FOUNDATIONS OF THE ANGLICAN CHURCH

ON THE 39 ARTICLES

CHAPTER THIRTY TWO

Of the Marriage of Priests.

 

The Christian Priesthood is an invention of men or of God Himself?

 If it is man’s invention, then the priest is subjected to the laws of men and as man he has the right to follow the lives of the men.

If it is a Creation of God then the Christian Priesthood is ruled by the Law from God to Priest.

What will be?

Even when God made Man he raised a Model, an Image. He said “Let’s make man to our Image”. The Image was already there. Man was made to the Image of the sons of God to be a son of God. Hence the Genealogy of Jesus ends in Adam, son of God.

When He gave to the Hebrews a Temple, and with it a priest, He  brought forth Aaron to be the Image of the Hebrew Priesthood. And according to the Image of Aaron al the generations of priests from him to Caiaphas followed that rule.

In the case of the New Temple how could be other way? However as the New Priesthood came without a Book of Rules, the Rule and the Image came both things in One, Christ Jesus, the priest of God, the Image of the Priesthood of the New Religion. We say New because the Old, that of Moses, was based on God as One, without entering in the Inside of God. The New Religion did this and brought to us the Knowledge of the Personality and the Persons in God.

Moses related the knowledge of God to Power. Christ took us to the Knowledge of God as a Person defined by the attributes natural to the spiritual world : Truth, Justice, Peace, Freedom Love, Life, and so o and so forth. The Old Priesthood was surpassed and left behind as a relic. The New Priesthood took the place Aaron left, and began to shine all over the world its Light. A New Temple was born and with it a New Priesthood, and as the Old had the Image in Aaron, the New has its Image in Christ.

The Nations which took the Image of Aaron as the model of the Christian priesthood, becoming the Orthodox Greek church, Byzantine first, Czarist Russian later, were destroyed, and left a remnant in order to receive mercy on their Obedience to the Unification of the churches.

The Question is : to what Image was called the Christian Priesthood, to the image of Aaron, then, they can married, or to the Image of Christ, born to live Immaculate before God, the offering of his flesh and blood a Perpetual Commemoration of the Love of God for Man?

In the Priesthood of Christ Jesus, God’s Image for the New Priesthood, we have alive the Omnipotent Power of God to overrule the Laws of Nature, on one hand, and by this Power His Presence made Physical to the Creation, on the other hand. In Christ Jesus we have the Man offering Himself for the Salvation of Mankind. Christ Jesus puts His Soul in the hands of God, giving up His life as individual, for the sake of the Salvation of the Human Race. This is the Spirit of Christ Jesus the Priest, He is the Image of the New Priesthood, a Priesthood to be fought back by Death, first, and by the Devil, later on. Christ Jesus align on the side of God without no restriction. God’s War on Death is His War. And who is the warrior who jumps in the middle of the fight, where the battle is raging bloodier and harder, with children and wife?

They wanted to be shepherds, but drinking wine and eating at pleasure, women and children  pleasantly waiting and cooking while the dogs were watching the flock. Who wonders in the Devil finding a rich soil to throw the seed of the division of the churches?   This said, let’s give the word to the divine:

 

Bishops, Priests, and Deacons, are not commanded by God’s Law, either to vow the estate of single life, or to abstain from marriage : therefore it is lawful for them, as for all other Christian men, to marry at their own discretion, as they shall judge the same to serve better to god­liness.

 

The hypocrite cannot speak but  like an hypocrite. Can be the head nor married and the body be married? Was not Christ Jesus, the First of the Priests of the New Temple and Final Religion, by Law commanded by God to be Virgin from birth to death? And these people called themselves “divines”? And the English Universities shut their intellects to this declaration of Antichristian Belief?

Again : Jesus Christ, the Universal High Pontiff of the New Temple, Lord of the Universal Church, the First of the Priests, was not commanded, Christ Jesus, the Lamb of God, to be Immaculate from the cradle to the grave?

 The life of the Old Priesthood was the offering of animals for the salvation of men. The life of the New Priesthood, Christ Jesus its Image, was the offering of His own Flesh and Blood to God as token of remission of our sins and the conquering of the Mercy of God on us. And God did not command His New Priest to be Immaculate?

The destruction of the Old Temple on the horizon the future of Mankind was Hell. Who would win from God that Mercy by which He would sign a New Alliance with the Nations, to protect them and to save them? Who would conquer the heart of God? And at what price?

Then Christ stood up and offered His Life, His Flesh and Blood; and conquering God’s Heart He won for the Nations a New Temple and Priesthood. This offering, dear to God, irresistible to His Heart, was the way His Son showed to us men.

Who but His Son could know the Heart of God? And who but God could make us Love His Son so much as to make men follow His Way, by it maintaining the victory of Christ Jesus alive forever and ever?

Because in the Old Temple the Flame of the Love of God was based on matter. But in the New Temple the Flame of the Love of men for God and the Love of God for men is based on the Life of Christ, who lives in the Priest to maintain that Flame alive forever and ever, and this Flame lives from and by the Offering of men to be the Flesh and the Blood of Christ, alive, ergo, to be Brothers of Christ in the Lord Jesus.

Of course, in the beginning the Law of Moses ruled the lives of men. God could call to the New Priesthood but men already married. Those who were called virgins, as John, they stayed immaculate to the last day. According to this they said that if you were called already married, stayed so, but if virgin, stays virgin. So supernatural was the virgin life of the Christian Priest in the beginning that in order to save the soul, Saint Paul said : “Marry, don’t burn”. However, the Future of the Priesthood was to reach the Image by God given, Christ Jesus. And we observe that first is the Word, so God said : “let’s make man to our Image”, and then a long process of formation of mankind began. Same in this case, first it was given the Image and then a long process of Formation began.

The Reformation acted on Christianity following the as the action of the Devil by which the Process of Formation of the Man was aborted in the universal. The Process of Christianity by which the Priesthood was near the target, to reach the Image of Christ Jesus, was aborted, fortunately not in the Universal. Given this, the Teuton sub-races got to ask themselves who were the real Master of the Reformers.

In the case of the Unification the answer is this : Are you married, stay married, but your succession is over.

In the case of those who want to devote a space of his life to God, do so, but getting married you leave the priesthood, without however leaving the church, working for the Salvation of the Nations. But if crime against Christ was committed, by using the Sacraments to breed the satisfaction of your flesh, you will leave the church, as one who came in the House of the Lord to dishonor the Lord. If crime against the law of men was committed, by the laws of men you will be judged. Christ is the Incarnation of the Justice of God by which no Exception is made before the Law. Whether the bishop of Rome of the archbishop of New Work, he who is a criminal according to the human laws, he is a criminal according to the laws of God, he will be deposed without excitation, thrown away from the church for the law to take him away.