Alfred Delp was a German Jesuit who was executed for
his resistance to the Nazi regime. Fr. Delp was offered his freedom if he would
renounce the Jesuits. He refused and was hanged on February 2, 1945.
One thing is becoming
gradually clear –
I must surrender myself
completely.
This is seedtime, not
harvest.
God sows the seed and some
time or other
he will do the reaping.
The one thing I must do is
make sure
the seed falls on fertile
ground.
And I must arm myself
against the pain and depression
that sometimes almost
defeat me.
If this is the way God has
chosen
– and everything indicates
that it is –
then I must willingly and
without rancor make it my way.
May others at some future
time find it possible
to have a better and
happier life
because we died in this
hour of trial.
Source: Alfred Delp, S.J.,
With Bound Hands; pp. 4-5.
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