>> A READING FROM THE FIRST BOOK OF KINGS. SOLOMON STOOD BEFORE THE ALTAR OF THE LORD IN THE PRESENCE OF THE WHOLE COMMUNITY OF ISRAEL, AND STRETCHING FORTH HIS HANDS TOWARD HEAVEN, HE SAID, LORD, GOD OF ISRAEL, THERE IS NO GOD LIKE YOU IN HEAVEN ABOVE OR ON EARTH BELOW; YOU KEEP YOUR COVENANT OF MERCY WITH YOUR SERVANTS WHO ARE FAITHFUL TO YOU WITH THEIR WHOLE HEART. CAN IT INDEED BE THAT GOD DWELLS ON EARTH? IF THE HEAVENS AND THE HIGHEST HEAVENS CANNOT CONTAIN YOU, HOW MUCH LESS THIS TEMPLE WHICH I HAVE BUILT! LOOK KINDLY ON THE PRAYER AND PETITION OF YOUR SERVANT, O LORD, MY GOD, AND LISTEN TO THE CRY OF SUPPLICATION WHICH I, YOUR SERVANT, UTTER BEFORE YOU THIS DAY. MAY YOUR EYES WATCH NIGHT AND DAY OVER THIS TEMPLE, THE PLACE WHERE YOU HAVE DECREED YOU SHALL BE HONORED; MAY YOU HEED THE PRAYER WHICH I, YOUR SERVANT, OFFER IN THIS PLACE. LISTEN TO THE PETITIONS OF YOUR SERVANT AND OF YOUR PEOPLE ISRAEL WHICH THEY OFFER IN THIS PLACE. LISTEN FROM YOUR HEAVENLY DWELLING AND GRANT PARDON. THE WORD OF THE LORD. >> THANKS BE TO GOD. >> HOW LOVELY IS YOUR DWELLING PLACE, LORD, MIGHTY GOD! >> HOW LOVELY IS YOUR DWELLING PLACE, LORD, MIGHTY GOD! >> MY SOUL YEARNS AND PINES FOR THE COURTS OF THE LORD. MY HEART AND MY FLESH CRY OUT FOR THE LIVING GOD. >> HOW LOVELY IS YOUR DWELLING PLACE, LORD, MIGHTY GOD! >> EVEN THE SPARROW FINDS A HOME, AND THE SWALLOW A NEST IN WHICH SHE PUTS HER YOUNG YOUR ALTARS, O LORD OF HOSTS, MY KING AND MY GOD! >> HOW LOVELY IS YOUR DWELLING PLACE, LORD, MIGHTY GOD! >> BLESSED THEY WHO DWELL IN YOUR HOUSE! CONTINUALLY THEY PRAISE YOU. O GOD, BEHOLD OUR SHIELD, AND LOOK UPON THE FACE OF YOUR ANOINTED. >> HOW LOVELY IS YOUR DWELLING PLACE, LORD, MIGHTY GOD! >> I HAD RATHER ONE DAY IN YOUR COURTS THAN A THOUSAND ELSEWHERE; I HAD RATHER LIE AT THE THRESHOLD OF THE HOUSE OF MY GOD THAN DWELL IN THE TENTS OF THE WICKED. >> HOW LOVELY IS YOUR DWELLING PLACE, LORD, MIGHTY GOD! (ORGAN) >> ♪ ALLELUIA ALLELUIA, ALLELUIA ♪ >> ♪ ALLELUIA, ALLELUIA ALLELUIA ♪ >> ♪ INCLINE MY HEART, O GOD, TO YOUR DECREES; AND FAVOR ME WITH YOUR LAW ♪ >> ♪ ALLELUIA, ALLELUIA ALLELUIA ♪ >> ♪ DOMINUS VOBISCUM ♪ >> ♪ ET CUM SPIRITU TUO ♪ >> ♪ LECTIO SANCTI EVANGELII SECUNDUM MARCUM ♪ >> ♪ GLORIA TIBI, DOMINE ♪ >> WHEN THE PHARISEES WITH SOME SCRIBES WHO HAD COME FROM JERUSALEM GATHERED AROUND JESUS, THEY OBSERVED THAT SOME OF HIS DISCIPLES ATE THEIR MEALS WITH UNCLEAN, THAT IS, UNWASHED, HANDS. FOR THE PHARISEES AND, IN FACT, ALL JEWS, DO NOT EAT WITHOUT CAREFULLY WASHING THEIR HANDS, KEEPING THE TRADITION OF THE ELDERS. AND ON COMING FROM THE MARKETPLACE THEY DO NOT EAT WITHOUT PURIFYING THEMSELVES. AND THERE ARE MANY OTHER THINGS THAT THEY HAVE TRADITIONALLY OBSERVED, THE PURIFICATION OF CUPS AND JUGS AND KETTLES AND BEDS. SO THE PHARISEES AND SCRIBES QUESTIONED HIM, WHY DO YOUR DISCIPLES NOT FOLLOW THE TRADITION OF THE ELDERS BUT INSTEAD EAT A MEAL WITH UNCLEAN HANDS? HE RESPONDED, WELL DID ISAIAH PROPHESY ABOUT YOU HYPOCRITES, AS IT IS WRITTEN: THIS PEOPLE HONORS ME WITH THEIR LIPS, BUT THEIR HEARTS ARE FAR FROM ME; IN VAIN DO THEY WORSHIP ME, TEACHING AS DOCTRINES HUMAN PRECEPTS. YOU DISREGARD GOD'S COMMANDMENT BUT CLING TO HUMAN TRADITION. HE WENT ON TO SAY, HOW WELL YOU HAVE SET ASIDE THE COMMANDMENT OF GOD IN ORDER TO UPHOLD YOUR TRADITION! FOR MOSES SAID, HONOR YOUR FATHER AND YOUR MOTHER, AND WHOEVER CURSES FATHER OR MOTHER SHALL DIE. YET YOU SAY, IF SOMEONE SAYS TO FATHER OR MOTHER, ANY SUPPORT YOU MIGHT HAVE HAD FROM ME IS QORBAN (MEANING, DEDICATED TO GOD), YOU ALLOW HIM TO DO NOTHING MORE FOR HIS FATHER OR MOTHER. YOU NULLIFY THE WORD OF GOD IN FAVOR OF YOUR TRADITION THAT YOU HAVE HANDED ON. AND YOU DO MANY SUCH THINGS. ♪ VERBUM DOMINI ♪ >> ♪ LAUS TIBI, CHRISTE ♪ >> IN ORDER TO FULLY UNDERSTAND WHAT JESUS IS TEACHING US AS HIS DISCIPLES WE MUST HAVE THE ETERNAL PERSPECTIVE. WE HEAR IN ST. JOHN'S GOSPEL CHAPTER 1 VERSE 1 IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD AND THE WORD WAS WITH GOD AND THE WORD WAS GOD. AND IN FACT WHEN WE GO TO THE BEGINNING OF GENESIS, THE 1ST BOOK OF SACRED SCRIPTURE, WE HEAR GOD SPEAK THE WORD, WHO IS GOD, FOR EXAMPLE GOD SAYS LET THERE BE LIGHT. WHEN GOD SPEAKS THE WORD THERE IS. HE CREATES WITH ORDER IN THE GIFT OF LOVE. THERE IS A HARMONY AND GOODNESS AND BEAUTY AND OR TRUTH TO THIS ORDER OF GOD. IN FACT THE BREATH OF GOD, THE - -, THE HOLY SPIRIT PUT ORDER INTO THINGS AND SO THE WISDOM OF GOD IS IN CREATION. BUT WHAT HAPPENED? OUR 1ST PARENTS, ADAM AND EVE DISOBEYED GOD. SIN ENTERED THE WORLD. SUFFERING WAS A RESULT AND DEATH WAS A RESULT. GOD DID NOT CREATE SUFFERING OR DEATH. IT IS THE RESULT OF DISOBEDIENCE AND DISORDER ENTERED THE WORLD. SO WHAT WAS 1 OF THE MAIN PURPOSES OF WHY JESUS CAME INTO THE WORLD IN ADDITION TO GLORIFYING THE FATHER AND DOING THE WILL OF THE FATHER? AND REVEALING TO US THE WAYS OF LIFE? OF THE FATHER AND THE SON AND THE HOLY SPIRIT? JESUS CAME TO RESTORE ORDER. THAT IS THE MAIN POINT OF THIS HOMILY. JESUS CAME TO RESTORE ORDER. AND WE ARE LIVING NOW IN A TIME WHERE THERE IS CHAOS AND THAT IS WHY THERE IS DIVISION BECAUSE THE WORLD WANTS TO ESTABLISH ITS OWN ORDER. SOME CALL IT THE NEW WORLD ORDER BUT THERE IS NO ORDER IN THAT. THERE IS ONLY GOD'S ORDER. PERFECT WISDOM. PERFECT BEAUTY. PERFECT LOVE. PERFECT TRUTH. PERFECT JUSTICE. PERFECTION. WE SHOULD ALL LONG FOR THAT RIGHT? SO 1ST WE PRAY TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY THAT WE ARE ABLE TO BE DISCIPLES LIKE HER AND LIVE IN THAT PERFECT ORDER. HAVE OUR LIVES ORDERED BY SACRED SCRIPTURE, THE REVEALED WORD OF GOD AND SACRED TRADITION WHICH IS THE WORD OF GOD THAT WAS PROCLAIMED PRIOR TO THE BOOKS OF SACRED SCRIPTURE BEING WRITTEN. THE TEACHINGS OF JESUS CHRIST. EVERYTHING HE SAID AND DID. THIS IS SACRED TRADITION. BUT JESUS TODAY IS ADDRESSING THE PROBLEM OF HUMAN TRADITIONS OR HUMAN PRECEPTS THAT CAUSE DISORDER. FOR EXAMPLE HE POINTS TO THE CASE WHERE THERE IS THE COMMANDMENT BY GOD SUCH A BEAUTIFUL COMMANDMENT, HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER. THE 4TH COMMANDMENT. RIGHT? BUT THESE HUMAN PRECEPTS WERE DEVELOPED WITH WORLDLY THINKING TO SAY THAT IF YOU DEDICATED SOMETHING TO GOD, DEDICATED FOR THE USE IN THE TEMPLE WHICH IS A GOOD THING, BUT IF YOU DEDICATED WITH THE PURPOSE OF NOT USING IT FOR THE CARE OF YOUR MOTHER AND FATHER THAT IS HYPOCRISY. THAT IS TERRIFYING. TO DO GOOD THINGS AND YET WHAT YOU REALLY ARE DOING IS EVIL. THAT IS WHAT WE FIND TODAY IN THE WORLD. PEOPLE ARE CALLING EVIL GOOD. THINGS THAT ARE SOUR THEIR CALLING SUITE. THINGS THAT ARE DARK THEY ARE CALLING LIGHT. LORD HAVE MERCY ON US. RESTORE THE ORDER. 1ST WE MUST PRAY THAT THE ORDER IN OUR OWN LIVES IS RESTORED BECAUSE ALL OF US HAVE BEEN AFFECTED BY THIS DISORDER IN THE WORLD. SO AS TO EVERY SINGLE DAY TO REMEMBER THIS. YOU ARE CREATED FOR COMMUNION OF LIFE WITH GOD FOR ALL ETERNITY. WOW. COMMUNION OF LIFE WITH GOD BUT WE MUST LEARN THE LIFE OF GOD AND THAT IS WHAT JESUS REVEALED TO US HE IS THE WAY THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE. HE IS NOT A WAY, A TRUTH, A LIFE. THE WORLD TODAY LIES. JESUS IS ALWAYS THE TRUTH. THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD THE MOST HOLY TRINITY. FATHER, SON AND HOLY SPIRIT. JESUS IS THE ETERNAL WORD OF GOD THE ETERNAL SON OF GOD BEGOTTEN OF GOD, GOD FROM GOD LIGHT FROM LIGHT TRUE GOD FROM TRUE GOD. JESUS CHRIST IS LORD. THERE IS NO OTHER GOD BUT THE MOST HOLY TRINITY. AND THIS IS WHERE WE START WITH ORDER BEING RESTORED IN THE CHURCH AND IN THE WORLD. 1ST LET US START WITH THE PRIMARY COMMANDMENTS. I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD YOU SHALL HAVE NO FALSE GODS BEFORE ME THE 1ST COMMANDMENT. RIGHT? WHAT'S THAT MEAN? NO IDOLATRY. NO IDOLS PERMITTED INTO SACRED PLACES. WE HEARD HOW IMPORTANT SACRED PLACES ARE IN THE 1ST READING AND IN THE RESPONSE PSALM. NO PACHAMAMA IN THE CHURCH AND WE MUST MAKE REPARATION WHENEVER IDOLATRY TAKES PLACE, REPARATION MUST TAKE PLACE AND IT WOULD BE THE SAME AS IF SOMEONE LET A VOODOO DOLL INTO THEIR HOUSE YOU BETTER GET A PRIEST TO COME AND DO SOME PRAYERS OF REPARATION AND BLESS THE HOUSE AND EXORCISE THE HOUSE AND GET RID OF THAT IDLE AND THAT EVIL. AMEN? >> AMEN. >> OKAY. SO WE NEED TO EXAMINE WHAT IS IN OUR HOUSES. THE INTERIOR HOUSE OF OUR SOUL. BUT WHAT DOES YOUR HOUSE COMMUNICATE TO PEOPLE WHEN THEY COME IN? DO THEY KNOW THAT YOU ARE A CATHOLIC? DO THEY SEE A CRUCIFIX, AN IMAGE OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY, ST. JOSEPH OR THE SACRED SCRIPTURES OPEN? THAT IS THE PRIMARY CENTER OF YOUR LIFE. DO YOU HAVE YOUR HOUSE BLESSED WITH HOLY WATER AND BLESSED SALT? BLESSED ST. BENEDICT MEDALS. THIS IS THE WAY OF CATHOLIC LIFE. SO LET US NOT LET THE WORLD'S TRADITIONS AFFECT US IN SUCH A WAY THAT WE HIDE OUR CATHOLIC IDENTITY. THAT IS A PRACTICAL THING FOR OUR LIVES. 1ST. 2ND, WE NEED RIGHT DOCTRINE, THE DOCTRINE THAT JESUS CHRIST REVEALED AND SACRED TRADITION AND SACRED SCRIPTURE IS UNDERSTOOD BY THE UNCHANGING MAGISTERIUM OF THE CHURCH. THE UNCHANGING MAGISTERIUM OF THE CHURCH. THE TEACHING OF THE CHURCH IS NOT AN OPINION POLL. WE DO NOT VOTE ON IT. IT IS GOD WHO REVEALED TO US THE WAY THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE. WE NEED RIGHT DOCTRINE AND RIGHT PRACTICE. WHAT IS HAPPENING TODAY SOME PEOPLE SAY WE DO NOT CHANGE THE DOCTRINE BUT WELL THE PRACTICE. THEY USE THE BIG FANCY WORD PRACTICE. WELL, PRACTICE SUCH AS GIVING OUR LORD IN THE MOST HOLY EUCHARIST GIVING COMMUNION TO POLITICIANS WHO PUBLICLY SUPPORT THE INTRINSIC EVIL OF ABORTION AND ARE OBSTINATE IN THEIR REFUSAL TO CHANGE THEIR WAYS, THEY ARE TO BE DENIED HOLY COMMUNION. >> AMEN? >> AMEN. >> WE DO NOT HAND OUR LORD OVER TO JUST ANYBODY. THIS IS FOR THE GOOD OF THE PERSON. AND IT IS BECAUSE WE LOVE OUR LORD. ALSO THIS PRACTICE THAT IS BEING TALKED ABOUT GIVING OUR LORD TO MARRIED AND DIVORCED AND THEN REMARRIED, I HAVE GREAT SYMPATHY FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE SUFFERING BECAUSE OF THE SCOURGE OF DIVORCE IN THIS WORLD. WE WANT HOLY MARRIAGES AND HOLY FAMILIES AND WE UNDERSTAND, WE HAVE COMPASSION FOR WHAT PEOPLE ARE GOING THROUGH, SO MANY WE KNOW HAVE SUFFERED DIVORCE AND THE EFFECT IS SEEN ON THE FAMILIES AND THE PEOPLE. BUT IF THERE IS A VALID MARRIAGE AND THEN SOMEBODY GET SO CALLED REMARRIAGE THERE IS NO REMARRIAGE IF YOU HAD A VALID MARRIAGE AND SO THAT WOULD BE ADULTERY IF THEY ARE HAVING RELATIONS AND THEY CANNOT RECEIVE OUR LORD. AMEN? >> AMEN. >> WE SAY THIS OUT OF COMPASSION. THE LORD WILL HELP PEOPLE GET THINGS RIGHT. WHATEVER OUR SINS ARE WE CAN COME TO CONFESSION. BY THE WAY THIS IS NOT NECESSARILY A HUMAN TRADITION BUT HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE FOCUSED ON THE IMPORTANCE OF HAND SANITIZER? IT IS A GOOD THING. A HUMAN TRADITION. BUT HOW ABOUT SANITIZING YOUR SOUL BY GOING TO CONFESSION? THIS IS SOMETHING ELSE WE NEED TO FOCUS ON. THE ETERNAL REALITY THAT WE ARE CREATED FOR ETERNAL LIFE WITH GOD. THE SALVATION OF OUR SOULS IT SEEMS TO ME THAT A LOT OF THE FEAR AND CONFUSION IN THE WORLD RIGHT NOW IS DUE TO THE FACT THAT WE ARE GETTING CAUGHT UP INTO WORLDLY WAYS AND FOCUSING ON JUST OUR EARTHLY LIFE. BROTHERS AND SISTERS THIS EARTH IS PASSING AWAY AS WE KNOW IT. THANK GOD. WE ARE MADE FOR HEAVEN. OKAY? GOD CREATED BEAUTIFULLY BUT RIGHT NOW WE WORK TO RESTORE ORDER AND IS SO WE NEED TO KEEP RIGHT RELATIONSHIPS AND WE NEED TO KEEP THE PRIORITY. GOD 1ST. AND EVERYTHING ELSE FALLS IN PLACE. SO ANOTHER AREA OF CONCERN IS THAT GOVERNMENTS ARE NOW TRYING TO TELL US THAT WE ARE TO CLOSE OUR CHURCHES WHENEVER THEY TELL US WE ARE SUPPOSED TO CLOSE THEM. THEY COME UP WITH THIS REASON OR THAT REASON. WELL YOU MIGHT EVEN NEED PASSPORTS OR DOCUMENTATION TO WORSHIP GOD. NO ONE CAN STOP US FROM WORSHIPING GOD AND NO ONE IS TO BE DENIED THE SACRAMENTS. THERE MAY NEED TO BE ACCOMMODATIONS OUTSIDE OF MASS OR CONFESSIONS AT TIMES THAT THERE ARE THINGS THAT DEVELOP OVER THE COURSE OF HISTORY WHERE THERE ARE TERRIBLE TERRIBLE DISEASES BUT PEOPLE SHOULD NEVER BE DENIED THE OPPORTUNITY TO WORSHIP GOD HAVE RECEIVED THE SACRAMENTS. AND THEN? AMEN. AND LET US REMEMBER THAT GOD IS IN CHARGE. WE ARE BELIEVERS. SO WE NEED TO KNOW SACRED SCRIPTURE SO WELL THAT WE MAY HAVE EVEN ENTERED INTO AND OR LIVING IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION RIGHT NOW AND I WOULD ALSO SAY THAT IT IS VERY IMPORTANT MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS TO PREPARE YOURSELVES THAT NO MATTER WHAT HUMAN TRADITION IS PROPOSED NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO NOT TAKE THE MARK OF THE BEAST IN ORDER TO BUY OR SELL FOOD. BE PREPARED. I AM NOT SAYING THIS OUT OF FEAR. IF YOU READ THE END OF THE BOOK OF REVELATION IT ENDS IN THE WEDDING FEAST THAT IS GOD'S PLAN. IT IS BEAUTIFUL. IT IS IN A WEDDING FEAST. IT IS ALWAYS GOD'S PLAN. THE COMMUNION OF LIFE OF GOD. I BRING GOOD NEWS BROTHERS AND SISTERS. BUT THE LORD GAVE ME THIS GOSPEL TO PREACH ON TODAY AND SO I HAVE A SACRED DUTY TO ADDRESS THESE ISSUES FOR THE TRUTH SETS US FREE. LET US LIVE OUR CATHOLIC FAITH, REMEMBER, THE RIGHT ORDER. THE ORDER OF GOD. THAT IS HOW WE LIVE. NO MATTER WHAT THIS WORLD SAYS. DO NOT BE DECEIVED. YOU BELONG TO GOD. MAY OUR BLESSED MOTHER HELP US BE FAITHFUL CATHOLICS AND TRUE WORSHIPERS OF GOD IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH. AMEN. >> AMEN.
