How committed are we?

[MariaChristi]

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

How committed are we to the Truth? How committed are we to the One Church Jesus founded and prayed for in His Priestly Prayer (Jn. 17)?

Listening to this morning’s Mass Readings and the commentary below, I continue to ponder the lack of zeal in so many of today’s baptized Catholics.

Wednesday of the Seventh week of Easter

Commentary of the day
Saint Cyprian (c.200-258), Bishop of Carthage and martyr
The Unity of the Church, § 8 (trans. Fathers of the Church Inc., 1958, alt.)
“That they may be one”

Brethren, who then is so profane and lacking in faith, who so insane by the fury of discord as either to believe that the unity of God, the garment of the Lord, the Church of Christ, can be torn asunder or to dare to do so? (Jn 19,24). He himself warns us in his Gospel, and teaches saying: “And there shall be one flock and one shepherd” (Jn 10,16). And does anyone think that there can be either many shepherds or many flocks in one place? Likewise the Apostle Paul insinuating this same unity upon us beseeches and urges us in these words: “I beseech you, brethren,” he says, “by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all say the same thing; that there be no dissensions among you but that you be perfectly united in the same mind and in the same judgement” (1Cor 1,10). And again he says: “Bearing with one another in love, careful to preserve the unity of the Spirit, in the bond peace” (Eph 4,2-3).

Do you think that you can stand and live, withdrawing from the Church, and building for yourself other abodes and different dwellings?.. When the sacrament of the Passover contains nothing else in the law of the Exodus than that the lamb, which is slain in the figure of Christ, be eaten in one house? God speaks, saying: “In one house it shall be eaten, you shall not carry the flesh outside the house” (Ex 12,46). The flesh of Christ and the holy of the Lord cannot be carried outside, and there is no other house for believers except the one Church. This house, this hospice of unanimity, the Holy Spirit designates and proclaims, when he says: “God who makes those of one mind to dwell in his house” (cf. Ps 86[87],7). In the house of God, in the Church of Christ, those of mind dwell; they persevere in peace and simplicity.

Please let us pray for one another, for the Church, and for the world to whom Christ sent His Church. Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of Your Faithful. Kindle in us the Fire of Your Love. Send forth Your Spirit and they shall be created and You shall renew the face of the earth.

 

[DakiniArtist]

Amen.

 

[MariaChristi]

Amen.

Dear DakiniArtist,

Thanks for your “Amen”. Please let us continue to pray for a true spiritual renewal for the Church in our time!

Our Lady of Light, Spouse of the Holy Spirit and Mother of the Church, pray for us.