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THERE<\/strong> will come a moment when we will walk by faith, not by consolation. It will seem as though we have been abandoned… like Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane. But our angel of comfort in the Garden will be the knowledge that we do not suffer alone; that other’s believe and suffer as we do, in the same unity of the Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n

Surely, if Jesus continued along the Way of his Passion in a certain abandonment, then so will the Church (cf. CCC<\/em> 675). This will be the great test. It will sift the true followers of Christ-like wheat.<\/p>\n

Lord, help us to remain faithful.<\/em><\/p>\n

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