Blessed Damien,
you left yourself to be guided by the Holy Spirit,
like a son who obeys the will of the Father.
With your life and your missionary activities,
you express the kindness and mercy of Christ for every man,
waking the beauty of the interior being,
that no disease, no deformity and no weakness can disfigure completely.
With your work and your preaching,
you recall that Jesus made His the poverty and the suffering of men,
and that he revealed the mysterious value of it.
Intercede with Christ
medic of the body and of the soul,
for our sick brothers and sisters,
in order that in the anguish and the pain,
they won’t feel abandoned but,
united to the Risen Lord and to His Church,
they discover that the Holy Spirit descends upon them
and they can obtain this way the consolation promised to the afflicted.
From the homily delivered at the Beatification Mass for Damien of Molokai. Translated by Jay.
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