Reflection on Mt 7:13-14

Jesus speaks about the narrow gate and difficult way which leads to life. The narrow gate is Christ’s commandments of love and the difficult way is Christ’s cross and His death by which one enters into eternal life. The broad way which leads to destruction is the way of egoism, moral licentiousness, deceit and lies, which is often tied up with the demonic practices of divination, magic or spiritualism, de facto the worship of evil and demons. This way leads to eternal destruction. The painful reality is that mass media, public opinion, fashion, destructive influences such as decadent music or art, admiration of the occult, promotion of perversion etc. literally drag the souls onto the broad way to destruction. They persuasively present it as prestige and if anyone refuses to follow it, one is ridiculed. The narrow way of justice is presented as something degrading and old-fashioned. He who does not love the truth is easily deceived. Today young people need the courage to struggle against the decadent current. This is true heroism!

Ask yourself: Which way am I on? The broad way of sin or the narrow way of following Christ? True wisdom is mindful of the end, death and eternity. A fool is spiritually blind and forgets about death and eternity.

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