- They are the successors of the Apostles.
You posted a picture of Jesus Crucified, and FWIW, I commend you for it. There have often been remarks made against Catholics for not focusing on the Risen Christ, while worshipping Him as He was on the Cross. That Cross was the Altar of His Ultimate Sacrifice. Each day, at Mass Jesus is worshipped in His Divinity; His Life and Word on earth; His Passion, Death, and Resurrection; His Glory now, from all eternity, for all eternity.
I pray for the grace not to abandon Him, for as His Earthly Body suffered, died, and rose again, so must the Mystical Body of which He is the Head. To abandon the Church which He founded at the price of His Blood would be to lose our greatest Treasure: the Eucharist. We do worship Him, in all aspects possible in this life. And we worship and receive Him, Body and Blood; Soul and Divinity. Yes, Divinity as well, for when Jesus is present, so is the Father; so is the Spirit.
We are brethren in that we are followers and worshippers of Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God. We are Christians. We choose to remain Catholic at the cost of derision in the world; dissent within the Church; all that has plagued is throughout the last two millennia. We are not a building, we are a people.
For myself and all my Christian brethren, I pray with all my heart that we shall have courage and remain steadfast in the times to come. A Catholic Christian finds this in the Sacraments that Jesus gave us. And if I die for the sake of all this, then, God help me, my poor, miserable life will have been well-spent. I left once; I beg God I may never leave again. May we rejoice together in Heaven one day; may God give us strength in the tribulation now, and that to come- for we, and you, my brother love Jesus Christ- that is our common bond!
May He bless and keep you, and all men of good will who await His coming! Amen! Come, Lord Jesus!
The gain saying of every Catholic who has refused to even look it up.