Many Catholics have a Protestant understanding of the faith. They seem to think Jesus suffered and died so that you wouldn’t have to suffer and die. The reality is that Jesus suffered and died to transform your suffering and death. Preparing for martyrdom is not a black pill. It’s not doomerism. It’s understanding why you got baptized. You were reborn to die well.
I am not afraid to proclaim the truths of the Bible:
• Abortion is murder.
• Homosexuality is sin.
• We’re either male or female, and this can’t be changed.
• Christianity is true; all other religions are false.
• Hell is real.
• Jesus is the only way to Heaven.
If the world hates you, know that before you it hated Me. If you were of the world, the world would love what is its own; but since you are not of the world, but I chose you from the world, that is why the world hates you. Remember the word I told you, A servant is not greater than his master. If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they observed My word, they will also observe yours. But all this they will do to you because of My name, because they do not know the One who sent Me.
Jn 15:18-21
I join in the condolences of the family of Charlie Kirk, husband and father, who was barbarously murdered yesterday. May the Blessed Virgin, toward whom he repeatedly showed devotion, receive his soul and present it to the divine Son.
This morning I offered the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass for his soul.