From Every Land And Nation

First reading	Hebrews 6:10-20

In this hope, we have an anchor for our soul

God would not be so unjust as to forget all you have done, the love that you have for his name or the services you have done, and are still doing, for the saints. Our one desire is that every one of you should go on showing the same earnestness to the end, to the perfect fulfillment of our hopes, never growing careless, but imitating those who have the faith and the perseverance to inherit the promises.

  When God made the promise to Abraham, he swore by his own self, since it was impossible for him to swear by anyone greater: I will shower blessings on you and give you many descendants. Because of that, Abraham persevered and saw the promise fulfilled. Men, of course, swear an oath by something greater than themselves, and between men, confirmation by an oath puts an end to all dispute. In the same way, when God wanted to make the heirs to the promise thoroughly realize that his purpose was unalterable, he conveyed this by an oath; so that there would be two unalterable things in which it was impossible for God to be lying, and so that we, now we have found safety, should have a strong encouragement to take a firm grip on the hope that is held out to us. Here we have an anchor for our soul, as sure as it is firm, and reaching right through beyond the veil where Jesus has entered before us and on our behalf, to become a high priest of the order of Melchizedek, and forever.

The Lord has kept His promise.  There are sure a passel of us Christians in the world and sixty percent of them are Catholic.  This brings me to a question if there are so many of us why are we letting "them" push us around?  I am not a Trump fan, let me say that straight out but if we go back to the Obama years, we have the Little Sisters of the Poor being required to furnish birth control.  We have legalized same-sex marriage and Christian values are belittled and frowned upon. It is a little better with the joker we have in the White House now but that's about all that is better, feel free to disagree, that is your right.  

There are so many of us and for some reason, we cannot present a united front to the world. 1.38 billion of Christianity follow the Pope and the Magisterium and that is a large group of folks.  We should be able to use our numbers to help bring about significant changes in the world.  Take some time to think about this today. Do you have any ideas as to what we can do to help bring about God's kingdom in this crazy world we live in?  Are we required to do it or is it enough to sit back and do nothing?  We have the Holy Spirit on our side.  Wherever we carry the battle to He will be with us as well.  If God is for us, who can be against us?