Mass was offered today for the repose of the soul of Patrick Casey (+), may he rest in the embrace of Christ; and secondarily for his family and friends, all those who mourn his departure. Today has been a catch-all memorial for the many Roman Christians who perished for our holy religion as a result of the persecutions of the emperor Nero, which also took away the Holy Father Saint Peter and the Apostle Saint Paul in the first century. The ghastly Nero seems to have needed much of Rome destroyed for his own personal reasons, so he had it burned and blamed the hated Christians for it, whereupon he visited great destruction upon the Church. His use of burning Christians as street-lighting is legendary.
I'm going to bore you with another clip from the move Paul Apostle of Christ, which demonstrates the desperation of the Christians as their hiding places grew smaller in number and they began to get desperate. Some of them want to retaliate, but Saint Luke (played by James Caviezel) puts his foot down. 'Love!' he thunders, 'Love is the only way!'
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