Now is the time for united Catholic action to reclaim evangelization and save souls
O how great is the foundation of the Holy Catholic Church? The Bride of Christ the King is anointed with miraculous beauty and splendor, united as one all throughout the world, bearing the honor of innumerable saints that have given their entire lives in its service and promulgation. This light beckons us once more to its aid.
Are you willing to add your own life to this temple? Have no fear, only courage, your Lord and Savior, Jesus, gives you this assurance: “He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall go out no more…And I will write on him My new name.” (Revelation 3:12)
There exists now frontiers of evangelization novel to our age that would have been unimaginable to our forefathers, yet the potential for reaching souls would have been just as enticing for them as it should be for us. Let their zeal inspire us now. Now is the time to take up faith and dedicate your life to something that will assuredly be heavenly rewarding, and to a mission that is dutifully necessary.
When Jesus chose the Twelve, he chose men that were ordinary to the world. Many of you now are ordinary, as the world sees it. That is not to say that your purpose will remain unfruitful, as even now God plants seeds within you that will sprout into talents for this timeless call of sharing the Gospel.
For too long has evil grasped its talons onto these new technologies which are rightfully instruments to bring God glory. Thus, our war is one of rooting out these channels of wickedness. The light of Christ and His Church must shine in the most unlikely of places. It is our obligation to work toward accomplishing this, for all to hear the Gospel is the will of God.
In the twilight of these times, when it seems that the gate has been under siege longer than we have been alive, is now not the time to fight back? The wolves that have broken in have demoralized the city, taking away its resolve, taking away its desire to rescue those who have never heard the name of Jesus! They have convinced us that our efforts are in vain. That our very existence is in vain, only to end in nothingness. The destruction of the human soul is their goal, and we must refute them by proclaiming the infinite dignity accorded to it and its right to the Gospel. Let the zeal of the great missionary Fr. Charles Nerinckx now inflame our hearts, as he exclaims: “Souls! Souls! and nothing but souls, for the love of Jesus.”
Take up the cross.
Take up the cross. Your Lord commands you to follow Him and He will not fail you. Let Mary be our guide. Through her Immaculate Heart we will conquer! Let all the angels and saints join us on this field of battle for the salvation of souls! With their intercession, we will be victorious. May the Sacred Heart triumph! The world for the Sacred Heart and the Sacred Heart for the world!
“This is, I say, a new kind of knighthood and one unknown to the ages gone by,” St. Bernard remarks.
Certainly, with our untrekked path, it is difficult to predict what snares lay ahead. We shall place our hope in the Holy Spirit, and according to the measure of our faith, He shall reveal countless graces and blessings before our eyes, and bestow abundant goodness that we shall reap in this life and the next. “Go forth confidently then, you knights, and repel the foes of the cross of Christ with a stalwart heart. Know that neither death nor life can separate you from the love of God which is in Jesus Christ, and in every peril repeat, ‘Whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's.’ ”
In Jesus do we surrender our lives and in His love resides our souls. Now. hear the loving Sacred Heart, longing to see the world ablaze: “Arise, make haste, my love, my dove, my beautiful one, and come. For winter is now past, the rain is over and gone. The flowers have appeared in our land, the time of pruning is come...” (Song of Songs 2:10-12)
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