"There is perhaps nothing we modern people need more than to be genuinely shaken up. "

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A homily I heard today spoke of Alfred Delp, a German Jesuit who assisted in the underground escape of Jews to Switzerland. But he was arrested as a suspect in the failed assassination attempt of the Nazi dictator, of which he was not a member of. In prison, he wrote letters and essays. In prison, too, he received his final vows of priesthood, and he wrote, "“It was too much, what a fulfillment, I prayed for it so much, I gave my life away. My chains are now without any meaning, because God found me worthy of the 'Vincula amoris' (chains of love)”. He was hanged shortly thereafter. He left behind a beautiful piece about Advent that tells why we must be shaken. Please read because this is very relevant to us today.