December 2013/January 2014 - Vol. 71
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No Death Can Kill Us

Excerpted from Alfred Delp's diary entry for 
the Feast of Epiphany, January 6, 1945

The fate of mankind, my own fate, the verdict awaiting me, the significance of the feast, can all be summed up in the sentence surrender thyself to God and thou shalt find thyself again

Others have you in their power now; they torture and frighten you, hound you from pillar to post. But the inner law of freedom sings that no death can kill us; life is eternal. 

Pray and praise - the fundamental words of life, the steep roads to God, the doors that lead to fulfillment, the ways that lead a man to his true self.

Next meditation > Aim at Heaven with All your Strength



Return to Joy in the Face of Death - Alfred Delp S.J., by Jeanne Kun, with excerpts from the book, Even Unto Death: Wisdom from Modern Martyrs, edited by Jeanne Kun, The Word Among Us Press, © 2002. All rights reserved. Used with permission. The book can be ordered from WAU Press.


A selection of meditations 
from prison 
written by Alfred Delp 


> The People of Advent
> True Happiness
> God Alone Suffices
> The name Jesus
> No Death Can Kill Us
> Aim at Heaven with All your Strength
> I Must Take the Other Road

[Selection from The Prison Meditations of Father Alfred Delp, with an Introduction by Thomas Merton (New York: Herder and Herder, 1963)]

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