FIDELITY TO OUR CHURCH.
There are some things that have
to be clearly present in our minds, regarding our catholic church, they are: 1).- Our church is one and only one, founded
by Jesus Christ. 2).- Our church
is holy has santity, given by God
himselve. 3).- Our church is catholic,
because it is universal, for all mankind.
4).- Our church is apostolic because its knowledge and teachings are for
all human kind.
IT IS ONE, clearly Jesus Christ cries to his Father: “let´s all be one, as you and I are, let all be one
thing, as you are in me, and I am in
you. On an other occasion Jesus says: “every kingdom, or house divided in oposite
factions wil not subsist”. And in his predication says,” I also have other sheeps
that do not belong to this herd, and I must pick them up, they will hear my
voice and will be one single herd and I
will be their Pastor”.
“ I am the true vine, and my
father is the farmer, every branch that
does not carry its fruit, He will cut it, and all those that give fruit, He
will prune to bear fruit. Stay with me and I will stay with you, as the branch
canot produce fruit alone, united to the vine will do”.
“ I am the vine and you are the
branches, if you are united to me, and I with you, the fruit will be a great harvest. Without me you cant have
a crop”.
Saint John Crisostumus, insists: “do
not separate from the Church, nothing is stronger, your hopes, your spiritual
health, your refuge, is in it, never will get old, its strenght is for ever”.
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS HOLY.-
Santity is exactly unity with God, the better this unity the more
santity. The Church has been founded and loved by Jesus Christ in accorrdance with GOD FATHER,
this way it is the spouse of Jesus, and asisted by the Holy Spirit. The Church
is “opus” of the Holy Trinity. It will
never disappear, the gates of hell wil never prevail against it.
Jesus Christ not excluded sinners of the society He
founded, so if some members are affected by spiritual sickness, this should not
diminish our love to our Church, on the contrary it should increase our
sorrow and compasión to those members.
The Church is not governed by Peter
or John, or Paul, it is governed by the Holy Spirit, and the Lord has promised,
that will be at its side, all the days
until the end of times. Thy has compared it to a troul net, that gets all kind
of fish, good and bad, and will trow away the bad.
THE CHURCH IS CATHOLIC.- God
wants all humanity to save its soul, to go to heaven, and have knowledgment of
the truth, and Jesus as the mediator between God Father and Jesus Christ the
son in the Holy Trinity, for centuries the Catholic Church has had persons of
all races, and social status, but its catholicity does not depend of the
geographic extensión, even if it is a visual sign and a motive of credibility,
at Pentecost when being born, it is all ready universal.
We call it catholic because from
one end to the other of the earth her teachings and dogmas are being taugth
without defects, and teaches the same doctrine of the visible as well as the
invisible, to the governants and citizens of the terrenal as well as the
heavenly. It does it with the sapient and the ignorant, in all values, virtues
and spirutual gifts. And of course in things done, and words.
It will be observed that any
ideology or thinking are in some way related to veracity, will have in its part
of truth the influence, eco, or founding of the Catholic permanent sapience, that comes from the Divine
Revelation, and lets remember that for the loyal interpretation we have the Church
Magisterium.
The Catholic Church is not a
political party, or a social ideology, or an not govermental organization (NGO), it
is the sign of the divinity of the Holy Revelation. It is not looking for
concord or material progress, it is the spouse of Christ, even if persecuted,
and does a tremendous work in favor of the poor, marginalaized and outcasts.
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS APOSTOLIC.- Jesus Christ founded its Church based
on the weak, but they were loyal and faithful, the apostles were assisted by
the Holy Spirit, that was a promise to them. Christ did tell them: “to me was given all authority in heaven and
earth, so go and intruct all people, baptize them in the name in the name of
the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, and teach them to observe all the
things that I have commanded to you, and be certain that I will be with you
until the consummation of the centuries”.
We are santified in the church after
being baptized, we can access to the grace that saves, this is a great advantage
to catholics. Jesus grants his grace out of his church also, due to his Divine Justice.
But in our church we get all the help necessary, the guidance, the knowledment,
we learn how to live in state of grace, we have the inmense help of the holy Sacraments,
specially the forgiveness of sins. This is thanks to the missión of the church
that is to save us, to grant the eternal salvation, if we comply with the will
of God.
Trough more than two thousand
years of history in the church, the succession of the apostles is preserved, in
their place we have the bishops, and the Pope that is the succession line of S.
Peter, specially named by Jesus as the
first Pope of the Church.” YOU ARE PETER AND OVER THIS ROCK I WILL BUILD MY CHURCH”.
Peter will move to Rome in due
time, and there he will found the primacy of the church. This is the reason for
wich in América the protestants some times call our church ROMAN CATHOLIC .
The suprime power of the Catholic
Church is Jesus Christ himself, all the rest are subdued to Thy, and taking his
will, that comes from God Father as our supreme commandment.
Lets pray to our mother of heaven
the Holy Virgin, to Access salvation by obeying God´s will, her help is of the
outmost importance.
Jorge Casas y Sánchez.
