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In a tragic way, it will be done by those who should love Her the most, even by consecrated souls. Christ formed the Church as the Universal Sacrament of Salvation. Seated at the right Hand of the Father, Christ works unceasingly to draw all men into the Church and, through It, to join them more closely to Himself nourishing them with His own Body and Blood, and so making them share in His Life of Glory! St Augustine said, “To love Christ, is to love the Church.” No one can claim to love Christ and despise His Mystical Body! St. Cyprian said, “No one can have God as his Father, who will not have the Church for his Mother.” We must have confidence in Christ and love for the Church. We must place our trust in His Mystical Body. Where the secular media is concerned, any stick will do in order to bash the Catholic Church. The enemies of the Church have gotten as far as they have because we, Catholics, have been lukewarm and cowardly. We did not stand up to defend our Faith. 34 More and more Catholics, especially our young Catholics, do not seem to have any idea what it means to be Catholic. They have no idea why they are Catholics, no idea what the Catholic Church is or where She came from, no idea about what sets Her apart and makes Her unique and, in fact, superior to all other churches. How many of our young people are living with the delusion that one church is as good as another? And, even that one religion is as good as another? Because so many young Catholics do not know even the basics of their Faith, they have become easy targets and prey, sitting ducks for Protestants, sects, fundamentalists and religious cults that take them in with a simplistic, inaccurate and false interpretation of an incomplete Bible. A recent survey showed that about 50% of some of the more well-known cults in this country are comprised of fallen away Catholics; mostly young uncatechized Catholics, drawn in by the secularized paganist culture in which we now live. This once Christian Nation is making the transformation into Paganism! What is Paganism? According to Fr. John Hardon, the essence of Paganism is idolatry. The most insidious form of idolatry is the worship of SELF! The supremacy of SELF! This is PRIDE! This is the idolatry that is predominant in Western Culture. Millions of others are still caught up in the mad and mindless pursuit of the American Dream! When the Iraqi war began, someone asked the commanding General how they were going to win the war. He explained it in this way, “First, we will cut off the enemy and, then, we will kill him.” This is exactly the same strategy that Satan is going to use against us and against our young people. First, he will cut us off from the Sacraments and, then, he will destroy us:


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