In the excellent blog, Everyday for Life, Canada we read the following:
We know that currently Christians face world wide persecution and even death for their belief in Christ. In Canada, the persecution is mostly spiritual. However, there are some Christians that have been arrested and gone to jail for their Christian beliefs. There are now terrible laws and policies that legislatively force Christians to support abortion, transgenderism and euthanasia. Our schools are teaching children gender ideology which is contradictory to the faith: boys can be girls and girls can be boys. Nurture has usurped nature. There is an attack on the Christian family. Any social structure of one or two people or more is equal to a family with a mother and a father and children. The Christian view of humanity and history is opposed and being replaced by one that embraces and celebrates political correctness and identity politics.
Now, how are we to respond to such evils that surround us? Should we respond with rage? Hate? Anger? Should we allow those who are in sin, to draw us into sin through the way we react?
Or, is there a Christian solution to the spiritual madness (madness that has also invaded the Church)?
Everyday for Life, Canada outlines for us the solution, drawn from the Catholic spiritual life. Go and read it here.
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How should a Christian respond to evil?
By making war on the kingdom of Satan.
By a policy of non-appeasement with our social and political culture.
By imitating the lives of the saints and their love of souls.
By going weekly to Confession and receiving the Eucharist as often as possible.
By daily reading of the Scriptures and recital of the Rosary.
By never grieving the Holy Spirit.
By putting on the full armour of God, daily.
By recognising the terrible danger which menaces each one of us while we remain in this world of sin.
By avoiding the occasions of sin.
By always being ready to give a reason for the hope that lies within us.
By praying with the sick and dying.
By comforting those who know grief, depression, despair, and loneliness.
By fasting and abstinence.
By helping people bear their cross.
By speaking to those who are without Christ and without hope.
By the joyfuless and good example of our lives.
By becoming little children of God.
By doing everything we can to ensure that souls will not be in a state of agony at the Judgement Throne.
By praying constantly and offering up sacrifices.
By praying for Pope Francis, the hierarchy, priests and nuns.
By praying for those bishops and priests who preach another gospel.
By forgiving everyone who sins against us, reciting the Lord's Prayer.
By seeing that we are beggars dependent on the grace of God.
By bowing our head when we speak the name of Jesus.
By recalling Jesus' words, *Woe to you who are rich.*
By reciting aloud, and singing, the great Psalms of the Old Testament that Jesus intoned as He hung on the Cross.
By never compromising the truth that Jesus Christ, True God and True Man, is the one and only door to salvation; that He died for our sins so that we might enter Heaven; that He will return in glory on the last day to judge the living and the dead.
At the end of a Christian's life Satan should be cursing us: *That one waged
war on my kingdom, and lost me many souls I could have taken with me to Hell!*
*Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.* Luke 13:3
Thank You ..I just came across this & it is inspiring & helpful. I just saved it on my phone to reflect on it. Blessings!
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