There aren't many days in the year when I can really say I am unabashedly grateful to the Church.
Just once in a while.
Hollywood does it right:
I had always liked Fr. Damien de Veuster and admired beyond words what he did. But it was not until I saw this film that I really understood the heights he reached.
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Hilary,
Have you ever read this? It's amazing: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/281/281-h/281-h.htm
Robert Louis Stevenson's take-down of a critic of St. Damien's.
I loved this movie and I'll always love David Wenham for his performance in this. I didn't know anything about Fr Damien until I saw the movie, but I'm incredibly happy about the canonisation.
St Damien, pray for us.
Here's a Lutheran, proud to lift up the example of St. Damien in his sermon this All Saints! Thank God for such faithfulness as his... a remarkable story.
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