"Eat the pork," says
the world.
"Everyone does it.
It's what we do.
Eat the pork.
Why be so obstinate?
Do you not know the cost?
Just eat the pork.
Why sacrifice over a triviality?
No one will know.
No one will care.
Just eat the damn pork!"
Seventy-seven years ago,
Franz Jägerstätter
refused to "eat the pork" and was martyred by the Nazis. Those who killed him
likely called him a fool, whom they were relegating to the dustbin of history.
But now, seventy-seven years later, the Church calls him
Blessed, and his story is told on
the silver screen. It is the story of a man who recognized that our Parent's will is never
trivial, and always worth the cost. The whims of human power may never
understand that
truth, but we do. And we choose to remember.
Brother Franz, pray for us!