Follow the path of the martyrs

“Come young athlete of God, keep close to me, keep full of zeal,
bend low your neck in complete obedience,
humble yourself, dead to your own will,
telling all the thoughts of heart and mind
you are already in the arena,
have no fear of desert, have no fear of the pillar,
nor of any other order in the race that is before us, the race to know God
you are the first according to Holy Scripture; you follow the path of the first martyrs”