The All-Hallows Choir, by David Warren

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All Saints Day (Allerheiligen) by Johann König, 1632 [Deutsche Barockgalerie in the Schaezlerpalais, Augsburg, Germany]

By David Warren, The Catholic Thing, November 1, 2024

David Warren is a former editor of the Idler magazine and columnist in Canadian newspapers. He has extensive experience in the Near and Far East. His blog, Essays in Idleness, is now to be found at: davidwarrenonline.com.

 

Christians, and particularly the Saints, have a record of flourishing under the least likely circumstances. The reader with even a passing acquaintance with Christian history will be familiar with this.

They, and we, when we persist to victory, are undefeated even through defeat. For if God is for us, who can be against us?

The faithful Christian will even know why this is so. He will be inwardly confident, that the universe is designed in such a way that he can win. And it will be a good fight, against insuperable odds, except that Christ has made them superable.

For our religion is founded on Christ, the Son of God, and rests upon Him and rises with Him. He came down from Heaven at the most auspicious moment, which to our view was the most unlikely time. And He prevailed, through Crucifixion. …