FROM Catholic Tradition Newsletter by the Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier:

One thing faithful Catholics must always remember is that priests are not happiologists. Somehow the common masses, of which spirit the majority of pagan Catholics have absorbed, believe that the Church is there to make them happy. If they mess up their lives, the Church is there to take away the consequences and restore them to happiness. If their marriage is unhappy, the Church is there to remove the husband or wife or children that are making them unhappy and give them another husband or wife or children that will make them happy. If they become diseased because of their lifestyle, the Church is there to miraculously restore their health so they can continue to live happily in their lifestyle. The latest attempt of the Conciliar Church—to grant a divorce (yes, I know, it is an “annulment”—but you cannot say something is not when it is just to make people happy like the Emperor’s New Clothes.) [sic] They have taken on this being happiologist and are failing miserably because they cannot make people happy, people choose to be happy and for which reason even the poorest are sometimes happier than the wealthiest. No, the Church is here to take away sin and in doing that must tell people they are in sin and need to get out of sin whether they want to hear it or not, whether it makes them happy or not, whether they do it or not. When a priest, knowing this [is] his obligation, does so he knows that he will probably be hated especially by those wanting to be of this world (sinners) but that is why Our Divine Redeemer warned His disciples: If the world hate you, know ye, that it hath hated me before you. (John 15:18) It is surprising that nobody understands that the popularity polls are just that: How much does the world love me? Therefore the fear of a disciple of Christ to even want to have a poll measuring the love of the world for him let alone trying to rise in these polls by pleasing the world. Wonder not, brethren, if the world hate you. (1 John 3:13) The priest doesn’t preach happiness, he preaches blessedness for he has to preach Christ Crucified (1 Cor 1:23) for  Blessed shall you be when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man’ s sake. (Luke 6:22) This does not mean a sense of self-righteousness, rather it means a union with Christ Who is the Way, the Truth and the Life (cf John 14:6) that brings joy and peace (cf. Gal. 5:22).

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