Jacques Hamel who was celebrating the Eucharist had his throat cut. Of course he is now a martyr for the faith, but we cannot be glib, not as new martyrs are being made in lands we once thought safe. Still, I had to learn more about this man. How, O God, how can you let others do this in your name! This is your church, your bride, and she is being slaughtered by men who think they know and understand you.
Call them to repentance! Call us all to look on you, to look on your Son bleeding for us. Stephen was stoned by those who believed themselves doing the will of God. Hamel was killed by men who believed the same. It is sickening, the violence. Yet the symbolism is beautiful. The blood of the martyr is the blood of Christ.
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