Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Father Damien

I'm on the island of Oahu serving at several parishes and I look at my parishioners ... They have diseases! They have leprosy! And now they have been sent by the Hawaiian King Kamehamena IV to Kalaupapa. That's really messed up ... They are still people and have souls ... Oh, are they happy with their disease? Can they accept this leprosy? I want to go and see them but I might catch leprosy ... Should I go? ... Should I? ...

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