Monday Musings - Brace for Persecution and Spiritual Combat.

Less than 25 per cent of Catholics who attend Sunday Mass, we have been told by pollsters, believe in the Real Presence of our Lord in the Eucharist. Even fewer ever visit Him during the week or outside of Sunday Mass - this despite our Lord's unending invitation that we come and quench His thirst for our love.

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For those who did believe and did visit Him prior to this extended time of isolation, quarantine and staying in place, the past weeks have been a very painful loss - now we have a taste of what our Lord has endured for centuries - being abandoned and treated irreverently.

There is much to say about the appropriateness or inappropriateness of not offering public Masses or the Sacraments and locking our Churches during these difficult times, but that will have to await another post at some future time.

Dan Burke, noted blogger and spiritual guide, who miraculously survived the corona virus, views these trying times as a chastisement from God in response to the irreverent and sacrilegious way in which His Church and His people have treated Him. He is not alone in that regard. We should not ignore what he has to say.

Such conduct, he argues, must not continue when our Church doors are unlocked. WE MUST REDISCOVER AND REINSTATE A SENSE OF THE SACRED IN OUR CHURCHES AND IN THE MANNER IN WHICH WE CELEBRATE THE HOLY SACRIFICE OF THE MASS AND RECEIVE HIS MOST PRECIOUS BODY, BLOOD, SOUL AND DIVINITY. There had heretofore been opposition to doing these things and that hostility, Dan suggests, is likely to get worse before it gets better.

PLEASE take the time to read his two most recent posts on these crucial issues. Many believe that God spared His life to be sure this message was shared. You can find his articles here and here. 

After your read them, pass them on to everyone you know.

Brace for an onslaught of persecution and spiritual combat the likes of which we have not seen in our lifetimes. CLING TO THE EMBRACES OF OUR EUCHARISTIC LORD AND HIS MOST BLESSED MOTHER. PRAY THE ROSARY!!!