What the blog about, anyway? Why is it called the CampionProject? The two-part title doesn't seem to have to do with the content. Once in a while, I want to post directly related to the title to fix this, and this time about the first word - Campion.
As I mentioned blog explanation, it's about renewing our vision of man, his destiny, his happiness, and thus ourselves. But how?
Edmund Campion was a man, hero, saint, and martyr. We probably aren't all of these and definitely not the last if you're reading this. We probably won't be hung, drawn, and quartered. (Here's a link in case you don't know what this means: explanation in Wikipedia.)
But like him we can and should completely transform ourselves: a typical, "boring" student and professor who became a passionate adventurer to the point of giving his life. Who are we and what's our mission?
His mission is perhaps best expressed in his Brag, a kind of last will and testament written before going to England. He didn't hand on any money but rather wrote a defense to be read at the death trial that surely awaited him!
The language might be a little old fashioned but the fire behind it is as current as ever!
My charge is, of free cost to preach the Gospel, to minister the Sacraments, to instruct the simple, to reform sinners, to confute errors—in brief, to cry alarm spiritual against foul vice and proud ignorance, wherewith many of my dear countrymen are abused.
Complete text: Campion's Brag.
