HOW TO DEFEND YOURSELF FROM THE WORLD'S THREATS
Five practical tips for resisting the seduction and terror with which they try to erase the Christian presence on earth
The World threatens us in two ways: seducing and terrifying us.
He seduces us by showing us his sophisticated and smiling face in the public arena: the theatre, the cinema, television, the newspapers, books and in particular 'Internet'; as well as in society as a whole with its decadent morality, his indecent fashions, his conventional ways of behavior, and with its specious maxims as: 'Let us crown ourselves with roses before they wither’ (Sap 2,8).
Thus the world presents itself as desirable, admirable, brave, and even the sum of his indignities is noble, of his vanities and baseness, arousing lusts in man to drag him to Hell.
The World terrorizes us with organized persecution against the worshipers of the one Triune God: the legal persecution against Catholic teaching in schools, and against public signs of the Catholic Faith in schools, in hospitals and private workplaces; against marriage, large families, and parents who insist on raising their children Catholicly and dressing modestly; the psychological persecution against all those who publicly profess their Faith and who tend to lead a decent life, devoted, and sink. Read More