Leviticus, Chapter
19, verse 14
You shall not insult the deaf, or put a stumbling block in front of the
blind, but you shall fear your God. I
am the LORD.
Be like your Heavenly
Father; God is not a bully. Christ was often confronted by the bullies of his
time. When the Pharisees heard that he
had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of
them [a scholar of the law] tested him by asking, “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” He
said to him, “You shall love the Lord,
your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second is
like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. The whole law and
the prophets depend on these two commandments.” (Mt. 22:34-40)
The modern world
attempts to bully the faithful in abandoning their relationship with the Lord.
Today is the memorial to Saint Pope Pius X who resisted the bullying of the
modern world by establishing an oath against modernism[1].
The crux of this oath has five main points:
1.
I profess that God is the origin and end of all
things.
2.
I accept and acknowledge the external proofs of
revelation, that is, divine acts and especially miracles and prophecies as the
surest signs of the divine origin of the Christian religion.
3.
I believe with equally firm faith that the
Church, the guardian and teacher of the revealed word, was personally
instituted by the real and historical Christ.
4.
I sincerely hold that the doctrine of faith was
handed down to us from the apostles through the orthodox Fathers in exactly the
same meaning and always in the same purport.
5.
I hold with certainty and sincerely confess
that faith is not a blind sentiment of religion welling up from the depths of
the subconscious under the impulse of the heart and the motion of a will
trained to morality; but faith is a genuine assent of the intellect to truth.
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