All You Need Is Love

Whose name is Jesus, and Holy Spirit, and Father God.  Excerpts:

...Some say the wide dissemination and easy-acceptance of heresy and re-written history portends tough times for the church – ridicule, hatred, suppression, discrimination, even (paranoia alert) outlawing. I am not worried. If fifty years from now Catholics are once again hiding priests and holding Holy Mass underground, if Christians are using signals to direct others to worship, it will not surprise me. But the church is always at its most fervent and alive when it is under siege. It gains strength from the blood of martyrs and “there will always be a remnant.” What was it St. Peter wrote, in his gorgeous first epistle: “There is time for rejoicing, here, although for a little while you may have to endure trials…”

Really, all of this comes with the job.

The job of the Christian is to hold fast in the face of chaos and recall that Christ is more powerful than any man or media, and that darkness does not overcome light. To be honest, all the fretting from us Christians is a bit unseemly. If we are secure in what we believe, a cartoon does not take us down, no matter how perverse and offensive, because Christ is alive, and Grace abounds, and because just as an Abbess or Abbot is entitled to use whatever resources his or her community contains to advance the stability of the abbey, the Holy Spirit has a way of confounding us by using what is out there in the world – sometimes very surprising things and people – to do the will of the One...