When we think we're overburdened, that there are too many people and events in our lives, when we can't keep to an ordered, planned schedule that might help us deal with everthing, when life seems turned upside down, suddenly a figure like St. Maximilian Kolbe steps into our day. We remember him today and the great sacrifice he made in stepping in for a young prisoner who was due to be executed at Auschwitz in 1941. Seeing that the young, man, husband and father, could have a whole life ahead of him, if he survived Auschwitz, Kolbe, so much devoted all his life to Mary, said to the guards, "Take me, and let this man live."
The man did live and was present at the canonization of St. Maximilian.
Today the Marist Brothers are praying for over 100 brothers who answered a call to leave their comfortable lives to become missionaries in countries where Marist presence had not yet been established. They laid aside their needs, and desires so that others might hear for the first time that Jesus loves them.
Our lives are made up of such calls, such sacrifices on our time, our plans, our availability. Let us not refuse the invitation, but respond with the generosity of these heroes we remember today.
Bro. Rene
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