Veritatis Splendor

“If Veritatis Splendor is not for Catholics only, neither is it a papal scolding of wayward, willful sinners.  John Paul II is too experienced a pastor to think that the polymorphous perversities of the late twentieth century are very original.  They aren’t, as a brisk reading of Genesis, concentrated on the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, will readily attest.  There is something new in the late twentieth century, though---the inability of educated people to make moral sense to one another.”  Witness to Hope by George Weigel

JMJ

The realities of the present age reveal to all mankind of the consequences and effects of original sin innate in man the moment he is created.  The polymorphous perversities of this century is nothing new as the stories of the Old and New Testament reveal to all who read the history of Christianity.  We face a new challenge in our day in age that reflects the inability of man, even those who are educated in nature, to find morality among the circumstances of a society and culture that has based truth against its very self through the lies that compromise the very dignity of what he is created for.  The inability to reach the transcendence of a humanity beyond the commercialization and materialism of a mentality that seeks refuge in the idolism of a lost identity in the very dignity of Man made in the image and likeness of God.  A mentality that has disfigured the identity of Man as beings that lack the conscientious reality of what is good and what is evil; what is not of God and what is of His Divine and Most Glorious Hand of Redeeming Love.  There is the effort of Man to bring to reality the saving power of a Living God when he encounters in himself a morality that identifies him as an heir of the Kingdom of Eternal Redemption.  A morality that is based on the essential Truth of Man made in the image and likeness of an Omnipotent and Eternal Father lived in the fullness of a life created for what is Eternal through the daily and ordinary tasks of the day.  The divinization of what is common to the sight of man and yet extraordinary; as every detail of his existence is sanctified and redeemed through the merits of the Only Begotten Son, Christ, Redeemer and Savior of All Mankind.  The reality that all of humanity is made in the image and likeness of God is being challenged in a most profound way through the blindness of a western world that is misguided through a law system that compromises the dignity of man and eliminates the very essence of identity founded on the reality that there is good and there is evil.  The reality that distinguishes between what is right and what is wrong.  It has been compromised to the degree that the tranquility of Man found in God has been seized by a culture that inhibits the very nature of Man to reach the heights of the truest essence of Truth so that he may live the fullness of life made in the image and likeness of a God who loves him and created him into being.  The challenge facing our culture today reaches even those who are intellectually educated and fully capacitated to reason and yet unable to distinguish between what is right and what is wrong.  The inability to see Truth as it is compromised through a culture that has been blinded from the true reality of himself made in the image and likeness of God.  

Eternal Word of the Father, Only Begotten Son of God, Christ, my Savior and Redeemer, the love You bestow on Man continues to be a source of refuge and strength in a culture and world that has forgotten and compromised the very essence and dignity of Man.  We face a new challenge in this age that is misguided and in need of Your Wisdom to form the very inner conscience of the soul towards a deeper knowledge of the essential truths created to distinguish the morality of what is good and what is evil.  A morality that is clearly defined through a well formed conscience founded in the Magisterium of the Church and the essential truths proclaimed in the Doctrine of the Faith.  Grant us the grace to proclaim these truths in our daily actions and our fidelity to Our Holy Mother Church so that the very Splendor of Truth may reign in every human heart created in the image of Your very likeness, O Triune God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, Three Divine Persons, One God.  O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not our petitions but in your mercy hear and answer me.  Amen. 

The ETERNAL WORD

The Fathers of the Second Vatican Council, in the Constitution Sacrosanctum Concilium, sought to make “THE TABLE OF THE WORD” offer the TREASURES of SCRIPTURE more fully to the FAITHFUL.(9) Consequently they allowed the biblical readings of the liturgy to be PROCLAIMED in a LANGUAGE understood by ALL. It is CHRIST HIMSELF who SPEAKS when the HOLY SCRIPTURES are READ in the CHURCH.(10) The Council Fathers also urged the celebrant to treat the HOMILY as part of the liturgy, aimed at explaining the WORD OF GOD and DRAWING OUT its MEANING for the CHRISTIAN LIFE.(11) Forty years after the Council, the Year of the Eucharist can serve as an important opportunity for Christian communities to evaluate their progress in this area. It is not enough that the biblical passages are read in the vernacular, if they are not also PROCLAIMED with the care, preparation, devout attention and meditative silence that ENABLE the WORD OF GOD to TOUCH PEOPLE’S MINDS and HEARTS. Supreme Pontiff John Paul II (October 2004- October 2005) Apostolic Letter Mane Nobiscum Domine.  Libreria Editrice Vaticana.

JMJ

PROCLAIMED with the MANIFESTATION of a GOD who is SO AWESOME IN HIS SPLENDOUR, the PRIEST speaks and SPRINGS FORTH A DRAWING of LIVING WATER from the LIFE of the LIVING GOD through the GOSPEL of CHRIST!  ENABLING the Word of God to penetrate deeply into the HEARTS of MAN in which a NEW HORIZON can ever more be fully brought to its FULFILLMENT a drawing forth of the meaning of SALVATION!  How are the FAITHFUL to ever know CHRIST unless it is SPOKEN from a HEART in LOVE WITH CHRIST!   DETERMINED with a MANIFESTATION OF CHRIST DIVINE LOVE, HE who speaks for CHRIST HIMSELF, SPEAKS for the ETERNAL GLORY of the TRIUNE GOD!   Hungering for the DIVINE, Man seeks His Salvation through the WORD OF GOD in proclamation through a SOUL who has been INEBRIATED by the BLOOD OF CHRIST; the TREASURES of the DIVINE WORD comes to FULL FLOW from a MOUTH PROCLAIMING TRUTH in ALL IT’S ESSENCE!   Here we find a GLORIFICATION that brings forth a NEW SALVATION for those in need of a HOPE that brings to LIFE what has been dead.  Created to KNOW HIM who is LOVE ITSELF, we the FAITHFUL SEEK REFUGE in the ETERNAL WORD made FLESH!  Seeking more to know HIM who is TRUTH, enables the HEART to be FULLY ALIVE by the SPOKEN WORD OF DIVINE LOVE!   Where can we FIND the LOVER OF ALL SOULS, but HERE IN THE WORD, the ETERNAL WORD, brought into flesh through the HEART OF THE LIVING GOD!  Beating with LOVE for CHRIST, she seeks HIM whom her HEART LOVES and HEARS her NAME from the very PERSON OF CHRIST, knowing that it is CHRIST ALONE, SPOKEN from the very mouths of the SACRED PRIESTHOOD that He will bring to FULL COMPLETION the DESIRES OF HER HEART! 

Divine Word made FLESH, the manifestation of your ETERNAL GOODNESS has no bound from a HEART TOTALLY AND COMPLETELY YOURS!  Has the MOTHER OF MY LORD not only come to me in Her GLORIOUS SPLENDOUR, but also gives to me HER DIVINE SON through the LIVING WORD OF GOD!  Spoken with the FIRE OF DIVINE LOVE, my HEART is INEBRIATED with the TRUTHS OF CHRIST HIMSELF and the TREASURES OF INFINITE GOODNESS IS OVERFLOWING WITH HIS DIVINE GRACE!  How GENEROUS HE IS TO COME TO ME, NOT only in WORD but in FLESH!  And to REMAIN here on EARTH through the Most HOLY and DIVINE EUCHARIST!  The MAGNANIMOSITY of the GRANDEUR of CHRIST has been ETERNALLY embedded into my HEART and I am brought to my KNEES in ADORATION of the MOST HOLY AND TRIUNE GOD! 

EVALUATE WELL, O PRIEST OF CHRIST, on the PROCLAMATION OF THE WORD through your own existence as a STEWARD of His DIVINE WORD!  For the judgment you have been commended to PROCLAIM with FULLNESS will be brought to LIGHT on the DAY OF SALVATION!  For the SOULS you have FED with your HOLINESS, is the HOLINESS of GOODNESS that is manifested through every WORD that HAS BEEN HEARD FROM the VERY MOUTHS OF THE SACRED PRIESTHOOD!  THE MEASURE OF YOUR HOLINESS, is the MEASURE OF GREATNESS THAT WILL SPRING FORTH IN THE MANY AND ABUNDANT HARVEST OF THE ETERNAL KINGDOM!  I bow in adoration to the SACRED PRIESTHOOD and WITH FULL GRATITUDE to YOUR CALL, I OFFER A LIFE FULLY CONSECRATED TO CHRIST.  May God’s Divine Grace fully MANIFEST HIS DIVINE SPLENDOUR through the GOODNESS He has bestowed on me through the SACRED PRIESTHOOD, DIVINE WORD PROCLAIMED IN ALL ITS FULLNESS!  Mother of the DIVINE EUCHARIST, enfold me in Your ARMS and PROTECT THE HEART OF YOUR CHILD!  For it is in you that I have found my SALVATION and the SPOUSE OF MY HEART!

Mary Conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.  Amen.