Blest Sacrament Of Unity (I)

There have been many conspiracies in the turbulent history of mankind.  Two of them, however, may be described as the most important, decisive and consequential of them all.  The first was against one man, and only one man, namely our Lord Jesus Christ.  It was planned by the Jewish high priests and resulted in the crucifixion of the Messiah they rejected and hated.  The death they plotted was apparently an enormous victory for Satan, as the man begotten by God himself was made to suffer and die in the most brutal and painful way imaginable.  But as we know, it was a victory both fleeting and illusory, and our Lord’s Resurrection turned Satan’s smug delight into the greatest torment he had ever experienced.  The re-opening of the gates of heaven, followed by the growth of Christianity and all the holiness that came with it—all this represented a very dark and exquisitely anguished failure for the Devil.

However, it is not the Devil’s way to surrender to self-pity when his plans fail.  He merely doubles down and seeks further mayhem down the road.  His ultimate aim did not change—he seeks and always has sought the greatest harm possible to his Creator.  If his plan for the destruction of the Son of God had failed, he would now take out his vengeance on God’s greatest creation, Man.  For two thousand years he wreaked havoc in the minds of men, tempting them to commit sin after sin, even to lose their very souls, so that he could hurt the God who loved them so much that he died for them.

But the loss of a few souls here and there was not enough for him.  He sought to destroy our Lord in a different way, by attacking the Mystical Body of Christ, and this is the second of history’s great conspiracies.  Throughout history we witness the various assaults the Devil made on the Church.  Early heresies like Arianism and later ones like Protestantism were all designed to tear apart Christ’s Mystical Body.  The new ideals of Revolution and Freemasonry overthrew monarchies, replacing the authority of God with that of man, as “we the people” raised ourselves to be the ultimate authority, entitled to do whatever we want just as the law of Satan prescribes.

The holy Catholic Church was able to fight off all these evils one at a time until finally, the devil succeeded in infiltrating the very heart of the Church with the modernist heresy.  What Pope St. Pius X called the “synthesis of all heresies”, modernism breathed its toxic smoke into the Second Vatican Council, poisoning the minds of popes, cardinals, clergy and eventually the faithful in the pews.  To destroy the Church meant to destroy its four marks—unity, holiness, universality and apostolic links to Christ himself.  The first aim of the post-Vatican II clergy was to abolish the Sacrament of Unity itself, the Holy Eucharist.  It did so in stages, first by producing a whole new sacrilegious “Mass” to replace what the Church had always done.  Secondly, they replaced the sacramental rites of Ordination with probably invalid substitutes so that bishops could no longer be relied upon to consecrate new bishops or ordain new priests.  Soon that apostolic line would be severed and the roots of the Catholic Church in our divine Saviour would be lost.  And even the traditional Masses, when offered by these priests, would lose the certitude of their validity.

(to be continued…)