Be not cast down because the persecutors of religion,
having laid the Church, like its Founder, in the tomb, utter the boast: ‘Behold
the place where we laid it.’ The law of progress of the Church is the reverse
of the law of progress of the world. We are most progressive when we are most
hated. It is only because the fires of its Truth are blinding evil eyes and
convicting them of sin and judgement, that the world vainly tried to put them
out. And though the world is tearing up all the photographs and blueprints of a
society and a family based on the moral law of God, be not disheartened. The Church
has kept the negatives.
--Archbishop Fulton Sheen, Lenten & Easter
Inspirations
