Fr Donald Haggerty has written "The Hour of Testing", positing that the Church may live out, within history, a trial mirroring the Passion of her Lord—and that union with Jesus’ suffering must be central in the spiritual lives of her individual members. Against a darkening historical backdrop, the would-be saints of today must be ready to accept and embrace—in love, through prayer, and for the sake of the Church—a mysterious replication of Jesus’ last week in their own lives.
