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The Lord forewarns us of what we will face if we are truly followers of His. Persecutions! If we become worldly, then we would not expect these attacks on religion and on the Catholic Faith. What Our Lord taught us in the Beatitudes, for example, sets us in collision course with the values of worldliness and evil. Hence, our sufferings are compounded together with the given difficulties of ordinary life itself. This sad and frustrating state of affairs here in earth should not discourage us. Our hope is enlivened to look forward to that day when we go to see God face to face, for eternity!