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Fr. Charles Belmonte
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September 4, 2023
5 Sep - Resignation to God’s will
<p>5 Sep Tue</p> <p>As St. Paul says, God allows some evils in order to test us. But it is a deadly and radically false notion to think that, because God allows heresies to be readily spread, we should not fight against them but should go along with them in a spirit of resignation. </p> <p><br></p> <p>This is a false interpretation of resignation to God’s will. The devastation of the vineyard of the Lord should instead fill us with the deepest pain, and mobilize us for the fight, to be fought with all legitimate means, against everything which is evil and offensive to God, against all heresies.</p> <p><br></p> <p>What does God expect of us, in the present devastation of His vineyard? </p> <p>• First, to respond to all the snares of the devil by growing in faith, hope and love; a lot of prayer and mortification for the Church; </p> <p>• Second, to be especially watchful so that we are not infected in any way; </p> <p>• Third, to struggle against the present devastation with all the peaceful means at our disposal; and </p> <p>• Fourth, by not forgetting that the absolute truth of the deposit of the Catholic Faith objectively remains untouched by all the empty talk of certain theologians.</p> <p><br></p> <p>We must never forget that in spite of all diabolic devastation of the vineyard of the Lord, the glory of the holy Church, the bride of Christ, nevertheless remains untouched in its essence; indeed, it is the one true reality. </p> <p><br></p> <p>What do all the changing trends of the time really amount to? They are so much “sound and fury, signifying nothing” when compared with the eternal truth and the love of God.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Thus, we should love God more, and atone for these aberrations. Not just suffer them and be sad, but go about with the serenity and the joy consequences of the certainty that God is our Father and he never fails us.</p> <p><br></p> <p>The two thieves suffered together with Christ on the Cross, and yet their suffering does not save us. Jesus’ love, while suffering, saves us. He suffers, but loves us even more than he suffers. His love for you is greater than his pain.</p>
September 3, 2023
4 Sep Mon - Understanding reality and beginning a new direction
<p>4 Sep Mon</p> <p>When you read Saint Augustine, it’s almost impossible not to see parallels with your own life.</p> <p><br></p> <p>The very first page of “Confessions”, contains his much-quoted line: fecisti nos ad te et inquietum est cor nostrum donec requiescat in te (“You made us for Yourself, and our hearts are restless until they rest in You.”) </p> <p><br></p> <p>Social commentators sometimes talk about how “the world has lost its story,” meaning we no longer know why we exist as persons or societies. And the stories we try to substitute for it – enlightenment, national greatness, economic progress, even science –which depended on having a sense and direction to life, no longer have any real substance.</p> <p><br></p> <p>And it shows. Desperate attempts at establishing “identity” by latching on to race, and gender “communities,” or engaging in environmental or political crusades, are in the end, modern manifestations of restless hearts.</p> <p><br></p> <p>In a way, even his other book, “City of God”, reflects Augustine’s belief that our confidence in our own powers, independent of God, to establish perfect justice on earth, is just another delusion which, we hope, will quiet our restlessness.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Still, what’s to be learned from a man who died 1600 years ago, in a time and place so different from our own?</p> <p><br></p> <p>Well, perhaps the first thing is that despite all those differences there’s much that speaks, with sharp immediacy, to us because –skip this the proud progressives of all ages– many human things don’t change.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Augustine tells us of a tale of “two trees.” The first, the pear tree that Augustine and his teenage friends stole fruit from, not because they were hungry, or the pears were good (they weren’t), but out of casual perversity. Here he shows that what we now call being “woke” is the Christian belief that human hearts, all human hearts including the most “woke,” waver between good and –to use the tight term– evil.</p> <p><br></p> <p>The pear tree tells a deep story. Ultimately, it isn’t society, or economic conditions, or your family that explain your bad behavior, it stems from the same human source: restless hearts attracted to good and evil.</p> <p><br></p> <p>But there’s another tree in his story. At the moment of his conversion, “I flung myself down, how, I know not, under a certain fig-tree,” says Augustine. (Bk. VIII) The second tree is a fig tree, and it was from fig leaves that Adam and Eve fashioned themselves coverings when, after they sinned and felt naked, they repented. Thus, it means understanding reality and beginning a new direction.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Augustine no doubt had this in mind. And so, the fig tree is a reversal of the course we took that fatal day in Eden. Every time someone is converted, he turns in the right direction, he recovers the meaning of his life, his own personal story, and finds peace of heart.</p>
July 28, 2023
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