I could have called this the post of the Young Saints.
In the Novus Ordo Mass today, the second reading highlights the discipline and suffering needed for all of us.
After the TLM today, outside, many young people, the ones with whom I am closest in the community, mainly because some of them have made and celibate commitment, some are pursuing perfection, and some are on line were talking for a good 45 minutes in a group on suffering.
Amazing. These are the saints in training. Many of them have deep personal sufferings, such as illnesses, or barrenness although being young marrieds. Some have suffering in their families, many of whom are parents who have lost the Faith.
Incredible as it sounds, all of these young people, only one of them Irish, all expect organized persecution. The young ones from Poland have seen it all before through the stories of their families in Poland. The ones from Scotland pray and understand the signs of the times. They understand that the Church needs to be purified. Those from Brazil have seen the rot in the Church set in.
While some have been mistaken about the length of these hard times coming soon, they all acknowledge the reality of the purification of themselves and the Church.
It is too bad that the older people in the congregation do not get this. Of course, there are few, if any my age, mostly the people are much older or like these twenty and thirty somethings, much younger.
I have no idea where the rest are....
Hebrews 12:7-15
Douay-Rheims
7 Persevere under discipline. God dealeth with you as with his sons; for what son is there, whom the father doth not correct?
8 But if you be without chastisement, whereof all are made partakers, then are you bastards, and not sons.
9 Moreover we have had fathers of our flesh, for instructors, and we reverenced them: shall we not much more obey the Father of spirits, and live?
10 And they indeed for a few days, according to their own pleasure, instructed us: but he, for our profit, that we might receive his sanctification.
11 Now all chastisement for the present indeed seemeth not to bring with it joy, but sorrow: but afterwards it will yield, to them that are exercised by it, the most peaceable fruit of justice.
12 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees,
13 And make straight steps with your feet: that no one, halting, may go out of the way; but rather be healed.
