The Priest Is A LIGHTHOUSE
The Priest Is A LIGHTHOUSE
(Not A Memo-Writer For God)
Just yesterday, EWTN was lit up in a #MolueMonologue. You may read it here: False Faith, True Darkness. Christians of the Cross are slowly but surely rising up.
Enough seems to be—finally—enough.
Now… there is a priest I stumbled across on social media. Never heard of him before. But he made me shake my head in admiration and say aloud to no one in particular:
“These are the kinds of priests the early Church Fathers had in mind when they institutionalized this great faith of ours!”
Yes, Christianity was institutionalized. It did not fall from heaven fully formed, complete with Bibles, thuribles, and canon law. And if you’ve read Church history, you’ll understand why that step—making the Church an institution—was of vital necessity. The continued existence of Christianity depended on it.
Many have argued: why bother? After all, Jesus gave us the parable of the wheat and the tares. “Let them grow together until the day of the harvest.” And they have a point, because in weeding—since wheat and tares look so similar—there is always the danger of pulling up some wheat by the roots.
But the truth is this: in the early centuries of the Common Era (Anno Domini), Christianity was a wild marketplace of writings. A chaotic flood of texts, teachings, gospels, letters, prophecies, visions, and doctrines—some profound, many dubious, others outright dangerous.
This swirling chaos was one of the driving forces behind the councils—beginning with Hippo and later solidified at Trent—where the canonical books of the Bible were formally recognized and set.
Two Points Within the Point — Worth Pondering
1. The kingdom of God has always suffered violence.
Should I mention that today, the same violence often comes at the hands of Magamaniacs—among them self-important priests and media organizations?
Or should I stay quiet, lest this digression obscure the point?
2. Those who fold their arms at heresies in the Church…
…masking their lack of fortitude with the tired refrain:
“Let God be the judge. We cannot judge! Perhaps God is using these devious, manifestly anti–fruits-of-the-Spirit personages in ways beyond our ken…”
They forget one thing:
The very Bible in their hands already stands as a witness against them.
Against their lukewarmness.
Against their spiritual lassitude.
Think about it: No cars. No trains. No planes.....
...Yet the Fathers of the Church still traveled to far-flung places—even by today’s standards—to sit in council and set forth the boundaries of the faith we now take for granted (or worse, reduce in some sects to a mere business transaction with God).
Digression:
With all the private jets owned by pastors today, how many councils have been called to straighten out the bewildering marketplace of doctrines and teachings?
What excuse will today’s church teachers have if they stand before the early Church Fathers on Judgment Day and are asked to explain their lack of effort in settling doctrinal issues? What is clear is that, to the early Church Fathers, schism was anathema. There was only one Body of Christ, and they labored to keep it that way.
End of Digression.
A Shining Light
This Catholic priest, therefore, is a bright candle in a swamp of lukewarm witnesses—
the kind who speak the Word of God as if they’re God’s secretaries, drafting His intentions for Him every morning.
Some, despite being trained in the highest traditions of theology, now treat salvation like a dusty diploma—hung on the wall, never worked out in real life.
And the rest of the “memo writers for God”?
They’re not theologians at all.
Just TV pundits—some in clerical collars—who mistake hobnobbing with hifalutin Bible scholars for the path to salvation, while scribbling divine “press releases” for the evening news.
So?
So pray for priests such as him.
They represent the best of what the Church Fathers intended when they institutionalized our great faith because, as I wrote yesterday: “Existing in a loud, pseudo-religious ecosystem has its perils.”
Or as the Bible puts it in the KJV: “Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.”
Other Translations
NIV: Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.”
ESV: “Do not be deceived: ‘Bad company ruins good morals.’”
Read it yourself: https://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/15-33.htm
Which Priest Am I Talking About?
I’m talking about a priest who is confident enough in the God he serves to sit next to Louis Farrakhan.
Click: https://www.facebook.com/share/1HBUDxyhpF/?mibextid=wwXIfr
Thank you for reading.
Don Kenobi.
03/10/2025
posted by #Dk @ 3:21 AM
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