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Jesus Our King
This is the third year in a row that the Deacons preach on the Feast of Christ the King. I wondered for a moment if I had any new material on this subject, but the Lord provided in prayer, so let us dwell on what it means to be king. What does a king do?… Continue reading
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Fighting the Lord’s Battles
St. Paul says to the Corinthians: “though we live in the world we are not carrying on a worldly war, for the weapons of our warfare are not worldly but have divine power to destroy strongholds.” (II Cor 10:3-4) The Scriptures make clear that the kingdom established by God is founded on sources of strength… Continue reading
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Fighting Back
It’s always important to remember that God wins. So if we stay close to him, we win also. But the battle continues to be fought even inside the church. Judas was not the last betrayer. Arius was not the last heretic. It is precisely within the church that we are meant to fight a zealous… Continue reading
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The Church on All Souls
We meant to continue to talk about how the Church is not simply a human-level non-government organization even if it is a large government contractor, but somewhere along the way we got to talking about Purgatory. (We go where the Spirit leads.) Because the church is set up as a heavenly society in the midst… Continue reading
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Moralistic Therapeutic Deism
This formulation has gained a lot of attention, and it quickly became obvious that moralistic therapeutic deism was not just the belief of millennial teenagers but was characteristic of whole swaths of the Christian world. The prevalence of this approach to Christianity represents a degenerate and weak state of Christianity that is highly vulnerable to… Continue reading
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Prayer for Christian Progress
As we close the month of October, I’d like to go back to how Fr. Neil opened the month. He reminded us that it is a month in which Mary is particularly celebrated by the Church. Fr. Neil walked us through the basics of the Rosary, which is a Marian devotion. Remember that every devotion… Continue reading
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US Politics in neo-Gnostic Progressivism
How does the neo-Gnostic religion map onto the current political landscape? Is this just a different way of characterizing leftist liberal politics? Are there Neo-Gnostic expressions of faith on the right as well as on the left? Despite any claims that they are completely separate, even in America religion and politics have always been intertwined… Continue reading
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The Gnostic Outlook Through History
The progressive religion is one that: Like many deceptive things, its darker side is not immediately apparent. We have to understand the attractiveness of the progressive religion in order to consider how to counter its influence in our own lives and in the wider society. The Gnostic outlook through history As we have noted already,… Continue reading
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Aspects of Progressivism
In progressive belief, the salvation that comes through the radical reordering of the external world is brought about solely by human effort. This is in contrast to the Christian understanding that salvation is accomplished by the initiative in the power of God himself. Humans participate and can cooperate with God’s plan, but God is the… Continue reading
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The Perils of Complacency
The readings this week are a call against complacency. The readings of the last weeks in the church year are all pointing to the reality that there will be a day of judgment and we will not get advance notice of that day. We have been warned in multiple ways. Last week we had the… Continue reading
Bound in Love 