John Hus: Martyr

Yesterday we commemorated John Hus, a martyr in the early 15th Century. Hus was a professor of theology and ordained minister in Prague, where he began to feel that the Catholic Church was not doing all that it should. There were three men claiming to be the pope, and Hus began to start condemning the abuses of the Church in his sermons and lectures. He received a summons from Rome, after which he became excommunicated because he refused to answer. Hus was then arrested, brought to trial, and after his refusal to recant articles that he did not write, was executed.

On this day we pray for fearless and faithful preachers, and the renewal of Christian life.