“Better that only a few Catholics should be left, staunch and sincere in their religion, than that they should, remaining many, desire as it were to be in collusion with the Church’s enemies and in conformity with the open foes of our faith.” - St. Peter Canisius
St. Peter Cansius also said, “May we be sober, simple, prudent, peaceable, and studious of solid virtue: may our lives conform to the Name we bear and our deeds reflect to the vows we profess.”
We need to reflect on our growth in such virtue and then ask ourselves,”Do we desire the Church as WE see it...or as God sees it?” A wise man once warned that, “What you desire most is most effective against you. Desire Christ and all else will be given.”
That is important because the real danger for us is that some might the depart from the safety of the Church and go apostate if their personal vision of the Church doesn’t match with what some humans in the Church are doing/saying. The danger is to attack and/or leave the Church, which is exactly what satan desires. What to do? TRUST in God, pray... and do our part to build up the good. May the Lord NEVER find us guilty of contributing to the divisiveness.
As God sees it, of course.
"The teaching of the Faith which God has revealed has not been proposed as a philosophical discovery to be perfected by human ingenuity, but as a divine Deposit handed over to the Spouse of Christ to be guarded faithfully and to be explained infallibly. Hence that meaning of the sacred dogmas must perpetually be retained which Holy Mother Church once has declared; nor is that meaning ever to be abandoned under the pretext and name of a more profound comprehension." Pope Pius IX
That is important because the real danger for us is that some might the depart from the safety of the Church and go apostate if their personal vision of the Church doesn’t match with what some humans in the Church are doing/saying.
The responsibility for such departures lies with those in positions of power who confuse and scandalize the faithful. The ill effects of such scandal are compounded by others who quietly go along with the corruption rather than denounce it, perhaps falsely equating silence in the face of evil with holiness.
May the Lord NEVER find us guilty of contributing to the divisiveness.
May the Lord NEVER find us guilty of betraying Him by our silence in the face of attacks on His Church from within or without.