Remember the Suffering, Remember the Dead
Remember the Suffering, Remember the Dead
by Rev. John F. Naugle at Brownstone Institute
On October 14, the Catholic Church observes the anniversary of the martyrdom of Pope Callistus I in A.D. 223 . The Collect for the Mass in his honor prays the following:
O God, who raised up Pope Saint Callistus the First to serve the Church and attend devoutly to Christ's faithful departed, strengthen us, we pray, by his witness to the faith, so that, rescued from the slavery of corruption, we may merit an incorruptible inheritance.
This prayer is an allusion to the fact that, while deacon, Callistus was…
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