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Gospel Reflection for The 4th day of November in the year of Our Lord, 2026 · The Uncensored Catholic

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  Speaker 1: Gospel reflection for the fourth day of November in the
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  Speaker 1: year of our Lord, 2026.
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  Speaker 2: And today is the memorial of St. Charles Borromeo Bishop.
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  Speaker 2: The first reading, I believe, or second reading? I cannot remember.
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  Speaker 1: But the reading we're going to focus on today is
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  Speaker 1: Philippians 2, 12 through 18.
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  Speaker 2: Wherefore, my dearly.
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  Speaker 1: Beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my
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  Speaker 1: presence only, but much more now in my absence, with
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  Speaker 1: fear and trembling, work out your salvation. For it is
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  Speaker 1: God who worketh in you both to will and to
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  Speaker 1: accomplish according to his good will. And do ye all
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  Speaker 1: things without murmuring and hesitations that you may be blameless
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  Speaker 1: and sincere children of God, without reproof in the midst
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  Speaker 1: of a crooked and perverse generation among whom you shine
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  Speaker 1: as lights in the world, holding forth the word of
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  Speaker 1: life to my glory in the day of Christ. Because
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  Speaker 1: I have not run in vain nor labored in vain, yea,
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  Speaker 1: if I be made a victim of Upon the sacrifice
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  Speaker 1: and service of your faith, I rejoice and congratulate.
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  Speaker 2: With you all. And for the selfsame thing, do you.
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  Speaker 1: Also rejoice and congratulate with me. And the Dewey Reams notes,
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  Speaker 1: with fear. This is against the false faith and presumptuousness,
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  Speaker 1: or the presumptuous security, I should say, of modern sectaries, modern, well,
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  Speaker 1: Protestants is what he's saying. Protestants, of course. Ah. believe
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  Speaker 1: in once saved, always saved, which is heretical, and we'll
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  Speaker 1: get into that in just a second. So for the
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  Speaker 1: life of me, I cannot see how Protestant doctrine can
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  Speaker 1: square with today's message from St. Paul. We discussed many
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  Speaker 1: times the heresy of once saved, always saved, and by
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  Speaker 1: faith alone of Protestantism. But here again, we have the
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  Speaker 1: plain statement that salvation must be worked out in fear
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  Speaker 1: and trembling. No Christian salvation is guaranteed simply by a
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  Speaker 1: profession of faith.
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  Speaker 2: We must work We must persevere. We must suffer and sacrifice.
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  Speaker 1: I believe it was the blessed soon-to-be Saint Fulton Sheen
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  Speaker 1: who said that the greatest lie of the devil has
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  Speaker 1: been to convince people that he does not exist. But
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  Speaker 1: I'll go a step further. His greatest and most effective
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  Speaker 1: and damaging lie has been to convince people who profess
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  Speaker 1: a belief in Christ that their salvation is guaranteed, that
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  Speaker 1: sin cannot cross them heaven, that faith is all that's necessary,
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  Speaker 1: and that anything goes. Jesus and his holy apostles said
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  Speaker 1: we must obey the church he established, accept her doctrine,
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  Speaker 1: receive the sacraments, avoid sin, and do works of charity
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  Speaker 1: and love.
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  Speaker 2: Protestantism says none of that is necessary. And that is
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  Speaker 2: the work of Satan, not of God. Again today, we're reminded.
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  Speaker 1: That all Christians are told to be of one faith,
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  Speaker 1: one doctrine, one body, allowing no disagreement or factions. In
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  Speaker 1: the infancy of the Protestant apostasy, St. Francis de Salle wrote,
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  Speaker 1: His deceased highness of most happy memory, Emmanuel of Savoy,
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  Speaker 1: related to the learned Anthony Possavan that at the colloquy
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  Speaker 1: of Carmas, when the Protestants were asked for their profession
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  Speaker 1: of faith, they all, one after the other, departed from
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  Speaker 1: the assembly as being unable to agree together. That great prince,
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  Speaker 1: most worthy of trust, relates this as having been present there.
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  Speaker 1: All this division has its foundation in the contempt which
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  Speaker 1: you have for a visible head of the church. Because
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  Speaker 1: not being bound has to the interpretation of God's word
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  Speaker 1: by any superior authority, each one takes a side which
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  Speaker 1: seems good to him. This is what the wise man
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  Speaker 1: says that among the proud there are always contentions, which
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  Speaker 1: is a true mark of heresy. Those who are divided
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  Speaker 1: into several parties cannot be called by the name of
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  Speaker 1: church because as St. Chrysostom says, the name of Christ
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  Speaker 1: is the name of agreement and concord. But as for us,
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  Speaker 1: we all have the same candidates to the scriptures. one
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  Speaker 1: same head, one like rule for interpreting them. You have
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  Speaker 1: a diversity of canon, and in the understanding you have
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  Speaker 1: as many heads and rules as you are persons. We
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  Speaker 1: all sound the trumpet of one single Gideon and have
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  Speaker 1: all one, the same spirit of faith in the Lord
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  Speaker 1: and in his vicar, the sword of decisions of God
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  Speaker 1: and the church according to the words of the apostles.
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  Speaker 1: It has seemed good to the Holy Ghost and to us.
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  Speaker 1: This unity of language, us, is a true.
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  Speaker 2: Sign that we are the army of the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: And you can but be acknowledged as Madianites, M-A-D-I-A-N-I-T-S, whose
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  Speaker 1: opinions are only cries and shouts. Each in your own fashion,
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  Speaker 1: you slash at one another, cutting one another's throats and
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  Speaker 1: cutting your own throat by your dissensions. As God said
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  Speaker 1: by Isaiah, the Egyptians shall fight against the Egyptians, and
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  Speaker 1: the spirit of Egypt shall be broken.
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  Speaker 2: And St.
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  Speaker 1: Augustine says that as Donatus had tried to divide the church,
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  Speaker 1: so he himself was by a daily separation of his
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  Speaker 1: party divided within himself. This mark of unity alone ought
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  Speaker 1: to make you quit your pretended church. For he who
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  Speaker 1: is not with God is against God. God is not
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  Speaker 1: in your church, for he only inhabits a place of peace.
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  Speaker 1: And in your church there is neither peace nor concord.
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  Speaker 1: Very strong words by St. Francis de Sal, who was...
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  Speaker 1: Rather soft-spoken. But, yeah, his writings against early Protestantism, you
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  Speaker 1: have to remember, it was contemporary. The so-called Reformation was
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  Speaker 1: happening during his life. And he was addressing the controversies
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  Speaker 1: as they arose. And his work, I think it was
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  Speaker 1: The Catholic Question, and then probably two others after that,
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  Speaker 1: are classics to this day of apologetics.
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  Speaker 2: There's one truth. Think about this now. There's one truth.
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  Speaker 1: There's one Catholic Church, all Catholics hold to the same
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  Speaker 1: interpretation of Scripture, the same doctrine, and are unified under
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  Speaker 1: one Pope.
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  Speaker 2: Or should be, at least.
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  Speaker 1: There are 50,000 Protestant denominations, each of which disagrees with
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  Speaker 1: the other, and all of which reject the Catholic Church.
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  Speaker 2: But there's one truth.
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  Speaker 1: The same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. That truth would be
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  Speaker 1: the truth taught by the Apostles. That truth would be
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  Speaker 1: the truth held by the early church in, say, the
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  Speaker 1: first two, three hundred years of Christianity that gave us
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  Speaker 1: the Bible. If not, we can't trust the Bible to
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  Speaker 1: be authentic if we don't believe in the early church.
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  Speaker 1: And that is unchanging to this day. You can go
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  Speaker 1: back to the D.K., written about 70, 80 A.D. The doctrine,
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  Speaker 1: the morals, the order of the mass, everything, identical to
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  Speaker 1: how it's done in Catholic churches 2,000 years later. Among Protestants,
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  Speaker 1: Baptists say that they totally reject infant baptism. I ask them,
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  Speaker 1: where does the Bible say don't baptize infants? They can't
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  Speaker 1: answer that, but they say they know it's not right.
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  Speaker 1: I say to them, well, Presbyterians, Methodists, Lutherans, etc., Anglicans
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  Speaker 1: practice infant baptism. If your idea that every Protestant can
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  Speaker 1: be led to the fullness of the truth by reading
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  Speaker 1: the Bible, the Holy Spirit will enlighten their mind, How
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  Speaker 1: do you know those four mainline Protestant denominations are wrong,
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  Speaker 1: but your Baptist church is right?
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  Speaker 2: By what authority do you decide?
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  Speaker 1: Well, they have no answer to that. No answer to
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  Speaker 1: that whatsoever. And that's just the beginning. That's the tip
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  Speaker 1: of the iceberg. When each man claims to be able
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  Speaker 1: to interpret the Bible on his own, each man becomes
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  Speaker 1: his own pope.
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  Speaker 2: And as St.
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  Speaker 1: Francis de South said, there will be as many churches
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  Speaker 1: as there are men with differing opinions. And that's exactly
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  Speaker 1: what's happened in the nearly 500 years, yeah, 500 years
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  Speaker 1: or so since St. Francis wrote those words.
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  Speaker 2: Y'all have a great day, and I will talk to
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  Speaker 2: you next time.