Trinity Sunday, Celebrating History’s Greatest Smackdown, By Santa Claus

Mandeville, LA – Today the Roman Catholic Church celebrates the feast day of Saint Barnabas and also Trinity Sunday. The history of Trinity Sunday is worth learning for it provides us with some motivational lessons in how heretics are to be dealt with; an occurrence today that is as rare as a modest, female “pop-singer” (e.g. see the pornographers Arianna Grande & Katie Perry).

The origins of Trinity Sunday go all they way back to the Arian heresy. Arius, a Catholic priest, believed that Jesus Christ was a created being rather than God. In denying the divinity of Christ, Arius denied that there are three Persons in God. Arius’ was opposed by Saint Athanasius who upheld the orthodox doctrine of three Persons in one God which prevailed at the Council of Nicaea resulting in the Nicene Creed. During the Council, Saint Nicholas the Bishop of Myra pronounced Arius a heretic then marched across the council floor and slapped him across the face. Today, children across the globe know Saint Nicholas as Santa Claus. The creed of Saint Athanasius is a beautiful summary of our Catholic faith and begins: “Whoever wishes to be saved, needs above all to hold the Catholic faith; unless each one preserves this whole and inviolate, he will without a doubt perish in eternity.”

Imagine the Bishop of your diocese confronting the ubiquitous heresy that is the veneration of all things LGBTQ; a vile and soul crushing belief that God is not God the Creator and thus there is no definitive, planned, Natural Order or Natural Law but instead an ever changing set of preferences that Man or more precisely, “progressive” man, is granted the omnipotent power to declare and then by the force of “democratic government”, enforce. Imagine the Bishop of say Mordor (Washington D.C.) showing up at the “ordination” of the world’s first transsexual, LGBTQ practicing deacon, and slapping the “Bishop” Sally Dyck across the face after the ordination. And if that’s too bold for your modern tastes, imagine said bishop simply writing a letter and releasing it to the public, demanding it be read from the pulpit at all Sunday Masses under his care. It might begin:

Bishop Sally Dyck is a member of the rogue heretical cult called The United Methodist Church that is by all public accounts, united in apostasy.

And lest you think that is unprecedented and too radical a move for a bishop of Christ’s Church to take, recall the campaign his Holiness Saint Pope Pius X undertook (in Pascendi Domini Gregis) to combat the heresy of Modernity which is chiefly to blame for the likes of “bishop” Dyck and the United Methodists.

Against this host of grave errors, and its secret and open advance, Our predecessor Leo Xlll, of happy memory, worked strenuously, both in his words and his acts, especially as regards the study of the Bible. But, as we have seen, the Modernists are not easily deterred by such weapons. We, therefore, Venerable Brethren, have decided to suffer no longer delay, and to adopt measures which are more efficacious. We exhort and conjure you to see to it that in this most grave matter no one shall be in a position to say that you have been in the slightest degree wanting in vigilance, zeal, or firmness. And what We ask of you and expect of you, We ask and expect also of all other pastors of souls, of all educators and professors of clerics, and in a very special way of the superiors of religious communities. It is also the duty of the Bishops to prevent writings of Modernists, or whatever savors of Modernism or promotes it, from being read when they have been published, and to hinder their publication when they have not.

Read the whole Encyclical here and especially Pius’ orders of what must be done, universally and in perpetuity to combat this evil. Pius concluded:

We beseech for you with Our whole heart the abundance of heavenly light, so that in the midst of this great danger to souls from the insidious invasions of error upon every hand, you may see clearly what ought to be done, and labor to do it with all your strength and courage.

Our world and a vast majority of the souls populating the Church Militant have adopted the cowardice of cooperation in evil as their creed; we should be retracing the acts of Blessed Pius and every enemy of evil the Church has known since 03:05 p.m., 25 March, 33 A.D., in combatting the hideous “rites” being publicly performed by heretics like “bishop” Dyck. We might thus, be inspired off the couch and into action by the courage and creed of Athanasius. A Blessed and Happy Trinity Sunday!

The Creed of Saint Athanasius.

Whoever wishes to be saved, needs above all to hold the Catholic faith; unless each one preserves this whole and inviolate, he will without a doubt perish in eternity.

But the Catholic faith is this, that we venerate one God in the Trinity, and the Trinity in oneness; neither confounding the persons, nor dividing the substance; for there is one person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of the Holy Spirit; but the divine nature of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit is one, their glory is equal, their majesty is coeternal.

Of such a nature as the Father is, so is the Son, so also is the Holy Spirit; the Father is uncreated, the Son is uncreated, and the Holy Spirit is uncreated; the Father is infinite, the Son is infinite, and the Holy Spirit is infinite; the Father is eternal, the Son is eternal, and the Holy Spirit is eternal; and nevertheless there are not three eternals but one eternal; just as there are not three uncreated beings, nor three infinite beings, but one uncreated, and one infinite; similarly the Father is almighty, the Son is almighty, and the Holy Spirit is almighty; and yet there are not three almightys but one almighty; thus the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God; and nevertheless there are not three gods, but there is one God; so the Father is Lord, the Son is Lord, and the Holy Spirit is Lord; and yet there are not three lords, but there is one Lord; because just as we are compelled by Christian truth to confess singly each one person as God, and also Lord, so we are forbidden by the Catholic religion to say there are three gods or three Lords.

The Father was not made, nor created, nor begotten by anyone. The Son is from the Father alone, not made nor created, but begotten. The Holy Spirit is from the Father and the Son, not made, nor created, nor begotten, but proceeding.

There is, therefore, one Father, not three Fathers; one Son, not three Sons; one Holy Spirit, not three Holy Spirits; and in this Trinity there is nothing first or later, nothing greater or less, but all three Persons are coeternal and coequal with one another, so that in every respect, as has already been said above, both unity in Trinity, and Trinity in unity must be venerated. Therefore, let him who wishes to be saved, think thus concerning the Trinity.

But it is necessary for eternal salvation that he faithfully believes also the incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Accordingly, it is the right faith, that we believe and confess, that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God is God and man. He is God begotten of the substance of the Father before time, and He is man born of the substance of His mother in time: perfect God, perfect man, consisting of a rational soul and a human body, equal to the Father according to His Godhead, less than the Father according to humanity.

Although he is God and man, yet He is not two, but He is one Christ; one however, not by the conversion of the Divinity into a human body, but by the assumption of humanity in the Godhead; one absolutely not by confusion of substance, but by unity of person. For just as the rational soul and body are one man, so God and man are one Christ.

He suffered for our salvation, descended into hell, on the third day arose again from the dead, ascended into heaven, sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty; thence He shall come to judge the living and the dead; at His coming all men have to arise again with their bodies and will render an account of their own deeds: and those who have done good, will go into life everlasting, but those who have done evil, into eternal fire.

This is the Catholic faith; unless every one believes this faithfully and firmly, he cannot be saved. Amen. – Creed of Saint Athanasius

 

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