Our Lord gave us a Church which, because it is His, is indefectible. Indefectibility doesn’t mean that it will remain prominent and influential. It only guarantees that it will remain until He returns in glory. Because the Church is Christ’s Mystical Body, offered now for eternity to the Father by the High Priest at the heavenly altar, the Church will have to experience its Passion as well. On the other side of that Passion is glory. Before the Ascension, the Lord breathed on the Apostles and made them “witnesses” (martyres) to the Good News. The Holy Spirit “breathed” down on the whole Church. You, the confirmed, are “in-breathed” by the Holy Spirit also to be strong in living as “witnesses” in the Church’s commission.
Hold firm to our purpose