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L to R: St. Ignatius of Loyola (Peter Paul Rubens), St. Philip Neri (Sebastiano Conca), St. Teresa of Ávila (François Gérard), St. Charles Borromeo (Matteo Rosselli) and St. Angela Merici (Agostino Ugolini) (photo: Public Domain)
By Sherry Weddell, EWTN August 9, 2023
Sherry Weddell Sherry A. Weddell is co-founder and Executive Director of the Catherine of Siena Institute. She is the author of the Called & Gifted charism discernment process designed especially for Catholics and the best-selling book, Forming Intentional Disciples: the Path to Knowing and Following Jesus.
COMMENTARY: A brief look at the dark period of 1533-1539 tells us that right now, God is raising up the apostles and saints of the 21st century whom he will use to respond to the challenges of our difficult time in ways you and I can’t even imagine.
It is essential to remember that even in the darkest of times for the Church, God is always at work, calling forth disciples whose wildly different lives, situations, personalities and responses to God will send out ripples that converge and together change the direction of history.
Most U.S. Catholics know that King Henry VIII declared himself head of the Church in England, beheaded Sts. Thomas More and John Fisher, and began suppressing the ancient religious communities. The years spanning 1533-1539 marked the dramatic beginning of generations of persecution and suffering for English Catholics. And yet God was already raising up the only answer for really bad times: fruitful new Catholic apostles. Look at who was emerging in the Church during the very same six-year period: …
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