The sin of the Gentiles is they lack charity.
Rome.
I noticed a story at Lifesite News that homosexuals marched in Rome in support of same sex marriage, and the Italian government sponsored the event. The Gay Pride parade seems to have been a counter show of support for their cause in reaction to the thousands of Italians who recently demonstrated in support of family life.
I immediately thought of St. Maximilian Kolbe, who, while studying in Rome, witnessed Masons protesting against the Church. He subsequently started the Militia of Mary Immaculate to counter the revolutionary forces under way in society at the time. Today such forces seem to be in power.
They lack the virtue of charity.
The greatest sin of militant homosexuals, and others revolting against Church teaching, the Commandments, indeed God himself, is their lack of charity. How is that you may ask?
Simple, the first principle of practicing the love of God is the effort to avoid sin, especially mortal sin and all that causes it.
The second would naturally incline the person who loves God to bring himself into conformity with his will, by obeying God’s Commandments and those of the Church.
The third would flow from this love of God - or rather cannot be separated from it. That is, love of neighbor - loving God for his own sake and loving our neighbor for God’s sake. Loving our neighbor means to seek his good, and the ultimate good is uncreated good, meaning God himself - who alone can satisfy man’s longing for happiness and fulfillment. Drawing our neighbor into sin and rebellion against God is not charity.
“Charity does not rejoice in evil” - 1 Corinthians 13:6
Thus, anti-Catholic, militant homosexuals, just as any other group in revolt against God, lack charity. They do not believe or obey the Divine or Natural Law, and by teaching others to do so indicates the contempt they have for God, themselves, as well as their fellow man. Deluded as they might be, they believe they are acting out of love, mistaking lust for love - just as others mistake euthanasia for mercy, and so on.
As today’s Gospel teaches us, we must counter this hatred with love. We must love our enemies, imitating God who loves them - making his sun to shine on the bad and the good. It should be our principle response to their hatred of the Church and ourselves. Which was the plan St. Maximilian devised in creating the Militia of the Immaculata.
O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee, and for those who do not have recourse to thee, expecially the enemies of the Church, and those recommended to thee. - St. Maximilian Kolbe
