I cry for help, but you do not listen.” Have you ever felt that way? “I cry for help. And so, we have here the prophet Habakkuk, him crying out, him lamenting, “how long Oh, Lord, how long?” “How long Oh, Lord. And it happened, for instance, it happened more than one time to Jerusalem. And this moment came to my mind as I was reading the first reading we had today, because this situation of being in a besieged city, has happened many times, and many times we see it in the Bible. Viennese suffered plague, dysentery, starvation, and many casualties, including women and children, in the name of jihad. And for two months, they were holdup and vastly outnumbered.
And when Viennese refused to submit, the next day Mustafa unleashed all hell against the city’s walls. So, when this immense army arrived at Vienna, he told the Viennese they had to either surrender and submit to him or be conquered. And one example, after capturing a Polish town in 1674 he ordered all the Christian prisoners to be skinned alive, and they’re stuffed hide sent as trophies. Ottoman Turks, the leader of the Muslim expedition, the Grand Vizier, Kara Mustafa was fanatically anti-Christian. They had decided that Vienna, as the head of the infidel empire, needed to be laid low, so that as they said, all the Christians would obey the Ottoman God. On July 14, some 200,000 Muslim combatants, the largest Islamic army ever to invade European territories, an immense force, came and surrounded Vienna, the heart of the Holy Roman Empire. Turkish invaders from the Ottoman Empire were about to overrun Western Europe. This is a computer-generated transcription that has been included to make the homily searchable.
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