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Monday 16 June 2014

From a Commentator


Someone who was discussing the post concerning how it is harder to be holy in America than in Europe, a person who has been to Europe and lives in the States, said, immediately, “That is because of Protestantism.” She could see that the grayness of the Protestant congregations had caused confusion, as to evil and good. In Europe, the black is secularism, Marxism, relativism, and atheism.  Black is black and white is white. The lack of God is obvious and so is the resulting falling off of normal morality, of natural law. There is no middle ground anymore.

Where there is a heritage of strong Protestantism, with Protestants believing that contraception is fine, that divorce and re-marriage with annulment are fine, that the suppression of the seven sacraments is a “reform”, that the false ideas of sola fide and sola scriptura somehow justifies the throwing out of 2,000 years of Tradition, the confusion enables people to think they are following God’s ways, when in fact, they are not.

St. Angela, (as well as many other saints), quotes the Scriptures wherein Christ says, “Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, ye have no life in you.”

This is a hard saying which many Catholics no longer believe because of the pain of fallen-away or lapsed Catholics in their own families, of unbaptized grandchildren and the living in sin of so many in families. The acceptance of fornication is almost a given here in the States.

But, Christ, the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity, clearly states that life comes only in the reception of His Body, His Blood.  The words of God could not be clearer.  How sad it is that some do not take the Lord’s words seriously.

Those is Europe who reject the saying of Christ no longer care for religion. Those in America who reject His words have created a great morass of religious chaos and, finally, a grayness which is actually black.  But, some simply cannot see this. My commentator did, God bless her.