"We must be prepared to undergo great trials in the
not-too-distant future; trials that will require us to be ready to give
up even our lives, and a total gift of self to Christ and for Christ.
Through your prayers and mine, it is possible to
alleviate this tribulation, but it is no longer possible to avert it,
because it is only in this way that the Church can be effectively
renewed. How many times, indeed, has the renewal of the Church been
effected in blood? This time, again, it will not be otherwise. We must
be strong, we must prepare ourselves, we must entrust ourselves to
Christ and to His Mother, and we must be attentive, very attentive, to
the prayer of the Rosary."
-St. John Paul II interview with Catholics at
Fulda, Germany, Nov. 1980.
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