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St. John Chapter 15 18-19

If the world hates you, you must realise that it hated me before it hated you. If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you do not belong to the world, because my choice of you has drawn you out of the world, that is why the world hates you.

I love St. John and his words have been prophetic through the ages but never more applicable than in the later stages of the first decade of this century. My grandparents were born in the nineteenth century. My grandmother from Ireland was a governess for an American wealthy family, the Vanderbilts. She claimed she was on a train that was attacked by Indians...maybe family lore but it is in the realm of possibility. However, I was raised and tutored by a generation that had its roots in the 19th century. A generation that still treasured the values and morals of ages past where to be Catholic was a mark of degradation and shame. Although my Mother's family was Episcopalian and English/Scottish in origin, the same Christian values were passed through the family lines. My wife and three youngest children are direct descendants of Roger Williams, a cantankerous Puritan who was never content living in London or the Shining City on the Hill - Boston, and went off and founded a colony called Rhode Island. He also was the first person in the Americas to call for the establishment of the separation of Church and State, 150 years before the great Thomas Jefferson.

So, in our family trees and probably most Europeans or exiles (religious, economic or political) have ancestors who were defined by religious resistance to the prevailing culture. Today, it is the Machivallian secular humanists who will not be content until every vestige of Christianity is stamped out and made to look like those curious Anglican churches scattered around London streets but in reality are as devoid of people and faith as an empty sepulchres. Well, it is happening quickly as our debased education system indocrinates generation after generation into an anti-religious and amoral lifestyle defined by an adherence to political correctness. It is sad to see but it looks irreversible but I am sure many ages have said the same thing. What was St. Augustine thinking on his deathbed as the Vandals were ravaging Roman Africa? What did St. Thomas More think about his world as he stood on Tower Hill about to be beheaded?

Reading history is easier since you know what will happen next. Living in the present is much tougher. All I know is what Jesus tells us that 1 John 2 Do not love the world or what is in the world. If anyone does love the world, the love of the Father finds no place in him. We need to take these inspired words seriously even in this new age of Obama. Political and economic systems come and go but the Catholic faith last forever.

This blog will include many entries about many different topics and events but the focus is the World vs. the Christian. We need to stand fast for Christ no matter what the cost or sacrifice even if it is martyrdom. Can we not follow Christ in this wicked age? St. John 11 He came to his own and his own people did not accept him. Should we expect any better?