This is worth repeating...
from Cardinal Manning...
“…if you are the true followers of Jesus Christ, it (the
world) will misunderstand and reject you. ‘Now are we the sons of God, and it
doth not yet appear what we shall be; but we know that when He shall appear, we
shall be like Him,’—conformed to Him Who is the firstborn among the sons of
God, because He is the Son of God, begotten of the substance of the Father
before all worlds, and man of the substance of His Mother born in the world.
Such is our predestination; ‘and every man that hath this hope in him
sanctified himself, even as he also is holy.” 1 John iii, 1-3
Be of good cheer. God has conquered the world, even if we
must endure persecution and tribulation. He has had us in mind from all time….
