Hearts like the Incarnate Word

Fr. Christopher Etheridge, IVE
Originally preached for the Feast of the North American Martyrs

Priests, seminarians, and novices of the Institute of the Incarnate Word after Mass on the Feast of St. Isaac Jogues and Companion Martyrs.

In a letter to Fr. Jerome Lalemant three years before his martyrdom, St. Isaac Jogues asks Lalemant to pray to God that He “may give me a generous constancy to persevere in his love and in his service. This is what I should like to have more than anything else.”[1]
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It’s important to see why Jogues longed for a generous constancy. 

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