From The Sadness of Christ:
‘This is your short hour; this is the unreasonable and unruly power of darkness which now
causeth you with weapon to take me, thus weaponless as I am; that is to say, cruel caitiffs a meek lamb,
sinful persons a sinless innocent, the traitor his master, vile wretches their God. And as well as ye have
power upon me now, so shall upon my disciples other provosts and emperors after me, some upon one
and some upon another, have a like hour and short power of darkness. And verily the power of darkness
may I right well call it. For like as whatsoever my disciples shall suffer or say, they shall neither by their
own strength suffer it, nor of themselves speak it, but by my strength valiantly vanquishing all pain,
through their patient sufferance save their own souls, and the Spirit of my Father shall speak in them, so
they that shall persecute them and put them to death shall neither do nor say anything of themself, but
the prince of darkness who is already come and hath no power on me, as he may covertly convey his
venomous poison into those tyrants and tormentors’ hearts, so will he for the short while he shall be
thereto licenced, utter and practise his might and power by them.”
Saint Thomas, and those others loyal to Christ, were suffering for Him as Christ predicted.
