From today’s first reading:
Thus says the LORD:
Woe to the city, rebellious and polluted,
to the tyrannical city!
She hears no voice,
accepts no correction;
In the LORD she has not trusted,
to her God she has not drawn near.
If this doesn’t speak directly to the current state of America and Europe then I don’t know what does. Abortion, gay “marriage”, debauchery on every TV show, relativism, and no sense of truth or right and wrong. Atheists calling the nativity and Jesus an insult. I truly believe we are headed into a time where we will be persecuted vehemently for our faith. The time to sit back and be the quiet Christian is gone. It is time to stand up loud and proud for our faith and the eternal truths therein. Pray the Rosary.
” I truly believe we are headed into a time where we will be persecuted vehemently for our faith.”
When you stop being part of the majority, you can worry about that.
Let’s consider the “majority” I’m part of. I attend Mass at least twice a week and go to confession a minimum of every month. According to CARA (2011), the following are current statistics: Percentage of Catholics that attend Mass weekly 20%. Attend more than once a week 3%. Go to confession once a year (the minimum requirement of the Church) 12%. Percentage of Americans that identify as Catholic 24%. We could say that the percentage of Americans that identify as Christian is a majority. However, most of these people aren’t Christian if they support abortion, contraception, euthanasia, stem cell research, homosexual “marriage”, etc. There is a big difference, NotAScientist, between being a cultural Christian (majority) and someone who lives and believes all the tenets of the faith (minority).
References
Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate. (2011). Frequently requested church statistics. Retrieved from http://cara.georgetown.edu/CARAServices/requestedchurchstats.html