November 1, 2020
Our Christendom Is Sorely Tried These Days
It is not terror, nor propaganda, nor the modern “dogmas” that constitute the great trials of the Christian today. Not even the comfort or the ease of the modern manner of living and thinking, the dilution of traditional life and thought, or the apparent collision with other traditions and faiths — all of them favoured by consumerism, by globalism, or by the other aberrations of our world, singly or all together.
The hardest trial of the Christian today is not to hate. To love even his true Enemy, the one who wishes to destroy him or lead him astray. Not to look with disgust or despair upon the world in which he lives. To understand that all things have their purpose, even sickness and decay. Above all, the end and death.
We live in a world old and sick.
That is why the young, however young and fair they may be, are not free from the folly, the wandering and the suffering of this dying world. Whatever their age, the men of today are old and ugly in soul before their time. Party and partaker in the decline of humanity.
But even this monstrosity has its purpose.
I understand, I pity them; yet I find it hard to forgive and to love the non-man, the anti-man.
Why do I tell you this?
It is a confession. I acknowledge and I regret my inability to forgive and to love the decrepit and hysterical old man who the other day was spattering everything with venom — just as I cannot forgive and love those like him: the politically correct, extinguished creatures orbiting in his wake and in the wake of other traitors; our “leaders”, who sell us everything for nothing… even our freedom and our hopes. I cannot. Not yet…
These are my true trials and, in general, the trials of the Christian today… and probably in this lies the key to our salvation.
“But I say unto you which hear: Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you, bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you.
And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy cloak forbid not to take thy coat also. Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again. And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.
For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them. And if ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank have ye? for sinners also do even the same. And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again.
But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.
Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.”
Luke 6:27–36
Brethren, forgive and bless.
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