Monday, July 17, 2017

Patron Of The Sick, Hospitals and Nurses

Healthcare seem to be in the headlines all the time; money is a huge factor in the arguments surrounding it; care for the ill, just wages for the caregiver.   The circle never ends.
In the late 1500's Camillus de Lellis, a man who abandoned is troubled ways and eventually, because of how he saw the sick being treated in the hospitals of his time, founded an Order which would be dedicated to the decent care of patients, seeing in them another Christ.  He saw a need and took dramatic steps to respond to it. His zeal, simplicity and determination greatly improved the plight of hospital patients, a movement which has needed ongoing renewal since his death. May we support our hospitals, doctors, nurses, and other care-givers by volunteering to help them or by contributing financially.
Bro .Rene

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