has seen the Father. Amen, amen, I say to you, he who believes in me has life everlasting” (Jn.6:43b-47). We need a leader, a Rock like Peter, who upholds the faith of the Catholic Church. The conciliar popes have disqualified themselves, and have thrown the lambs of the flock to the wolves. There are 1.2 billion Catholics in the world. Most of them are being led to the edge of the cliff by the Judaized conciliar popes. It is hard for us to give cheery little sermons under such circumstances, even if our personal disposition tends to the cheerful. But wait, we do have reason to be cheerful, and hopeful, and confident of our salvation. Our Lord cannot lie: “Amen, amen I say to you, he who believes in me has life everlasting” (Jn.6:47).
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