Okay, this is from today's Mass reading. I'll put in bold the thing I find toughest about being Catholic. Of course, In the United States, we aren't subject to the worst persecutions. Our prayers are with those of you who face death and torture daily for the Faith.
2 Corinthians 6:2-10
We prove we are servants of God by great fortitude in times of suffering: in times of hardship and distress; when we are flogged, or sent to prison, or mobbed; labouring, sleepless, starving. We prove we are God’s servants by our purity, knowledge, patience and kindness; by a spirit of holiness, by a love free from affectation; by the word of truth and by the power of God; by being armed with the weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left, prepared for honour or disgrace, for blame or praise; taken for impostors while we are genuine; obscure yet famous; said to be dying and here are we alive; rumoured to be executed before we are sentenced; thought most miserable and yet we are always rejoicing; taken for paupers though we make others rich, for people having nothing though we have everything.
here here, Nothing is worse than that assumption that deep down we just live this life out of some odd show.
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