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The Catholic Calendar for Wednesday, August 14, 2002     Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time     St. Maxmillian Kolbe, martyr, religious, priest Scripture from today's Liturgy of the Word:     Ezekiel 9:1-7;10:18-22     Psalm 113:1-6     Matthew 18:15-20 A Reflection on Today's Scripture: Today we celebrate the feast of St. Maximilian Kolbe, a Polish martyr to nazism's hatred of the Catholic Church and of Jews. He died by starvation in Auschwitz, having taken the place of a Jewish man with a wife and two children, and was canonized by Pope John Paul II in 1982 in the presence of the man whose life he had saved. Maximilian is one of the very greatest saints of our time. His great love of "the Immaculate" - our Blessed Mother - is one quality on which we all need to ponder, and imitate. She was the Mother of Hope to him in a time of intense persecution, and she can be a Mother of Hope to us in an age of terrorism, racial and religious hatred, moral laxity and public corruption. As he lay dying in bunker #41, naked and starving to death, he led his fellow prisoners in hymns. His joy in suffering, his deep faith and hope in a heaven of happiness, gave spirit and courage to countless others to die with dignity and grace for their Lord. He was a strong saint and a model of endurance for our times. - Msgr. Paul Whitmore ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) YOU CAN HELP to evangelize the Word of God! Please recommend our website to your friends and Catholic webmasters at: http://www.borg.com/~joachim/DailyMeds.html (case sensitive) Also, the meditations are now in WEBLOG form at http://dailymed.blogspot.com/ ARCHIVED Meditations: http://www.abcsoffaith.com/quiet/quietplace.html and at: http://www.mail-archive.com/dailymed@saturn.nibcomp.com For ALL communications, including subscribe/unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (c)1986-2002 The Way, The Truth, The Life. Permission granted to make reprints of the meditations or to post on any web page, except for profit. Scripture texts in this work are taken from the New American Bible with Revised New Testament and Revised Psalms (c)1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Washington, D.C. and are used by permission of the copy-right owner. All Rights Reserved. No part of the New American Bible may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the copyright owner.Text from the New American Bible: http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/index.htm Lives of the Saints: http://www.christdesert.org/public_texts/martyrology/