He was furthermore a member of the Japanese literary establishment, accounting for the importance of PEN meetings in the work. Already twenty years have passed since the persecution broke out the black soil of Japan has been filled with the lament of so many Christians the red blood of priests has flowed profusely the walls of churches have fallen down and in the face of this terrible and merciless sacrifice offered up to Him, God has remained silent. Scandal is a 1986 novel by the Japanese author Shsaku End.End was a Japanese Catholic writer whose works, among other things, covered various aspects of the Japanese Catholic experience. I suppose I should simply cast from my mind these meaningless words of the coward yet why does his plaintive voice pierce my breast with tall the pain of a sharp needle? Why has Our Lord imposed this torture and this persecution on poor Japanese peasants? No, Kichijiro was trying to express something different, something even more sickening. "Father", he had said "what evil have we done?" And yet, even as I write these words I feel the oppressive weight in my heart of those last stammering words of Kichijiro in the morning of his departure: "Why has Deus Sama imposed this suffering on us?" and then the resentment in those eyes that he turned upon me. I know that the day will come when we will clearly understand why this persecution with all it's sufferings has been bestowed upon us - for everything that Our Lord does is for our good.
“I do not believe that God has given us this trial to not purpose.
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