"Blessed are those who have heard Mass in the Catacombs..."
Nov 29, 2019 11:54:51 GMT
Post by Admin on Nov 29, 2019 11:54:51 GMT
Interesting reflection by Louis Veuillot
[Adapted and translated via Google Chrome from here.]
"Blessed are those who have heard Mass in the catacombs. I fear less for a temple, the furious who want to demolish it than the faithful who think only of their soup. Formerly Christian parents rather than abjure devoted their children to misery.
Today, we are more likely to see them lose their faith than to see them miss a degree. One coldly buys a title of lawyer or doctor at the price of one hundred deadly sins that they will be able to commit before obtaining it. This is called "thinking of their future": this word says it all.
When one was a Christian, the future was in heaven; he is no longer there, he is here in the shops, in the shops, in the business, in the mud: and to get there, we first walk on the crucifix. There are no more Christians because there is no more faith. If there was faith, we would know that with so much cowardice we expose our soul, and we would see what we do not see: men."
Louis Veuillot (1813 - 1883)