Syria: What Martyrdom Means?

[seakelp]

“My assignment next year, if the siege ends,” Tony says, his shoulders and eyes pointed at the floor, “will be to live in Homs. If the siege ends we will go back to our house. I might live in his room next year. Who is worthy to live in the room of a martyr?”

americamagazine.org/what-martyrdom-means

 

[seakelp]

I also loved this qoute (from the very end of the article, so please read the whole thing, first!):

We human beings are not the ones who get to make this death meaningful. God is the one who breathes life, calls us from the grave, makes any death—even a martyrdom, even this one, even if it becomes the catalyst for peace in Syria—meaningful.

Which does not make our remembering, or our actions in memory of, or the action of remembering, mean nothing. Not in the least. Instead it puts us, like St. Peter, in our place. In the deep waters, casting our nets into the wide sea, knowing that we are not the ones who place the fish.

Knowing that we are not the ones who place the fish.
Knowing that we are not the ones who place the fish.
Knowing that we are not the ones who place the fish.

 

[Path_Finder]

My condolences to the Jesuits.

Thank you for the article. I read it.

 

[latin_rite]

Say what you want about Assad. But Syria is or was one of the best places to live in the middle east if you’re Christian. Probably even more so than Israel.