“Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions.  Do not yield your members to sin as instruments of wickedness, but yield yourselves to God as men who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness.”  Romans 6: 12, 13

St. Pope John Paul II
Perhaps you will not have to shed your blood, but you will certainly be asked to be faithful to Christ!  A faithfulness to be lived in the circumstances of everyday life.  (World Youth Day XV, Italy, August 19, 2000)