[Grem] A mai karácsonyi szentmise igéi Szt. István vértanú ünnepén

[Emoke Greschik]

*Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus predicts the coming persecution of his
disciples. And we can see his prophetic word realized through the ages.*Think
of

*St. Peter himself, crucified upside down in the circus of Nero; of
Felicity and Perpetua, thrown to wild animals because they wouldn’t deny
their faith; of Thomas More, who resisted King Henry VIII and paid for it
with his head; of Paul Miki, the Japanese Jesuit, who was crucified for
announcing the Christian faith; of Padre Pro, who was shot to death for
defying a repressive Mexican government, shouting as he was shot, "Viva el
Cristo Rey!"; of Franz Jägerstätter and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, whom the Nazi
regime put to death; of Maximilian Kolbe, who died at Auschwitz, willingly
taking the place of another man. And the list goes on and on.*
*Indeed, the martyrs have come from all corners of the world, and they have
spoken Greek, Latin, French, German, English, Japanese, Polish, and many
other languages besides. Friends, this, strangely, is the army that
undermines the foundations of the fallen world through the centuries. This
is the great fighting force that Jesus has unleashed and continue to
unleash.*

*Dicsőség az Atyának, a Fiúnak és a Szentléleknek most és mindörökké. Ámen.*
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