‘When shall I begin to give myself entirely to Him, who has given Himself unreservedly to me?”
New York may not be your idea of a hotbed of holiness. But the prayer quoted above comes from Father Isaac Jogues, a Jesuit missionary who risked his life for love of God and neighbor — a neighbor who was nowhere near his native France and who tried to kill him. But for Jogues that wasn’t enough of a sacrifice. After recovering, he came back to New York en route to his eternal home. He was tomahawked to death in 1646.
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