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Stories for a Faithful Heart,
compiled by Alice Gray. Mulnomah Publ., 2004.
This book contains powerful stories that stand like lighted candles on a dark night. The chapter headings give a glimpse of the treasures contained in each section: Compassion, Love, Making a Difference, Changed Lives,
Forgiveness, Trust and Contentment, Prayer, and Faith. This book lends itself to preaching and presenting lectures on spiritual topics.
Each chapter begins with an inspirational quote. For example, in the section on Compassion, Gray wrote: I have wept in the night for the
shortness of sight That to somebody’s need made me blind; But I never have felt a tinge of regret For being a little too kind.
Many of the stories end with a Scripture quote. For example, at the end of a story called “Lavender Memories,” Gray wrote: “Blessed
are the merciful, for they shall be shown mercy.” (Mt. 5: 7).
(Thanks to Sr. Irene Hartman OP for this review.) Paperback
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Sts. Perpetua and Felicity: March 7. d. 203.
“When my father in his affection for me was trying to turn me from my purpose by arguments and thus weaken my faith, I said to him, ‘Do you see this vessel—waterpot or whatever it may be? Can it be called by any other name than what it is?’ ‘No,’ he replied. ‘So also I cannot call myself by any other name than what I am—a Christian.’”
So writes Perpetua: young, beautiful, well-educated, a noblewoman of Carthage in North Africa, mother of an infant son and chronicler of the persecution of the Christians by Emperor Septimius Severus.
Perpetua’s mother was a Christian and her father a pagan. He continually pleaded with her to deny her faith. She refused and was imprisoned at
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In her diary, Perpetua describes her period of captivity: “What a day of horror! Terrible heat, owing to the crowds! Rough treatment by the soldiers! To crown all, I was tormented with anxiety for my baby…. Such anxieties I suffered for many days, but I obtained leave for my baby to remain in the prison with me, and being relieved of my trouble and anxiety for him, I at once
recovered my health, and my prison became a palace to me and I would rather have been there than anywhere else.”
Despite threats of persecution and death, Perpetua, Felicity–a slavewoman and expectant mother–and three companions, Revocatus, Secundulus and Saturninus, refused to renounce their Christian faith. For their unwillingness, all were sent to the public games in the
amphitheater. There Perpetua and Felicity were beheaded, and the others killed by beasts.
Felicity gave birth to a girl a few days before the games commenced.
Perpetua’s record of her trial and imprisonment ends the day before the games. “Of what was done in the games
themselves, let him write who will.” The diary was finished by an eyewitness.
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