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Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Edmund King And Martyr



Perhaps you missed it in the clown show circus, shampeachment event but today's the Feast of St. Edmund, King and Martyr. Edmund was King of East Anglia in the second half of the 9th century A.D. 

He was a model ruler who refused to listen to sneaky, lying, perfidious informant spies, focusing his energies instead on the Christian life and fighting the heathen Vikings.

The latter killed him in 870, torturing the martyr king in a failed attempt to make Edmund renounce his faith before shooting him to death with arrows. The King's shrine was established at the abbey church of Bury St. Edmunds, where it remained until the impious monarch Henry VIII destroyed it in a fit of crazed greed.




Here's his Collect:

O God of ineffable tenderness, who didst enable the most blessed King, Edmund, to overcome his enemy by laying down his life for Thy Name, mercifully grant that we, Thy servants, may, by his intercession, overcome and destroy in ourselves the temptations of our old enemy. Through our Lord . . .

St. Edmund, intercede for us against the raging heathen of our times. 

God bless,

LSP
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10 comments:

  1. BrigNovember 20, 2019 at 10:46 PM

    Amen.

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  2. Ed BonderenkaNovember 21, 2019 at 4:42 AM

    I cannot link this on Facebook as "other have reported it as abusive".
    Disgusting.
    It's a good post.

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  3. AdrienneNovember 21, 2019 at 8:52 AM

    St Edmund - pray for us...

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  4. LLNovember 21, 2019 at 10:03 AM

    Machievelli wrote, "A good man must necessarily come to grief." We're seeing that play out in the US these days as the forces of evil attack the president. Evil rulers (Hillary would have been a classic example) seem better suited to the crown.

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  5. LSPNovember 21, 2019 at 5:23 PM

    He was a great saint, Brig.

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  6. LSPNovember 21, 2019 at 5:28 PM

    Thanks, Ed.

    But yes, Facetolerance banned this lighthearted blog a while ago. Same with Insta. You can get around it, kinda, by writing *dot com. Still, nothing quite like the stainless steel blade of lib fascism.

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  7. LSPNovember 21, 2019 at 5:29 PM

    Yes indeed, Adrienne.

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  8. LSPNovember 21, 2019 at 5:30 PM

    LL, we surely are. That said, I wouldn't want to be on the wrong side of 45 and some think the payback won't be pretty.

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  9. Ed BonderenkaNovember 22, 2019 at 4:19 AM

    LSP: I was banned for a while, but I kept protesting and they lifted it.

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  10. LSPNovember 22, 2019 at 3:55 PM

    I've thought about kicking up over it, Ed, but part of me doesn't want to encourage Facebook traffic. Hmmmm. Blogger banned me too(!) but that was lifted...

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