By FR. KEVIN M. CUSICK
On the last Sunday of August the Gospel parable of the Good Samaritan came around again in the traditional Missale. The man of the parable who is robbed and left for dead represents humanity, sinful and subject to death without divine intervention. Christ is the Good Samaritan who in mercy picks us up in our weakness and helplessness, takes us to the inn and leaves us in the charge of the innkeeper who will render an account of his care when the Samaritan returns.
The sterling teaching of the Church and the balm of the sacraments are the means of caring for the souls entrusted to the mercy of the ecclesial “innkeepers,” our bishops. How they have invested the riches entrusted to them by our Lord will decide their judgment when they meet Him face to face at the end of their earthly lives.
The care needed to nurse the suffering and wounded back to health may differ from soul to soul. The compassion of those sent to care for sinners is found in their generous application of the methods and means needed for healing. If the patient finds that one method is more helpful than another it is an unloving reaction to deny him what works and force other methods despite evidence to the contrary.
Traditionis Custodes and the men of compassion in the Vatican who have forced it upon us are like that innkeeper sent to heal the wounded and restore life to the dying and who apply methods without regard for the cure.
To take a worldly example, if a patient claims that a twelve-step program helps him to remain sober, it would be absurd to change the program by eliminating nine steps and to impose a new three-step program on what has now become the unwilling victim of an insensitive form of enforced bureaucratic conformity.
Traditional Catholics have found that the entire tradition, to include the Mass handed down under the working of the Holy Spirit, effectively cures us of the deadly effects of sin and restores us to spiritual health. These are the methods that we, who are experts in what we need, have found to make us Catholic, keep us Catholic, and prepare us to render an account of our own stewardship when the Lord comes again.
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