Catholic ping!
But a virtual reality on-line player feels “violated” when her game image is groped ... And THAT gets media headlines!
Oh, rest assured they are remembered in our prayers. At Mass as well.
I see/read things like this and have an inkling of the hate and brutality Jesus had to endure on His way to the Cross.
Words of wisdom from milennia ago.
...”If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you.
Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they kept My word, they will keep yours also. But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know the One who sent Me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.
He who hates Me hates My Father also. If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated Me and My Father as well.
But they have done this to fulfill the word that is written in their Law, ‘They hated Me without a cause.’ “ (John 15: 18-25...
I will NYer - we are witnessing evil.