Fraternal correction, apostolic power, effectiveness of prayer (Mt. 18, 15-20)
FRATERNAL CORRECTION, APOSTOLIC POWER, EFFECTIVENESS OF PRAYER.
St. Matthew 18, 15-20
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First the matter must be dealt with between the two brothers (people who have the same religion as one, are called brothers), to "not lift dust, not make noise" or scandals. But it is clear that if a child, someone older does something ugly to him, the child has to tell his parents, or grandparents or teacher, to whom he has more confidence, so they take care of the matter.
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Now it sounds strange that if we have a problem, we tell the Church, we do not know each other in the same parish... But a father likes children to love and help each other, so does God. At the beginning of the Church people knew each other well, then in the villages people knew each other... but now: nothing. The priest does not know the majority, nor do they confess, he does not know what state their souls are in. The parish priest of Saint Therese, the little flower, when she was little, after Mass (I suppose early Sunday morning) the priest gathered the faithful, obviously not in the temple but in a parish hall, and gave them bread and wine, That would make people start talking and there was more fraternal atmosphere.
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If the offender do not give ears to the Church, you should look at him as if he is a Gentile (pagan) or publican, that means not having him as a friend, not having much confidence in him, perhaps greeting him and little else.
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Some weeks ago, we read that Jesus had told Peter that everything whatever he binds on earth will be bound in heaven; and whatever he looses on earth will be untied in heaven. Now He says it to all the apostles and disciples, to the future Church. It is not that a parish priest and his parishioners have the power to tie or untie, the group must include the bishop, head of his diocese, successor of the apostles, who does have the power and duty to excommunicate, in his diocese, heretics and scandalous. Parishioners comment on the case (e.g. an abortionist or homosexual who want to continue going to the parish but not to convert himself), the bishop studies the case and then he must excommunicate the heretics and scandalous, as Our Lady of the Roses commands us (www.tldm.org)
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We are not like the Protestants, that each community they have has its own rules and in the end theybelieve whatever it pleases them, very contrary to what Jesus Christ clearly teaches. The Church is faithful to the Word of Jesus and the Tradition of the Apostles and the work of the Holy Spirit in the Church.
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The Church must always be faithful to tradition, to "its DNA given by Jesus”, the "DNA" is from the beginning of the person’s life and is guiding his growth. If we look at our arm we see how it has its bone, then the elbow, another bone and then comes the hand, where one finger does not occupy the place of the other, each has its place and its function. What if the thumb said it wants to be in the other group? We couldn’t grab things. Or if the big finger said that it feels small like the little finger and wants to do the function of that? According to the holy tradition women must not even approach the altar, now they even give communion (sacrilegiously), only the priest can give Communion in the church. The Holy Spirit guided the Church in its growth and, if perhaps, I say perhaps, at some point of the beginnings of the Church the faithful could communicate in the hand, the Holy Spirit then made the Church give all the outward reverence the Host deserves, apart from the inner reverence the faithful should give Him piously, and we should communicate in the mouth, on our knees and with our hands together in prayer.
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But now bad Catholics do not follow the growth faithful to the Holy Tradition, they are trying to change everything to allow all sacrileges and abominable sins. It is as if the hand became the hand of a man tree (I saw men, and a girl too, that instead of fingers have many strips of skin and those pieces of useless skins do not allow them to grab things, etc. it’s horrible, it happens in India, Blangadesh... the person is well and working and suddenly those shreds appear). It is like at the end of the arm, the body no longer obeys the DNA that it has from the first moment. The Church, in these last times is not obeying the Holy Tradition, which was always faithful to Jesus Christ. It is that the infiltrators in the Church want to put inside a lot of sinful people who can not be part of the Church, as those shreds of useless skin that the "tree men" have, which make them useless to work and it hurts too much.
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The treatment for the disease of "tree men" is the scalpel (surgical operation). If this civilization is not converted by obeying the 10 Commandments as teached by the Holy Tradition of the Church, if the Church does not obey the Messages of Our Lady of the Roses, God will put His sword on this world.
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But God is Almighty and gives us His Word which is eternal and true, and tells us that if two of us agree to ask for something, He will give it to us. Actually He says: two of you. That is giving us an example of who those are, not just any Christians who are afraid to wear a cross with the image of Jesus around their necks, they are the ones who follow Jesus as best they can, who strive to understand His Word and obey Him in everything and risk their lives to follow Him.
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This catechesis today I gave for the first time in Spanish on August 26, day of Saint Teresa of Jesus Jornet
(Aytona, 1843 - Liria, 1897) Spanish religious. In 1873 she founded the order of the Little Sisters of the Homeless Elders in Barbastro. When she died, she left 103 asylums in Spain and America. She was canonized by Paul VI in 1974.
She, as all true Saints, was full of charity, Christian love. She and did works of love for the elderly... for the whole family that is humanity since we are all children of a Creator Father, but not by philanthropy (which does not serve to enter into Heaven, because it is simple love to mankind, without having as its beginning and goal the love of God) but by love to our Father, Savior, Lord, Master, Friend, Brother, to the love of our soul: Jesus Christ.
The fact that we want to do good to all does not mean that we let the Cains into our countries.
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It is also the day of Saint Ceferino Namuncurá (1886-1905), son of the indigenous chief of the Mapuches of Patagonia, Argentina. Evangelized by students of Saint John Bosco, he wanted to be a priest to bring the best to his people: faith in Jesus Christ and make them part of the family of Jesus, to make his brothers of race brothers in Christ. He died very young without being able to realize his desire, he is also called "the lily of the pampas".
