Whoever is moved by the spirit of God, spontaneously adopts both outwardly and inwardly, the true attitude toward the Church, this sacred fruit from the tree of the cross, this gift from the Spirit of God, bestowed on Pentecost day to an erratic world. (Pope Pius XI, Mit Brennender Sorge, March 17, 1937.) But the Founder of the Church, who breathed her into existence at Pentecost, cannot disown the foundations as He laid them. He chooses the instruments of His will according to His own plans, not those of men. 8): "of stones He is able to raise men to prepare the way to his designs" ( Matt. No doubt "the Spirit breatheth where he will" ( John iii. On the other hand, any reformatory zeal, which instead of springing from personal purity, flashes out of passion, has produced unrest instead of light, destruction instead of construction, and more than once set up evils worse than those it was out to remedy. Generous, ready to stand to attention to any call from God, yet confident in themselves because confident in their vocation, they grew to the size of beacons and reformers. ![]() Every true and lasting reform has ultimately sprung from the sanctity of men who were driven by the love of God and of men. (Pope Saint Pius X, Notre Charge Apostolique, August 15, 1910.)Ģ0. ![]() Here we have, founded by Catholics, an inter-denominational association that is to work for the reform of civilization, an undertaking which is above all religious in character for there is no true civilization without a moral civilization, and no true moral civilization without the true religion: it is a proven truth, a historical fact. Once again, let me turn to Pope Saint Pius X and Pope Pius XI to drive home this fundamental point that so many Catholics all across and up and down the vast expanse of the ecclesiastical divide seem eager to ignore during the diabolical assaults that afflict their immortal souls every time the false opposites of naturalism engage in their mock contests that are called elections: Despite the fact that there will be disorder and disharmony in the world until the Second Coming of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ at the end of time, the extent to which there is more order in the world at any given time is the result of the extent to which the very inner life of the Most Blessed Trinity, Sanctifying or Habitual Grace, dwells in the souls of men as they seek to make reparation for their sins and grow in virtue as members of the Catholic Church. The state of the world depends upon the state of souls. That is why, my good and few readers, who keep dwindling away, it appears, there is no electoral, political, economic, legal, constitutional, secular, naturalistic, ideological, or philosophical way to ameliorate the effects of fallen human nature. It even disrupted the balance and harmony of nature itself.Įach of the problems that we face in the world has Original Sin as its remote cause and the Actual Sins of men as its proximate cause. It disordered man's relationship with his fellow man. ![]() Original Sin disordered man's relationship with God. The adversary inspired Eve and, through her wiles, Adam, into disobeying God as they ate of the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Garden of Eden. At the root of all true hatred of human beings in the world is the devil's hatred of the true God of Divine Revelation, the Most Blessed Trinity.
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