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Your daily Gospel reflection...
*Tuesday, August 14, 2018*
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Memorial of Saint Maximilian Kolbe

Matthew 18:1-5, 10, 12-14




*Friends, today we celebrate the feast of Maximilian Kolbe, the great saint
of Auschwitz. A prisoner from Fr. Kolbe’s barracks escaped, and in
retaliation, the Nazi guards picked out ten other prisoners at random for
execution. When one of those chosen broke down in tears, protesting that he
was the father of a family, Kolbe stepped forward and said, “I am a
Catholic priest; take me and spare this man.”Priests are called “father”
because they are life-givers in the spiritual order. Spiritual fathers
protect their children; they teach them; they are there for them; and at
the limit, they even give their lives for them. And that’s what we see in
today’s great saint.Jesus gathered around himself a band of Apostles whom
he shaped according to his own mind and heart and whom he subsequently sent
on mission. Priests, down through the centuries—from Augustine and Aquinas
to Francis Xavier and John Henry Newman to John Paul II and your own
pastor—are the descendants of those first friends and apprentices of the
Lord. They have been needed in every age, and they are needed today, for
the kingdom of heaven must be proclaimed, the poor must be served, God must
be worshipped, and the sacraments must be administered. *
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