Rise Now And Be Counted
Just as Christ seeks respite in the desert place of the garden, so too the Blessed Mother responds to her special mission by going out of her daily life and serving in a remote place, where Elizabeth had reserved herself for the duration of her pregnancy.
For the duration of Lent, Christ calls us to His Garden retreat to kneel beside Him in His Agony, that we might unite our resistant humanity to his longsuffering divinity.
The Resurrection is the victory Christ places before us as our goal, the kingdom which we win by uniting to His Sacrifice. The Resurrection is the Life that must define our lives if we want a part in it.
Christ promises us no servant is greater than his master – our wage is our imitation of the master we choose, whether Christ who suffers at the hands of the world for eternal reward, or Satan, who rewards worldly thought and action, but is punished in eternity.
The Enlightenment in full force, as the pinnacle of European civilization, and as the last gasp of a spiritually rooted race.
The pain of the Cross manifests less God’s anger or justice than His love and mercy, taking upon Himself the curse He placed on our first parents and drawing out of it our greatest blessing.
We seek an imperishable crown in the eternal Kingdom; do not let your heart be troubled by worldly concerns or seek your salvation in politics and scandal: it is not there.
We will not find the Kingdom that is not of this World if we only seek Our King amonng those things that are of the world.
We are all crucified in the end upon the Cross of our own making. We need to choose on which side of Christ we choose to suffer: accepting our hardships on His right hand or reviling Him for them on His left.
A life without suffering is a life without meaning and purpose, and the worst thing a man can do is deny himself meaningful struggle by fleeing from it.