The Armor of God
Reflections and Prayers for Wartime
CHAPTER III
Thoughts for Fighting Men
Sergeants are proverbially believed to be hard and tough. It is not likely that they were any different on Calvary.
It was a Roman sergeant, so used to scenes of blood, who ran a spear into the side of Christ. But he was converted on that battlefield and in that very hour he declared his faith: "Indeed, this is the Son of God."
Maybe I can find Christ on the battlefield too.
[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
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