Blue Martyrs
Atomic Monk , by alexart911 Propers: The Fourth Sunday of Easter , AD 2024 B Homily: Lord, we pray for the preacher, for you know his sins are great. Alleluia! Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! Alleluia! Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Last Monday a mass stabbing occurred, at the Church of Christ the Good Shepherd, in a suburb of Sydney, Australia. Thankfully no-one was killed, though not for lack of trying. And as the assailant knifed the bishop, in the middle of his live-streamed sermon, the bishop said to his attacker: “May Jesus Christ save you.” Actively being stabbed. And the first thing that he uttered was, “May Jesus Christ save you.” “I am the Good Shepherd,” Jesus tells us in John’s Gospel this morning. “The Good Shepherd lays down His life for His sheep.” And John follows this up in his first epistle: “We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us—and we ought to lay down our lives for one anoth