loveFriday, August 14
He Stepped Out of the Line
Scripture
"Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends."
— John 15:13
What it means
Jesus said this hours before His own arrest. In July 1941 a prisoner went missing from Auschwitz, so the camp commander picked ten men to die of starvation. Franciszek Gajowniczek cried out that he had a wife and children. Maximilian Kolbe stepped forward and said he would go instead. Kolbe died on 14 August 1941. Gajowniczek survived the war and lived into his nineties.