The danger of pacifism

I ran across this video last night, though it is long, I would recommend it to whoever is interested in the emerging promience of Islamic culture in our modern world. For us who profess the Catholic Faith, we ought not to fear anyone who desires to destroy the Church. While many have sought to destroy the Church, none have prevailed - why? Because the Church is not made from the mere thoughts of man, but endowed and empowered by the Holy Spirit. Some would think that we should fear the oncoming onslaught talked about in this video, I for one think that while we should prepare to respond to those who would question or discuss the Catholic Faith with us, we should not fear to prepare to offer a witness, even by our death, that the Love of God is real and life-giving.

When one reads the lives of the martyrs we find that no one of them sought to gain anything in this world, except to bear witness to the Love of God in their lives as a gift to Him. This witness never sought to force anyone to anything, except that they might see in our human life that there is something worth truly living and dying for; something which must be chosen and can never be imposed. For the one thing which is not spoken of in Islam is the the freedom to love with one's whole heart, which submission can never hope for.

The Lord Jesus Christ invites us offer our lives to Him in service IN LOVE. This is the reason why people are able to wear flip-flops to Mass or to sacrilege the Holy Eucharist by not discerning their way of life in the Catholic Faith. If we receive the gift and respond most fully we can and should become saints, but if we ignore or devalue the gift of Jesus Christ, then we flagrantly ignore all that God has offered to us in the Holy Catholic Faith. I ask you to consider where are you in your Catholic Faith? Have you accepted all that the Church teaches us as a gift which will bear your greatest joy, which is what Jesus called "life more abundantly (Jn 10:10)." Or have you picked and chosen what you would believe, what is referred to today as "Cafeteria Catholicism."

How woud you know one way or another? St. Gregory of Nyssa taught how Heaven would be going "from Glory to Glory" because we will be dynamically ever-more filled with the Mystery, Love, and Glory that is God. We will be ever satiated, and yet ever more desirous at the same time! For us Catholics, all the way to heaven is heaven, as I often say in RCIA and have heard others say. The point is that if we are perseverant in Love or even obedient in love then God will fufill our desire to know. Nevertheles, there will alway be those who deny this possibility, who can't imagine that the only living God truly is merciful and loving for each of his creation, even if they reject him. The question we must respond to is: Do we reject Him or love Him?

There are many things that are worth discussing about the video above and I hope that any of you who read this blog would offer your comments.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-871902797772997781