“We carry on like slaves. There isn’t time to breathe, and I am up to my eyebrows in this business of feeding those who have nothing. And they are many—those with nothing. As a rule my purse is as dry as [Mexican President] Calles’s soul.
We ought to speak, shout out against injustices, with confidence and without fear.
Viva Cristo Rey!"
Miguel Agustin Pro, Martyred 'in hatred of the faith', Mexico, November 23, 1927
“This great masquerade of evil has played havoc with all our ethical concepts. For evil to appear disguised as light, compassion, historical necessity or even social justice is quite bewildering to anyone brought up on our traditional ethical concepts, while for the Christian who bases his life on the Word, it merely confirms the fundamental wickedness of evil. Mere waiting and looking on is not Christian behavior. Christians are called to compassion and to action."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Martyred, Germany, April 9, 1945
"But if not, I will not bow, and God grant that we will never bow, before the gods of evil."
Martin Luther King, Martyred, America, April 4, 1968
"The government soldiers cut him with a machete until he was bleeding from several wounds. They made him watch the execution of some of his friends. He cried and moaned with pain as they cut off the bottom of his feet, and made him walk through the town. At times they stopped him and said, 'If you shout, 'Death to Christ the King' we will spare your life'. The young Josélito would only say, 'I will never give in, Viva Cristo Rey y Santa Maria de Guadalupe.'”
José Sánchez del Río, Martyred, Mexico, February 10,1928
"The real conflict is the inner conflict. Beyond armies of occupation and the the sacrifice of many victims of extermination camps, there are two irreconcilable enemies in the depth of every soul: good and evil, sin and love. And what use are the victories on the battlefield if we are ourselves are defeated in our innermost selves?”
Maximilian Maria Kolbe, Martyred, Poland, 14 August 1941
Stocks were wobbly, but managed to gather themselves together for another heave ho higher.
VIX fell of course. Geopolitical and economic risks? Talk to the invisible hand.
Gold and silver moved higher,
The Dollar moved higher.
The outsized self-importance of the worldly would be a parody in its lack of perspective and judgement, if they were not also able to cause so much damage and heartache to others through their delusions.
They are not so much tragic as just sad.
Sadder still are those who throw the best of themselves away, foolishly, in blindly following them.
It calls to mind the recent children's crusades of the gullible and the deluded, the demented opera buffa of the 'insurrection' and wars for territory and egos of the anointed.
This is the tragedy of the madness. Few can stand against it, unless they remain firmly standing in love.
And it has not yet found its completion.
Have a pleasant evening.
