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00:00Well, as I was saying, Pope Saint John Paul II in his encyclical La Veritatis
00:22Splendor, then, tells us how the Christian of today has been completely abandoning
00:30the life of grace, mainly because nothing is sin anymore, that is, everything is alright,
00:37He says, the greatest sin in this world is having abandoned the concept of sin.
00:43Nothing is a sin anymore, and as I was saying, we're falling, falling, falling, and well, you
00:50You've seen this video with which we started this meeting, and you'll realize there how
00:57This is truly not something we've made up, this is real, that's where it is
01:05Walking, it could be our life, but that's how our society is walking.
01:11Lubac's father, a great man and a great writer, says, how could they possibly suppose
01:18Does the church truly perpetuate the work of the Son of God on earth? From this
01:26Son of God who came into the world to liberate humankind, came to liberate it from the devil
01:31that he had him oppressed, how can we assert that? If we don't demonstrate it ourselves
01:38With the facts, if we do not adopt the customs of the Gospel, which for us
01:46Christians, for us Christians, should be the foundation; that is, we are no longer useful.
01:55Now, to sin, we have been renewed. How will today's world be able to recognize that one
02:04A certain Christian community is the bearer of the message to Savior, if they see that he behaves
02:10Just like a political party, a sect, or a clan? If their rudeness, their vanities, their divisions,
02:20They offer them the shameful spectacle of a soulless Catholicism. How can they possibly...
02:31to be attracted by men who claim to be possessed by the Holy Spirit, but
02:39who seem to have no other occupation than to crucify again the one they intend
02:46Worship? My brothers, if in this congruence in life between faith and works, how
02:54we will be able to show the world that the answer to these questions truly lies in Christianity.
03:00What are man's deepest questions? That in the life of grace, in the life of
03:05In the Gospel, one truly finds joy and peace. If the message we project is...
03:14Christianity is losing strength, not because the Lord doesn't give it strength, but rather because many of
03:23We have abandoned the Lord. And so, the life of the modern Christian no longer manifests His
03:33presence. As we were saying, it's sad that many Christians do things more out of fear than out of
03:41love, that they not seek to be saints, but are content simply to be baptized. When
03:49These two things are, or should be, synonymous: baptized Christian, it's the same thing. Saint Paul in all
03:59His letters make this quite clear. When he writes to the Christians of Rome or to the Christians of
04:07Corinthian or from Ephesus, speaks of the saints who are in Philippi, in Corinth, etc.
04:16Yes, saint and Christian are synonymous, or should be. This shows us that holiness has never been
04:27not a prerogative of a few, but the common heritage of all the baptized.
04:33Some people call on the saints and say, well, here, give it your all and live as you want and get drunk and all that and
04:39The other stuff, the women, and all that, right? Anyway, you go, you confess, and let's go. Just go with it.
04:43Just keep going, where to? Where to? These days it seems like there are very few of them in the church
04:54Those who are truly convinced are truly convinced that they are called and
05:02obliged to grow with firm and constant effort until they reach holiness, thus, with their hands,
05:10But they cannot decide. Father Sullivan, following the doctrine of Lumen Gentium, affirms that it is possible
05:18to distinguish two classes of Catholics, I would say of baptized ones, those who possess the Spirit of Christ
05:26are fully incorporated into the church, and those who are not, persevering in charity,
05:35Even though they continue to belong to the church, they are not fully incorporated into it.
05:40If this is true, as Father Sullivan says, then this is unacceptable.
05:49Can a branch of a vine be and not be attached to the trunk at the same time? No.
05:57Can a branch through which the sap of the Spirit, which is charity, does not flow be alive?
06:06Or is Christ divided? Was his word first a yes and then a no? No.
06:19All of this that we have said might sound ridiculous, false, exaggerated, even nonsensical, that's what they tell me.
06:27Many, when I speak to them in this tone that I'm using with you today, because I'm talking to a dad or a
06:34godfather who has the responsibility of educating the next generation, of making Christians of the
06:41future generations, and we have to realize the reality we are in, so that we can
06:48Really, as they say nowadays, we need to get our act together.
06:51There are those who seek to deny all this and justify it.
06:59However, we cannot deny that despite all the lights that have always existed
07:06And there are many in our church, many Christians who have lost the desire for holiness, for radical commitment,
07:13of an evangelical life, and if anyone wanted to deny it, we could respond with two proofs
07:20undeniable. One, the sadness and emptiness in many Christians. This sadness, which is deep and secret,
07:33It hides beneath obligatory joy, which is nothing more than an appearance, and which masks loneliness.
07:41deep, in which many of our brothers live, and which leads them to seek false solutions
07:48and artificial paradises, in drugs, sex, pornography, money, power, etc.
07:58On the other hand, we have the lack of prosecution.
08:05They no longer persecute us. However, Jesus told his disciples that they would be persecuted.
08:11And while these lived the radical nature of the gospel, this word was fulfilled in them.
08:18How is it fulfilled? In all those who seriously take up the plow and do not look back.
08:26In those who are able to live the gospel to its ultimate consequences.
08:31And yet, we live relatively peacefully in the middle of the world, because nothing ever happens.
08:41Why don't they persecute us? It's quite simple, brothers.
08:43Because we are lukewarm.
08:46Because we are no longer radicals.
08:48And that's why the world isn't interested in us.
08:50We're both on one side and the other, right?
08:54At Mass, at Mass, in the world, in the world. Period.
08:57While it is true that we are a nation of sinners,
09:02We cannot use this as an excuse to distort the face of Christ and his church
09:06and be content with our mediocrity without aspiring to holiness.
09:12Therefore, it is not enough to become children of God.
09:16We must learn to live as children in the Son.
09:24It is not enough to be baptized.
09:28One must be a saint.
09:31It is not enough to say, I belong to the church of Christ.
09:36The kingdom must be built.
09:40It is not enough to say, I am good.
09:43No, one must be a saint.
09:49In your hands as a dad, especially as a dad, but also as a godfather,
09:55Whether this will happen or not is another matter.
10:00You, brothers, who are going to baptize,
10:04They must have in their hearts this firm desire to be holy
10:08and to abandon everything that separates them from holiness
10:12and that it leads them to sin,
10:15since they not only endanger their lives,
10:18but they also risk the child's safety
10:24that God has entrusted to them.
10:26Therefore, you, parents and godparents,
10:32Pay attention to all of this.
10:34And you'll see that everything I've said throughout this video,
10:40It's true about these videos.
10:43Change is necessary.
10:44It is necessary that we continue to aspire to holiness.
10:49and that our children and godchildren may become saints
10:55so that our next generation can truly become
11:00as witnesses of God's love in the world.
11:03Thank you for listening, and we'll keep going.
11:09There is still much to talk about in our conversations
11:12to train the parents and godparents of the children
11:16who will be our next generation.
11:18See you soon.
11:33Thank you.
11:34Thank you.
11:35Thank you.