Today is the feast of St. Maximilian Kolbe,
Saint Maximilian Kolbe was a Polish Conventual Franciscan friar who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the German death camp of Auschwitz, located in German-occupied Poland during World War II. Jesus was the prime example of “laying down one’s life”—and Maximilian Kolbe lives this out in our modern times. When does God ask me to sacrifice myself for someone else? My children, my spouse, my friend, my enemy?
Can I be sacrificial in the silence of my heart, not calling attention to myself?
–Sr. Marie Paul Grech, SND
In the Hands of the Potter 
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