From
LifeSiteNews:
Father Jacques Hamel’s
last words before two Islamic State terrorists slit his throat, after forcing
him to his knees before the altar where he had been saying morning Mass, were
“Go away, Satan!”
And as the 85-year-old
priest tried to push the attackers away with his feet, he repeated again,
“Begone, Satan!” recounted the archbishop of Rouen during his homily for Father
Hamel’s two-hour funeral Mass on Tuesday.
Enough
said.
Father
George W. Rutler, one of the most brilliant essayist in contemporary writing—the
general public has no idea how great a thinker and essayist this good priest is—commented
on Fr. Hamel’s slaying:
The slaying of Father
Jacques Hamel at the altar of the church of Saint Etienne-de Rouvray in
Normandy should be the envy of every priest: to die at Mass, the holiest hour of
the world.
If
you’ve never read a Fr. Butler essay, you can read that essay, “Tolerating
Terror,” at Crises Magazine, here.
Father
Hamel, priest and martyr, pray for us and for this world from which you have been so
rudely removed.
