Short Sunday Sermon - Apocalypse

 

If you follow the new-fangled three year lectionary you will have heard Luke's "Little Apocalypse," in which Our Lord prophecies the end times, the great and terrible day of the Lord. When that comes, as it will, the wicked will be eradicated "root and branch" and burned away like stubble in an oven (Malachi). So yes, the righteous will be vindicated mightily even as the wicked apparently prosper. Are we there yet?

No, we're not. For sure, certain signs have been fulfilled, Elijah's returned in the form of John the Baptist, the Church around the world is persecuted as never before an the unrighteous, per Malachi, prosper and escape justice, for now. In fact, they appear to wax ever stronger and that's as it should be. As we approach the definitive battle between good and evil, between God and Satan, each respective side will become more clearly defined. We see that now, if you have eyes to see.

The question is, which side are you on? On the side of truth, beauty, goodness and light, on the side of God, obviously. Accordingly, as the Apostle tells the Thessalonians, don't be idle but get to work, we must apply ourselves to the opus dei, the work of God. Christ narrows the focus, "By your endurance you will save your lives."

Endurance. Never, ever give up. Not on the Faith, the Gospel of life, Not in prayer. Not in the active pursuit of holiness and in that daily endeavor to deny ourselves, take up our cross and follow Christ. Is this hard? Of course, and no one ever said it'd be easy. Does it involve hardship? It should, endurance and duress are cognate. Does it have a reward? Assuredly yes, eternal life.

That's our goal. Run accordingly, and do not be dismayed at the present ascendance of the apostate and heathen, they will meet their reward. Here endeth the lesson.

God Bless,

LSP

Αγνή Παρθένε - A Short Sunday Sermon

 

You do know, dear readers, that we're fighting this, literally, in the West, and that your tax dollars are paying the interest on the debt which fuels the war against everything we hold good, right, and true. Not unlike the way we pay for a school system which teaches our children to scorn the Faith we teach them at home.

Let's cut to the chase. We're funding Satan, see Trans Baphomet. Do you think God will rest content in being mocked, ad naus? Think again, there will be a great reckoning. Maybe, Christians, you might want to wake TF up. Till then, here's a song:

On topic, let's have the Bosphorus back. Ahem, LL, snap to. And word to the wise, those who go against the Holy Spirit will be relentlessly destroyed by that same Spirit. Maybe you think that last point is some kind of joke. Think again.

Your Pal,

LSP

A Short Sunday Sermon

 

There it is, you've no sooner recovered from the admirable Uganda Police Band than you're in church conjuring with the Saints, the innumerable multitude of the holy who stand before God's throne in the exultant liturgy of heaven. As through a door or window opened up into paradise, we see them in the book of Revelation:

After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no man could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits upon the throne, and to the Lamb!"

 

Behold the glory of the beatific vision, and with it we're reminded that sanctity is our common vocation, we're all called to be saints, but how? By imitating Christ, patterning our lives after the pattern of Christ's life, and our Savior reveals his character to us in the Beatitudes (Matthew 5:1-12). 

Blessed are the poor in spirit, the humble. This is Jesus who "humbled himself taking the form of a servant and became obedient even unto death." Blessed are those who mourn, and Christ does precisely that, he grieves for the sin of the world and its deadly effect. Think on the two awful and piercing words at the death of Lazarus, "Jesus wept." Blessed are the meek or gentle? Such is Jesus, a gentle man as opposed to an arrogant, aggressive, boastful man, "Come to me for I am gentle and lowly in heart."

Again, "Zeal for your house has consumed me." Our Lord hungers and thirsts for righteousness as he drives the moneylenders out of the Temple. And mercy? "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone," and he doesn't, though qualified to do so. Instead, the sinless man, in utter purity, brings peace to the world, uniting fallen humanity to the Father on the cross where he dies for the forgiveness of our sins. 

Humility, compassion, gentleness, righteousness, mercy, purity and peace, the character of Christ and the path of holiness which Jesus invites us to walk. Those who do become saints, indwelt, purified and redeemed by the Holy One of Israel.

Can it be done? Yes. The Saints, from righteous Abel through the Patriarchs, Prophets, Apostles, and Martyrs, up to the holy men and women of today show us that sanctity, by the grace of God, is very real. Christ invites us to follow him so that we may attain it and the crown of glory which fadeth not away.

God bless,

LSP