Praying for your possible captors and executioners IS NOT an expectation of failure – it is exactly the opposite. WE KNOW that we have the victory, but we also know, as virile people grounded in reality, that EVERY WAR HAS PHYSICAL CASUALTIES. But just because there are corporeal casualties, including possibly our own bodily death, doesn’t mean we don’t fight. That would be EFFEMINATE. Like St. Martina, we know death is nothing to fear, and death is often an opportunity to evangelize by example
Ann Barnhardt:
As St. Martina teaches us, even your EXECUTIONERS might be “your friends that you haven’t met yet”. Maybe we should all step our prayer games up and pray every day for any future captors and executioners we might have SPECIFICALLY. “…For my friends that I haven’t met yet, especially any future captors or executioners.”
And pray for the Truckers. Word is that most trailers are filled with supplies, so when the truckers say, “We aren’t leaving until the dictatorship is over,” they aren’t kidding.
Praying for your possible captors and executioners IS NOT an expectation of failure – it is exactly the opposite. WE KNOW that we have the victory, but we also know, as virile people grounded in reality, that EVERY WAR HAS PHYSICAL CASUALTIES. But just because there are corporeal casualties, including possibly our own bodily death, doesn’t mean we don’t fight. That would be EFFEMINATE. Like St. Martina, we know death is nothing to fear, and death is often an opportunity to evangelize by example. If we should find ourselves captive or being killed by the enemy, let us die with such calm, virile confidence that we convert even our executioners by sheer attraction to our Christian courage. Courage. Fortitudo moralis. The fruit of the Third Sorrowful Mystery: the crowning of Our Lord with the Crown of Thorns.
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