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Submit. to God... Sermon in Oxley, QLD Australia July 8 2018 ... The great political, anti-Christian, and irrational heresy of our country is that “the people” rule, “the people” make laws, “the …More
Submit.
to God...
Sermon in Oxley, QLD Australia July 8 2018
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The great political, anti-Christian, and irrational heresy of our country is that “the people” rule, “the people” make laws, “the people are sovereign,” are the source of all authority. The natural results of this false principle are: the weakening of authority, the lack of respect for authority, the hatred of every kind of restraint, the spirit of absolute independence and unbridled license. This accursed spirit has invaded the sacred precincts of the family, loosened the domestic ties, and threatens totally to crush all parental authority, and extinguish in the children all respect for and submission to superiors.
All this shows the necessity of educating the will, of training the children, from their earliest infancy, to revere and obey authority. You should, therefore, teach your children to hold all legitimate authority as sacred and binding on the conscience, and to regard it as morally wrong and sinful to resist or despise authority, whether it be in thought, word, or deed. Your children ought to be frequently reminded that God’s authority is ever supreme, and that no earthly power or authority can be legitimate when it is in opposition to the divine law, for, as St. Peter remarks, “we must obey God rather than men.”
It behooves you to teach your children to respect the civil authority and to obey all just civil laws; to respect and obey their teachers and all other superiors in all that pertains to their authority. You should explain to them that the highest authority on earth is the Church of God, for she is divinely commissioned to teach and lead mankind in the way of salvation, and that, in matters of faith and morals, her authority is supreme, and therefore superior to every human authority. Impress well on their minds that our Holy Father, the Pope, is Christ’s Vicar on earth, and deserves all our reverence, love, and submission. Teach them to show a special reverence to the bishop of the diocese and to all priests, and particularly to their pastor.
Children must especially be taught to honor their parents; to love them — next to God and above all in this world — as the authors of their being, their best friends and greatest benefactors; to show them on all occasions profound respect, deference, and esteem; to obey them in all that is not opposed to the divine law as strictly as they should obey God Himself; to be grateful to them, being mindful that they can never sufficiently repay them for what they owe them; to be patient with them, and conceal their shortcomings from strangers; always to wish them well; to speak respectfully to them and of them; to seek their counsel in an matters , to aid them m their work and assist them in all their wants; to sympathize with them in their sorrows; to omit nothing that may help them to live and die as good Christians; religiously to fulfil their last will, and both during their life and after their death never to let a day pass without offering fervent prayers to God for them.
to God...
Sermon in Oxley, QLD Australia July 8 2018
...
The great political, anti-Christian, and irrational heresy of our country is that “the people” rule, “the people” make laws, “the people are sovereign,” are the source of all authority. The natural results of this false principle are: the weakening of authority, the lack of respect for authority, the hatred of every kind of restraint, the spirit of absolute independence and unbridled license. This accursed spirit has invaded the sacred precincts of the family, loosened the domestic ties, and threatens totally to crush all parental authority, and extinguish in the children all respect for and submission to superiors.
All this shows the necessity of educating the will, of training the children, from their earliest infancy, to revere and obey authority. You should, therefore, teach your children to hold all legitimate authority as sacred and binding on the conscience, and to regard it as morally wrong and sinful to resist or despise authority, whether it be in thought, word, or deed. Your children ought to be frequently reminded that God’s authority is ever supreme, and that no earthly power or authority can be legitimate when it is in opposition to the divine law, for, as St. Peter remarks, “we must obey God rather than men.”
It behooves you to teach your children to respect the civil authority and to obey all just civil laws; to respect and obey their teachers and all other superiors in all that pertains to their authority. You should explain to them that the highest authority on earth is the Church of God, for she is divinely commissioned to teach and lead mankind in the way of salvation, and that, in matters of faith and morals, her authority is supreme, and therefore superior to every human authority. Impress well on their minds that our Holy Father, the Pope, is Christ’s Vicar on earth, and deserves all our reverence, love, and submission. Teach them to show a special reverence to the bishop of the diocese and to all priests, and particularly to their pastor.
Children must especially be taught to honor their parents; to love them — next to God and above all in this world — as the authors of their being, their best friends and greatest benefactors; to show them on all occasions profound respect, deference, and esteem; to obey them in all that is not opposed to the divine law as strictly as they should obey God Himself; to be grateful to them, being mindful that they can never sufficiently repay them for what they owe them; to be patient with them, and conceal their shortcomings from strangers; always to wish them well; to speak respectfully to them and of them; to seek their counsel in an matters , to aid them m their work and assist them in all their wants; to sympathize with them in their sorrows; to omit nothing that may help them to live and die as good Christians; religiously to fulfil their last will, and both during their life and after their death never to let a day pass without offering fervent prayers to God for them.