Prayers & Reflections for November 19

The Armor of God
Reflections and Prayers for Wartime

CHAPTER III
Thoughts for Fighting Men

I must not be ashamed if I am fearful and if my whole being shrinks in dread, for the Lord in the Garden before going to the Battle of Calvary prayed: "If it be possible, let this chalice pass from me" (Matt. 26:39).

What I must fear is my unwillingness to fulfill the will of God as revealed by the present circumstances of life. "Not my will but thine be done" (Luke 22:42).

[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