WHEN POWER REVEALS ITSELF IN WEAKNESS

We do not have cathedrals, basilicas, beautifully decorated chalices and vestments to celebrate the Holy Eucharist; we are not respected by people, we constantly hear voices that try to drown us out, insult us, humiliate us, mock us, ridicule us. We suffer constant attacks from people who, as they say, know more and better, are experts in contemporary spirituality and theology. When we raise our voice, it is unheard by the people because it differs from what is heard every day. Those considered great, whose authority count on people, suppress every gesture and every act that points to the saving words and deeds of Christ, about whom we speak and testify.

Our words are passed through the sieve of correctness, by those who consider themselves to be the successors of Christ's Apostles, the heirs of tradition and faith, not seeing that they themselves, by their actions and conduct, have long since renounced it. However, these shortcomings, these insults, this lack of respect, these bold and often blasphemous accusations, are nothing other than a picture of the life of Christ, who also suffered, because holiness is not achieved in beautifully decorated churches, liturgical robes encrusted with precious stones neither with the recognition of those in power, but with meekness, because faith, as St. Paul says, is not shared by all men. [2 Thess 3:2]