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October 17: ST. IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH: God's Wheat
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St. Ignatius of Antioch spent his final journey in chains writing letters that Christians still read two thousand years later. Arrested for his faith and marched toward martyrdom in Rome, the bishop of Antioch used every stop along the way to write to churches, urging Christians to stay united with their bishop and hold fast to the Eucharist, which he called the medicine of immortality. He asked friends not to intervene on his behalf, wanting his death to become an offering rather than an escape. "I am God's wheat, and I shall be ground by...
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Welcome back to the Catholic Sproust podcast where we know that every day is a feast day. It's October 17th, so join us for St. Ignatius of Antioch, God's wheat. The ship was somewhere in the open Mediterranean when the soldiers finally asked him. They had been watching him for days, this old man with his wrists in chains, sitting
against the hull, dipping his pen in ink and writing steadily. He wasn't writing a petition or a plea for mercy. Instead, he was writing letters to the churches, calmly, letter after letter to the people he loved whom he would never see again. Standing over him, one of the soldiers gently kicked
at his foot and asked, Old Man, why are you so calm? Ignatius looked up from the parchment. He thought for a moment about how to explain this to a man who had never met Jesus. I am going to God, he said slowly. What is there to be afraid of? Welcome back.
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