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Download Audio — File Size: 5.65 MB — Duration: 5:15 Faith & Doctrine | History | Traditional Catholic Issues Bro. Peter Dimond In this video we want to share an interesting quote from the Roman Ritual, which was formally promulgated by Pope Paul V in 1614 and approved by other popes. The Roman Ritual is an official liturgical book of the Roman Rite. It contains rituals performed by a priest that are not in the Missal and Breviary. Here’s the Latin text of the part of the Roman Ritual, approved by Pope Paul V, which prefaces the section on how priests were to solemnly administer baptism.
So here we have, in the post-Council of Trent Roman Ritual (which was formally promulgated by Pope Paul V and approved by other popes), a strong affirmation that the Sacrament of Baptism is necessary to all men for salvation based on Jesus’ words in John 3:5. No exceptions are given because there aren’t any. That is the teaching of the Catholic Church. That is our position. This teaching, that baptism is necessary for all to salvation without exception, based on John 3:5, was presented for centuries in the Roman Ritual that was approved by popes. But that position of the Catholic Church is actually condemned as a heresy by many foolish John 3:5 mockers out there, including many who try to function as priests when they have no authority to do so. They don’t understand the faith, and they in fact resist true Catholic teaching. Further, in almost every case the aforementioned individuals hold the blatant heresy that souls can be saved without the Catholic faith. It should also be noted that this statement, that the Sacrament of Baptism is necessary to all men without exception to salvation based on John 3:5, started to be qualified by certain people and by certain fallible documents in subsequent decades and centuries. They would qualify it by adding that the Sacrament of Baptism is necessary “at least in desire”. But that is not the teaching of the Church’s infallibly-promulgated professions of faith. That is actually a false position that contradicts what the Church has infallibly taught. We also have an interesting video – it’s one of the videos on our playlist that covers the salvation and baptism issues in detail – that quotes a prominent pre-Vatican II theologian who admitted that in his view one of the only texts of Scripture that the Catholic Church has infallibly defined the meaning of is John 3:5. It did so at the Council of Trent in the Decree on Original Sin. Thus, the Council of Trent infallibly defined the words of Jesus in John 3:5 as a dogma without exception. Hence, we don’t even need to employ the word “necessary” to prove that no one is saved without the Sacrament of Baptism. The words of Jesus in John 3:5 prove it. So, the John 3:5 mockers indeed condemn the words of Jesus Himself, the dogmatic teaching about the words of Jesus, and the Church’s repeated affirmation about those words, such as we see here in the Roman Ritual. It’s also interesting that this statement of the ritual is basically a combination of what the Councils of Florence and Trent taught on the matter. The statement about how the Sacrament of Baptism is necessary to all men for salvation corresponds to Trent’s canon 5 on baptism and to other statements in Trent. The reference to Holy Baptism being the gateway, holding the first place among the other sacraments, and being necessary as the Truth Himself testifies, corresponds to the Council of Florence’s statement in the bull Exultate Deo. Note that we are not arguing that its mere appearance in a liturgical book which was formally promulgated by a pope by itself proves that the statement was infallibly promulgated. However, this passage from the ritual does represent infallibly promulgated Catholic truth because it’s a reiteration of what the Church has always taught about John 3:5 and the necessity of baptism via her Ordinary and Universal Magisterium. It’s a restatement of what was infallibly promulgated at Florence and Trent. However, many John 3:5 mockers, who have an incorrect and overly broad view of the Church’s infallibility – while, ironically, they reject the solemn dogmatic definitions of the Church – would have to argue, if they are consistent at all, that this statement in the Roman Ritual (since it appears in a liturgical book that was formally promulgated by a pope) is guaranteed by that very fact to be freed from any doctrinal error. We refute their misconceptions about when the Church’s infallibility is necessarily engaged in our other videos. Copyright © 2023 Most Holy Family Monastery |
The Roman Ritual, Pope Paul V, And The Necessity Of Baptism
May 10, 2023
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