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Fr. Roger J. Landry
\nPutting into the Deep
\nThe Anchor
\nDecember 9, 2016<\/p>\n

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With martyrs, Christians are always faced with a moral paradox, for martyrs are signs of contradiction not only to the people and culture that executed them but also to the Church that venerates them. On the one hand, Christians certainly mourn their deaths and lament what led to them, but on the other we celebrate their heroic faith and the good that God brings out of the evil they endured. Martyrdom is simultaneously shameful and glorious, the martyrs\u2019 blood both a waste and the seed of future Christians.<\/p>\n

We are living in a new age of martyrs. More Christians have been killed because of their faith in the past century than in the previous nineteen centuries combined. When we look at what happened in Armenia, Mexico, Spain, and Cambodia, in the Nazi concentration camps and in the communist countries of\u00a0the former Soviet block, Asia and Cuba, and what\u2019s happening now in parts of the Middle East, Africa, Pakistan and India, the body count is so staggering that many simply cannot fathom\u00a0it. And even if people escape torture, death and imprisonment, many others suffer various levels of persecution, a type of dry or white martyrdom in which the sacrifice remains\u00a0supremely costly.<\/p>\n

For this new age of crimson, there is a need for models, through whose heroism the rest of us can learn how to live and die for the Good Shepherd who died to give us life to the full, and through whose example we can grasp how to love others with the greatest love of all.<\/p>\n

Last Friday, Pope Francis proposed such a hero for Catholics in the United States and Guatemala, recognizing the martyrdom of Father Stanley Rother, a priest of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City who was assassinated on July 28, 1981\u00a0in his rectory in a Guatemalan village.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s an incredible witness to Christian courage and priestly love whose beatification will take place sometime next\u00a0year.<\/p>\n

While I was in seminary, a classmate of mine was assigned to the parish of Okarche, Oklahoma where Father Stan was born and grew up and where his dad, brother and several of his family members still lived. My friend would bring Mr. Rother Holy Communion. They told him some incredible stories about Fr. Stan that make him stand out for his life and not just his holy death.<\/p>\n

On the day he was baptized at Holy Trinity Church in 1935, the famously imperious German pastor at the time, Msgr. Zenon Steuber, refused to baptize him \u201cStanley Francis\u201d \u2014\u00a0christening him rather \u201cFrancis Stanley\u201d \u2014\u00a0because, the priest insisted, that there was no \u201cSaint Stanley.\u201d Well, as of next year, by God’s providence and his intrepid human faith, Stanley will be a moniker capable of passing the muster of even the most meticulous Monsignors!<\/p>\n

Likewise because he was a farmer, he often didn\u2019t have much time for books and consequently struggled as a seminary student particularly because the classes were in Latin and he was not a linguist. Similar to St. John Vianney, the patron saint of priests who was booted from the seminary because he couldn\u2019t even understand the Latin questions that were asked him, after six years of college and major seminary studies Stan was asked to withdraw from Assumption Seminary in San Antonio. But his bishop didn\u2019t give up on him. He transferred him to Mt. St. Mary\u2019s Seminary in Emmitsburg, Maryland \u2014\u00a0where I proudly attended for a year \u2014\u00a0from which he was able to graduate\u00a0and be ordained in 1963.<\/p>\n

He served five years in parishes around Oklahoma before volunteering for the Mission the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City staffed for the Tz’utujil people in the rural highlands of southwest Guatemala. It\u2019s seemed on paper an unhappy pairing due to his poor reputation with foreign languages, but with passion and application he set himself to learn Spanish and the indigenous Tz’utujil language, eventually not only celebrating Mass in it but translating the entire New Testament into it and learning it well enough he could teach the locals how to read and write. His parishioners, who couldn\u2019t take easily to the name Stanley, united themselves with Msgr. Zenon, however, in calling him \u201cPadre Francisco.\u201d He built a school, a small hospital, and a radio station through which people could be taught grammar and math.<\/p>\n

Around 1980, extremist elements in the army during Guatemala\u2019s 36-year-long civil war started to use force and intimidation against some of the indigenous people and those who defended their rights. They destroyed Fr. Stan’s\u00a0radio station and killed its director. His catechists and parishioners began to disappear and were later found dead, their bodies showing signs of torture. In January 1981, his name was put on a death list because of his opposition to the presence of the military in the region, and he was pressured by friends, family and his bishop to leave for a time lest he become the next victim.<\/p>\n

He returned to Oklahoma. His family members say, however, that even though he was on the farm he loved and grew up on, his attention and heart were with the people whom he had served for 13 years and who, surrounded by so many fierce wolves, desperately needed a shepherd.. A shepherd, he told others, cannot run at the first sign of danger. After three months, he asked the permission of his bishop to return, and despite his bishop’s and others\u2019 remonstrations, \u201cPadre Francisco\u201d arrived back in Santiago Atitl\u00e1n. Three months later, masked gunmen broke into his rectory and, after a struggle, shot him twice in the head. He was 46 \u2014\u00a0my age \u2014\u00a0one of ten priests murdered in Guatemala that year.<\/p>\n

His body was flow back to Oklahoma City for the funeral and burial in his hometown, but the Tz’utujil parishioners begged that his heart be removed and sent back where it always was, with them, to be buried under the altar of the Church where he had served. There one finds a plaque sculpted in his honor, showing Christ carrying his cross, giving the details of Fr. Stan’s\u00a0life and death, and finishing in Spanish, \u201cThere is no greater love than this, to give one\u2019s life for one\u2019s friends.\u201d<\/p>\n

His friends will never forget that heroic love and neither should we.<\/p>\n

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