The idea of ​​the Passion of the Lord and prayer.

For the martyrs and for all those he meets, real suffering has always been the impetus for the courage of the thought of torturing the Lord. The psychological site here nicely seems the difference between the proper inner virtue and strong callousness even from the human. The Christian spirit is ready, even though the body is weak (cf. Mt 26:41), though Anxiety causes bloody sweat on the forehead (cf. Lk 22:44).
The Renaissance spirit of Rabelais mocks the medieval mentality that evoked monks in danger to the choir to pray. Men should jump up and defend before reaching for the rosary. If it was a matter of praying
or protecting ourselves, we recognize that the latter would be better in many cases. However, the Scripture has a good description of King David. It’s hard to find anyone bolder and braver than the one who is already in his youth. He strangled the lion, who went with stones to the armed Goliath. And yet, few were able to pray like that in danger like him. In the so-called Psalms of David, the motif often returns; I trust the Lord … (Ps 10: 1).
True prayer gives peace and strength, leads to courage to deed and timid. Boldly accept the inconvenience. Steps to perfect courage are given. Rightly so, he says the first one is needed by anyone who wants to save. It takes so much courage from a person not to give up threats that lead him to a grave sin. There are many examples of this courage in Scripture. Joseph of Egypt loses his position and goes to prison rather than stop drinking from Putifar’s wife (Gen. 39). Suzana knows she can’t defend herself from false accusations, but considers it better to fall into people’s hands before sinning to God (Dan. 13:23).

To this first degree of courage is the power to take on the risk associated with the profession. Every state has its difficulties. Sometimes enormous sacrifices are required from mother, doctor, priest, worker. There will come moments when the dangers of life cannot be avoided either. However, this is not often the case. The more common difficulty we face and which we have to bear boldly is the unpleasant and unjust criticisms, the slanders that involve us in doing our duty. We could easily be tempted to choose a more comfortable side road and leave important work. Clement of Alexandria mocks those who love it they read about martyrs, but they run away from the slight difficulty of daily life. We will surely remember with a smile the Indian dreams of a boy who screams at the dentist. The desires of a Christian who would like to endure are therefore suspicious.
Courage, patience, gentleness, perseverance something great for Christ because he can no longer stand the environment in which he is to work. The old missionary wrote a theologian who wanted to follow him to Africa because the seminar environment cramps him: «Let him not go to the lions, when they are afraid of pets!” To anticipate difficulties, people often gain courage by shrinking the danger they are talking about as if it were about the same certainty. St. Thomas Aquinas is of the opposite opinion. The courage will be to look directly at the dangerous eyes, to be able to anticipate it: “Even he who is not usually serious can prepare himself for danger, and that preparation will become strong when the time comes.” Even a saint Ambrose says that “it is the quality of a man not to obscure what threats.» That’s why he’s not saying he was hit by something he couldn’t predict. If the enemy hits the war unexpectedly, it easily wins; so also “The spirit will be broken more by unforeseen evil.”
Of course, the difficulties that arise in the imagination out of fear are fundamentally different from these severe and actual difficulties. St. Ignatius of Loyola began in Manresa’s strict life. He wondered if it wasn’t as hard as he’d thought. However, doubts came. He imagined that he should live this way until the age of seventy, and he was anxious. However, he was able to give himself the answer. Why imagine seventy years when neither, we don’t know if we’ll be in the world tomorrow. Nothing here in the world is fixed or permanent. So, we don’t need anything too long, too much, we don’t have to worry too much about anything. “Look,” writes St. Augustine, «the world is already falling, but Christ is standing because Christ will not fall. »