Rural Recusant.🍄🇻🇦

I have learned, my dear brethren, from Holy Scripture, that neither heaven nor earth can contain the greatness of God's majesty. I have indeed learned that He has His throne in the sun and that He is surrounded by light; but I had never imagined that the divinity of a thrice-holy God could be defiled, stained with filth, and blackened by the smoke of the passions of wicked men. O sin! O accursed sin! How plainly you reveal what we shall never fully comprehend! O what a horror, my dear brethren, that the divinity should be torn from its throne by a vile sinner, only to be placed beneath the feet of his passions! O eternity! Will you be long enough to punish these wretched souls? Saint Paul, wishing to describe to us the enormity of the sin of the flesh, speaks words so astonishing that, were you truly to understand them, it would be impossible for you ever to fall into this sin: “Know you not that your body is a member of Christ?” Thus, an unchaste person who abandons himself to a vile creature takes his own body, which is a member of Jesus Christ, and makes it a member of an infamous harlot. O horror! O abomination, which should make even hell itself shudder with dread! Tell me, my dear brethren, what would you think of a man so frantic with rage as to take the most impure blood of filthy animals and pour it into the chalice, together with the precious Blood of Jesus Christ, after the consecration? That alone fills you with horror; and yet the sinner goes even further, preferring the devil to the Son of God, and the promptings of Satan to the movements of the grace of Jesus Christ. Saint Jean Marie Vianney