THE LAW - CRUX

28 May

THE CATHOLIC MORAL Translation of some points, a bit summarized, from lessons 7 and 9

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THE LAW 76.- CONCEPT OF THE LAW.- Law is an ordering of the reason aimed at the common good and promulgated by the one in charge of the care of society (Saint Thomas Aquinas) It is said to be an ordering because it puts order in the customs. Our actions are good or bad depending on whether or not they conform to the law. It is an ordering of reason because the law is not dictated by the whim of the Superior, but by his will guided by understanding. It is aimed at the common good of the community or society, State or institution, and not just the particular good of an individual. It must be promulgated by the one who is in charge of the care of the society and not by a subject. Only the spiritual or temporal Superior of the society or institution, that is, the one who has authority, can make laws.

77.- CONDITIONS OF THE LAW.- The law requires some conditions, which come to be as its essential properties, so that, if any of them are missing, the law ceases to be so and has no mandatory force.

The law must be: POSSIBLE, even morally, considering human frailty; HONEST, that is, that it is founded on the Divine and Eternal Law, and that is not contrary to a higher right; USEFUL AND BENEFICIAL for the society for which it is intended; JUST: it is an essential condition, without which it cannot have the force to compel; PERMANENT OR STABLE, as the society for which it is given; PROMULGATED, so that it is known and can be mandatory.

[Note: Is it clear that if it's not HONEST, that is: if it is not founded on the Divine and Eternal Law, we cannot follow it? Whether it's the Pope, king, president or anti-pope, etc, they cannot make laws against the Law of God. We are obliged to follow God's Law and to reject what opposes it.)]

79.- KINDS OF LAWS.- Speaking in common and ordinary language, we distinguish Divine Law and human law; but, in fact, the law is only one, because one is the only Supreme Legislator: God. The Divine Law is, therefore, the reason and will of God as they direct the activities of the beings to their end. It can be natural and positive. Human law can be ecclesiastical or civil, depending on whether it emanates from ecclesiastical or civil authority.

80.- NATURAL LAW.- Natural law is a participation of the eternal law engraved by God in the heart of man, and promulgated by the light of reason. God printed it with indelible characters in human nature and manifests and reminds it to us through our conscience. It is immutable and universal and admits no dispensations. It is a set of duties to oneself, to God and to one's neighbor. Over the centuries, as men turned away from God and messianic times approached, the Lord manifested to men His will more and more clearly, showing them the way forward, a higher ideal and a cult or sacrifice, increasingly perfect. -

The most general principles of natural law are: You must do good and avoid evil. Don't do to others what you don't want for yourself.

Work according to the order of rational nature. From them are deduced all the precepts of the Decalogue: not to kill, not to steal, to love God, to respect one's neighbor, etc., duties to oneself, to God and to one's neighbor.

81.- POSITIVE LAW.- Positive law is the one that God has given to men by revelation, and includes the primitive law, the old or mosaic one, and the new or Christian one. The PRIMITIVE LAW was given to Adam and the patriarchs and was transmitted by oral tradition; prescribed, e.g., the obligation to offer sacrifices to God.

THE MOSAIC LAW obligated the Hebrews. CHRISTIAN LAW is binding on all Christians, and even on all men, since all are called to be part of the Church of Jesus Christ. [Note: not to be confused with positivism or positive philosophy, which is a philosophical invention that asserts that the only authentic knowledge is scientific knowledge and that such knowledge can only arise from the scientific method. Positivism, atheism, modernism, humanism, feminism socialism, communism, satanism, etc. are bad. After I issued that warning, a few years ago, bad people began to coin the expression: "Christianism", when we always were, and are: Christians, Christianity, The Church, Catholics. I do not accuse those who use the term “Christianism” without knowing the malice it has and got carried away by the fashion of language].

Some lines from lesson 9th.

THE DECALOGUE IN GENERAL 99.- ITS ORIGIN.- The commandments are of Divine origin. God Himself engraved them from the beginning in the human soul in the form of natural law, that is, according to reason. He later solemnly promulgated them at Sinaí and gave them to Moses written on two stone tablets, whereof them they acquired maximum authority. Finally, Jesus Christ ratified and perfected them with word and example

: “Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to abolish, but to fulfill“. (Saint Matthew V, 17).

This positive Divine Law is thus the expression of God's will; this is why we designate it as the Commandments of the Law of God.

100.- ITS NEED.- The Commandments are necessary for the conservation and improvement of the individual and society, to remedy the ills of the world and to satisfy the voices of the consciences. Observe well all the Commandments of the Law of God and, by their fulfillment, the guard of all divine and human laws will be assured.

Mankind, like any well-organized society, needs a law that governs all its members so they receive reward or punishment. Primitive tradition and natural law are not enough for this –natural law was very clear in the mind of Adam and Eve, before sining-, because passions dull reasoning, and the malice of men easily alters, transforms and makes forget good traditions and natural precepts. A written law is therefore necessary. This law, given by God to men, is called the Decalogue, because it consists of ten precepts, and also, the Law of Grace, since Jesus Christ re-promulgated them. [Note: I continue to insist that we Catholics have 11 commandments. Jesus gave us a most great new Commandment in the Last Supper.] "God," says St. Augustine, "had written His Law in the hearts of men, but men did not want to read it; then God put it outwardly before their eyes, written on stone tablets, to compel them to read it in their consciences" To such an extent the natural law engraved, at first, in the heart of man, had been altered with error and vice, that conscience hardly noticed its strength and beauty.

Thus, "the Spartans had it as a good thing to accustom their children to theft.... For a Roman it was a just and natural thing to kill a sick and ailing slave... The massagettes considered it filial piety to murder the elderly parents, in order to free them from the discomforts of old age... In India the wife honors the deceased husband with suicide" (Sarcas and Salvany). This is why it was necessary for Jesus Christ to come to restore the Law and perfect it.

[Note: Completely away from Jesus Christ, this world is in complete involution toward that primitive savagery! Death everywhere! And One World Planners are inventing atrocities against children (lgtbi… and Q), and euthanasia, abortion, misery ... they call themselves "progres" "modernists", they are satanic decaying who serve who is a murderer and father of the lies, satan! Also, it's not that they want to wipe out 80% of the population for the “good” of the planet or for their group to control the world... it is that they hate all life, spiritual and physical. If they would care for the planet they would reforest, and they would force each cruise ship to go with a boat behind where all the garbage is dumped, instead of making a dirtiness of the sea... They want power, and for that they want little water and to control it. They only love mortal sins: greed (more and more money), to make others suffer because they are sadistic as their father satan, they want to kill all life, to make disappear the Light, good and wisdom... In One world planners it is fulfilled: "the rich hate the poor and want to see him disappear".]

101.- PRECEPTS OF THE DECALOGUE.- The Commandments of the Law of God are ten:

The first: You shall love God above all things

The second: You shall not take the name of the Lord, your God, in vain.

The third: You shall sanctify the Feasts

The fourth: Honor father and mother.

The fifth: You shall not kill. The sixth: You shall not fornicate.

The seventh: You shall not steal.

The eighth: You shall not raise false testimony or lie.

The ninth: You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife.

The tenth: You shall not covet your neighbor’s goods

In these Commandments God proclaims His rights and announces our duties to Him. He also declares the rights and duties that man has with himself and to others: superiors, equal and inferiors, and regulates our mutual obligations.

102.- THEIR DIVISION.- Our Lord Jesus Christ said that all the commandments are reduced to only two: To love God above all things and to love our neighbor as to ourselves for the love of God. In these two commandments is coded the whole law (Saint Matthew XXII, 37-40)

103.- OBLIGATION TO KEEP THE 10 COMMANDMENTS.- All men of any age, race and social condition, even if they have not received Baptism, are obliged to keep the Commandments, because they are to live according to the sovereign will of God Who has created them; and it is enough to break one badly to deserve hell. "Lord," says David, "Thou hast commanded thy commandments to be kept most diligently (Psalm 118, 4). It is the test to which God has subjected us to deserve eternal glory, and the grave infringement of a single precept is enough to lose it forever, if there is no repentance and forgiveness.

Just as the violation of an article of the Penal Code is sufficient to deserve imprisonment, so also the serious transgression of a single Commandment is enough to deserve hell. To be saved, it is necessary that faith be accompanied by good works, that is, the Law of God and the precepts of the Church must be fulfilled.

This is what Jesus Christ says and Saint James the Minor reminds us, saying: Faith, if it is not accompanied by works, is dead in itself (II, 17) All of man's obligations are reduced to these two: To fear God and keep His Commandments.

We have five reasons to keep them: respect for the Lord, love for our God and Creator, gratitude to The One who brought us out of the servitude of sin; fear of punishment, and hope of reward.

Saint Matthew, XIX, 16-21 "And behold one came and said to him: Good master, what good shall I do that I may have life everlasting? Who said to him: Why asketh thou me concerning good? One is good, God. But if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments. He said to him: Which? And Jesus said: Thou shalt not murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness. Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.The young man saith to him: All these I have kept from my youth, what is yet wanting to me? Jesus saith to him: If thou wilt be perfect, go sell what thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me." With these last words Jesus invited him to the practice of the Evangelical Counsels [His Words are Commandments!], that is, to greater perfection.

104.- POSSIBILITY OF OBSERVING THEM.- God does not demand of us impossible things. Anyone who says otherwise would utter horrendous blasphemy, for he would come to say that God is not Wise, Just and holy. Since God has given us these ten commandments, proof is that their observance is within our reach.

With reason, St. Augustine, fought againts bad passions, was encouraged to correct himself from his bad habits, saying: what others can, are you not to be able to? Let us not forget that God is a good Father and that he provides the burden to the forces.

If, on the one hand, he imposes duties and difficult things on us, on the other, he gives us the necessary and sufficient means to fulfill them: "My grace is enough for you," he told St. Paul.

This is how the Council of Trent defined it and so says the Holy Scripture; therefore it is dogma of faith. Of course, we are children of Adam, weak, and with our strength alone it would be impossible for us to observe them, but with divine help – which the Lord grants to all who ask for it – their observance is not only possible, but easy. This is why say St. Paul said, "I can do everything in Him who comforts me."

And our Lord encourages us, saying, "My yoke is soft and my burden light" (Matt., XI, 29).

105.- ADVANTAGES OF THEIR OBSERVANCE.- The holy king David praises them very much in psalm 118. Blessed, he says, those who walk immaculately on the way of the commandments Better is, Lord, for me the Law that came out of your mouth than millions in gold and silver. Your commandments are for me the joy of my heart. The lovers of your Law enjoy great peace. Indeed, on the keeping of the Commandments depend tranquility, spiritual peace, temporal well-being, the only true happiness that can be achieved in this life, and above all eternal happiness, which will never be achieved with the contempt and transgression of the Decalogue.

All God commands is for our good. St. Augustine was right, when, encouraging himself, he said to himself: "Concupiscence promises you delights, but greater you will find them in the Law of your God and Lord" The calamities and scourges that poor humanity has been suffering, as a just sanction for the breaches of the divine Law, teach us what the enormity of the transgression of the Decalogue is. Famines, plagues, wars, destructions, cataclysms and misery a sad story are the sad consequences of the violations of the Law of God.

S. Luc., XI, 27-28 "It came to be that, saying these things to him, raising his voice a woman from among the mob, said to him, Blessed are the breast that took you and the breasts that you suckled. He said, Blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it." [Note: "Word" includes more than the 10 commandments]

106.- ITS SOCIAL EFFECTIVENESS.- The Law of God restrains human passions and is more effective in transforming peace and good customs than all the courts and police of the world. The thought of "God sees me" alone is enough to avoid many sins. Christian Law, dictated on the basis of justice, truth and charity, guarantees the tranquility and well-being of nations. It does not forget something fundamental to the righteous proceeding of man with God, with himself, with the family and with society. If the Decalogue were to be observed carefully, the world would be admirably governed; on the other hand, without the Decalogue, society cannot survive. God gave us His Commandments to make us happy in time and eternity. God said to the Israelites through Moses, "If you hear my voice and observe my covenant, you will be a people chosen a holy nation (Ex., XIX, 5-6).

It was very well understood by that African king who said to the famous explorer Stanley, after he had explained the Christian Decalogue: "Stay with me and teach it to my people. When the three million subjects I have know and practice it, I will be the first king of the world." [Note: Christian Decalogue: the 10 commandments taught in the light of the Gospel]

108.- REFLECTION: Tell me, young man, have you thought of the nonsense that a man who does not have the brake of the Law of God is capable of? "Lawless humanity," says a pagan philosopher, would resemble a horde of unbridled animals; the strongest of which would destroy and devour the weakest", mostly if there were no fear of God. The Commandments are in the life of man something like the poles that are placed along the roads to indicate to passers-by the directions they are to take to get where they want. They also point out a path: the one that leads to heaven, and, in addition, what you have to do to get to it.

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