Baptism of Desire and Blood
MATER DEI SEMINARY newsletter "Adsum" (January, 2004)
From the teachings of the Popes, the Council of Trent,
the 1917 Code of Canon Law, the Roman Martyrology,
Church Fathers, Doctors and Theologians of the Church
1. Council of Trent 1545-1563
Canons on the Sacraments in General: - (Canon 4):
"If anyone shall say that the sacraments of the New Law are not necessary for salvation, but are superfluous, and that although all are not necessary for every individual, without them or without the desire of them (sine eis aut eorum voto), through faith alone men obtain from God the grace of justification; let him be anathema."
As we can see, the first part of Canon 4 decrees the necessity of the sacraments for salvation:
"If anyone shall say that the sacraments of the New Law are not necessary for salvation, but are superfluous....let him be anathema."Keeping in mind that a BOD is not a sacrament, Trent decrees that a BOD, since it is no sacrament at all, can never save anyone. Trent also decrees if anyone shall say it can, we are to let them be anathema.
Onto the second part of Canon 4, we learn the sacraments or the desire for the sacraments can put us in the state of justification - and whoever says otherwise, is anathema.
...and [if anyone shall say] that although all are not necessary for every individual, without them or without the desire of them, through faith alone, men obtain from God the grace of justification; let him be anathema."So why does rabid BODer LoT keep anathematizing himself spamming the internet with salvation via a BOD which is not a sacrament? Can anyone answer why one who says he loves the truth keeps anathematizing himself? .....Anyone? Can LoT himself or can anyone answer this question?
Don't get me wrong, I would love to make a perfect act of contrition and be in heaven, or upon the words of absolution from the priest in the confessional be rewarded heaven, or upon having some desire for the sacrament find myself in heaven. Who wouldn't?
I think it's safe to say that whoever wouldn't has something seriously wrong with them. The thing is, Holy Mother the Church decreed something more substantial is necessary. That something is the actual reception of the sacrament, as decreed in the first part of Canon 4.