Prayers & Reflections for October 22

The Armor of God
Reflections and Prayers for Wartime

CHAPTER II
Thoughts in War Time

...This war is really only an episode in the working out of a Truth; it is not the great Truth that is an episode in the war. War is a sign that men are against God and therefore against one another.
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"I the Lord direct your hearts into the charity of God and the patience of Christ" (II Thess. 3:5). If you go to a mystery play, do you walk out in the first act when the hero is killed?

If you give the dramatist credit for a plot, why not give God credit for a plot? Hard as this war is, it is happening for the best.

"My soul, sit then a patient looker on,
Judge not the play before the play is done,
The plot hath many changes. Every day
Speaks a new scene; the last act crowns the play."...

[Continued tomorrow]
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From:
The Armor of God
Reflections and Prayers for Wartime
by Rt. Rev. Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen
(C) 1943, P.J. Kenedy & Sons