"Everyone who exalts himself shall be humbled." 🤫️
The supernatural life which we receive in baptism is like a seed that must be developed. "Rooted and grounded in love," we pray that God may increase our faith, hope, and that His grace may stir up in us "a never failing zeal for good works."
Today the Traditional Catholic Church celebrates the Holy Mass of, Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost. Today's Mass lesson for traditional Catholics; Lesson from Holy Gospel: Luke 14, 1-11. At that time, when Jesus went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees, on the Sabbath day, to eat bread, they watched Him. And behold there was a certain man before Him that had the dropsy. And Jesus answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath day? But they held their peace. But He, taking him, healed him, and sent him away. And answering them, He said, "Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fall into a pit, and will not immediately draw him out on the Sabbath day?" And they could not answer Him to these things. And He spoke a parable also to them that were invited, observing how they chose the first seats at the table, saying to them, "When thou art invited to a wedding feast, sit not down in the first place, lest perhaps one more honorable than thou be invited by him, and he that inviteth thee and him, come and say to thee: Give this man place: and then thou begin with shame to take the lowest place: but when thou art invited, go sit down in the lowest place, that when he who invited thee cometh, he may say to thee, Friend, go up higher." Then shalt thou have glory before them that sit at the table with thee. Because every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled, and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted. 🤫️
Why did the Pharisees watch Jesus so closely?
To discover something in Him for which they might censure and accuse Him. How like them are those Christians who watch every step of their neighbors, and particularly of priests, hoping to find something for which to blame them, and represent them as evil persons!
Who is, spiritually, like the man with the dropsy?
The avaricious man; for as a dropsical person is never satisfied with drinking, so the avaricious man never has enough; and like the dropsy, too, avarice is hard to cure, since it grows worse with age, and generally does not leave a man till he comes to the grave.
Why is avarice reckoned among the seven deadly sins?
Because it is the root of many evils; for it leads to usury, theft, the use of false weights and measures, to the retaining of unjustly gotten goods, to the oppression of the poor, of widows and orphans, to the denial and suppression of justice, to apostasy from the faith, and to despair. Hence the Apostle says: “They that will become rich fall into temptation, and into the snare of the devil, and into many unprofitable and hurtful desires, which drown men into destruction and perdition” (1. Tim. vi. 9). An efficacious remedy for avarice is the consideration that we are only the stewards, and not the owners of our goods, of which we can take nothing with us at the hour of our death (1. Tim. vi 7); and that one day God will require of us a strict account of what we have had.
INSTRUCTION ON KEEPING HOLY SUNDAYS AND HOLY DAYS OF OBLIGATION.
How must we sanctify the Sundays and holy days?
As the third commandment enjoins, that is, on Sundays and holy days, we must not only abstain from servile labor, but we must, as far as possible, attend divine service, both in the forenoon and afternoon; for God has not said, thou shalt be idle on the Sabbath day, but thou shalt keep holy the Sabbath day. God will not suffer those who desecrate His holy day to go unpunished; He will cover them with disgrace and scorn (Mal. ii. 3), and will send upon them all the evils of the times.
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