Fr. Stanley Superpower

Today, heroes or superheroes in movies, can be portrayed in capes, who use their “superpowers” to save people at their own great risk. So you have to wonder, are there real superheroes who have roamed Earth’s land? Father Stanley Rother was one of those heroes. Fr. Stanley’s “superpower” was his pure devotion to God and the people he worked hard serving. Fr. Stanley came face to face with great risk himself, but in this case is him going to the peripheries risking his life for the benefit of others. The only difference between Fr. Stanley and the superheroes seen in the blockbusters is Fr. Stanley didn’t wear a cape. Fr. Stanley had a simple beginning coming from a small town in Oklahoma. He became a priest and then worked as a missionary. He soon became the leader in a mission for Guatemalan people where he learned both Spanish and the native language Tzotzil. Fr. Stanley eagerly began performing many religious
Stanley Rother worked. These people would wear masks and began killing off the citizens and parishioners of Santiago Atitlan (the area where Fr. Stanley worked) because they were “unloyal” to certain parts of the government. Community leaders started to disappear and eventually a well known deacon of the Santiago Atitlan church was murdered. Fr. Stanley himself was getting death threats because he was aiding the Guatemalan people who challenged certain Guatemalan politics . More and more Fr. Stanley realized his endangerment and eventually felt forced to leave in order to save his life. He was smuggled back home to safety, but still could not bear the fact that he was leaving the Santiago Atitlan citizens without a priest. “I still don’t want to abandon my flock, when the wolves are making random attacks” (Fr. Stanley Rother). So despite all warnings, death threats, and unjustified hatred towards him, he returns to Santiago Atitlan focused on the love for the people