👑 The world rejects Christ. What should Catholics do?
Christ is King by right, yet His love, His commandments, and His rightful authority are continually rejected through sin. The Catholic response cannot be indifference.
❤️🔥 The answer is reparation.
Reparation means answering offenses against God with love, obedience, prayer, penance, sacrifice, and fidelity. It is not merely feeling sorrow because Christ is rejected. It is a deliberate Catholic response to offended divine love.
✝️ But reparation does not mean that Christ’s sacrifice on Calvary was incomplete.
His sacrifice is perfect, complete, and infinitely sufficient. Our prayers, penances, sacrifices, and sufferings have supernatural value because, by grace, we unite them to the perfect sacrifice of Christ.
As Saint Paul writes:
“And fill up those things that are wanting of the sufferings of Christ, in my flesh, for his body, which is the church.”
— Colossians 1:24, Douay Rheims
This does not imply any deficiency in the redemptive value of Christ’s Passion. Christians are members of His Mystical Body and are permitted, by grace, to participate in the sufferings of their Crucified Head.
🙏 Catholics make reparation through the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, worthy Holy Communion offered in reparation, Eucharistic adoration, prayer, penance, faithfully accepted daily sacrifices, and obedience to Christ’s commandments.
❤️ The Sacred Heart reminds us of the immense love of Christ and the ingratitude with which that love is so often received. Pope Pius XI taught the duty of reparation with particular force in Miserentissimus Redemptor, while Quas Primas proclaimed the rightful Kingship of Christ over individuals and society.
👑 If Christ is truly our King, His subjects cannot answer rebellion with indifference.
We answer ingratitude with gratitude.
We answer disobedience with fidelity.
We answer sin with repentance and reparation.
We do not add to Calvary. We unite ourselves to Calvary.
