Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Fr. Anthony Brankin
Last week we celebrated the feast of the dedication of the Basilica of Saint Mary Major in Rome. What a beautiful church—like the Basilica of Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe in Mexico City. Now, they built Santa Maria Maggiore in honor of the Virgin Mary as Mother of God. And to highlight Mary’s Motherhood, you can see—in the Basilica—the actual manger of the Child Jesus. Yes, the crib in which the Baby Jesus was placed in Bethlehem so many years ago—is there for us to see—even today.
The Motherhood of Mary—the Motherhood of God—and the Divine Innocence of the Divine Child—his own crib! How beautiful. How Catholic. And how much Satan hates such beautiful notions. He despises things like family and children and faithful husbands and wives. He hates mothers and fathers. He hates children. Because—families—parents and children—in all their life and love and noise and fertility—all remind him of God and of God’s special love for humans. Satan hates God—because he is envious that we—with God—can actually pro-create. We can reproduce ourselves. The angels cannot. And so he will hurt families and children and mothers and fathers—and mothers especially—hoping to hurt God. He will pervert our notions of love so that we will not bear life. And if we bear life—he will persuade us to hurt that life.
Tax money and lost souls
You may have seen in the news recently about a company in America called Planned Parenthood. This private company receives from the American government five hundred million dollars a year to abort babies. That’s right. Planned Parenthood takes money from the government to kill our children. And especially minority children. Last year alone—they and other abortionists—killed about two hundred and fifty thousand Hispanic children—and they used our tax money to do it. It has also been revealed in the last two weeks—by investigators with videos and tapes—that not only does Planned Parenthood perform three hundred thousand abortions every year, but the doctors and nurses save the little bodies of the babies and sell them to companies who perform experiments on them. They can get money for kidneys and hearts and brains and arms and legs—and extra money if those parts are in good condition. This is on film! You can see these evil people on YouTube—haggling over the price of dead baby parts.
As an American born here, I am ashamed that our president and most of the politicians know that this is happening—and still they allow it. Still, they give money to Planned Parenthood to continue these evil practices. And Satan is so pleased that he has gotten humans to kill their own babies and sell their bodies. This is not even to mention Satan’s recent victories regarding homosexual marriage and the gender change. Remember, none of this is about women’s health or human love or responsible parenthood. No. All of it is an assault on motherhood and family—it is an attempt on the part of Satan to get humans to stop having children—to stop reproducing themselves. The people who do these things are minions of Satan—they are his disciples. May I say it? They are true witches—because, what do witches do? They dam up our mothers and pervert our fathers. They prevent children from being conceived and born. They do what witches have always done. And all of these modern things—from birth control to abortion to homosexual marriage to gender change—are against motherhood and fatherhood and families.
Well how do we win against Satan and his witches? How do we achieve a victory for love and for life? And for the Beautiful Virgin Mother and her Niño? By having more babies. Don’t listen to them out there—the witches—these disciples of Satan. Be fertile and multiply as the Bible says. Motherhood is beautiful and children are good and fatherhood is important and families are necessary. Bring children into the world—beautiful children, happy children, noisy children and raise them—and raise them well—and in the love of a mother and father and in the love of God. And when our families are full and our cribs are rocking, then our churches will be full, and we will have thwarted Satan—just when he thought he had won.