To Do Penance

Painting: Paul Hippolyte Flandrin, Fra Angelico visité par les anges 1894

It's a Scandal

Do We See This Happening?

'Sin becomes 
much more scandalous 

when the sinner is 
honored 
for his position.'

Pope St. Gregory the Great

Painting: Régnier, Carnival Scene


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That Secret Martyrdom

'There are in fact two kinds of martyrdom.  
One takes place only in the heart, the other in both heart and body.
We too are capable of being martyrs, even without having anyone slay us.
 To die from someone's enmity is martyrdom out in the open.

To bear insults, to love a person who hates us, is martyrdom in secret.'

                                                                                 

St. Gregory the Great

Painting:  Jean-Leon Gerome, The Christian Martyrs' Last Prayer, 1883