Called to be a Martyr?

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PerfectTiming said:
The Blessed Mother offered him two crowns: a white for purity and a red for martyrdom, and he accepted both.
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My YG director said he picked just the red one. Oh well…I’ll find a book and read about it. Kolbe seemed like a really interesting Mariologist.
 
Even though God may not call us to be martyrs I have always had the feeling that I would die a “young” death as a martyr. This especially seemed true when I think about my patron saint, St. Agnes of Rome, who was a martyr herself.

A sermon that was given just after the US presidential elections, or around then and around all saints day, talked a little about this and how we American Catholics and Christians may have to do so in the future what with how our country and government are changing and acting.

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DevotedChild said:
A sermon that was given just after the US presidential elections, or around then and around all saints day, talked a little about this and how we American Catholics and Christians may have to do so in the future what with how our country and government are changing and acting.

God Bless
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Hmmm…good point.
 
St. Maximilian Kolbe chose both the white crown symbolizing purity and the red crown representing martyrdom.
 
I’m sure in a year or so, ALL the devout Catholics are gonna become martyrs.
 
I dont know about experiencing a call to martyrdom unless in the actual situation, although there is always the extraordinary, the uncommon. I think probably mature spirituality might reach a stage where one realizes that one would be prepared to die for The Faith and this to my mind would be an extraordinary type of Grace in itself.
 
TiggerS said:
I dont know about experiencing a call to martyrdom unless in the actual situation, although there is always the extraordinary, the uncommon. I think probably mature spirituality might reach a stage where one realizes that one would be prepared to die for The Faith and this to my mind would be an extraordinary type of Grace in itself.
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Posted by PerfectTiming: "St. Maximilian Kolbe had a vision of the Blessed Mother as a child where she told him that he would one day become a martyr. "

Example of an uncommon and out of the ordinary type of experience 🙂

To feel that one is quite prepared if necessary to die for The Faith is not a common type of experience amongst Catholics, I should imagine. Perhaps it is, I have no way of knowing.
 
Well, the way this country is going, you may not have to wait long to find out.
 
A priest once said to me that God will always without fail grant the necessary Graces at the actual time; however, He may not grant the Graces necessary to deal with our imagination. And until the future is actually a here and now, our thoughts about the future exist only in our imagination. Our imagination can be informed by the likely, the logical and the reasonable conclusions or deductions, but it is still only imaginary. Only God knows the future.

If martyrdom is to be one’s destiny, then all the necessary Grace will be granted at the actual time. There is of course always the unusual and extraordinary, that which is not the most common, the miraculous. This latter does speak to the fact that only God can know the future and our own future. As human beings, we only have this very moment, this now, to live out knowing that it is, that it is present and actual, reality.
Doubtless, if God grants a vision of one’s future, all necessary Graces will come with that vision.
 
I always add a prayer that I can love God enough to accept what I face, including matyrdom. Can’t hurt 🙂
 
red_bug_jen said:
A year might be a bit quick (or might not) but I see it coming as well.
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It’s in the Catholic Catechism - no time to post link just now. When exactly The Church will undergo the great assault by evil is unknown since it immediately precedes the Second Coming of Jesus. Of course, there may be lesser persecutions in the meantime.
Will post link to CCC when I can.
 
Catholic Catechism (CCC)

Today’s Gospel makes it quite clear that no one knows the time of this final assault of evil heralding the return of Jesus - no one but The Father. Before that time there could well be many struggles with evil of one kind of another. Many struggles - and perhaps purifications of The Church on earth.
Gospel Reading for 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time - 18th November 2012

dailygospel.org/main.php?language=AM&module=readings&localdate=20121118
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 13:24-32.
But in those days after that tribulation the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light,
and the stars will be falling from the sky, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken.
And then they will see ‘the Son of Man coming in the clouds’ with great power and glory,
and then he will send out the angels and gather (his) elect from the four winds, from the end of the earth to the end of the sky.
Learn a lesson from the fig tree. When its branch becomes tender and sprouts leaves, you know that summer is near.
In the same way, when you see these things happening, know that he is near, at the gates.
Amen, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things have taken place.
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
But of that day or hour, no one knows, neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
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scborromeo.org/ccc/p1s2c2a7.htm#675
The Church’s ultimate trial
675 Before Christ’s second coming the Church must pass through a final trial that will shake the faith of many believers.574 The persecution that accompanies her pilgrimage on earth575 will unveil the “mystery of iniquity” in the form of a religious deception offering men an apparent solution to their problems at the price of apostasy from the truth. The supreme religious deception is that of the Antichrist, a pseudo-messianism by which man glorifies himself in place of God and of his Messiah come in the flesh.576
676 The Antichrist’s deception already begins to take shape in the world every time the claim is made to realize within history that messianic hope which can only be realized beyond history through the eschatological judgment. The Church has rejected even modified forms of this falsification of the kingdom to come under the name of millenarianism,577 especially the “intrinsically perverse” political form of a secular messianism.578

677 ***The Church will enter the glory of the kingdom only through this final Passover, when she will follow her Lord in his death and Resurrection.***579 The kingdom will be fulfilled, then, not by a historic triumph of the Church through a progressive ascendancy, but only by God’s victory over the final unleashing of evil, which will cause his Bride to come down from heaven.580 God’s triumph over the revolt of evil will take the form of the Last Judgment after the final cosmic upheaval of this passing world.581
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None of the above is cause for fear, rather to “wait in Joyful Hope for the coming of our Saviour Jesus Christ” (prayer during The Mass after the Our Father):
C. Deliver us, Lord, from every evil,
and grant us peace in our day.
In your mercy keep us free from sin
and protect us from all anxiety
as we wait in joyful hope
for the coming of our Saviour, Jesus Christ.
cam.org.au/Archbishop/Homilies/Archbishops-Homilies-2003/Article/1987/Mass-of-All-Souls
 
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