OUR Dec. 22 column about God's special role for the Filipino faithful got five emoticon clicks — all happy. Readers found joyful inspiration in the article reprising our Aug. 25 topic highlighting powerful signs, including Jesus and Mary's messages to Irish mystic Christina Gallagher, that Filipino Catholics here and abroad are called to advance and spread our faith through devotion and way of life.
Evidently, hardly any pondered the cost of answering the divine call to mission. This is why the Dec. 26 feast of St. Stephen, the first Christian martyr, right after Christmas Day, rightly reminds us what heeding God's will entails. Recounts the first Mass reading from the Acts of the Apostles (Acts 6:8–10; 7:54–59):
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