Today, the Mother Church is coming under "attacks" in all forms from both within and without. To all Catholics, religious or lay, who do not agree on any issue with your bishops, or any guidance or teaching of the magisterium and feel like speaking out, please realize that anything you say that would result in confusing the faithful or disunifying the Church in any way can not have come from the Holy Spirit ~ God will never ask you to disobey the very Church he has established for us. No matter how urgently you feel like speaking out, this is the ultimate test. If you do not pass it, the voice is your own and not that of the Holy Spirit.
The Church is being ridiculed, laughed at, belittled, insulted, slandered, stepped on, and accused for just about anything not pleasing to the attackers nowadays ~ this is because we do have the true church! Look at what the Lord himself went through on earth ~ how can you expect the Church, being the Body of Christ, not to suffer likewise? The good news is that the Lord guarantees that the gates of hell shall not prevail against his Church. Rejoice that we are being persecuted for Christ's sake. This is the perfect time to practice what he taught about forgiving others and loving your enemies. Pray extra hard and love the Lord even more fervently. Seek total union with him first before all else.
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