Stay!

Ours is a spiritual battle.

To be fully participating at Mass we must be there with our full presence
and awareness.

Regardless of the fact that in the Church we might sometimes have the
impression that it is the adversary who rules,
we need to stay there, and not leave in discouragement, because despite
the heresies sometimes pronounced, we need to stay on the playing field
in order to fight.

Our role is to tell the truth. If we leave, we let them win.

So to all you within the "conciliatory" ranks who sticks the label of "fundamentalist"
on all Catholics who are against the fading away and blurring of catholic doctrine
but who holds tight to it,  not because they are old fashioned or are stuck
in the past, as most of them are young!, but because they understand that nothing is
more important than guarding the faith. 
They know it because of their level of awareness.
And the aim of the catholic doctrine is to raise Man's awareness about who he is
in his deepest sense.  

From it's beginning, The Church has never had an easy ride.
Besides the persecution of Christians, which is still strong today, and the persecutions
carried out by the Christians themselves, internal conflict
has also always been present. It is part of human nature, so it would be unrealistic to
"wait until everybody is on the same page", because that will never happen.
We are, and will always be, on different steps of the ladder.

So many of the characters in the Bible, both in the Old and New Testament, seems so
familiar to me.The way they think, talk and act.
It seems as if nothing has changed, in all that time.
But that is not true, since Jesus came, He changed everything.
But for us, it can only happen if we really want it to.

The unity with the other Christian churches that the conciliatory ranks talks about,
has led to so much confusion in regard to the faith itself, as a lot of people believe
that in order to be "united" one must pretend that we are the same, and not insist
on our own teaching, as we do not want to "upset" them, and show ourselves to be
"unloving".
That is in reality abandonment, and self betrayal.

If today, the congregation is small in some parishes, is it important?
Is our religion about being big, powerful, highly revered and respected, or is is
about saving souls for the Kingdom of God?
Maybe it is even good, because Mother Church needs space, peace and quiet, from all
the "doing" to come back to what she is all about.
She is about announcing the Truth.