The Kingdom For A Pronoun
By FR. KEVIN M. CUSICK
“Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.” (Luke 12, 32)
Through faith we are inheritors of the greatest gift God can give: Himself, all He has and is, eternal and infinite love and life, in Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. This inheritance is lost to us, however, if we become ashamed of our heavenly Father.
The institutional takeover of the Church is proceeding according to plan. One more archbishop has caved to the mob.
A Catholic school in an east coast archdiocese is now subject to mass LGBT indoctrination and programming, following the orders of the archbishop that pronouns are to be manipulated according to the whims of a child.
A third-grade girl wants to be called a boy. Third-grade, folks. You heard it right.
What may in fact may be a mental illness, or merely a childhood phase, call it gender dysphoria or whatever you like, must now the cause of turning everyone else’s life upside down, and the world along with it.
The archbishop has ordered everyone involved in this local iteration of a rapidly collapsing parochial school system to subject themselves to sheer idiocy, but what’s more serious, a rejection of the Creator’s goodness and love.
Who was once a “she” must now be a “he.”
The naked emperor indeed has clothes and you will be banished to the outer darkness if you don’t “come along for fellowship’s sake.”
This is what hollows out what once was envisioned as an expression of the Church’s faith in God, placed first in priority and which must guide all else we do.
“He made them male and female” the Scriptures and the Church teach. “He saw all that He made and said that it was good,” they also teach.
This was once the answer to, and the medicine for, the illness of confusion and the darkness of sin. Archbishops could once be relied upon to faithfully and unfailingly teach this truth where now psychological theories hold sway.
Once upon a time our Catholic schools could be trusted to reject the ongoing attempt of the Evil One to enlist the sons and daughters of Adam and Eve in his ancient rebellion against God and His limitless sovereignty.
Now, instead, as a result of deep and widespread disorientation that has infected our church, perhaps all the way to the top, the Church is capitulating to a false and diabolical ideology.
In the end this is a failure of love.
There are parents still who do the hard work of love, patiently teaching their children the truth when they are tempted by the world, the flesh or the devil to rebel against it.
In rebelling against the truth we rebel also at the same time against God, for He is the truth in Whom is all truth. Catholic parents, who are indeed such, always advocate first and foremost for the salvation of their children.
When something or someone comes before the salvation of a child, such as gender ideology, we are no longer speaking of the Catholic Faith. Instead we have something opposed to it.
This the fate of entire institutions once they are held captive to an alien agenda that demands we trade the Kingdom for a pronoun.
All that God has created participates in His truth and love, including each one of us, created by Him according to His omnipotent and infinitely loving will.
Every aspect of our being as God gives it is an immediate experience of His particular and personal love for each one of us.
In rejecting any aspect of our being, to include sex, we reject Him Who made us and thus imperil our eternal salvation.
By their witness, parents can and must persevere in leading by light in the midst of confusion. That light is truth, and truth is founded only upon God.
That truth is encountered also in all that God has made and has “said that it was good.”
In His act of creating God expresses his infinite love, a love more wonderful than anything a parent is able to imagine or achieve. Every parent obediently and humbly serves this love for the sake of salvation.
This is the working out of the Kingdom in each family and in the parish.
When enemy agents in a school system undermine God and faithful parents they hold them hostage. They steal from these parents something they have a right to expect: faithfulness to what it means to be Catholic and Christian.
Catholic is Christian in the fullest sense of that word. We believe and obey Scripture and Tradition in order to be faithful to Revelation. We do not pick and choose among those commands and precepts of God we will or will not obey.
The world will undoubtedly approve of those who capitulate to the lie, for a time. Until the next battle over the truth. And, once one has surrendered the truth, each succeeding battle is ever more difficult to fight and to win.
And the hope of repentance recedes ever more and more obscurely into the lost opportunities of the past.
One certainly gains the good opinion of some well-funded or politically powerful worldly lobbies by thus betraying almighty God and souls. But what does it truly profit? And who?
“For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? For what can a man give in return for his life? For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of man also be ashamed, when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.” (Mark 8, 36-38)
When we are ashamed of the truth about how God made us, and ashamed to tell others that truth, we are asking the Lord to be ashamed of us before His heavenly Father when we stand before the throne of the Triune God at the end of our earthly lives.
If we no longer believe this why do we still have schools and call them Catholic? Why indeed a Church? For malign purposes? God forbid.
This begs this question whether we now find ourselves fallen subject to a confederacy of unbelievers, or worse. Or cowards perhaps. It is a failure of Christian courage to fail to pursue the difficult good simply because it is difficult.
In Christ we have inherited no less than the fullness of love infinite and life eternal in the Kingdom, together with Christ. In the meantime that Kingdom is born as we struggle against principalities and powers to remain faithful, being all things to all men, but doing so firstly for the sake of their salvation.
If we fall by failing the truth in the service of the Lord and others we get back up, through repentance, confident in our sorrow for sin that the Lord never withholds His mercy.
There is much to be enjoyed, and there is much for which we give thanks to the Lord, amid the blessings of this life. But this is not all there is. Once we trade off the Kingdom for anything less we have rejected Love along with our inheritance in Christ.
But, my dear archbishop, the Kingdom for a pronoun?
Thank you for reading and praised be Jesus Christ, now and forever.
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