Why is it that many practicing Catholics are so confused? Why so many become angry when the truth is proclaimed? This anger is specially against virtues that challenge our personal behavior such as chastity, modesty, piety, penance.

Anger and confusion is the fruit of spiritual blindness, of thinking like the world and not like God.  We could be very active in the Church, theologians, priests or bishops and still have this blindness because the mindset of the culture works in all.

The cure is the cross. To die to the blindness and self-centerness of our culture we must go to the cross. There is where the rebelliousness of sin is put to death. There is where truth and love unmask the deceit of the enemy and vanquish him.

Every Christian must be so in love with Christ as to be ready to be a martyr. To do so we need to gaze upon the cross and ponder the price of love with gratitude.  The Lord also teaches us through the martyrs. We should develop a friendship with them and desire to immitate their love for the Lord. As we do so, we will be able to renounce to sin offer our daily sacrifices with joy. 

I encourage you to keep in your heart our persecuted brothers and sisters.  May our hearts desire to love Christ unto the cross!

The following PICTURES ARE NOT APT FOR CHILDREN. These pictures help us bring the reality of the cross to our hearts so that we experience the suffering of our persecuted brothers and sisters and stop catering to the desires of our flesh! Then the Lord can give us a clear humble mind to love his ways and is willing to suffer for love.