TO CELEBRATE THE YEAR OF FAITH PROCLAIMED BY BENEDICT XVI, MAY WE STUDY THE VERY FIRST COMMANDMENT OF OUR FAITH. ASK OURSELVES WHY SO MANY GREAT CATHEDRALS AND CHURCES ARE EMPTY ON SUNDAYS.

GOD, IN HIS FIRST COMMANDMENT TO MEN, PROMULGATES HIS ETERNAL SOVEREIGNTY OVER ALL HIS CREACION ANGELICA AND HUMAN.    ALL MUST WORSHIP HIM AND MUST RENDER TO HIM THE DIVINE WORSHIP DUE TO HIS SOVEREIGNTY.  TO WORSHIP GOD IS THE DIVINE TEST GOD IMPOSES ON ANGELS AND MEN TO MERIT ETERNAL LIFE.             

GOD IMPOSES ON HIS ANGELS A SPECIAL TEST TO GIVE TO EACH ONE TO MERIT THE HEAVENLY GLORY TO ENJOY  THE BEATIFIC VISION FOR ALL ETERNITY.   SEPARATE THOSE WHO WILL BE FAITHFUL TO GOD FROM THOSE WHO WILL REFUSE TO WORSHIP HIM. TO TEST THE FAITHFULNESS OF HIS ANGELS TO HIS SOVEREIGNTY AND TO MERIT HEAVEN, GOD REVEALS TO THEM THE MYSTERY OF INCARNATION.   HE REVEALS TO THEM GOD THE SON IN THE FLESH, TRUE MAN.  GOD ORDERS TO ALL HIS ANGELS TO WORSHIP HIS SON TRUE MAN IN THE CRIB.

THE LETTER TO THE HEBREWS GLORIFIES GOD THE SON CALLING HIM “THE REFULGENCE OF HIS GLORY, THE VERY IMPRINT OF HIS BEING, AND WHO SUSTAINS ALL THINGS BY HIS MIGHTY WORD.”  THE LETTER ALSO REVEALS GOD THE SON SUPERIOR TO THE ANGELS: “HE TOOK HIS SEAT AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE MAJESTY ON HIGH, AS FAR SUPERIOR TO THE ANGELS…FOR TO WHICH OF THE ANGELS DID GOD EVER SAY:  YOU ARE MY SON; THIS DAY I HAVE BEGOTTEN YOU?   I WILL BE A FATHER TO HIM, AND HE SHALL BE A SON TO ME?”  GOD ORDERS TO HIS ANGELS TO WORSHIP HIS SON IN THE FLESH, TRUE MAN, WITH THESE WORDS:   “ AND AGAIN, WHEN HE LEADS THE FIRST-BORN INTO THE WOLD, HE SAYS:  LET ALL THE ANGELS OF GOD WORSHIP HIM.”

(Hebrews 1:1-6) 

WILLINGLY THE ANGELS WERE TO BELEIVE GOD AND TO WORSHIP HIS SON TRUE MAN.  IN DOING SO, THEY HAD PAST THE TEST TO MERIT ETERNITY WITH THE BEATIFIC VISION.  HOWEVER, LEGIONS OF ANGELS CHOSE TO FOLLOW LUCIFER.  THEY REFUSE TO WORSHIP GOD SON TRUE MAN.  OF COURSE THEY COULD NOT RECOGNIZE THE SON OF GOD IN THE FLESH, TRUE MAN.  THEY WERE ASKED TO MAKE AN ACT OF FAITH IN THE WORD OF GOD.           THE BAD ANGELS BECAME DEMONS AND ARE CONDEMNED TO HELL  FOR ETERNITY.  HOWEVER, THE GOOD ANGELS,  WHO OBEY GOD IN THEIR ACT OF SUPERNATURAL FAITH, WORSHIP THE TRUE MAN GOD SON WHOM GOD REVEALED TO THEM IN HIS WORDS.    WITHOUT KNOWING THAT THIS TRUE MAN IS THE SON OF GOD, THEY OBEY GOD’S FIRST COMMANDMENT. THEY PAST THE TEST AND MERIT ETERNAL LIFE AND IMMEDIATELY ENTER INTO THE PRESENCE OF THE BEATIFIC VISION.  THEY SING ON THE GLORIOUS NIGHT OF INCARNATION : GLORY TO GOD IN THE HEAVEN AND PEACE ON EARTH TO MAN OF GOOD WILL. 

GOD IMPOSES TO EACH MAN AND WOMAN THE SAME TEST.  WE MUST WORSHIP GOD AND CONFESS OUR FAITH IN HIS SOVEREIGNTY OVER US.   GOD IN HIS SOLEMN PROCLAMATION REVEALS TO US:

“I, THE LORD, AM YOUR GOD…YOU SHALL NOT HAVE OTHER GODS FOR YOURSELVES IN THE SHAPE OF ANYTHING IN THE SKY ABOVE OR ON THE EARTH BELOW… YOU SHALL NOT BOW DOWN BEFORE THEM OR WORSHIP THEM.  FOR I, THE LORD, YOUR GOD , AM A JEALOUS GOD, INFLICTING PUNISHMENT FOR THEIR FATHERS’ WICKEDNESS ON THE CHILDREN OF THOSE WHO HATE ME DOWN TO THE THIRD AND FOURTH GENERATION; BUT BESTOWING MERCY DOWN TO THE THOUSANDTH GENERATION ON THE CHILDREN OF THOSE WHO LOVE ME AND KEEP MY COMMADMENTS.” (Exodo 20:1-6)

REVOLTING FATHERS, FOR REFUSING TO WORSHIP HIM, MUST KNOW THE PUNISHMENT GOD INFLICTS ON THEIR CHILDREN.  SONS ALSO MUST KNOW THAT GOD INFLICTS ON THEM PUNISHMENT FOR THE SINS OF THEIR FATHERS WHO REFUSE TO WORSHIP GOD.  GOD PUNISHES CHILDREN FOR THE SINS OF THEIR PARENTS.  CHILDREN MAY WORSHIP GOD; HOWEVER, THE SINS OF THEIR PARENTS REFUSING TO WORSHIP GOD FALL BACK ON THEM.   

GOD PUNISHED OUR FIRST PARENTS FOR THEIR SINS IN TWO WAYS:  FIRST OF ALL HE PUNISHED THEM IN THEIR OWN LIVES.  THEY WERE INFLICTED SUFFERINGS, HARD WORKING TO EARN THEIR BREAD  BY THE SWEAT OF THEIR FACE AND PUNISHED WITH DEATH.            

MOREOVER, THE PUNISHMENTS GOD PRONOUNCED AGAINT ADAM AND EVE, HE ALSO PRONOUNCED THEM ALL ON THEIR SONS AND DAUGHTERS UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD.    WE ARE BORN HEAVILY HARNESSED WITH A BURDEN THAT BY OURSELVES WE CANNOT SUPPORT.

HOW DO WE REFUSE TO WORSHIP GOD, TO CONFESS OUR FAITH IN HIS ETERNAL SOVEREIGNTY OVER US?  THE ANSWER IS SIMPLE.  GOD IMPOSES ON US ONE DAY A WEEK THAT WE MUST RESERVE TO SERVE GOD. WE MUST OFFER TO HIS MAJESTY A VICTIM IN A SACRIFICE TO WORSHIP HIM, TO ASK FORGIVENESS FOR OUR SINS AND TO ATONE FOR OUR SINS COMMITED.  GOD IN HIS OWN WORDS: 

“REMEMBER TO KEEP HOLY THE DAY OF THE LORD YOUR GOD.  SIX DAYS YOU MAY LABOR AND DO ALL YOUR WORK, BUT THE SEVENTH DAY IS THE DAY OF THE LORD, YOUR GOD.  NO WORK MAY BE DONE THEN EITHER BY YOU, OR YOUR SON OR DAUGHTER, OR YOUR MALE OR FEMALE…THAT IS WHY THE LORD HAS BLESSED HIS DAY OF REST AND MADE IT SACRED.”                                           (Ex 20:8-11)

CHRISTIANS IN GENERAL, MAINLY FOR WANT OF INSTRUCTIONS IN PRIESTLY POWERS OF CHRIST IN OUR SALVATION, THE APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION, REMAIN INDIFFERENT TO THE LORD’S DAY.  THEY KEEP THE LORD’S DAY ACCORDING TO THEIR FANTASIES!  CATHOLICS IN GENERAL WERE NEVER THOUGHT THE CATHOLIC FAITH. THEY  FREELY ADMIT  THE MASS IS A PRIESTLY INVENTION.  THEY CAN WORSHIP GOD AT HOME OR EVEN BEHIND THE BARN.  MANY WORK ON THE LORD’S DAY. 

HOWEVER, GOD IMPOSES TO ALL HOW WE MUST KEEP THE LORD’S DAY.  WE MUST SANTIFY THE DAY OF REST WITH A SACRED ASSEMBLY WHERE IS OFFERED TO GOD A VICTIM IN SACRIFICE TO WORSHIP THE HOLY TRINITY, ASK FORGIVENESS FOR OUR SINS AND ATONE FOR OUR SINS COMMITTED.  LIKE THE SINS OF THE PRIESTS FALL BACK ON THE PEOPLE, SO THE SINS OF THE PARENTS FALL BACK ON SONS AND DAUGHTERS.    THUS, SONS AND DAUGHTERS HAVE A STAKE TO KNOW THEIR PARENTS’ REFUSAL TO WORSHIP GOD ON THE LORD’S DAY.   THEY MUST STUDY GOD’S FIRST COMMANDMENT.  THEY ARE TO DIALOGUE WITH THEIR PARENTS THE OBLIGATION TO SANTIFY THE LORD’S DAY WITH ATTENDING MASS.             

(Ex 20:5-6; Exodus 24:8; 25:8; 31:12-17.  Leviticus 4:1-4; Levíticus 23:1-3; Levíticus 26:1-3). 

May the good Lord bless you each Sunday with Jesus Victim on the altar for a holy and fruitful week.  The  professor.