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The Chibi News Daily Reflection
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Hello, my name is Johnny Dade and I'm a vicar in the Church of England
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I came across the story of Maximilian Kolbe, a Polish priest who lived during the Second World War
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Like millions of others, he was rounded up by the Nazis and interned in Auschwitz concentration camp
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One day, in response to the escape of a Polish prisoner, the camp commander rounded up ten men at random and sentenced them to be starved to death
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One of the selected men, called Franzizek, cried out, No, my wife, my children
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And moved by the man plight Maximilian Kolbe volunteered to take his place He died so Franzizek might live In the Bible Saint John who we were introduced to yesterday said this is love This is how God showed his love for us He sent Jesus
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This, says John, is the definition of love. Not that we loved first, but rather that Christ
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demonstrated love by sacrificing himself for us. Love in the Christian tradition is inextricably
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linked to sacrifice. In contrast to how love is so often presented in our culture
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God's love is not about self-gratification, but rather self-emptying. If love costs us nothing
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it probably isn't worth very much
