December
2013/January 2014 - Vol. 71
.
No
Death Can Kill Us
Excerpted
from Alfred Delp's diary entry for
the
Feast of Epiphany, January 6, 1945
The fate of mankind, my own fate, the verdict awaiting me, the significance
of the feast, can all be summed up in the sentence surrender thyself
to God and thou shalt find thyself again.
Others have you in their power now; they torture and frighten you, hound
you from pillar to post. But the inner law of freedom sings that no death
can kill us; life is eternal.
Pray and praise - the fundamental words of life, the steep roads to
God, the doors that lead to fulfillment, the ways that lead a man to his
true self.
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meditation > Aim
at Heaven with All your Strength
Return to Joy
in the Face of Death - Alfred Delp S.J., by Jeanne Kun, with excerpts
from the book, Even Unto Death: Wisdom from Modern Martyrs, edited by
Jeanne Kun, The Word Among Us Press, © 2002. All rights reserved.
Used with permission. The book can be ordered from WAU
Press. |
A selection
of meditations
from
prison
written by Alfred
Delp
>
The
People of Advent
>
True
Happiness
>
God
Alone Suffices
>
The
name Jesus
>
No
Death Can Kill Us
>
Aim
at Heaven with All your Strength
>
I
Must Take the Other Road
[Selection
from The Prison Meditations of Father Alfred Delp, with an Introduction
by Thomas Merton (New York: Herder and Herder, 1963)] |
