Vita Pura!
Hey everyone, welcome to another great week in Lent! As you all know, one of the major things that Vita Pura promotes is self-sacrifice or mortification, so this week we want to elaborate on that idea through the story of Esther and the great cardinal virtue of fortitude in her story.
The Story of Esther:
The book of Esther is about an orphan Jewish woman (Esther, duh) who becomes a queen. Then Esther's adoptive father Mordecai (who is hanging around the palace because he's worried about Esther), refuses to bow to the king's evil right-hand man Haman (think Jafar from Aladdin) because Mordecai is Jewish and obviously will not worship false idols. This makes Haman so mad that he decides to kill all the Jews. Like every Jewish person ever.Boy, that escalated quickly...
