By Eugene R. Schlesinger
Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.
Luke 23:34
Lord, do not hold this sin against them.
Acts 7:60
Let...
By Jean McCurdy Meade
Thanks to the charming carol, “Good King Wenceslas,” most Christians know that the day after Christmas is the Feast of Stephen....
Stephen’s brief ministry and death participate in and therefore set before us the continuous act of suffering known as the incarnation of the Divine Word.
Could I ask, with the martyr St. Stephen, "O Lord, give me every disadvantage, every difficulty, every hardness. Send me out with no tools, no friends, no worldly hopes of vengeance or reward. Put me among the hateful, the violent, the diseased, the unstable"?