“Who do you say that I am?” – Jesus
My brother, Fr. Matthew, recently visited the grave of Fr Jerzy Popiełuszko. As a seminarian he were forced to make a break in his seminary studies and do military service in the 1960’s. The communists tried to steer him and the other seminarians away from the faith and obviously from returning to the seminary to finish their formation. In some cases they succeeded but many returned and now are the among the great, faithful priests of Poland.
Fr. Matthew continues, “One interesting detail which you may not believe, as soon as Fr Jerzy’s body had been retrieved from the river (he had been beaten and then thrown in the river with weights tied around him so he would drown…they buried him in the parish where he worked…) Well, after his funeral, people started to flock non-stop to his grave and up until the time of his beatification (before his beatif.) 18,000,000 (18 million, bro!) people had visited his grave. Something unheard of. This helped Rome see that truly he was a saint…”
Makes me think … how much am I prepared to endure for my faith that Jesus is the Son of God?
