Lent With Saint Thomas More

From The Sadness of Christ:

‘And therefore must the soldiers that go in warfare
with me not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the princes and potentates, against the worldly
governors of these dark regions, and against the wicked spirits in the air.  So shall Nero start up, by
whom shall the prince of darkness slay Peter, and besides him another not as yet named Paul, who is still
sore bent against me. In like manner shall other emperors and their lieutenants deal with other disciples
of my flock by the said prince of darkness. But when the gentiles have fretted their fill, and the Jews
devised their vain devices, when the kings of the earth have stood together, and the princes assembled
against their lord, and against his anointed, labouring to break his bonds, and to cast from them that most
sweet yolk, that God of his goodness by his bishops shall lay on their stiff necks, then shall God that
dwelleth in heaven laugh them to scorn, and our Lord make them a mow.  Who sitteth not as the
earthly princes do in a gorgeous chariot a little above the ground, but stieth up above the west, and
sitteth above cherubim, whose seat is heaven, and whose footstool is the earth, our Lord is his name. He
is king of kings and lord of lords; a dreadful king which taketh away the spirit of princes. This prince in
his wrath shall speak unto them, and in his fury shall he trouble them. His Son, which is his anointed,
whom he hath begotten this day, he will make king over Sion his holy hill, the hill I say that shall never
be moved. And all his enemies shall he cast down to be as a footstool under his feet.

The final victory will come to the followers of Christ who remain true to Him.