Today the Traditional Catholic Church celebrates the feast of Holy, Dedication Of The Basilicas of Saint Peter and Saint Paul. These Basilicas were erected by Emperor Constantine upon the site where Saint Peter and Saint Paul were martyred, and they were consecrated by Pope Saint Sylvester in the year 325. The Feast of the dedication of a church is the day upon which we annually commemorate its solemn consecration to God. Why do we celebrate the anniversary of dedication? To give thanks to God for having chosen a dwelling place amongst us, for having shown us therein so many favors, and for having preserved us in the true faith. By such an anniversary we should also be incited to sanctify ourselves as temples of God.
Is it anything new for churches to be dedicated and the anniversary of their dedication to be celebrated? PRACTICAL LESSONS ON THE SPIRITUAL TEMPLE, WHICH IS MAN HIMSELF: “You are the temple of the living God; as God saith, I will dwell in them.” 11. Cor. VI, 16. Saint Bernard in his first sermon on the dedication of a church says that the feast of dedication is our feast also. For we too are temples, living temples of God, and as such were, in holy Baptism, no less solemnly dedicated than are these temples of wood and stone. Every Catholic, if not in mortal sin is a pure and holy temple, for as a church is first freed from the malice of the devil by manifold prayers, by exorcisms, by sprinklings with holy water, by repeated signs of the cross, by incense, so we, in holy Baptism, by many prayers, by exorcisms, and renunciations of Satan, by frequent signs of the cross, by the breathing's of the priest, and finally by the sanctified water, thrice poured, with invocation of the all Holy Trinity, are purified from all diabolical malice and sin, and dedicated as temples of God. But if we are such does there not, therefore, rest upon us a sacred obligation, as Saint Augustine says, to maintain that purity which we have received in holy Baptism, and to suffer nothing within the temple of our hearts which can offend the eyes of so pure a God? For woe to those who defile and desecrate the temple of God! God Himself, says Saint Paul, shall destroy them (1. Cor. III. 17). But the temple of the heart is defiled by every mortal sin, particularly by impurity. Flee, therefore, from sin! But if you have indeed driven God from your heart by mortal sin, and given place to the devil, banish him again by true repentance, and dedicate anew the temple of your heart with the blood of the Lamb, through the holy sacraments, as a church that has been desecrated, is reconsecrated and reconciled.
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