March 20, 2024

It's Harder to Save Our Souls Today, Sermon by Fr. Paul Robinson, SSPX

18 minutes

I do not know if we are in the end times or when the end of the world is going to be. I have no idea. It could be tomorrow. It could be a 1000 years from now.
What I do know and what we have to recognize is that there is a triple iniquity in our time that makes it harder for us to save our souls.
Firstly, the crisis in the Church, where churchmen in the highest positions of the Church have betrayed the teaching of Christ, adulterated the liturgy, and given terrible scandal by their actions. Consider how much more difficult it has become to live a true Catholic life today than during the pontificate of Pope Pius XII. Back then, everyone was going to the TLM, there was not radical religious indifferentism all throughout the church, and there were not incessant scandals going on.
Secondly, there is the crisis in society. The Christian ideals that used to inform society are now gone. Immorality is fostered; families are attacked; political institutions have become corrupted. We find it hard to imagine a world where birth control, abortion, divorce, homosexuality, adultery, drug use and so on were against the law. It was easier for people to save their souls then because the law was encouraging them to be moral.
Thirdly, there is the crisis of a new way of life that has been made possible through technology. Technology is not evil in itself but it can be used for evil. The more powerful technology becomes, the harder it is for us to use it virtuously, for the good. The human race is now living in a very different way from the rest of mankind in the history of the world, through the smartphone, through the Internet, through our rapid transportation. Because it takes more effort on our part to use these things well, we are becoming more selfish, more superficial, more sensual. Charity is growing cold.

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March 20, 2024

It's Harder to Save Our Souls Today, Sermon by Fr. Paul Robinson, SSPX

18 minutes

I do not know if we are in the end times or when the end of the world is going to be. I have no idea. It could be tomorrow. It could be a 1000 years from now.
What I do know and what we have to recognize is that there is a triple iniquity in our time that makes it harder for us to save our souls.
Firstly, the crisis in the Church, where churchmen in the highest positions of the Church have betrayed the teaching of Christ, adulterated the liturgy, and given terrible scandal by their actions. Consider how much more difficult it has become to live a true Catholic life today than during the pontificate of Pope Pius XII. Back then, everyone was going to the TLM, there was not radical religious indifferentism all throughout the church, and there were not incessant scandals going on.
Secondly, there is the crisis in society. The Christian ideals that used to inform society are now gone. Immorality is fostered; families are attacked; political institutions have become corrupted. We find it hard to imagine a world where birth control, abortion, divorce, homosexuality, adultery, drug use and so on were against the law. It was easier for people to save their souls then because the law was encouraging them to be moral.
Thirdly, there is the crisis of a new way of life that has been made possible through technology. Technology is not evil in itself but it can be used for evil. The more powerful technology becomes, the harder it is for us to use it virtuously, for the good. The human race is now living in a very different way from the rest of mankind in the history of the world, through the smartphone, through the Internet, through our rapid transportation. Because it takes more effort on our part to use these things well, we are becoming more selfish, more superficial, more sensual. Charity is growing cold.

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