Wednesday, June 2, 2021

Be especially cautious of babel this month.

The Catholic Response to “Pride Month” (Crisis, 6/1/21)

Dante Alighieri: All About Love (Epoch Times, 5/30/21)
"The Catholic Bishops’ Conferences of the West African nations of Senegal, Mauritania, Cape Verde, and Guinea-Bissau reiterated their opposition to homosexual practice Friday following a meeting of their conferences." (Breitbart, 5/29/2021) BTW, Good luck finding anything similar from the Arcdiocese of Philadelphia or the Diocese of Trenton.
"The lesson of Babel is clear: it is human pride that has produced confusion and division in the world. We are witnessing the construction of a new Babel. Ours is a post-Christian society, an anti-culture that has rejected the Word of God. In our pride, we want on our own terms and by our own accomplishments what creatures can only receive from God. We have thrown off His reality — about gender, sex, life, etc. — and tried to construct our own. As a result, our language is increasingly disconnected from truth, our words unintelligible, and our ability to communicate crippled. To say that a man can menstruate and give birth or that a woman's pronouns are legitimately "he/his/him" is complete gibberish....To say " 'Love is love' is to rob words of any real meaning.... Pentecost is the undoing of Babel. (Acts 2:7-11) The Apostles, filled with the Holy Spirit, speak in a way that all hearers can understand. Redeemed by the Word, man can now speak intelligibly about God and about himself. And because he can communicate the truth to others, this intelligibility leads to unity.... It is because the Church is devoted to the Word of God — is, indeed, His Body — that she can purify and redeem the word of man. In the Church, all peoples come to the divine Word and find also that the human word can convey the truth. As the Church is marginalized (or as she yields her ground) the curse of Babel creeps back into the world. This has produced our current situation, which Saint John Paul II once called a " 'crisis of meaning.' The modern world despairs of knowing what is true and in the absence of truth it will have only division and conflict.... This new Pentecost requires of the Church's pastors and members to speak clearly and charitably. It is a failure of charity to be unclear, to indulge another in error, and to craft our language to accommodate lies. It is likewise a failure of clarity to speak in an uncharitable manner" (Father Paul Scalia, 5/23/21)
"In light of the scale of pedophilic misconduct, a word of Jesus has again come to attention which says: 'Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung round his neck and he were thrown into the sea' (Mark 9:42). The phrase 'the little ones' in the language of Jesus means the common believers who can be confounded in their faith by the intellectual arrogance of those who think they are clever. So here Jesus protects the deposit of the faith with an emphatic threat of punishment to those who do it harm" (Benedict XVI, 4/10/19)

CORPUS CHRISTI, 6/6/21

(1 CORINTHIANS 11: 27-29,

CANON 915, &

WORTHINESS TO RECEIVE HOLY COMMUNION)