In the Gospel we hear Jesus praying to God, the Father: “Consecrate them in the truth. Your word is truth.” For us Christians, truth is not a relative thing, right? Jesus is the truth. God’s law is the truth. We find the truth in the values and teachings of our faith. The truth is handed down to us by the Word of God, confirmed to us and explained to us through Tradition and through the teaching of the Magisterium, the Pope working together with the Bishops. That is what we believe as Catholics, but you would not know that by all the voices in the world today telling us their version of the truth. The truth is relative in our secular world today. That was one of the things Pope Benedict XVI said again and again, that relativism is the greatest evil that the modern world faces today. Perhaps St Teresa of Avila, Doctor of the Church from the 16th century, foresaw what we would be dealing with today when she proclaimed: “Truth suffers, but never dies.”
Father John Hardon, a Jesuit priest who died in 2000 and recognized as a Servant of God in the Canonization process to sainthood, wrote: “Our duty as Catholics is to know the truth; to live the truth; to defend the truth; to share the truth with others; and to suffer for the truth.” May we be consecrated in the truth of God today.
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