tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post2183847984446603760..comments2024-01-29T08:39:40.754-05:00Comments on Musings of a Pertinacious Papist: Whose Gospel? Which Mercy?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-5026520889061208342015-03-20T17:55:25.469-04:002015-03-20T17:55:25.469-04:00Sed Contra,
This passage from the Gospel of Matth...Sed Contra,<br /><br />This passage from the Gospel of Matthew is a very important one, but I would disagree with you if you reduced the whole Catholic doctrine of salvation to the import of this passage. To do that would be in ignore many other important texts without which we do not understand the whole Gospel -- for example, Jesus' statement that those who love Him are those who keep His commandments, or St. Paul's warnings about those who shall not inherit eternal life, among whom he includes unrepentant drunkards, fornicators, idolaters, murderers, homosexuals, thieves, slanderers, etc.<br /><br />If we take Matthew 25 out of the larger Biblical and Magisterial context, it becomes a pretext for what was called, in the heyday of liberal Protestantism, "The Social Gospel," i.e., what we find now among the so-called "Peace and Justice" crowd -- those who eschew all the supernatural "metaphysical baggage" of Christianity and reduce the condition for salvation to "social services." I'm not saying that this is your view; rather, that what you wrote could be understood in that way. Kind regards, - PPPertinacious Papisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03213911570586726075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-90736333097801174672015-03-20T11:41:11.019-04:002015-03-20T11:41:11.019-04:00While the hierarchy is in the process of making a ...While the hierarchy is in the process of making a separate peace with the sexual revolution, it is far from giving up on mortal sin. <br /><br />Did not our Lord and Savior say in Matthew 25:41-49a:<br /><br /><i> 41* Then [the King] will say to those at his left hand, 'Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels; 42 for I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.' 44 Then they also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see thee hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to thee?' 45 Then he will answer them, 'Truly, I say to you, as you did it not to one of the least of these, you did it not to me.' 46* And they will go away into eternal punishment ..."</i>?<br /><br />From which it follows 1) our salvation is not assured, 2) all must have access to the Church’s “medicine”, and 3) all our works must be devoted to serving the poor and the immigrant. <br /><br />That is the whole Gospel, the rest is just commentary.Sed Contranoreply@blogger.com