A Treatise on Unity in the Faith

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A TREATISE ON UNITY IN THE FAITH

 

A house divided against itself cannot stand. It is no coincidence that churches are often considered to be houses of God for even they cannot stand when those within turn on each other. While the Lord, His Virtue, and His Word is everlasting, our Mother Church is not. Each brick laid is placed by mortals with impressionable passions and motives. When two men erect the foundations of a church, despite the differences they may share in family and creed, they remain united by God. Without the Lord to ground ourselves, we become lost, fractured, and victims to our self-serving nature that leads us into a world of sin. Only through Him are we united. When there are those who claim to be virtuous faithful, but they in truth do not put God first it is quite clear. They act in a variety of improprieties. Feuding over worldly things, looking for revenge, and speaking with the forked and often contradictory tongue of Saul just to name a few. Their actions are not guided by a drive to serve Almighty God in accordance with His everlasting Virtue and Grace, but are instead in true servitude to their more worldly vices even if they may not be in full realisation of their doing so. Pride. Envy. Ambition. Self-righteousness. They become victims of the world and to themselves by not allowing themselves to be united through Him not out of pride or envy, but as truly disciplined servants humbled before Him and each other. He cares not for our titles, stylings, and station. He cares not for what we possess, or what we claim to hold dear. No. He peers into us, into even the most hardened of hearts, and knows us truly as we are. There is no deceiving our Father because He knows us and His Virtue more than we could ever know ourselves. 

 

When the Exalted Godrey proclaimed James Hightower pontifex, that is to say the builder of bridges, it spoke to something much grander than mortal ambition. It spoke to an ideal brought on by the prophet’s holy wisdom that God’s faithful would be united on earth as they would be in the Skies no matter what turbulent rivers divide us. It is an ideal that we all ought to commit to so that we may all collectively become the most disciplined adherents of His virtue as we possibly can. We can all attain this at an individual and local level if we so aspire to do so, and so too should the Church work towards encouraging it as a grander scale so that we may all be merry in His virtue. Keep the faith and remain steadfast in the Lord. I leave below a set of verses that we should all keep in our thoughts as we ponder the future.

 

“For seven days and seven nights, the priests of the Lord quarreled and prayed, but could not agree. Finally, the Lord’s servant James came before them, and spoke “O elders, the Lord has sent us a prophet after one thousand years of Silence. If we cannot serve the prophet of the Lord, we serve Iblees.” And the priests were humbled, and Godfrey saw that James was good and pious. So Godfrey raised the horn and laurel, and said unto James “O James, pious son of the Lord, I have seen the glory of God in your heart and His word on your tongue. You will be my high priest, as in the days of Evaristus and Clement. I name you pontifex, for you are a builder of bridges.” And he placed the laurel onto James’ head, and thus it came that the faithful were united.”

Gospel 6:54-62

 

Lebe nach Gott,

 

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