Forgotten Truths To Set Faith Afire!

  (Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) Do you want to honor Christ’s body? Then do not scorn Him in His nakedness, nor honor Him here in the church with silken garments while neglecting Him outside where He is cold and naked…Now in saying this, I am not forbidding you to make such gifts; I am only demanding that along with such gifts and before them you give alms.  St. John Chrysostom

I prefer to be sent away from the monastery…than to be wanting in my duty and failing to warn you for the good of your soul.   St. Therese of Lisieux

 

What is our Catholic responsibility? It is painfully obvious. Our duty is to know the truth revealed by Christ and taught by His Church. Our duty is to live the truth, as Christ who is Truth Incarnate showed us by His life on earth how we are to live in this passing world of space and time. Our duty is to defend the truth, because we realize how disastrous are the consequences of error and how blessed are the fruits of possessing the truth. Our duty is to share the truth with others, because this is the highest practice of charity, on which our salvation depends. Our duty is to suffer for the truth. We are to rejoice as Christ tells us when people oppose us, criticize us, and speak all kinds of calumny against us – in a word – when we are persecuted for proclaiming the truth which God, who is Truth, became man to reveal. Our Lord, Truth Incarnate, was crucified for proclaiming in Palestine.  Father John A. Hardon, S. J.