While world leaders and newspapers keep guilty silence.

We are helpless to come to the assistance of our brethren in Iraq except by our prayers.

Of your charity read this letter from the Patriarch and carry them in your hearts to God.

They carry the Holy Cross and follow the Lamb to slaughter; 

Agnus redemit oves ~ the Lamb redeems the sheep;

the innocent Eastern Christians die 
for their guilty Western brethren;

with our rosaries let us wait beside them in their passion;

to pray for their perseverance.

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