Alphonsus Liguori

Name: Sermons for all the Sundays in the year — Sermon LIII. Twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost: On blasphemy
Author: Alphonsus Liguori

Sermons for all the Sundays in the year… (1882)

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“Sermons for all the Sundays in the year — Sermon LIII. Twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost: On blasphemy”, published in 1882, is a work by Alphonsus Liguori. It explores elements such as blasphemies, blasphemers and sin.

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Alphonsus Liguori, Sermons for all the Sundays in the year… (1882)

“ Tell me, blasphemers, if there be any of you present, what benefit do you derive from your accursed blasphemies? You do not receive pleasure from them. Bellarmine says, that blasphemy is a sin which produces no pleasure. You derive no profit from them; for, as I have already said, your blasphemies are the cause of your poverty and wretchedness. You derive no honour from them; your fellow- blasphemers have a horror of your blasphemies, and call you a mouth of hell. ”

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Alphonsus Liguori, Sermons for all the Sundays in the year… (1882)

“ The man who violates the law is guilty of a crime; but he who attacks the person of his sovereign commits an act of treason; therefore he receives no mercy, but is chastised with the utmost severity. What, then, shall we say of the man who blasphemes and insults the majesty of God? ” If," says the high-priest Heli, "one man shall sin against another, God may be appeased in his behalf; but if a man shall sin against the Lord, who shall pray for him? ” (1 Kings ii. 25.) The sin of blasphemy, then, is so enormous, that the saints themselves appear not to have courage to pray for a blasphemer. ”

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Alphonsus Liguori, Sermons for all the Sundays in the year… (1882)

“ If the devil tempts you, follow the example of a certain young man, who, when tempted to blaspheme, went for advice to the Abbot Pemene. The abbot told him, that as often as the devil tempted him to commit this sin, his answer should be: Why should I blaspheme that God who has created me, and bestowed so many benefits upon me? I will forever praise and bless him. The young man followed the advice, and Satan ceased to tempt him. When you are excited to anger, can you speak nothing but blasphemies? ”

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Alphonsus Liguori, Sermons for all the Sundays in the year… (1882)

“ The saint adds, that we may believe that as the saints in heaven, after the resurrection shall praise God with the tongue, so the reprobates in hell shall also blaspheme him with the tongue. ” Et credibile est quod post resurrectionem erit in eis etiam vocalis blasphemiæ sicut in sanctis vocalis laus Dei." Justly, then, has a learned author called blasphemy the language of hell; because, as God speaks by the mouth of the saints so the devil speaks by the mouth of blasphemers. ”

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Alphonsus Liguori, Sermons for all the Sundays in the year… (1882)

“ The Lord has said by the mouth of Job, "Thou imitatest the tongue of blasphemers; thy own mouth shall condemn, and not I." (Job xv. 5, 6.) In pronouncing the sentence of their condemnation, God will say: It is not I that condemn you to hell; it is your own mouth, with which you have dared to revile me and .my saints, that condemns you. Poor miserable blasphemers! They shall continue to blaspheme in hell for their greater torment: their very blasphemies in hell shall always remind them that they are damned for ever in punishment of their blasphemies on earth. ”

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Alphonsus Liguori, Sermons for all the Sundays in the year… (1882)

“ Thomas says, do not now blaspheme with the mouth for they have no body, but with the heart, cursing the divine justice which punishes them. ” The detestation of the divine justice is in them an interior blasphemy of the heart. ”

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Alphonsus Liguori, Sermons for all the Sundays in the year… (1882)

“ The devil, says St. Gregory Nazianzen, trembles at the name of Jesus: and we are not afraid to profane it. ” Domones ad Christi nomen exhorrescunt, nos vero nomen adeo venerandum contumelia afficere nou veremur." (Orat. xx.) The vindictive assail a man who is their own equal; but, by their blasphemies blasphemers appear to seek revenge against God, who does or permits what is displeasing to them. There is a great difference between an act of contempt towards the portrait of a king, and an insult offered to his person. Man is the image of God ”

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