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. (Image Source - Wikimedia Commons ) 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 ch...