Jesus says:
“Not only will they throw you out of the synagogues,366 and by these I mean all the social positions in which you could have honor and gain. You will be persecuted for the sake of my Name and for your faithfulness to it even in spirit. Not because those persecuting you do so out of sincere zeal towards Me and worship of Me. But because - I am speaking especially to you, my spokesmen - the words you utter are such as to provoke the majority - particularly including that part of the majority which ought to be the best one - and you thus become the object of its hatred.
“I am not speaking here for all believers, for whom there will certainly come the periodical persecutions of human power caught up by Satanic fever, but of the special persecutions for all my beloved ones, upon whom, in addition to the sweet cross of my love and my will, there is imposed the most bitter cross of hatred and human ill will.
“Oh, if only you knew how the world hates you, O my beloved! It hates you as it hated Me. And in the world there are also the descendants of the priests of old, their successors, with a twofold sin. Few among them have true faith. Rationalism sterilizes them with its doctrine, and selfishness blinds them and leads them to hate. They will thus accuse you of being heretics. But do not lose heart. The world ceases on the day of your birth. Then the gates of the true World - eternal and good because it is God’s World - will open for you.
“I love you, O my beloved. I thank you. I bless you, and, along with Me, the Father and the Spirit do, because you, in serving Me, serve the eternal Trinity, and It kisses you with its rays of love and surrounds you with Itself to compensate you ineffably for all the sorrow which the deniers of God occasion you.
“Go in peace, Maria. And give Me your tribulation and your desolation. It is not that you are alone. It is that I need this affliction of yours. A bit of Gethsemane out of love for Me.”
366 John 16:2