Sermon Transcript: "On Anger," 14th of Owyn’s Light, 643 AA

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Sermon On Anger

Recited in The Cathedral of the Fifty Skulls, and published for reading, upon the 14th of Owyn’s Light, 643 AA

By Rabbin, Lothaire Cardinal Montcollier, Bishop St. Thomas of Gaekrin

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St. Jude, pray for us!

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Let us begin, now, with a quick prayer. Blessed are You, God, Who guides and protects Your Tribe, Humanity. Humbled and raised are we by Your prophecy, the Holy Scrolls. Blessed are You, God, Who commands us to be faithful, charitable, temperate, diligent, patient, full of fidelity, and full of humility. We shall study Your Scrolls, for the study of Scrolls can encompass all this. Amen.

 

We shall speak tonight of anger, of wrath. Anger is a sentiment we all know from time to time. Perhaps we think of the sins of the Southern nations, or, closer to home, of the defeat of a favoured knight in a tourney, and feel such. Yet, anger is a sinful emotion, and must be avoided. I shall explain why it is such, and what we might do with it.

 

God commands us to be patient. We read in the Canticle of Patience, being in 5:9, ‘I am the Most High, and in pursuit of My Virtue, I bid My faithful this: You shall not raise a hand in wrath, nor in envy, nor in any kind of sin.’ Verily, this is clear: Wrath, being anger, is sinful, and patience is the way of Virtue.

 

Now, what happens to those in the Scrolls who act out of anger? We shall look to the Scroll of Gospel and see divine punishments and penance. First, we must reflect upon Saul's sins and the fate of those who listened to him. The Scroll of Gospel, 2:45, does say, ‘Horen went out of his tabernacle and found that in their wrath and wickedness, the unholy had slain each other.’ Those of Horen’s Tribe, Our Tribe, who fell into iniquity may not have been struck down by a bolt of lightning sent by God, or anything of the like, but this is most certainly divine punishment, for this is a natural consequence. The natural consequences of our sins are indeed divine punishment. For God did order the universe according to His perfect Virtues, and to stray from them is to enter into sin. If Virtue is nature, then of course the natural consequences of sin are divine. In His wisdom, God sees that sin is punished by the sinner himself. No good can come from sin. Now, we can look further into the Scrolls. The sin and penance of Exalted Owyn are known well. His sin was wrath, and through such, kinslaying. Our Lord God spoke to Owyn in the Gospel, 4:53, and He said, ‘You betray man with your wrath, and once again Horen’s sons are divided.’ The division of Horen’s sons can be seen as a natural consequence, but God, in His infinite wisdom, saw fit that Owyn took a penance. Owyn’s penance was the killing of the unrepentant, and such was done not in anger, but in grief, which, I would say, is the emotional obligation we hold to the memories of the martyrs, and thus, not sinful. So it was a penance well received by the Lord. The Gospel reads, at 5:20, ‘And Owyn was made again as the light of his blade.’

 

So what is to do with our wrath and anger? If it is anger at the sins of Godless Nations and Tribes, we can turn it to grief. That does turn our emotions from an uncontrolled spray of rage into a pensive, deep, and painful obligation we hold to the memories of the fallen and to the words of the Scrolls. If it is anger at the defeat of our favourite knight at a tourney, we must remember the Canticle of Humility, at 7:7: ‘And you shall be without pretense or conceit, for before the mountain, the ant and the aurochs are equally small.’ Upon the sight of the wretchedness of our world, our anger must turn to the obligation of grief, as it was for Exalted Owyn. Upon the sight of worldly losses and pains, we must forget it. 

 

 

God bless and guide you, each and all.

 

In the words of one wiser than I:

Remaining the least of His children,

 

Your servant,

Rabbin, Lothaire Cardinal Montcollier

Bishop St. Thomas of Gaekrin

 

[TaraJess 2848]

Not all sermons stuck in Aurelian's mind, though this one was different. Perhaps it was easier to reflect on her wrongs now that her father was at her side, that she did not constantly look over his shoulder... perhaps she could accept some of her own sins, and attempt to mend them.

[TheOnlyTub 550]

Iudas Cardinal Numenost,
whose cardinal sin was wrath,
sat in GOD's temple's office,
and put his mind to peace.
He heaved a heavy sigh,
and thought on his Brother's words

"Perhaps it is not he,
that is the least of all."