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Dear Ginny,<\/span><\/p>\n

You said in your last note that \u201cIt\u2019s getting harder and harder to do what I know I ought to do as a Christian; I\u2019m worn out with being good.\u201d \u00a0Hmmm\u2026 My dearest of nieces, I am immensely grateful that you told me that. Hidden in those simple, sincere words, are both a dire situation and its solution, both of which are reflected in the remarkable life of today\u2019s saint.<\/span><\/p>\n

The dire situation is this: the devil has succeeded in getting you to depend solely on your own strength to fulfill your Christian commitments. \u00a0That\u2019s why you are so worn out. You see, \u201cdoing good\u201d, as you put it, is not what Christian life is about; it\u2019s about loving Christ, and love doesn\u2019t get tired. \u00a0True virtue gets stronger and more energetic as it advances. This is why the saints are such fireballs. So if you find that virtue is getting tiresome, it\u2019s almost certain that the reason is because you\u2019re not living virtue anymore (virtue is from the heart), but only empty routine. \u00a0If you feel that, I can guarantee two things: you\u2019ve been cutting corners on your prayer life, and you\u2019ve been minimizing your visits to the chapel. Right? OK, so you know what to do.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s prayer and the sacraments that keep our love fresh, which strengthens our virtue. \u00a0Tha\u2019t where today\u2019s saint comes into the picture. Her uncle, the greatest of Welsh saints, St Breuno, came to live in her neighborhood when she was just a little girl. \u00a0Her wealthy parents gave him a plot of land where he built a church and began a fervent work of evangelization. He was a rousing preacher, and Guinevere\u2019s parents \u2013 devout Christians that they were \u2013 would sit their daughter at his feet while he expounded the Gospel. \u00a0Little Guinevere drank it all in, and the Holy Spirit made the words go deep, and she eventually felt called to give her life totally to Christ. So in the hands of St Brueno she vowed her virginity: she would be Christ\u2019s bride alone, forever. She wasn\u2019t quite old enough yet to join a convent, so she spent her days in prayer and in resisting young men\u2019s entreaties to marriage (she was a physically beautiful girl).<\/span><\/p>\n

Well, she persevered in her desire, until one day a swashbuckling prince from a neighboring county, Caradog, happened by. \u00a0He had been hunting in the area. Guinevere\u2019s parents weren\u2019t at home when he knocked and asked for a drink. Some sources say that he planned in that way. \u00a0In any case, he took advantage of the situation to try and seduce the beautiful young lady, but she resisted definitively. He became angry, then violent. She escaped and ran towards the church, where her parents were at prayer. \u00a0He caught up to her on the threshold of the sacred building, and in a fit of passionate anger he swept out his sword and cut off her head (which, when it hit the ground, gave rise to a fountain that has been procuring miraculous favors for pilgrims ever since \u2013 minutely documented miracles). \u00a0St Breuno was preaching when this tragedy transpired, and hurried to the door. Seeing what had occurred, he cursed the young prince, who was swallowed up by the earth immediately, and he implored the Lord to spare Guinevere, which He did. Her life was restored, and only a thin white circle remained on her neck as a sign of her rather unique martyrdom. \u00a0She then joined a convent and dedicated herself to prayer and penance for the next twelve years of her life.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, you may have difficulty believing the details of this story, but St Guinevere has since time immemorial been one of the three favorite Welsh saints, along with St Chad and St David, and the miracles associated with the well (located at what is now called \u201cHolywell\u201d) are undeniable. \u00a0Whether she actually had her head severed by an importunate suitor, to my mind, is beside the point. To my mind, the twelve years of prayer and penance, isolated from all the pleasures and delights of high society in the prime of her youth, is a greater miracle, a greater sign of God\u2019s presence, than undoing a beheading. \u00a0And that\u2019s where the lesson is. When we feel \u201ctired\u201d of living Christian virtue, one look at the example of the saints reminds us that all we need to do is turn back to Christ. He is no empty, impersonal ideal, as the devil would like us to think; he is a friend, the Friend of friends, and if following him means giving up certain things this world holds dear, he will most assuredly make sure that we get much more in return, both \u201chere and hereafter\u201d as he promises in the Gospels.<\/span><\/p>\n

Your loving uncle, Eddy<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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He was ordained a Catholic priest in 2003 and earned his doctorate in moral theology in 2010. He provided spiritual support on the set of Mel Gibson\u2019s\u00a0The Passion of the Christ\u00a0while researching the 2005 Catholic best seller,\u00a0Inside the Passion, the only authorized, behind-the-scenes explanation of the film. Fr. John has contributed news commentary regarding religious issues on NBC, CNN, Fox, and the BBC. He also served as the English-language press liaison for the Vatican\u2019s 2005 Synod of Bishops on the Eucharist. His most widely known books are The Better Part: A Christ-Centered Resource for Personal Prayer and 60 Days to Becoming a Missionary Disciple. His most recent book is\u00a0Spiritual But Not Religious: The Search for Meaning in a Material World. Fr. John resides in Atlanta and serves as Territorial Vicar for the Legionaries of Christ. See all books, Regnum Christi Essays, Retreat Guides, posts, and online classes from Fr. 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