The Sanctity of Catholicism in a world of unbelief

The Sanctity of Catholicism in a world of unbelief

No doubt there will be some who won’t agree with the theme of a world filled with unbelief.  However, we need to only look at the absence of so many people that have given up on the Church in its attempt to bring all of us together without exiting the Traditional Sacraments and their full meaning for our souls.  We may hear them say that they believe in Christ but do little to prove their own words.  Perhaps they might feel ashamed to be honest by the manner in which religion has diminished any adherence to Church and the priesthood.

One only needs to search the Old Testament and see how so many were easily proselytized to worship false gods and leave the God of Abraham.  We are in a crisis, as I explained in a previous article, that without the quest of the populous from the pews the Church will almost suddenly fall away from Christ leaving only a few clergy without a congregation to minister with.

There are some who may become sanctimonious without any real substance about their false attitude and make those that are real in their manner of doing the work of Christ a reflection of themselves.  That is what can make real ministers of God look like themselves and end up turning people off to the Church and Christ.

How will Jerusalem welcome her Messiah?  Although Jesus had always refused popular attempts to make him king, he chooses the time and prepares the details for his messianic entry into the city of “his father David.”  Acclaimed as son of David, as the one who brings salvation (Hosanna means “Save!’ or “Give salvation”), the “King of glory” enters his City “riding on an ass.”  Jesus conquers the Daughter of Zion, a figure of his Church, neither by ruse nor by violence, but by the humility that bears witness to the truth.  And so the subjects of his kingdom on that day are children and God’s poor, who acclaim him as had the angels when they announced him to the shepherds.  Their acclamation, “Blessed be he who comes in the name of the Lord,” is taken up by the Church in the “Santus” of the Eucharistic liturgy that introduces the memorial of the Lord’s Passover.  (CCC 559).

In all this the Sanctity of Catholicism is still the only real truth that must stand solid and will be the reality of Christ’s Church even if humanity chooses to leave it for a god that will collapse.

Ralph B. Hathaway