Vol 9 Issue 27 ~ Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier
July 2, 2016 ~ Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

1. Baptism: Means of Salvation (75)
2. Seventh Sunday after Pentecost
3. St. Leo II
4. Christ in the Home (49)
5. Articles and notices

Dear Reader:

This past week has been one insult against God after another. One might find it difficult, when one looks at the reaction one feels when one is insulted—the desire for vengeance—and expect God to lash out against sinners; but though God instruct His faithful,  Revenge is mine. He then continues: I will repay them in due time, that their foot may slide: the day of destruction is at hand, and the time makes haste to come. (Cf. Deut. 32:35) The patience of God is made manifest in the Crucifixion of Christ. God did not take vengeance on those who Crucified the Christ, though He withdrew His grace and left the Jews responsible in their blindness as a chastisement. He uses nature to chastise as a warning:  Fire, hail, famine, and death, all these were created for vengeance. (Eccles. 39:35) And justice is such that if not here then in the next life: The Lord is a jealous God, and a revenger: the Lord is a revenger, and hath wrath: the Lord taketh vengeance on his adversaries, and he is angry with his enemies. (Nahum 1:2) This delay is because he desires mankind to turn to Him:Is it my will that a sinner should die, saith the Lord God, and not that he should be converted from his ways, and live? (Ezech. 18:23) Again, to stress His intent: Say to them: As I live, saith the Lord God, I desire not the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way, and live. Turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways: and why will you die, O house of Israel? (Ezech. 33:11) Our Lord, in the parable of the lost sheep and the prodigal son (cf. Luke 15), His example in forgiving Mary Magdalene (cf. John 8) and the Good Thief (cf. Luke 23) contrasts with His condemning Jerusalem (cf. Matthew 23 and Luke 13),

handing Judas over to Satan (Luke 22, particularly verse 3 and 21ff) among the many passages that show both the mercy of God and His justice. Justice, meted in this world means hope of salvation in the next; withdrawal of grace means, in the Biblical sense, cursed: from benediction to malediction. For a father’s chastisement means he still cares; a father’s negligence means he no longer cares. That God still sends signs to awaken man whom He loves that he may be converted is a sign of His mercy; that He doesn’t chastise the leaders today who in their pride make themselves to be greater than God (cf. Isaias 14:13ff) but follow Herod in their usurpation of divine authority (cf. Acts 12:21ff) bears witness that God has abandoned them to their deceit (cf. Jer. 9:6)

The first blasphemy was from Bergoglio who dared to say Catholics should apologize to Sodomites. There is no apology by God when He destroyed from the face of the earth Sodom and Gomorra (cf. Gen.  chapters 18 and 19)Burning it with brimstone, and the heat of salt, so that it cannot be sown any more, nor any green thing grow therein, after the example of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrha, Adama and Seboim, which the Lord destroyed in his wrath and indignation (Deut. 29:23). In the book of Judges, chapters 19 and 20, the Lord blesses the destruction of the tribe of Benjamin for the crime of the inhabitants of Gabaa who wished first of all to sodomize the visiting Levite. In other words, to apologize for what God commands to root out as an abomination, as though God wanted this sin is, again blasphemous. That one must fight the temptation to commit sodomy is no different, that is—one may be tempted—, than one must fight the temptation to commit adultery and in this the Church provides the means (spiritual resources) to help overcome temptation and overcome vices.

The second was the Rainbow House under the United Sodomites of AntiChrist (USA) President to allow the Armed Forces to allow its soldiers to transgenderize. The Armed Forces will now no longer be something to respect as it will no longer be there to protect but to pervert, no longer to defend but offend, no longer to serve but disserve. Honor the Armed Forces today? No way! Only those who reject this anti-American, anti-moral, anti-freedom political correctness that is enslaving the Nation. Of course I continue to respect all soldiers individually who are honorably serving the United States of America.

The third was the Judge serving the Rainbow House under the United Sodomites of AntiChrist President and not the American people by suppressing Second Amendment rights in Mississippi (and that means all of America).

Besides these horrendous sins against God, there are also the sin of the Supreme Court (aka Kangaroo Court) decision to continue supporting the bloody massacre of babies in the abortion business and the sin of Herod of California wanting to massacre even more innocents but forcing the Bethlehemites to house and pay the Herodian soldiers so they can do it.

Despite this tragic week, and as difficult but necessary as it is, let Catholics not forget the words of James the Apostle: He must know that he who causeth a sinner to be converted from the error of his way, shall save his soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins. (5:20)

As always, enjoy the readings and commentaries provided for your benefit. —The Editor

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Baptism

Means of Salvation

Sacrament of Baptism

1917 Code of Canon Law

The decision to baptize or not always seems to be on the side of baptizing an infant if one or both parents present a child promising to have the child brought up Catholic. It is emphasized by this added canon:

Canon 751

Generally the norms specified in the above canons are to be observed whenever it is a case of the baptism of the infant of two heretics or schismatics, or of two Catholics who have fallen into apostasy, heresy, or schism.

In regard to adults, the requirements differ: 

Canon 752

• 1. An adult should not be baptized unless he knowingly and with desire has been rightly instructed; moreover, he should be admonished to be sorry for sins.
• 2. But in danger of death, if the adult is not able to be diligently instructed in the principal mysteries of the faith, it is sufficient for the conferral of baptism that he shows by some sign that he agrees with them and seriously commits himself to the observance of the mandates of the Christian religion.
• 3. But if he is not able to ask for baptism, [yet] either before or during the present state he manifested in some probable way the intention of receiving it, he should be baptized under condition; if he later recovers and there is doubt about the validity of the baptism conferred, he should be baptized again under condition.

[In the United States of America, the Canon Law Digest (2, 182-184) provides the following profession of faith which was approved to be used by Adult converts before Baptism (or, being baptized, adjuring their errors as formal entrance into the Church):

New Formula of Profession of Faith and Abjuration of Error Approved by the Holy Office to Be Used by Converts (Apostolic Delegate, U. S.) Private.

Profession of Faith:

 

I,________________________, ______ years of age, born outside the Catholic Church, have held and believed errors contrary to her teaching. Now, enlightened by divine grace, I kneel before you, Reverend Father ______________________ having before my eyes and touching with my hands the Holy Gospels; and with a firm faith I believe and profess each and all the articles that are contained in the Apostles’ Creed, that is: I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth; and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried; He descended into hell, the third day He rose again from the dead; He ascended into heaven and sitteth at the right hand of God, the Father Almighty; from thence He will come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost; the holy Catholic Church; the communion of saints; the forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting. Amen.

I admit and embrace most firmly the apostolic and ecclesiastical traditions and all the other constitutions and prescriptions of the Church.

I admit the Sacred Scriptures according to the sense which has been held and which is still held by holy Mother Church, whose duty it is to judge the true sense and interpretation of the Sacred Scriptures, and I shall never accept or interpret them except according to the unanimous consent of the Fathers.

I profess that the sacraments of the New Law are, truly and precisely seven in number, instituted for the salvation of man· kind, though all are not necessary for each individual: Baptism, /182/ Confirmation, Eucharist, Penance, Extreme Unction, Holy Orders, and Matrimony. I profess that all confer grace and that of these Baptism, Confirmation, and Holy Orders cannot be repeated without sacrilege.

I also accept and admit the ritual of the Catholic Church in the solemn administration of all the above-mentioned sacraments.

I accept and hold, in each and every part, all that has been defined and declared by the Sacred Council of Trent concerning Original Sin and Justification. I profess that in the Mass is offered to God a true, real, and propitiatory sacrifice for the living and the dead; that in the Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist is really, truly, and substantially the Body and Blood together with the soul and Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ, and that there takes place what the Church calls transubstantiation, that is the change of all the substance of bread into the Body and of all substance of wine into the Blood. I confess also that in receiving under either of these species one receives Jesus Christ, whole and entire.

I firmly hold that Purgatory exists and that the souls detained there can be helped by the prayers of the faithful. Likewise I hold that the saints, who reign with Jesus Christ, should be venerated and invoked, that they offer prayers to God for us and that their relics are to be venerated.

I profess firmly that the images of Jesus Christ and of the Mother of God, ever Virgin, as well as of all the saints should be given due honor and veneration. I also affirm that Jesus Christ left to the Church the faculty to grant Indulgences and that their use is most salutary to the Christian people. I recognize the holy Roman, Catholic, and Apostolic Church as the mother and teacher of all the Churches and I promise and swear true obedience to the Roman Pontiff, successor of St. Peter, Prince of the Apostles, and Vicar of Jesus Christ.

Besides I accept, without hesitation, and profess all that has been handed down, defined, and declared by the Sacred Canons and by the general Councils, especially by the Sacred Council of Trent and by the Vatican General Council, and in a special manner concerning the primacy and infallibility of the Roman Pontiff. At the same time I condemn and reprove all that the Church has condemned and reproved. This same Catholic faith, outside of which nobody can be saved, which I now freely profess and to which I truly adhere, the same I promise and swear to maintain and profess, with the help of God, entire, inviolate, and with firm /183/ constancy until the last breath of life; and I shall strive, as far as possible, that this same faith shall be held, taught, and publicly professed by all those who depend on me and by those of whom I shall have charge.

So help me God and these Holy Gospels.

And later, one for children was formulated as found in the Canon Law Digest (V, 407-8)

Short Formula for Profession of Faith for Youngsters and the Uneducated in the U. S. (Holy Office, 13 June, 1956) Private.

At the request of the bishops of the United States, the following short formula for the profession of faith was approved by the Holy Office.

 

I,  ___________________ touching with my hands God’s holy Gospels, enlightened by divine grace, profess the faith which the Catholic, Apostolic, Roman Church, teaches. I believe that Church to be the one true Church which Jesus Christ founded on earth: to which I submit with all my heart.

I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth; and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, Our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried. He descended into hell; the third day He arose again from the dead; He ascended into heaven, sitteth at the right hand of God, the Father Almighty; from thence He shall come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost, the Holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting. Amen.

I believe that seven sacraments were instituted by Jesus Christ for the salvation of mankind: namely, Baptism, Confirmation, Holy Eucharist, Penance, Extreme Unction, Holy Orders, and Matrimony.

I believe that the Pope, the Bishop of Rome, is the Vicar of Jesus Christ on earth, that he is the supreme visible head of the whole Church, and that he teaches infallibly what we must believe and do to be saved.

I also believe everything which the Holy, Catholic, Apostolic and Roman Church defines and declares we must believe. I adhere to her with all my heart, and I reject every error and schism which she condemns.

So help me God and these Holy Gospels which I touch with my hands.

The Holy Office set down the following conditions regarding the use of this formula:

1. The shorter formula proposed by the Bishops of the United States of North America is essentially for those only who have not attained puberty or who are uneducated. Moreover, in the judgment of the Ordinary, all those can be considered uneducated who do not have the religious development to understand the longer formula.

2. However, the longer formula must be used by the better educated adults.]

Canon 753

• 1. It is becoming that both the priest who is going to baptize adults and the adults themselves, if they are healthy, observe a fast.
• 2. Unless grave and urgent causes obstruct, baptized adults should immediately assist at Mass and receive holy communion.
• Canon 754

 

• 1. The insane or mad should not be baptized unless they were such from birth or from before they attained the use of reason; and then they are to be baptized as if infants.
• 2. If they have lucid intervals, while they are in possession of their senses, they can be baptized if they wish.
• 3. If in imminent danger of death, they can likewise be baptized if before they were insane, they showed the desire of taking baptism.
• 4. If they are in a coma or delirium, they can be baptized only when awake and desirous [of baptism]; but if danger of death occurs, the prescript of § 3 is to be observed.

 

CHAPTER 3

On the rites and ceremonies of baptism

 

Canon 755

 

• 1. Baptism is to be conferred solemnly, with due regard for the prescription of Canon 759.
• 2. The local Ordinary can for a grave and reasonable cause permit the ceremonies prescribed for the baptism of an infant to be applied in the baptism of an adult.

Canon 756

 

• 1. Children must be baptized according to the rite of the parents.
• 2. If one parent belongs to the latin rite, and the other to an oriental [rite], the children are baptized according to the rite of the father, unless provided otherwise by special law.
• 3. If only one [parent] is Catholic, the children are to be baptized in that rite.

 

Regarding those baptized outside their rite, the Church places them in the rite of the father as this response given in the Canon Law Digest (1, 337-338.):

 

The Code Commission was asked:

Whether children who, at their parents’ request, contrary to the prescription of c. 756, have been baptized by a minister of a rite not their own, belong to the rite in which they were baptized, or to the rite in which they should have been baptized according to c. 756.

Reply. As the case is put, in the negative to the first part; in the affirmative to the second.

 

But it applies only to those Oriental Rites which are Uniate; therefore this reply by the Sacred Congregation of the Oriental Church found in Canon Law Digest (3, 302-303) considers dissident schismatic churches having no rights, though valid sacraments:

 

The S. C. for the Oriental Church was asked:

Titius was born in 1932 of a dissident Oriental father and a Latin mother. But in 1930 his father and mother, after giving the usual cautiones, contracted marriage before the Latin pastor of the mother. Notwithstanding these cautiones, the father had Titius baptized in the dissident Oriental church. Later the father died and the mother saw to it that Titius attended the Latin church, so that he never appeared in any Oriental church. Now Titius wants to contract marriage with a Latin Catholic; and the question is whether Titius is to be regarded as belonging to the Oriental rite, so that the marriage should be contracted before an Oriental pastor.

Reply. Titius certainly belongs to the Latin rite (c. 756).

 

(To be continued)

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Seventh Sunday after Pentecost

Benedict Baur, O.S.B.

The will of God 

1. “Clap your hands, all ye nations; shout unto God with the voice of joy. For the Lord is most high, He is terrible; He is a great King over all the earth” (Introit). Now being made free from sin, we have become “servants to God” (Epistle), ready to accept and do His will. To do whatever God wills, and to do it lovingly, is the perfect road leading to sanctity and life eternal. “Being made free from sin and become servants to God, you have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end life everlasting” (Epistle).
2. God guides us in two ways. He either takes our hand and bids us follow Him, or He carries us in His arms as a mother carries her child. In the firs

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