Be Christendom

(How many Christians lead a double life? How many of us are Christians at only those appropriate times, Christmas and Easter, possibly every Sunday? And is it only those isolated occasions because our secular culture is marginalizing both Prayer and God? I believe so).

We are expected to be a secular society, this is the reason that Christendom is promptly, and abruptly, becoming taboo. That expectation is the talented psychological trick (reverse psychology) of our great enemy, Satan. Our secularism is beginning the ‘communist like stretch’ into very harmful territory and we are the ones pushing it.

Embodying Christianity means marginalizing many aspects of the modern world; our society is in need of healing and is in reality growing harmful to both the Christian and their stake in Christendom. This is, in many situations, a subtle evil however it materializes according to our action and intensifies with habit.

To be secular, in today’s understanding, is to prefer a society in which people unite not under the bond of love, but in the common pursuit of pleasure and comfort. When community bonds are formed solely on the basis of our personal self-interest and not in the interest of our neighbor’s true well-being, then in reality true community is being sacrificed. What is left is merely a loose association of individuals and households; once pleasure and comfort has been found there is little reason to stay united and most often these weak bonds, in fact, fall apart.

What piece of you is the Christian in you? Is it your heart, your brain, or merely your reputation? It should be all of you! Do you use your physical senses or your spiritual senses to find the Christian in you and around you? We must be Christendom! We must embody our cause if we wish to be successful.

So, as Christians our first home is the Church. Our first bath, the mark of the civilized creature, is drowning in Baptism. Our first meal, taken together as a community and marking our common familial bond in the resurrection of Christ, is the Eucharist. Not merely attending Church but being spiritually, intellectually, and warmly (by the heart) present on the occasion of EVERY gathering; these are the beginning steps of Being Christendom. I will conclude by stating the rest depends on whether or not you can find a friend in God.