“Heirs according to the promise” (Gal.3:29)
Fr. Campbell
There
is no greater love than the love shown for us sinners, when Our Lord
Jesus Christ gave His life for us, becoming obedient even unto death,
death on a cross, fulfilling His words to His Apostles: “Greater love
than this no one has, that one lay down his life for his friends”
(Jn.15:12).
We
must understand what this love is. We can’t be satisfied with a purely
earthly love when we begin to understand the love that comes from God.
The love which is purely of this earth will not merit Heaven for us. But
we are being persuaded today by the world to accept earthly love as
sufficient. But without Sanctifying Grace, it does not bring us to
Heaven.
Then
how do we receive the love that comes from God? When we are baptized we
receive Sanctifying Grace, along with the three theological virtues of
faith, hope and charity (love). These virtues are infused virtues.
They cannot be attained by human effort, but are gifts of God given to
us by the Holy Ghost when we are baptized. Then we can love one another
“as he has loved us.”
Charity, says St. Paul, is the greatest of these gifts (1Cor.13:13). Now the word charity here is not to be confused with almsgiving. It comes from the Latin word caritas, meaning the love that comes from God. The Greek term is agape.
St. Paul tells us in Romans that “the charity of God is poured forth in
our hearts by the Holy Spirit who has been given to us” (Rom.5:5). He
continues: “For why did Christ, at the set time, die for the wicked when
as yet we were weak? For scarcely in behalf of a just man does one die;
yet perhaps one might bring himself to die for a good man. But God
commends his charity towards us, because when as yet we were sinners,
Christ died for us” (Rom.5:6-9).
The
love of neighbor, the love of husband and wife, the love between
parents and children, the love between friends, remains on the natural
level until it is suffused with Charity, the love that comes from God.
Then we can love one another as Christ commanded: “A new commandment I
give you, love one another: that as I have loved you, you also love one
another” (Jn.13:34). We are enabled to do this through the Holy
Sacrament of Baptism. But the alleged “pope” Bergoglio disagrees, as we
find from this quotation from 2016:
“A
new video has just been released in which Pope (sic) Francis very
clearly expresses his belief that all of the major religions are
different paths to the same God. He says that while people from various
global faiths may be ‘seeking God or meeting God in different ways’ that
it is important to keep in mind that ‘we are all children of God’. This
is the most recent example that shows that the Pope has completely
abandoned any notion that a relationship with God is available only
through Jesus Christ. As he has done throughout his papacy, he continues
to lay the groundwork for the coming world religion, and yet hardly
anyone seems upset by this” (Michael Snyder, http://endoftheamericandream.com, Jan.10, 2016).
But
the one who laid down His life for us, Jesus Christ, is the one way to
the Father, and our only hope of salvation. This is made very clear for
us by our first Holy Father, St. Peter, in his words to the Jewish
authorities:
“This
is the ‘The stone that was rejected by you, the builders, which has
become the corner stone.’ Neither is there salvation in any other. For
there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be
saved” (Acts:4:11,12).
We
wish no harm to the Jews, and we can believe that they are endowed with
the capacity to love on the natural level, as all human beings are, but
because they rejected Jesus Christ as the Messiah, it is impossible for
them to have the infused supernatural virtues of faith, hope and
charity, gifts which are given at baptism to those who have faith in
Jesus Christ. How can they love on the supernatural level if they do not
even believe in the Holy Ghost, by Whom “the charity of God is poured
forth in our hearts”? They are unbelievers who follow a false religion
which denies both the Son and the Father Who sent Him.
Jesus
said to the Jews who opposed Him: “You know neither me nor my Father.
If you knew me, you would then know my Father also… You are from below, I
am from above. You are of this world, I am not of this world. Therefore
I said to you that you will die in your sins; for if you do not believe
that I am he, you will die in your sin” (Jn.8: 18,23,24).
These
truths are ignored by the Vatican since Vatican II. The Jews are not
told that they are in danger of losing their souls; they are not urged
to have faith in Jesus Christ; the Gospel is not preached to them. And
Catholics are expected to believe that the “one-size-fits-all” variety
of earthly love spoken of above is all that is required for salvation.
This is why our faith, too, is destroyed if we simply go along with
these teachings and do not oppose them.
Who
will admit that the Jews are doing the piping, and that the Novus Ordo
clergy are dancing to their tune? Meanwhile, from their new position of
power at the Vatican, the Jews are working to destroy the Catholic
faith. With the enthusiastic endorsement of the bishops, rabbis provide
teaching materials about the Holocaust and the Jewish religion to the
compliant parish clergy, who hand it on to their defenseless flock.
While
we vigorously resist their efforts to undermine the Church, we continue
to pray for the conversion of the Jews, as the Church has always done.
The prophet Zacharias speaks of their eventual turning to Christ: “And I
will pour out upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of
Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of prayers: and they shall look upon
me, whom they have pierced. And they shall mourn for him as one mourneth
for an only son: and they shall grieve over him, as the manner is to
grieve for the death of the firstborn” (Zach.12:10).