If you’re Catholic and are complaining about how much the world hates us, you aren’t where you need to be spiritually
Christ Himself said this would happen, as it happened to Him first. We are told to rejoice over it, not to complain about it
How can we be the light of the world and salt of the earth if we continually make ourselves into victims?
Becoming Catholic means becoming willing to take the world’s darts and to love it back anyway. We are told to love our enemies and to bless those that curse us. This is not hyperbole. We are not to turn inward to lick our own wounds, but outward with open arms to help heal the wounds of the world—a world that hates us
Think of Jesus’ open arms while dying a humiliating, bloody and painful death—asking the Father to “forgive them, for they know not what they do.” That is what we are called to do. To be like Jesus
Jesus didn’t complain at His trial. He was either telling the truth or remaining silent. He died so that those who killed Him could have eternal life. He loved them that much
I forget this sometimes too, but we cannot make ourselves into victims. If we fall into that trap, we must confess, repent and go out and love a world we know will not love us back
Being Catholic isn’t supposed to be a cakewalk. It’s not for the faint of heart. It is for spiritual warriors
Can we truly start our lives over again? Yes! The Lord’s response, so full of love, fills our hearts with hope. No matter how weighed down we are by pain or sin: the crucified One carries all these burdens with us and for us. No matter how discouraged we are by our own weaknesses: it is precisely then that God manifests His strength, the God who has raised Christ from the dead in order to give life to the world. Each one of us can experience the freedom of new life that comes from faith in the Redeemer. #ApostolicJourney #Algeria https://t.co/jXvstS86NB
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