Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Final Communion

On the morning of April 9, 1945, in the Flossenbürg concentration camp, Dietrich Bonhoeffer knelt in prayer before his execution. The camp doctor who witnessed those final moments later wrote that he had never seen a man die so entirely submissive to the will of God. But what strikes the heart is what Bonhoeffer did the evening before. He gathered fellow prisoners and led a small worship service — reading scripture, praying aloud, offering what little bread they had as a makeshift communion.…