Reading Matins this morning, according to Divino Afflatu for the Fifth Day in the Octave of Epiphany (done away with as
an Octave in 1955), we read from the Letter of St. Paul to the Corinthians in
three parts. Rather than use the translation from Matins, from the Douay, I
will instead use that of the New Revised Standard Version - Catholic Edition.
This will then make obvious in the most current way, how clear St. Paul is:
1 Corinthians 5:1-11 New Revised Standard
Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
Sexual Immorality Defiles the Church
5 It is actually reported that there is sexual
immorality (the Douay refers to "fornication," the NRSV-CE uses an
even broader term with "sexual immorality") among you, and of a kind
that is not found even among pagans; for a man is living with his father’s
wife. 2 And you are arrogant! Should you not rather have mourned, so that he
who has done this would have been removed from among you?
3 For though absent in body, I am present in
spirit; and as if present I have already pronounced judgement 4 in the name of
the Lord Jesus on the man who has done such a thing. When you are assembled,
and my spirit is present with the power of our Lord Jesus, 5 you are to hand
this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may
be saved in the day of the Lord.6 Your boasting is not a good thing. Do you not
know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough? 7 Clean out the old
yeast so that you may be a new batch, as you really are unleavened. For our paschal
lamb, Christ, has been sacrificed. 8 Therefore, let us celebrate the festival,
not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and evil, but with the unleavened
bread of sincerity and truth.
Sexual Immorality Must Be Judged
9 I wrote to you in my letter not to associate
with sexually immoral persons— 10 not at all meaning the immoral of this world,
or the greedy and robbers, or idolaters, since you would then need to go out of
the world. 11 But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears
the name of brother or sister who is sexually immoral or greedy, or is an
idolater, reviler, drunkard, or robber. Do not even eat with such a one.
"Do not even eat with such a one!"
So "rigid" was that writer. Such a
"self-absorbed, Promethean, neo Pelagian" before Pelagian even
existed, was that "tent maker." What a "clericalist" was that student of
Gamaliel, considered by the Church to have been a secret Christian and a Saint; in the Martyrology for August 3. His remains are at the Duomo in Pisa, Italy (of "Leaning Tower" fame). Holy Gamaliel is made famous in Acts wherein he says:
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"I advise you: Leave these men alone! Let
them go! For if their purpose or activity is of human origin, it will fail. But
if it is from God, you will not be able to stop these men; you will only find
yourselves fighting against God.’
For nearly two-thousand years, we have had the
words of St. Paul speak clearly and emphatically to us of how to live, how to
be moral and upstanding and faithful to Christ. Clearly, the words of the men to whom Holy Gamaliel referred were doing the work, "from God,"
Now, we have moderns who take a
position out of some false mercy that is opposite that of Paul. Such a
"doctor," he was, a terrible "detached" man with a
"clericalist psychology." It is these men, lead by Bergoglio, who are, "fighting against God."
What then, must Pope Bergoglio think of St. Paul, after he reads that passage, from Scripture, (from something other than Divino Afflatu, of course), considering what he said this morning, at the chapel at the Casa Santa Marta?
"Jesus served the people, He explained things
because the people understood well: He was at the service of the people. He had
an attitude of a servant, and this gave authority. On the other hand, these
doctors of the law that the people… yes, they heard, they respected, but they
didn’t feel that they had authority over them; these had a psychology of
princes: ‘We are the masters, the princes, and we teach you. Not service: we
command, you obey.’ And Jesus never passed Himself off like a prince: He was
always the servant of all, and this is what gave Him authority."
"They were detached from the people, they were
not close [to them]; Jesus was very close to the people, and this gave
authority. Those detached people, these doctors, had a clericalist psychology:
they taught with a clericalist authority – that’s clericalism. It is very
pleasing to me when I read about the closeness to the people the Blessed Paul
VI had; in number 48 of Evangelii nuntiandi one sees the heart of a pastor who
is close [to the people]: that’s where you find the authority of the Pope,
closeness. First, a servant, of service, of humility: the head is the one who
serves, who turns everything upside down, like an iceberg. The summit of the
iceberg is seen; Jesus, on the other hand, turns it upside down and the people
are on top and he that commands is below, and gives commands from below.
Second, closeness."
"On the other hand, this people was not coherent
and their personality was divided on the point that Jesus counselled His
disciples: ‘But, do what they tell you, but not what they do’: they said one
thing and did another. Incoherence. They were incoherent. And the attitude
Jesus uses of them so often is hypocritical. And it is understood that one who
considers himself a prince, who has a clericalist attitude, who is a hypocrite,
doesn’t have authority! He speaks the truth, but without authority. Jesus, on the
other hand, who is humble, who is at the service of others, who is close, who
does not despise the people, and who is coherent, has authority. And this is
the authority that the people of God senses."
If Paul was not speaking with
"authority" and the authority of Jesus, then who is he that we should
consider what he says? Does Bergoglio place himself above St. Paul? We know what Bergoglio is saying in these little diatribes, he refers to faithful Catholics and faithful prelates who dare to stand up for the Truth of Christ and His Church.
Bergoglio speaks frequently about
"senses" and "peripheries" and what the "people of
God" think.
Perhaps it is time for
Pope Bergoglio to tell the world what God thinks, and the "Catholic
God" specifically! Perhaps its time for Bergoglio to smell a little bit more like the incense of heaven rather than the stench of the sheep. Even the sheep like a bath now and then and sweet smelling things.
After all, the 39th Psalm (Douay numbering) does tell us that:
3 And he heard my prayers, and brought me out
of the pit of misery and the mire of dregs. And he set my feet upon a rock, and
directed my steps.
There's a little too much wallowing around in the "mire of dregs" and not enough setting of "feet upon the rock," and directly the steps of those in sexual immorality. Those, and we can name many of them within the ranks of Bergoglio's new Cardinals, will rue the day they choose to "accompany." They'll take on more than the smell of sheep, it will smell more like sulphur.
How ironic, at a time when this Pope decides
that we should praise the filthy apostate Luther and his followers who believe
in "sola scriptura" that this Pope, chooses to ignore Holy Scripture
and instead, places himself above it.
Given a choice between one or the other, I'll
choose Paul of Tarsus over Bergoglio of Buenos Aires!
Dr. Paul Ehrlich, author of the 1968 bestseller The Population Bomb is scheduled to speak in Vatican City during the February 27-March 1 conference that will discuss “how to save the natural world.” The Stanford biologist champions sex-selective abortion as well as mass forced sterilization as legitimate methods to curb population growth.
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