SOURCE: "What Do Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Donald Trump Have in Common?" by Kathryn Jean Lopez, NRO, August 10, 2020.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/08/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-donald-trump-what-they-have-in-common/
KEYWORDS: Compassion, love, charity, suffering
Meanwhile, we should all aspire to love with the kind of selfless love Father Damien [Saint Damien of Molaki] did. Writing to his brother about six months into his arrival in Hawaii, he said: “This may give you some idea of my daily work. Picture to yourself a collection of huts with eight hundred lepers. No doctor; in fact, as there is no cure, there seems no place for a doctor’s skill.” He would go to the homes of people — half of them were Catholic. He would offer them spiritual and temporal aid (the temporal not being contingent on the acceptance of the spiritual). They would have wounds full of maggots, some of them. Sometimes he wasn’t quite sure how to administer the final sacrament “when both hands and feet are nothing but raw wounds.”
Other Links:
https://catholicstand.com/god-helps-the-outcast-st-damien-of-molokai/
https://www.crisismagazine.com/2020/in-search-of-father-damien
https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2020/07/31/the-suffering-and-faith-of-saint-damien-of-molokai/
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