Jul 8, 2023
O righteous band of martyrs
united by faith in Christ and His Church
in a nation of religious oppression:
children and grandparents,
workers and teachers,
lay and ordained,
native and foreign-born…
all as one you gave your lives,
led by your convictions –
pray the Word of the Lord
come to a land so cold
to conversion,
to the love and worship
of Jesus, all men’s Savior.
Pray the Holy Spirit
fall like purging and redeeming fire
upon every soul in the country
where you so honorably died;
pray His power spread
and bring renewal
upon the face of all the earth.