Note: I just looked at the time and realized I missed the deadline for posting today...This will appear on the Solemnity of the Assumption with a separate slice for this great day.
Today's memorial of St. Maximilian Kolbe brings the now familiar story of his self-less act at Auschwitz of offering his life in exchange for that of a young father who had been condemned to death by starvation. Father Kolbe watched his fellow prisoners die but himself was killed by lethal injection...A long time devotee of Mary and founder of the Militia Immaculata, a wold-wide organization promoting devotion to Mary, he followed in her footsteps of laying down his life so that others might live, as she did in accepting to be the Mother of God.
Year after year Fr. Kolbe's simple yet heroic powerful act astounds and inspires us. We, at this point in time, are not being called upon to stick out our lives physically for others, but there are so many ways we can relieve the anxiety and stress faced by others. When people express their worries, founded or unfounded, we can help guide them to peace by reminding them of how God resolved former "crises". It takes a little time and a lot of patience, but it is right in line with the GREATS who have shown their love by laying down their lives for others. We can surely lay down a bit of our time for them, can't we?
Bro .Rene
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