The Mass And The Salvation Of America
By GEORGE ANGELICH
We must nourish ourselves to live. We must nourish our souls on the Bread of Life, the Holy Eucharist. Life is definite and in a certain place. The Eucharist consecrated and broken on the altar is, to paraphrase Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, like a nuclear reactor radiating energy, light, and heat. Our representative Republic is dying of hunger as it lives on the husk of relativism and needs objective moral truth to achieve the common good of this blessed nation virtuously.
The freedom of this nation cannot be based on a liberal relativism that makes the government, its deep government employees, and the liberal media working to maintain their liberal ideology their own end rather than the practical welfare based on the objective reality of God, the source of the dignity of the person and good, virtuous citizens. The final end and good of the person and the nation is the contemplation of God.
The Consecration of the Mass and the breaking of the Bread, the reality that exists and stands by itself, the substance, is changed into the reality that is the source and power of the final end of the person and the ultimate authority and power that holds the common good of our nation in existence. The Eucharist is the perfection and guarantee of the solidarity of justice and the unity of individuals who make up the nation.
As our founders stated, the unity of this Republic under God is based on nature’s God, who guarantees “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” If persons do not worship the nourishing food that stands by itself as the consecrated substance of Christ Our Blessed Lord, they will worship their own truth and desires. Everyone gives away their freedom to something and will worship their own individualistic secular relativism, without the objective reality of God.
Our representative Republic, composed of individuals that are part of the Republic, is not Christ. But its individuals to be good, virtuous, strong patriotic persons, and citizens must love what Christ loves, hate what He hates, choose what He chooses, His interests become the person’s interest, His affections become the person’s affections, and His desires become the person’s desires. The persons of this blessed nation are not the means to ideological relativistic ends of the deep state and the propaganda of the media but are composed of body and soul, nourished by the Holy Eucharist, whose dignity, justice, and equality come from the God of nature’s creation which cannot be taken away by self-serving secular ideological relativism that denies the objective truth of reality and the common good based on God.
The justice, dignity, and welfare of persons and good citizens are not based on relativistic ideological “equality.” Otherwise, thieves who rob loot are equal. And those who misrepresent themselves as telling the truth but as individuals making up the deep state who take advantage through relativistic lies that deny any objective truth and transparency can falsely claim their relativistic “equality” is the common good. Liberal ideology cannot take away the freedom, dignity, and justice not given by them, but that comes from God the founder of the natural law and is the ultimate basis of law as this nation’s founders wrote in the Declaration of Independence.
The Communion line of the Mass is the freest institution in the world. The Eucharist dissolves all boundaries, nationalities, and races. There is no difference between the professor and the student who eat the same Holy Eucharistic Bread. There is no difference between the Greek philosopher and the barbarian because all are nourished by the One Bread that is the source and the power of existence and the end and purpose of the person’s good and the ultimate source of the energy and light of the truth of the common good of the nation.
The food of the nourishment of a fulfilled and meaningful life of persons who make up the state comes from God, who provides the sacred seal of religious worship, not an ideological relativism supported by its own cable and social media news and those who subject persons and citizens to laws that are interpreted according to psychological aberrations, not objectively based on natural ends of goodness and truth in reality.
Persons and good citizens to form a nation that achieves the common good cannot live virtuous lives and be parts as individuals of the nation by indifference to truth, justice, goodness, and unity but must instead achieve their own fulfillment as persons and good citizens by striving for the excellence of virtue as patriotic citizens who love this wonderful country without focusing and complaining of its weaknesses.
Good persons and citizens nourished on the meal of Christ’s sacrificial love present in the Eucharist can say as St. Paul did, “I live no, not I, but Christ liveth in me.” Does all this sound impractical? But it was impractical for Christ to hang on the Great Cross to give people God’s loving salvation. He will judge each not according to relativistic secular appearances that only seem true. The judgment of God is the very essence of justice and equality nourished in the Holy Eucharist.
The food that nourishes in the Holy Eucharistic sacrificial meal is the summit of sacred worship that is localized in a place and is definite. There is no time and place between Calvary and now. Liberal ideology in its relativism is supported by a liberal media and deep state agencies who fail the common good because of their individualistic relative secularistic ends and make themselves their own purpose rather than the objective truth and justice founded on the common good based on God who nourishes in the Holy Eucharist. Liberal ideology makes itself the source of freedom, rather than the objective reality of God, and therefore through emotional aberrations takes away the dignity, equality, and justice of the person and the common good based on truth and reality.
Our Blessed Lord in the Holy Eucharist is the nourishment that leads to the life of the contemplation of God by the person and to the transcendent and ultimate end of the truth and the common good of the life of the contemplation of God.
The poet St. Oliver Plunkett wrote:
I see His blood upon the rose
And in the stars the glory of His eyes,
His body gleams amid eternal snows,
His tears fall from the skies.
I see His face in every flower;
The thunder and the singing of the birds
Are but His voice — and carven by His power
Rocks are his written words. All pathways by His feet are worn,
His Strong heart stirs the ever-beating sea,
His crown of thorns is twined with every thorn,
His cross is every tree.
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(George Angelich is a married permanent deacon with four children who lives in Atlanta, Ga. He works as a licensed clinical social worker as a psychotherapist with an MSW from Atlanta University. He has a master of pastoral studies from Loyola University, New Orleans, an MA in systematic philosophy from Holy Apostles College and Seminary, and is a post-masters certificate student in systematic philosophy at HACS.)