We have to remember that, in the last 2000 years, the Church has been through every kind of evil and dissent, yet no matter how bad things might be in the Church, remember this: The gates of Hell will not prevail against the Church founded by Jesus Christ. God always raises up the greatest Saints in times of crisis and confusion in His Church. The present Age is no exception. “Where sin abounds, grace abounds all the more,” St. Paul said. We should thank God for this opportunity to practice heroic virtue; thank God for the grace to stand among the remnant of those who still cling to the Faith of our Fathers. That is not an insignificant matter! It makes each one of us - one in a thousand! In the storm at sea, Christ berates the Apostles for believing He would abandon them in their time of danger. How much like the apostles we can be at times! How ready we are to believe in some of the darkest hours of our lives that somehow Our Lord would abandon us and depart from us when it is precisely at those times, He is always closest to us and ready to help us with His saving Grace. In every one’s life, there will be times of hardship, crisis, personal tragedy, loss; times of sickness, sorrow, failure, times when the Cross will touch our lives and put our Faith to the test. Those kinds of storms can arise all of a sudden and without warning, and there is always the danger that they will overwhelm us and sweep us away, unless we put all of our faith, hope and trust in the One who knows us, loves us and cares for us more than we do ourselves. St. Peter said, “Cast all your cares upon the Lord because He cares for you.” Suffering is nothing new to the people of God. There have been many times in the history of the Church when Catholics have been called upon in 37 great numbers to suffer and die for their Faith. More Catholics died in the persecutions of the bloody 20th Century, than at any time since Our Lord founded the Church. This is a historical fact. Eight million Catholics died in Ukraine under Stalin in the 1930’s. When is the last time you heard about that holocaust? Millions of others died in Russia, China, Lithuania, Poland, Spain, Mexico, Albania, Armenia, Korea, Sudan, and many other countries around the world. The Church endures through all the persecutions and all the wars and disasters, in Revolutions, upheaval and every attempt to destroy Her. Through every Century, the Church has proven that She can stand the test of time! In the first 300 years after Our Lord founded His Church, the Roman Empire, the most powerful Empire the world has ever known, persecuted the Christians and drove them underground into the catacombs, and millions were put to death. The first 30 Popes were martyred or died in exile. Even the might of the Roman Legions could not stamp out the faith of those humble Christian believers and the blood of the martyrs became the seed of the
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