“When we come to the service of Christ, we come to a rough profession.”
The Jesuit poet and Elizabethan martyr, St Robert Southwell, reminded his fellow prisoners of this sober truth in his “Epistle of Comfort.” He composed the letter lest they, jailed for the Catholic Faith, be tempted to forget that the Cross is intimately connected to the service of Christ.
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