On the eve of Easter, 3/31/45, Mother Maria Skobtsova, Orthodox nun, died in the gas chamber of Ravensbruck. She served the hungry and homeless of Paris, and finally, after the Nazi occupation, the Jews. “I am your message, Lord. Throw me like a blazing torch into the night.”
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“At the Last Judgment I shall not be asked whether I was successful in my ascetic exercises...Instead I shall be asked, Did I feed the hungry, clothe the naked, visit the sick and prisoners.”—Mother Maria of Paris
