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The Pope's notion on Resurrection


My dear brethren,
¡°Christ rising again from the dead, dieth now no more, death shall no more have dominion over him¡± (Rom. 6:9). Our Lord Jesus Christ is ¡°the firstborn from the dead¡± (Col. 1:18), i.e. the first to rise to eternal life for the body. Eternal life is essentially in the soul, but it will overflow on to the body: for the Saints, their body will participate in the glory and joy of the soul and will live forever.


Note that for the damned, their body will be reunited with their soul, and remain reunited with it forever, but their condition will be so miserable that it is not worthy of the name ¡°life¡±: it is everlasting punishment, ¡°torment¡±, ¡°condemnation¡±: in that sense it is written: ¡°Therefore the wicked shall not rise again in judgment: nor sinners in the council of the just¡±(Ps. 1:5): they shall not ¡°rise¡±, in the sense that they shall not be standing, they shall be crushed forever, though their soul will be reunited with their body.


Thus when we speak of ¡°life everlasting¡± we speak essentially of the condition of the just for eternity, after the end of the world. Our Lord Jesus Christ is The Just, and the One Who justifies all those who will go into Life Everlasting. He is the Model for all of us, and the Cause of our salvation. As man, He is the First-Born unto life everlasting; as God He is The Life (Jn. 6:14) and the source of every life. He ¡°will reform the body of our lowness, made like to the body of his glory, according to the operation whereby also he is able to subdue all things unto himself¡± (Phil. 3:21).


As sin is the cause of death, so is the Victory over sin by the Sacrifice of the Cross on Good Friday the cause of the victory over death on Easter Sunday. Thus our Lord Jesus Christ has merited for us this glorious resurrection by His Passion and Sacrifice. His merits are over-abundant for all men: yet not all men will rise glorious. Why? Because to benefit of His merits, we must be united with Christ: and this is by Charity. Charity is a gift of God: ¡°the charity of God is poured forth in our hearts, by the Holy Ghost, who is given to us¡±(Rom. 5:5). But Charity requires that we in our turn should ¡°love the Lord [our] God with [our] whole heart, and with [our] whole soul, and with all [our] strength, and with all [our] mind: and [our] neighbour as [our]selves¡±(Lk. 10:27).


Here is a very important notion: that of ULTIMATE END. We should love the Lord our God above all things, as our ultimate end. The ultimate end is willed without limit: it is ultimate. Thus the Church teaches that one cannot love God too much: He is infinitely loveable, we should always tend to love Him more and more! So when a man puts his ultimate end in God, he should not fear any exaggeration: we cannot have too much faith in God, too much hope in God, too much love for God! Because God is objectively infinitely trustworthy, helpful and loveable.


But if man puts his ultimate end in any creature, since creatures are not infinitely good and loveable, then there will be immediately a disorder because he will love such creature too much. Creatures are means towards the ultimate end, God. When one puts one¡¯s end in something that is merely a means, and not an end, there is disorder, with all the destruction that follows. The end is the measure of the means: we must use the means in as much as they help us attain our end, and detach ourselves from them in as much as they put an obstacle to our end. The means are loved according to that measure, i.e. in as much as they lead us to our end; but the end is loved without measure.


We pass through the means as a man travels through intermediary places towards the goal of his travel: we are on earth as on a pilgrimage to Heaven. Then we rest in the end, as when one has arrived to the goal of his travel: the Saints thus rest in God. Thus we wish to the faithful departed that they may ¡°rest in peace¡±, rest in God, in whom we have peace. ¡°The kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but justice, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost¡± (Rom. 14:17), but ¡°there is no peace to the wicked, saith the Lord God¡± (Is. 57:21). Thus St Paul writes: ¡°we have not here [below] a lasting city, but we seek one that is to come¡± (Heb. 13:14). And he gives the example of the Patriarchs: ¡°by faith he [Abraham] abode in the [Promised] land, dwelling in cottages, with Isaac and Jacob, the co-heirs of the same promise. For he looked for a city that hath foundations; whose builder and maker is God¡¦ All these died according to faith, ¡¦ and confessing that they are pilgrims and strangers on the earth. For they that say these things, do signify that they seek a country. And truly if they had been mindful of that from whence they came out [Abraham came out of Ur in Chaldea], they had doubtless time to return. But now they desire a better, that is to say, a heavenly country. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for he hath prepared for them a city¡± (Heb. 11:9-16).


This is an essential aspect of the true Christian life: we are pilgrims here below, on a pilgrimage towards heaven. We do not have a lasting place on earth: we all pass through and do not stay on earth for ever; thus the true faithful TENDS towards Heaven with his whole heart, looking forwards to the blessed reward and everlasting joys. In this hope he finds much consolation and strength to carry his daily crosses in this world. But if he forgets about Heaven, then, as St Paul says: ¡°If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are most miserableof all men¡± (1 Cor. 15:19).


But we do not live only for this life; rather as St Paul writes: ¡°therefore we also having so great a cloud of witnesses over our head [=looking at all the Saints in Heaven], laying aside every weight and sin which surrounds us, let us run by patience to the fight proposed to us: looking on Jesus, the author and finisher of faith, who having joy set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and now sitteth on the right hand of the throne of God¡± (Heb. 12:1-2).


We touch here the main difference between ¡°worldly people¡± and the true faithful of Christ. As St Augustine says (today at Matins), ¡°worldly people are the lovers of this world¡±, those who put their ultimate end in earthly things. But the true faithful of our Lord Jesus Christ is detached from this world, and thirsts for heaven, not fearing the cross because he ¡°reckons that the sufferings of this time are not worthy to be compared with the glory to come, that shall be revealed in us¡± (Rom. 8:18). The true faithful is a lover of the Cross, in which he participates in the Victory of Christ; but the lovers of the world are ¡°enemies of the cross of Christ; Whose end is destruction; whose God is their belly; and whose glory is in their shame; who mind earthly things¡± (Phil. 3:18-19).


It is important to meditate on these great truths, first because we find there the true joys we can have ¡°in this vale of tears¡±: the joy that hope gives, as St Paul says: ¡°Rejoicing in hope. Patient in tribulation. Instant in prayer¡± (Rom. 12:12). But also secondly because at the root of the whole crisis of the Catholic Church today there is this ¡°love of the world¡±: this deliberate turn towards earthly things and purposes.


Did not Pope Francis say at the beginning of his pontificate that for him the greatest concern today was ¡°the jobless youth and the lonely elderly;¡± should not a Pope have greater concerns? For higher problems, such as the loss of faith of millions, even the loss of faith by members of the clergy? Given the opposition that our Lord Jesus Christ suffered from the ¡°world¡± – i.e. from the lovers of this world – it is rather alarming to find the Pope as ¡°man of the year¡± for Times magazine.


 A pope who would really tackle his duty would indeed find support and approval among many, especially among the devout faithful, but he would most certainly find fierce opposition from worldly people, as our Lord Jesus Christ found fierce from the worldly ones of his days, Pharisees, Pilate, Herod and the like. Truly holy Popes like St Pius X were despised by the world, and bitterly attacked. St Pius X said that the mark of the true Church was that she was ¡°One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic¡¦ and persecuted.¡±


It is the same love of the world that pushed for the canonisation of John Paul II and John XXIII: but if one looks at their pontificate with the light of Faith, the light of eternity, how could be canonised the Pope of Assisi, who gave a church to the Buddhists wherein their worshipped their false god, the Pope who kissed the Koran, the Pope whose public Masses were sometimes scandalous (e.g. with dancing native women certainly not properly dressed) and where communion was given without proper respect, the Pope who protected Fr. Maciel and other scandalous clerics, etc.? But those considerations of Faith today are brushed aside and not attended.


The world applauses and this is what counts¡¦ but not in the light of eternity. The Scripture says: ¡°Say not: I have sinned, and whet harm hath befallen me? For the most High is a patient rewarder¡± (Eccli. 5:4). In other words, because He delays the chastisement, giving time for penance, some people abuse of this time to continue in sin and ignore God¡¯s Law. Frightful neglect: St Augustine warns us that the more God waits to chastise, the more sudden and frightful is his chastisement. Sudden death strikes many today, and nobody pays attention.


There is another great error in our days that is called ¡°the theology of the Pascal Mystery¡±. Under old words, such as ¡°Pascal Mystery¡±, they hide a new and very deep error, nay heresy. This error practically denies the difference between time and eternity, pretending that we are already in the ¡°risen life¡±, emptying the sacraments of their value, by using the word ¡°sacrament¡± for everything, for every sacred action, thus destroying the specificity of the Seven Sacraments and their special efficacy and graces. External actions, especially in the Liturgy, do signify spiritual actions: the external worship signifies the worship of the soul, the adoration of the soul to God¡¦


But above this general ¡°signification¡±, there is a very special power in each of the Seven Sacrament, by the institution of our Lord Jesus Christ: power to cleanse the soul, power to give grace, power to elevate and sanctify the souls, and above all in the Holy Eucharist, there is the Real Presence of our Lord Jesus Christ. Now if one makes of every action of the Liturgy a ¡°sacrament¡±, thus speaking of the reading of the Scripture, of incensing, of sprinkling with holy water, etc. as if they were sacraments – they are ¡°sacramentals¡± but not ¡°sacraments¡±: they give grace in as much as they are used with devotion, but not with a special ¡°power¡± – then one sees no more the difference with the Seven Sacraments, and one ends up by reducing the Sacraments to these common actions.


This modern theology is more complicated to understand, but is very common in our days, and undermines the faith of many especially in the clergy, since it is quite common in the modern seminaries. And if the very modern priests have not the right faith, then the faithful are left starving, and often are led astray!


So today, let us pray that the Risen Christ grant us abundantly his grace, to be faithful to Him, to His teaching, as He gave it to His Apostles and as it had been kept for centuries and centuries faithfully in the Catholic Church. Let us ask for the grace to detach ourselves from this world and to tend towards heaven, towards God loved above all and without measure. Let us ask for the grace of conversion of many souls, to give them this immeasurable treasures of Christ. May the Blessed Virgin Mary grant us to rejoice in the Lord always. Amen.


Fr. F. Laiseny