Dear Cody, Straight A\u2019s on your midterms, eh?\u00a0 Congrats.\u00a0 But can I ask you, are you studying for your exams, or are you studying for life? All the information you spilled into those little exam booklets \u2013 is it nourishing your soul, or just serving as fertilizer for your report card?\u00a0 Remember, if you\u2019re searching for truth, you are building a healthy intellectual life, but if you\u2019re after vainglory, you\u2019re building a house of cards.\u00a0 That reminds me of today\u2019s saint. The story goes that Caprisius was a young bishop in southern France during one of the many imperial persecutions of Christians back in the early days of the Church.\u00a0 When the persecution spread to his particular town, his flock scattered, and everybody fled into the hills to save their lives.\u00a0 He went after them in order to continue ministering to them.\u00a0 One of his flock who hadn\u2019t escaped was St Faith, whose remarkable martyrdom he witnessed from a distance.\u00a0 So moved was he by her courage and steadfastness in the face of interrogation, threats, cajolery, and torture, that as soon as she had been executed he marched down into the town and presented him as a Christian to Dacian, the Roman official.\u00a0 Dacian looked at him gravely.\u00a0 After a moment, he encouraged him to remember his youth and his athletic, attractive appearance.\u00a0 Then he offered the bishop a high position, other rewards, and imperial favors, if would offer sacrifice in the Temple of Diana.\u00a0 Unswerving in his faith, Caprisius responded that he would not be able to bring any honors of this world with him into eternity, and he preferred to stay unencumbered for the journey.\u00a0 The prefect thereupon had him tortured.\u00a0 He stayed firm.\u00a0 They threw him into prison.\u00a0 The next day he was beheaded. If this holy martyr had preferred worldly success to truth, he could have lived a long and pleasant life as a Roman aristocrat \u2013 but he might have forfeited his friendship with Christ.\u00a0 I think the Lord would agree that he made the right choice.\u00a0 I hope and pray that your academic success will never inhibit you from doing the same. God bless, Uncle Eddy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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