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Nearly every word spoken in the mass and especially in the canon of the mass is a word spoken by Jesus Christ so he is already in the mass both in word and in deed.
I do not know nearly enough about what this law is, what his role in it is, what his bishop knows, or any number of other considerations that normally come into a decision about formal excommunication. If his act is done in bad conscience it looks like an action that might self-excommunicate.
If signing it violates his conscience before God then he ought not to have signed it. The trouble with an "if" argument is that only the man and his God can give a final answer and both will on the last day when every man and woman will answer to God for the things done in the flesh.
Tuesday, 7th October 2015
MORNING
The meek will he teach his way. Psa. 25:9
Blessed are the meek. Matt. 5:5
I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet...
The vine does not provide fruit. This is obvious especially in the case of branches that produce no fruit yet are in the vine until they are removed and cast aside to be burned.
Who produces the fruit? You wrote "If I cannot produce fruit unless ..." surely you are acknowledging what the Lord teaches despite the attempt in the rest of your post to deny it; it is the branches that bear fruit and vine is the source of the life in the branches nevertheless some branches do...
Try again; the words you need are in the passage.John 15:1-10 CEV (1) Jesus said to his disciples: I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. (2) He cuts away every branch of mine that doesn't produce fruit. But he trims clean every branch that does produce fruit, so that it will...
The Lord Jesus Christ is the vine, the faithful are the branches, they cannot bear fruit except by being in him and they remain in him by bearing fruit; that is they obey his commandments. The passage is not difficult to understand for the faithful.John 15:1-10 GNB (1) "I am the real vine, and...