This is what a real Christian is, BP. For everyone the average normie sees... there are thousands they do not. They are out there helping the poor, the elderly and the sick that have fallen through the cracks or have been left behind. They do it on their own time at their own expense. They take on the grief problems of others in ways that prove that we are all much more than mere tool using, highly evolved killer apes.
Priests like the Good Father are what I remember when growing up. The military priests with burn scars or shrapnel scars, who had that raspy voice of breathing chemicals men weren't ever meant to breathe.
One of them was the Bishop of Micronesia. I remember us kids playing with him and showing him scars (little boys used to do that) and he took his shirt off and showed us his scars. Seems the Japanese really tried to beat his faith out of him.
Good men. Some didn't make it back. Sometimes only their animated bodies did, just like many other veterans.
What I think is most striking about the father is not how he died, but the way his people talk about him: sharing their hardships, going out under fire with them, always good for a cold drink or a book, making sure that his people were taken care of...
Seems like there's a lot of leadership lessons in his story, too.
The USS Capodanno (FF 1093), a Knox class frigate, was in the same squadron (Naval Surface Group Four) as my ship. She was based out of Newport (we were homeported in Philadelphia) and we spent a lot of time up in Newport and exercised with her frequently.
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This is what a real Christian is, BP. For everyone the average normie sees... there are thousands they do not. They are out there helping the poor, the elderly and the sick that have fallen through the cracks or have been left behind. They do it on their own time at their own expense. They take on the grief problems of others in ways that prove that we are all much more than mere tool using, highly evolved killer apes.
Definitely don't make them like him any more, I don't think.
https://www.capodannoguild.org/progress-cause-canonization/
is all I could find.
Priests like the Good Father are what I remember when growing up. The military priests with burn scars or shrapnel scars, who had that raspy voice of breathing chemicals men weren't ever meant to breathe.
One of them was the Bishop of Micronesia. I remember us kids playing with him and showing him scars (little boys used to do that) and he took his shirt off and showed us his scars. Seems the Japanese really tried to beat his faith out of him.
Good men. Some didn't make it back. Sometimes only their animated bodies did, just like many other veterans.
Amazing story, and I'm sure to him, he was 'just doing his job'...
Thank you, Borepatch.
What I think is most striking about the father is not how he died, but the way his people talk about him: sharing their hardships, going out under fire with them, always good for a cold drink or a book, making sure that his people were taken care of...
Seems like there's a lot of leadership lessons in his story, too.
==Dwight
The USS Capodanno (FF 1093), a Knox class frigate, was in the same squadron (Naval Surface Group Four) as my ship. She was based out of Newport (we were homeported in Philadelphia) and we spent a lot of time up in Newport and exercised with her frequently.
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