Our Life in the XXI Century

Many people say that society has changed and the Church needs to change, too. What does this mean?

Church can not say: "It's not a sin to live unmarried, to smoke, to make abortion!"

Now the confessor gives easier canons, but sins are called sins nowadays too.

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People's faith has declined. But the Law of God is the same! For "Jesus Christ, yesterday and today and forever, is the same." (Letter to the Hebrew of St. Paul, chapter 13, verse 8).

“He that is unjust, let him be unjust still; and he that is filthy, let him be filthy still; and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still; and he that is holy, let him be holy still.” (Revelation 22:11 21st Century King James Version). So, normal spiritual ascent is to put more ascetic facts for us and love for our neighbor.

But we see that we are seeking pretexts to become "Christians of XXI century"; we look for excuses not to love and help others. We forget how short life is and how long it is eternity. We forget that we can not enter the Kingdom of God if we wasn't helpful to anyone.

We forget that we must love God infinitely more than anything in this world, more than ourselves, and our neighbor as ourselves.

When the joy of the other becomes our joy, we get to the rest of the soul. Amen.

Romanian version: here.