![]() ![]() I am Yours … Only all YoursĪnd last but not least, from a contemporary saint, Mother Teresa of Calcutta often exhorted her sisters, coworkers, and priests to abandon themselves completely to the transforming love of Jesus. This thing is to be embraced and desired, and to be asked for in all the entreaties of our petitions, that we who are God’s servants should be also His friends. In the baptism of water is received the remission of sins, in the baptism of blood the crown of virtues. ![]() Let us only who, by the Lord’s permission, have given the first baptism to believers, also prepare each one for the second urging and teaching that this is a baptism greater in grace, more lofty in power, more precious in honour- a baptism wherein angels baptize- a baptism in which God and His Christ exult - a baptism after which no one sins any more - a baptism which completes the increase of our faith- a baptism which, as we withdraw from the world, immediately associates us with God. Let the ears be roused by them let the minds be prepared by them let the powers both of soul and body be strengthened to all endurance of suffering. Let them be the incitements of the warlike trumpet let them he the clarion-blast for the warriors. Those divine precepts themselves must be supplied, as it were, for arms for the combatants. And you will exhibit to others also what we have sent, that they themselves may be able to finish it according to their will so that that old nakedness being covered, they may all bear the garments of Christ robed in the sanctification of heavenly grace…Moreover also, beloved brethren, I have considered it a useful and wholesome plan in an exhortation so needful as that which may make martyrs, to cut off all delays and tardiness in our words, and to put away the windings of human discourse, and set down only those things which God speaks, wherewith Christ exhorts His servants to martyrdom. In his treatise An Exhortation to Martyrdom, he writes:īut now I have sent you the very wool and the purple from the Lamb, by whom we were redeemed and quickened which, when you have received, you will make into a coat for yourself according to your own will, and the rather that you will rejoice in it as your own private and special garment. He was the Bishop in Carthage during Decius’ reign as Roman Emperor, when Christian were being forced to sacrifice to idols under penalty of death. Saint Cyprian of Carthage wrote a great deal about the call to witness to Jesus Christ in martyrdom. Saint Paul in Saint Peter’s Square, Rome An Exhortation to Martyrdom ![]()
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