Looking Up with Saint John the Baptist

About this sermon

Today’s feast of St. John the Baptist’s Nativity gives us an opportunity to see a basic pattern in God’s Divine Plan. This pattern can be expressed in theological terms as “grace builds on nature” meaning that the supernatural always presupposes the existence of the natural, builds upon it and perfects it. Logically, the more perfect our nature is the greater will be the supernatural edifice built upon it. The more damaged our nature, here I am speaking in a moral sense (not physical), then the more spotty, delicate or fragile will be the supernatural edifice. Our faults and bad habits act like holes in our human nature that easily remain in place at its elevation. They need to be plugged up, filled-in, lest we fall into them and sin again and again… and they also need to be healed because grace will have less to work on! For more please visit http://www.reginaprophetarum.org & remember to say 3 Hail Marys for the priest