2 Maccabees, Chapter 7, Verse 29
Do not be AFRAID of this executioner, but be worthy of your brothers and
accept death, so that in the time of mercy I may receive you again with your
brothers.”
People
of virtue are often a stumbling block for the rich and the powerful yet know
that they, the rich and the powerful, are only the physical workers of the
devil and his cohort, while we are the children of God. Take courage therefore
and wrap yourself in the virtues our Lord may give you. For some are martyrs
and some are priests and religious and some are holy hermits, and some are holy
spouses and parents. In Maccabees the progressives now push for the abolition
of Judaism. Today we also realize the same push from the progressive tools of
the devil. Will there ever come a time when in our society where virtuous
people are treated like the mother with her seven martyred sons. We report—you
decide!
Martyrdom of a mother and Her Seven
Sons[1]
HANNAH AND HER SEVEN SONS, a story told in II Maccabees,
Chapter 7, of seven brothers who were seized along with their mother by
Antiochus IV Epiphanes, presumably shortly after the beginning of the religious
persecutions in 167/166 B.C.E., and commanded to prove their obedience to the
king by partaking of swine's flesh. The brothers defiantly refused to do so.
Encouraged in their resolve by their mother, they were executed after being put
to frightful tortures. When the mother was appealed to by the king to spare the
youngest child's life by prevailing upon him to comply, she urged the child
instead to follow in the path of his brothers, and she herself died shortly
thereafter.
35 Promises
of God[2]
cont.
“Trust
in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own insight. In all
your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.”-Proverbs
3:5-6
Daily
Devotions
·
Unite yourself in the work of the Porters of St. Joseph by joining them
in fasting: Today's Fast: Restoring the Church
·
do
a personal eucharistic stations of the cross.
·
Litany
of the Most Precious Blood of Jesus
·
Cultivate intelligent foresight
in yourself
·
Offering to
the sacred heart of Jesus
·
"Faith cannot
save without virtue"
·
Rosary
[1]http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/hannah-and-her-seven-sons
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