“Rest assured, there are many people there who can understand your way. There are also souls who, whether they know it or not, are looking for Christ and have not found Him. But ‘How can they hear about Him, if nobody tells them?’”
“Some people know nothing about God... because no one has talked to them about him in terms they can understand.”
“You have a duty to reach those around you, to shake them out of their drowsiness, to open wide new horizons for their selfish, comfortable lives, to ‘complicate’ their lives in a holy way, to make them forget about themselves and show understanding for the problems of others.
If you do not, you are not a good brother to your brothers in the human race, who need that gaudium cum pace, that joy and that peace, which maybe they do not know or have forgotten.”
All the above quotations were taken from the writings of St. Josemaria Escriva. They are remarkable not only for their practicality, but also for their bluntness. Escriva clearly and concisely explains that Christians not only have an obligation, but a sacred responsibility to reach out towards our fellow Man. And, this includes an accurate and complete presentation of the Gospel. For we currently live in an age where apathy and laziness masquerade as a false sort of progressivism. Many self-proclaimed Christians think they are being open-minded and tolerant, when, in reality, they are simply capitulating to current social patterns and conforming their ideas and opinions to the collective secular mind. It’s an anti-religiosity of misplaced egalitarianism. In terms of Christian charity towards homosexuals: it’s often easier to surrender someone to the gay orientation rather than taking a little more time and effort to understand the person beneath the pop-culture imposed persona. In a sense, we have contributed to their possible condemnation. Because we have failed to present any viable option: we have given them little choice, but to endure a life that many do not want and, later, are oftentimes anxious to leave. This is the epitome of un-Christ-like behavior, since Jesus never left anyone as He found them.