The Sunday Sermon Archive

Dear Friends,

In this Sunday's Gospel we see an eternal conflict in full bloom. All the people of the world are divided into two groups. "He that is of God, heareth the words of God." And so the logical corollary: He that is not of God does not hear the words of God. The one finds eternal life and the other loses eternal life. There is no in between.

To those who will not hear the words of God there is no proof possible or sufficient that will make them believe. Even though they cannot convict our Lord of any sin; and even though they see clearly that He has performed many miracles, they refuse to believe.

To these poor self-deluded souls our Lord at last abandons them to their own devices. "But Jesus hid Himself, and went out of the temple."

The Jews were the first to officially and obstinately reject Our Lord, so consequently they are among the most depraved people on this earth.

Even though Christ never walked into the temple again He soon came back into Jerusalem and performed more miracles. He healed a blind man; He instructed them again, and endeavored to convince them of His Divinity. He still offered them hope as He hung from the cross. He gave them many years which included His Resurrection, Ascension, Pentecost, the miracles and preaching of the Apostles, etc. still they would not believe. This blindness is such that it is passed on from generation to generation, and is even embraced by other people that are not physical descendants (Khazars).

And because the Jews will not hear the words of God they are lost. Their temple was destroyed and so was their priesthood. The only thing they can cling to is their synagogues with the corrupt teachings of the Talmud which now takes precedence even over the sacred Pentateuch. And unless their blindness is removed in this life they will be eternally lost in the fires of Hell.

Many may argue that they have the sacred texts of the Old Testament and therefore there is something that is good and pleasing in their beliefs or in their synagogues. This is not true. What they may preserve that is true will only be for their greater condemnation. Those who laid violent hands upon Christ were not sanctified by the holiness of that which they touched but were only made guiltier. The same applies to places: though they may contain good books this does not make them good. Those places that desecrate that which is holy are an abomination and Catholics must avoid those places because they are dens of devils.

The early Church had to fight hard to keep the Judaizers from destroying souls. It was very tempting for the early Christians to try to be both Jewish and Christian. This is impossible for one hears the words of God and the other does not. One is inspired by God the other by Satan.

This Judaizing has not ended. Today it takes on a slightly different approach but the effect is the same. The Freemasonic lodges are doing the same work as the Judaizers. They will tell you that you can be a good Catholic and a good Freemason. They will tell you that they believe in the same God, they will even tell you that they have and use the sacred scriptures in their lodges. They may even pretend that they are just a "fraternal" and not a "religious" society. But the fact is they have rejected Jesus Christ and therefore they and their lodges are dens of devils. And every Catholic has been warned throughout the ages to avoid these people and places because they are very dangerous to the life of the soul.

The modernist Novus Ordo likewise has become much like the synagogue or the lodge. It is man centered and not God centered, the altar of sacrifice has been replaced by a table for a meal, the sacrificing priesthood has been replaced by a prayer leader, the reverence and honor due to Our Lord in the Sacred Species is gone, etc. Yes, they may contain many sacred texts but, what have they done with them? That good which they have retained will be like to the Jews, and Masons; only for their greater punishment. True Catholics cannot participate in this apostasy.

We must either hear the words of God which have been spoken to us for over two thousand years and be saved, or we must reject them and be eternally lost.

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