"Arise, take up thy pallet and go to thy house."
"Thy sins are forgiven thee." We also read the identical words, "I absolve thee from thy sins," when after due preparation for confession, we humbly confess all our daily sins. Let us Catholics be grateful to God for the Sacrament of Penance and use it frequently to restore or to increase the supernatural life of our souls, without which we cannot be pleasing to our God. 🤔️
Today the Traditional Catholic Church celebrates the Holy Mass of, Eighteenth Sunday After Pentecost. Today's Mass lesson for traditional Catholics; Lesson from Holy Gospel: Matthew 9, 1-8. At that time Jesus, entering into a boat, passed over the water and came into His own city. And behold they brought to Him one sick of the palsy lying in a bed. And Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the man sick of the palsy: Be of good heart, son, thy sins are forgiven thee. And behold some of the scribes said within themselves: "He blasphemes". And Jesus seeing their thoughts, said: "Why do you think evil in your hearts?" For which is easier, to say, 'Thy sins are forgiven thee': or to say, 'Arise and walk'? But that you may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, then said He to the man sick of the palsy: "Arise, take up thy bed and go into thy house". And he arose, and went into his house. And the multitude seeing it, feared, and glorified God that gave such power to men.
Explanation: The charity of those who brought the sick man to Christ was so full of faith, so pleasing to Him, that, out of regard for it, He forgave the palsied man his sins, and healed him. Christ did not heal the man sick with the palsy until He had forgiven him his sins. By this He teaches us that sins are often the cause of the sicknesses and evils that pursue us; and that if we sincerely repent of our sins, God would be likely to remove these evils from us. This is also intimated by the words of Jesus to him who had been sick eight and thirty years: "Sin no more, lest some worse thing happen to thee” ( John v. 14). This should be kept in mind by those who so impetuously beseech God to free them from their afflictions, but who do not think to free themselves from the sins which may be the cause of them, by a sincere repentance and by leading a Christian life. “He blasphemes.” Thus, in their perverted minds, the Jews thought of Christ; supposing that, by forgiving the sick man his sins, He had committed an encroachment on the prerogative of God, and thereby done Him great wrong; for it is blasphemy against God to attempt to wrong Him, or to think, speak, or do anything insulting to Him or to His saints. And Jesus seeing their thoughts, said: "Why do you think evil in your hearts?” This is something to be considered by those who suppose their thoughts to be free from scrutiny, and to whom it does not even occur to make their evil thoughts matter of confession. God, the most holy and most just, will no more leave unpunished impure, proud, angry, revengeful, envious thoughts, than He will an idle word (Matt. xii. 36). Do not, therefore, give yourself up to evil thoughts; and in order to repel them, remember each time that God sees and punishes them. Would you not drive them away if men saw them? Why not, then, on account of God? 🤨️
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