Today’s Gospel reading at Masses, curiously enough, about as appropriate as a reading could be for the saint whose feast we celebrate today - St. Maximilian Kolbe. He was executed in a Nazi concentration camp in WW2 after he substituted himself for a Jewish refugee headed for a gas chamber. It takes the innocence of a child to do something as innocent and generous as that. It takes someone as wondrously unselfish as as an innocent child to surrender their life for a needy and vulnerable person who needs all the help they can get.

About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.

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