I am thankful that I live now. Although it sometimes would appear to be more romantic to have lived in an earlier age, unquestionably our ancestors faced many hardships that we could never dream of.
Case in point: my Saint for today is St. Margaret Clitherow, feast day March 25. St. Margaret lived in England in the 16th century. Despite the fact that it was illegal to be Catholic in England at that time, she converted to Catholicism and was determined to hear Mass daily and give her children a Catholic upbringing. This meant breaking the law by hiring a Catholic tutor to teach her children and building secret cupboards in her home to hide priests, vestments and the sacred vessels needed for Mass. When she was caught harboring a priest, she was arrested. She refused to enter a plea in order to spare her family the ordeal of testifying at her trial. She was condemned to being crushed to death.
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