
The Light of Christ Defeats the Darkness of Idolatry
“For all the gods of the nations are idols, but the LORD made the heavens.” (Psalm 96)
“For all the gods of the nations are idols, but the LORD made the heavens.” (Psalm 96)
This week, we are especially reminded that the Maker of the universe “became his own making” — and that Christ and his saints were born in order to die.
Amid the silence of the stars, God truly comes into our world — an event that renders everything different.
If to do evil is permitted only in a world without God, it follows that to do good becomes possible only in a world where there is God.
If we reject the truth that sex is about babies, then it is not likely that we shall survive, or that we deserve to.
“Be sure of this,” Our Lord tells us. “If the master of the house had known the hour of the night when the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and not let his house be broken into.”
The Church draws people not just for personal or pragmatic or political or therapeutic reasons, but because the Catholic Thing is true.
“One short sleep past, we wake eternally/And death shall be no more; death thou shalt die.” —John Donne, Sonnet X
How are we to find God, whom we cannot see? The answer is by turning to Christ, God incarnate, whom we can see.
“Respect for homosexual persons cannot lead in any way to approval of homosexual behavior or to legal recognition of homosexual unions.”
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