I do not wish to make this thread about what I have said, for the glory of God and the salvation of souls, about those clerics who I do not claim to judge or condemn. I hope and pray that the clergy who profess to be the faithful remnant truly live up to their high calling, and fully recognize their grave responsibility as Shepherds of souls, and I thank God for the good that they have accomplished.
Please enjoy, if you wish, this sermon of Archbishop Vigano on the Holy Family, teaching us how to imitate them in our own lives, as families are what constitute society, and a society honouring Christ as King is something I know we all wish to see.
To this indispensable cell of society – for which no earthly authority can ever substitute any surrogate without deserving the severest punishments from God – the wisdom of the Roman Pontiffs has pointed to the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph as a model: a family that is holy because it is composed not only of Saints, but of the Word of God made flesh, the Ever-Virgin Mother of God, and her most chaste Spouse Joseph, of the lineage of King David and the putative father of Our Lord. A very special yet normal family: special because of its members, normal because even for them we see that hierarchy at work which the modern world so abhors: a hierarchy that is ontologically patriarchal precisely because it is founded on the Divine Fatherhood of the Eternal Father, of Whom Our Lord Jesus Christ has made us heirs. As children of God in the order of Grace, we also become children of the Regina Crucis, of Her whom the dying Lord gave us on Calvary as the Mother of each of us and of the entire ecclesial body, so that we invoke Her as Mater Ecclesiæ (Mother of the Church).The Holy Family is the imago Ecclesiae: where there is one shared Father who governs her, a provident Holy Mother who educates her children, and an innumerable offspring of Christ who see the light in the waters of Baptism and are led towards eternal pastures. It is a model of order, a perfect divine κόσμος valid for all times and all places: that of the natural family founded on the union of a man and a woman and having as its primary purpose the propagation of humanity and the education of children. A family that the Divine Master elevated at the Wedding at Cana to an image of Christ’s love for the Church, and which the Apostle Paul admirably outlined in the Epistle to the Ephesians (Eph 5:22-33). A family that is, so to speak, Trinitarian insofar as it is a mystical cooperator in the creative action of God the Father, the redemptive action of God the Son, and the sanctifying action of God the Holy Spirit. The love that unites the husband and wife in communicating life is a faint ray of that Divine Love that unites the Father to the Son; a Love so perfect and infinite that it is God Himself, the Holy Spirit who proceeds from the Father and the Son, and who is Lord and Giver of life. Finally, it is a family that is hierarchical within itself because it and its members are in turn inscribed in the order that places the Majesty of God above every creature.In a family where spouses and children love the Lord and follow His Commandments, the love between spouses and the mutual love between parents and children certainly implies, but in some way surpasses, obedience, making the words of Saint Paul alive and real: “Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which binds everything together in perfect unity. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body” (Col 3:14-15). Thus, just as we willingly obey God because we know Him to be good and merciful, so too we obey our parents or ask for obedience from our children because charity, the bond of perfection, reigns among them. Above all, says Saint Paul, let there be charity: that is, God, who is Charity (1 Jn 4:16). To remain in charity is therefore to remain in God: qui manet in caritate in Deo manet, et Deus in eo (1 Jn 4:16).There is also a heavenly family, dearest faithful: the Holy Catholic, Apostolic, and Roman Church. A family in which we have God as our Father, Our Lord as our brother, and the Immaculate Virgin as our Mother. In this family all Catholics are gathered together, the Mystical Body subject to Jesus Christ, King and High Priest, its Divine Head. In this perfect society, whose purpose is the sanctification of souls in the interregnum between the Ascension of Our Lord and His Glorious Coming at the end of time, obedience to the Heavenly Father comes before obedience to the earthly father. This is why we see the twelve-year-old Jesus, during a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, separating Himself from His parents and remaining in the temple to listen to and question the doctors of the Law. He reminds Our Lady and Saint Joseph that He has a mission to fulfill: “Did you not know that I must be about my Father’s business?” (Lk 2:49). The Lord reminds us, both as children and as parents, that the purpose of a Catholic family is not exhausted in propagating the species and educating it according to the law of nature, but implies and imposes the very serious responsibility of baptizing and instructing children in the one true Religion, using their parental authority to enable them to live virtuously and avoid sin. It also implies and imposes the ability to understand when the Lord calls a soul to serve Him in the priestly or religious life, giving parents the opportunity to transform into Grace their human suffering at the separation from a child they have loved and watched grow up, and whom, like Mary and Joseph, they will find again in the temple.If children truly wish to be obedient, they must understand that the most effective way to counter the infernal principles of the Revolution is to defend patriarchy, which is based on the true concept of obedience, and not on its deviations, whether by excess – servility – or by defect – insubordination to any and all authority. The Lord will reward them for their holy obedience to what their parents legitimately ask of them, and He will guide them on how to behave virtuously should it be necessary to disobey paternal authority in order to avoid disobeying God.Let us place ourselves under the patronage of the Holy Family, and let us take the time to recite daily – if we do not already do so – that beloved prayer to Saint Joseph composed by Pope Leo XIII, in which we find our hopes summarized: Protect, O Provident Guardian of the Divine Family, the chosen children of Jesus Christ; keep away from us, O most loving Father, the plague of errors and vices that infects the world; assist us favorably from heaven in this struggle against the power of darkness, O our most powerful protector; and as you once saved the threatened life of the Child Jesus from death, so now defend the Holy Church of God from hostile snares and from all adversity; and extend your protection over each of us always, so that, following your example and through your help, we may live virtuously, die piously, and attain eternal blessedness in heaven. Amen. And so may it be.+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop
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