Episode Thirty Two: Stanley Rother
The Saints
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🗓️ 26 March 2026
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🗺️ Lent with the Saints - Episode Thirty Two: Stanley Rother
In this episode, Kiley teaches us about acts of service and we'll listen to the story of Stanley Rother.
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| 0:00.0 | Lent with the Saints From the Mary Baggers Episode 32 Stanley Rother Thank you. Hello. |
| 0:28.7 | Today I'm going to tell you about Blessed Stanley Rother, |
| 0:32.2 | an American priest who put his knowledge of farming to use as a missionary in Guatemala. |
| 0:38.2 | Imagine what would happen if you went up to your mother and said, |
| 0:41.1 | Mom, may I wash the dirty dishes for you? |
| 0:44.4 | How do you think she would react? |
| 0:46.8 | Would she be surprised? |
| 0:48.9 | Maybe. |
| 0:50.0 | Do you think she'd be happy? |
| 0:51.7 | Probably, right? |
| 0:53.4 | Or how about offering to make your brother or sister's bed for a week? |
| 0:58.3 | Would you like it if someone offered to do that for you out of the blue? |
| 1:02.4 | I know I would. |
| 1:04.1 | All these are examples of acts of service. |
| 1:07.3 | We do them out of love for others and out of love for Jesus. |
| 1:10.6 | And they make others and Jesus very happy. |
| 1:15.1 | Blessed Stanley Rother loved serving others, |
| 1:18.0 | so much so that sometimes he'd run out of time to do his schoolwork |
| 1:21.6 | because he'd been gardening or fixing a bike for a friend. |
| 1:33.3 | Yeah. or fixing a bike for a friend. Stanley grew up on his family's farm, |
| 1:36.0 | milking cows, cutting hay, fixing fences. |
| 1:39.8 | Growing up on a farm taught Stanley the value of hard work, |
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