Kolakušić Macrona zove de facto ubojicom. Istina, ali može li se još kome reći?

 Onom prvome kojem bi se to moglo reći bilo bi Bergogliu.

Jer je Vatikan prva država u svijetu koja je utrala put obveznim cjepljenjem svojim građanima.

Mnogima to omiče, ali Bergoglio je bio prvi. 

Makar neki imali sreću, kao ona tri švicarska gardijca, koja su dala otkaz i otišla iz Vatikana.

U drugim državama, gdje mnogim osobama nije lako otići nakon uvođenja obveznog cjepljenja - makar to ne bio izgovor - Bergogliov primjer čini mnogo zla.

Nitko nema izgovora za povući se tim primjerom. Mislim i na tolike današnje recimo "službene" svećenike. 

Ne možete ići tim putem. Ne možete slegnuti ramenima i gledati na drugu stranu.

Sermon for the 3rdSunday after the Epiphany, January 22nd, 2022 (from 2020)

 

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.

 

My dearly beloved in Our Lord,

 

St Paul exhorts us on this Sunday, as he has done on the past Sunday, that we should love our enemies.

“Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse… To no man render evil for evil, but provide good things not only in the sight of God, but also in the sight of all men… Do not avenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to the wrath, for it is written, Vengeance is Mine: I will repay, says the Lord. But, If your enemy is hungry, give him food; if he is thirsty, give him drink; for by so doing you will heap coals of fire upon his head. Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.” (Rom 12)

Only the religion preached by Our Lord, i.e. the Gospel of peace (cf Rom 10:15) teaches charity to the degree of loving even our enemies.

There is some charity or at least some niceness in any religion. How could it be otherwise? But we see quite well how confused things are in the false religions – those which are far from Our Lord because they were not founded by him, or because they have defected from him – when nowadays we often hear that Islam is called a “religion of peace”! How come that on a worldwide scale it is mostly adherents of this religion who are responsible for violent attacks, many times on innocent people…? True charity in the sense of supernatural virtue is a gift of the Holy Ghost! It is not found outside the Catholic Church.

A Catholic who even only summarily lives by the principles of the true religion, not only won’t go out and kill himself and/or others; he will positively seek to “be at peace with all men”, as St Paul again says in today’s Reading. And ultimately he will strive to imitate Our Lord and so many Saints who have given the good example of loving one’s enemies.

Why are we to love our enemies? The answer is the same, formally speaking, as for the question: Why are we supposed to love our neighbor? The motives of Christian charity towards others, friends or foes, are (1) that they also, like our own self, have been created by God; and (2) that God has created all human beings in order that they may participate in His eternal life and glory in Heaven.

All too often we do not properly understand the true motives for what we are doing, or for what we are supposed to do. We can see this clearly in the present ecological movement or craze which is leading to the most improbable consequences, such as the pretended Pope recently subscribing to the cult of “mother earth”. Instinctively we know that this is wrong – but what exactly is leading people to such madness? In this question it is about ignoring God’s expressed will by which He has told Adam and Eve to subdue and to cultivate the earth. In the thinking of modern man things are not connected metaphysically or logically. Therefore often enough he cannot make sense of what is going on. Thus there are now people who would prefer the extinction of the human race rather than seeing “mother earth” harmed. Rather than going back to the solid principles of faith and reason which dictate that man make proper prudent and measured use of whatever God has made, they convince themselves of the most ridiculous conclusions put forward by the sworn enemies of Christ and his Church. The devil, the enemy of human salvation, finds it very easy to mislead people once they have renounced common sense.

So if we consider the formal reason for charity as Catholics are supposed to practice it, there can be no doubt that there is no distinction to be made between whoever appears to be our friend or our foe. St Paul is speaking clearly in today’s Epistle – how could we be so blind as not to see the truth? God alone is entitled to separate His friends from His enemies. He does so at the individual’s personal judgment, and He will do so at the General Judgment: “Do not avenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to the wrath, for it is written, Vengeance is Mine: I will repay, says the Lord.” Meanwhile, for as long as we live in this earthly condition and not yet in Heaven, the good grain and the weeds are growing together, and there is little we can do about it – except trying to convince the weed to turn into good grain before both are separated, as well as being careful not to turn into weeds ourselves. For the time being we somewhat need to make abstraction from that which displeases God or us in our neighbor, acknowledging that we all without any distinction are God’s creatures; that we have not been called to judge others; and that all souls are meant to go to Heaven: “God wants all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.” (1Tim 2:4)

St Augustine resumes our dilemma with regards to loving our seeming enemies in a beautiful phrase: “And often, when you seem to hate an enemy, you are hating a friend without knowing it.” For, as the Romans said: “Dum spiro, spero. - As long as I breathe, I hope.” As long as there is life, there is hope – we have similar sayings in all our languages – meaning that any human being may change for the better and convert to the truth as long as he is still alive. The fact that this may seem highly improbable for some – think of Bergoglio or Ratzinger – does not change anything to this being possible.

As St Paul concludes today: “Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.” If we do that which is good, our actions will be rewarded by God 30, 60 or 100-fold in this life, and especially in eternity, regardless of the temporal good or bad outcome here and now. Therefore we are always on the safe side if we do that which is good! Even if it is often enough lost on those for whom it is immediately intended, it is never lost with God. But to achieve this, and to accept to keep doing good in spite of receiving no or a negative response, we need to think as Catholics, and not as liberal or utilitarian “modern” people. We are not working or acting in view of this earthly life only or primarily; but in view of Heaven, glorifying God through our good works and achieving the salvation of our soul.

Even the slain Saints claim that God should revenge their death, as we read in Holy Scripture (cf. Apc 6:9-10; Ps 78)! But obviously they are in total conformity with God’s will Who will revenge all injustice at the General Judgment, and only some of it during this earthly time.

Our Lord gives us the example of dealing with those who are our enemies in one aspect or another: He has always treated with mildness and mercy those who were sinners – except for those who were scandalizing others through their bad example, like the Pharisees, and whom he treated harshly because he had to. Christ has prayed for those who were torturing him and putting him to death! Let us imitate his example and show mercy towards sinners, rather than sin through Pharisaical elevation. We must be convinced that if it were not for God’s mighty grace, we would be just as evil if not worse than those whom we are tempted to despise and to put down.

So let us proclaim the Truth with Charity (cf. Eph 4:15) in order not to do just some good, but the integral good that God expects from us. Then He will reward us in due time, no matter what the circumstances, the ups and downs of our earthly and temporary existence might have been.

 

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.

 P. Arnold Trauner (paterarnold@hotmail.com), njemački i engleski

Značenje šest posuda u prvom čudu na svadbi u Kani

 

Šest posuda predstavljaju šest dana stvaranja. Gospodin čini prvo čudo na molbu Majke Ljubavi. Objavljuje svojim učenicima da je Bog. Jer kao što je Bog na početku sve stvorio kompletno u šest dana (teorija evolucije je provala koja služi za udaljiti vjernike od Boga, kao što je i postignuto u velikoj mjeri; Karl Marx je osobno čestitao Darwinu za njegovu knjigu i posvetio je Das Kapital ovom engleskom lakrdijašu i  lupežu), tako sada Gospodin hoće naznačiti da počinje novo stvaranje u Božjoj milosti koja se daje po Njemu. On je onaj isti Bog koji je na samom početku, sa Ocem i Duhom Svetim, po sebi Riječi, stvorio svijet svojom voljom. Zato, jer je Bog, sada je u stanju pretvoriti materiju samo svojom Riječju i voljom, jer moć ima kao Bog. To je bilo tumačenje prvog Božjeg čuda na svadbi u Kani od Crkvenih Otaca.

Sermon for the 2nd Sunday after the Epiphany, January 16th, 2022

 

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.

 

My dearly beloved in Our Lord,

 

Today’s Gospel reminds us of the great importance and the great dignity of the Sacrament of marriage.

We know through the teaching of Our Lord and of the Apostles that the state of virginity or celibacy is in itself superior to the married state. This being said, the sacramental marriage – the marriage legitimately concluded between two Catholics – is of the greatest importance because of its implications for society .

Marriage is by its very nature turned towards the conception and the education of children. God had united Adam and Eve with these words: “Increase and multiply, and fill the earth...” (Gen 1,28) And He repeated the same words to Noe after the great flood! (Gen 9,1) Today mankind has just about forgotten, or is positively denying the principal finality of marriage, and this is a disaster for the individuals and for society: For the individuals, men and women, because their common life is thus voluntarily deprived of a worthwhile end or goal; and for society because the upbringing and education of children requires a stable home and a family.

Our Lord therefore did not invent anything new when he taught: “Have you not read, that he who made man from the beginning, Made them male and female? And he said: For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they two shall be in one flesh. Therefore now they are not two, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let no man put asunder.” (Mt 19,4-6) He only restored the sacred pact of marriage to its original essence and dignity. And he made it into the last of the Seven Sacraments which he instituted.

At the time of Our Lord the situation with marriage was strange, as today’s Gospel hints: We can understand the words: “They have no more wine” in a moral sense - the divine institution of marriage had become insipid and vulgar with most. Moses had had to permit some kind of divorce because of the hardness of the Jews’ hearts, as Our Lord will explain.

Over the past decades unfaithful and unworthy pastors have done something similar among Catholics, thus helping to lead them far astray from the good path, the path that leads to Heaven. First they permitted and favored contraception, de facto; then easy separation through a flood of “annulments”, like a Catholic version of divorce; and now all kinds of abuses that clearly are against God’s will, including practical complacency in abortion, Bergoglio having permitted that all the NO priests simply give absolution from this crime.

Our Lord declares that purely and simply there is no such thing as divorce in the New and everlasting Covenant. This is so precisely because the New Covenant is irrevocable and permanent, and because marriage is an earthly and temporary image of the heavenly and eternal union between Christ and the Church. St Paul teaches this about marriage: “This is a great sacrament; but I speak in Christ and in the Church.” (Eph 5,32)

Thus Our Lord restored the initial purity and dignity of marriage; and he added to it the spiritual vine or unction which God provides through the Sacrament.

Just as important is the fact that God chose to become man in a family, the Holy Family Jesus, Mary and Joseph which we have celebrated last Sunday in a feast instituted by Pope Leo XIII. God incarnate not only restored things to the purity and integrity He had wished when He first created them – He also shows us in his own person the example of all the good things through which we can save our souls. In other words, we are not only meant to believe Our Lord; but we can also imitate his example and his virtues. Thus St Augustine draws a very important conclusion from the very fact that Our Lord had accepted to be at the wedding of Cana, saying that the Savior implicitly acknowledges marriage to be something good – and not something evil, as many heretics (like the Manichees) have pretended throughout the ages.

Let us therefore be grateful and full of respect towards all that God has made.

Let us be clear that celibacy and virginity are a more perfect way of life, in themselves, than the married state, as the Church has always taught.

Let us also insist on the great importance of Christian marriage as a Sacrament, the dignity of which is great as a living image of the union between Christ and the Church; and which is so important as the institution in which children are conceived and educated so that they may one day be valiant members of the earthly society and worthy children of God!

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.

P. Arnold Trauner (paterarnold@hotmail.com), njemački i engleski

Sermon for the Feast of the Holy Family, Jan. 9th, 2022

 

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.

 

My dearly beloved in Our Lord,

 

On the Sunday after the Epiphany, Holy Church celebrates the Feast of the Most Holy Family, Jesus, Mary and Joseph. It has been inserted into the canon of feasts by Pope Benedict XV in 1921.

Let us repeat a few fundamental principles and thoughts about the Christian family.

Whenever parents give orders to their children, they must mean it. Not doing so, is acting as liberals.

The liberals are by definition the enemies of their own salvation. For there is only one name in which we can be saved, the Holy Name of Jesus. This name gives orders, it commands with the highest authority possible, the divine authority, and under pain of not only temporal, but of eternal punishment. So it is pure lunacy to think or to act in a “liberal” way.

“Liberal” in its original meaning  (lat. “liberalis”) is a very positive word. God is the most “liberal” of all, giving freely and out of pure love and mercy. “That which is good, tends to spread its own goodness. - Bonum est diffusivum sui.”

But modern-day “liberalism” is man-centered and thus ungodly. God is no longer the first point of reference, and mostly He is no reference at all. His very existence is denied. Man is claiming “freedom – libertas” for himself, freedom without any limitation except that of “not harming the other one”. Such a concept of liberty is, of course, an expression of “modern man’s” confused thinking which will always lead him into absurdity. All men are equal; but some are more equal…

With regards to the family for example, no one is less “free” than the “modern couple” who by means physical, chemical, biological etc. seeks to “freely” choose the number of children it will have. They must be pitied, at the end of the day, because their behavior is less dignified than that of animals. But they are convinced that they are doing well; and they are, in terms of applying a senseless and aimless concept of “freedom” to their actions.

“Liberal man” justifies his senseless and aimless behavior by referring to his “conscience”. Here again, he claims, he is “free” to act according to the light and guidance of his conscience.

What else is conscience but the faculty to act according to the objectivenature and goal of a given act? “Conscience”, just as “freedom”, is no free-floating entity. It must always be referred to something.

Whatever we do “in accord with our conscience”, or “freely”, makes us to be responsible for the effects of these deeds. But “modern man” does not like the idea of being held responsible. So whatever way we turn the question, we end up in something absurd. Thus clearly the concept of modern liberalism does not make sense.

Catholic parents certainly do not intend to follow such a disastrous pattern. But they must be aware that their minds are influenced if not infected by the ambient and ubiquitous liberalism. So while they firmly reject its principles, they must be watchful in order not to follow its footsteps in practice.

The only real remedy against acting in a liberal way is to keep in mind the notion of the common good – bonum commune. It is opposed to the individual good of each human person. The whole being more than just the sum of its parts, a family is not only there to provide the individual good of each one of its members. It also has its common good: the good march and order of the family, the home, the education of the children… which in return guarantees the individual good.

So there is no way to play out the individual against the common good; but both must be pursued simultaneously. This is yet one more feature of the Christian life which makes it so interesting... and  so difficult.

Only individual souls go to Heaven (or to Hell). There will be no more family or state (or facebook group!) in eternity. But it is part of our earthly sojourn that we cannot make our way to salvation just on our own since God has given a social aspect to our human nature. This is why there is no way around the interaction between the individual good and the common good of the societies, structures etc. we are living in.

So you need to see to it that you achieve your individual good, and the individual good of each member of your family through the pursuit of the common good of the family.

The ultimate good is, obviously, the salvation of all souls involved. This leads us to a better understanding of the importance of Christian charity: “Omnia vestra in caritate fiant. - Let all your things be done in charity” (1Cor 16:14). Only the bond of mutual charity – grounded on the virtues of faith and hope – makes it possible to do all this, without conflict.

Conflicts of interest between the individual and the common good, and any other conflicts originate in the inclination of our will towards evil, the second worst consequence of original sin after ignorance in the intellect. Since the will of each family member is inclined towards evil, but each one in a different manner – one more inclined to pride, another more towards lust etc. – this is a very entangled web indeed. The rights and duties of parents and children are situated on different levels, and this makes it more interesting still.

But because this is so complicated, and far above our human faculties, God endows our souls with supernatural virtues. By enacting them – by putting them into action, bringing them to life – you must weave on this web as best you can, day after day: Fighting your own individual faults and evil inclinations; helping the others to fight theirs; laying the foundation for an increase in virtue…

The more an individual renounces its own self, the fitter he becomes to be Christ’s disciple: “Then Jesus said to his disciples: If any man will come after me, let him deny himself” (Mt 16:24). Catholic parents have to renounce themselves in many ways, day after day. They must also take care to instill this principle of the Christian life into their children, as they grow up. With great strength of conviction, with firmness and kindness administered opportunely, they have to set their children on the right path, the path to Heaven.

May the Holy Family – Jesus, Mary and Joseph – and all the Saints – they have all been raised in a family! – help you to always better fulfill your duties: the parents towards their children, and the children towards the parents.

 

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.

 

P. Arnold Trauner (paterarnold@hotmail.com), njemački i engleski