Fri Jan 21, 2022 – 3:07 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) — Mask mandates, vaccine mandates, and marches. And in the midst of it all, the Church in her liturgy gives us today the feast of little St. Agnes, virgin and martyr.
A girl of only 12 or 13, Agnes was murdered in 304 in Rome during the persecution of Christians under the Emperor Diocletian for refusing marriage. Agnes had committed to give her whole self to Jesus Christ and not even the threat of death could deter her from this promise.
Since God’s timing is perfect, it is no mistake that St. Agnes’ feast day falls on the 2022 March for Life, where, this year, the ever-heated issue of abortion shares the stage with a backdrop of abortion-tainted vaccines, vax passes and mandates. What lesson does St. Agnes have for us today?
Agnes stands in the middle of this seeming chaos and self-destruction as a reminder of the dignity of chastity and life, both of which are worth turning our lives upside down for—even to the point of death.
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