Some of you may remember a small patient profile we had last year featuring Noé. I want to write a little follow up for you.
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I confess that I have a great propensity to rush. So often, whether in our friary, traveling, or at San Benito Jose, I tend to have my eyes on the goal and I miss truly significant things around me. Thankfully God often will put people or little things in my path to slow me down and remind me what is really important. This is what happened one February day of this year.
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Naturally enough, I had never heard of Pica. I was newly arrived to Honduras, as well as only recently initiated into my work at St. Benedict Joseph Medical Center, and so many of the things medical that have occurred are far beyond my very limited scope of knowledge. Nevertheless, as the four nurses continued to discuss their day, and the two cases of Pica, I felt my stomach drop.
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Almost every Honduran has a name derived from the Old or New Testament, from a Catholic saint or from a feast or doctrine of the Church. Everything that surrounds our life here reminds us that we live amidst a believing people. For us here in Honduras, God is very near.
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“I was beginning to think I might not make it.” His teary, shell-shocked eyes told half the story. This aged country man fixed his eyes on mine and began to tell his story.
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“Hola ¿Cómo te llamas?”
“Hola...” Still no answer… Just a timid half-glance shot my way.
I was kneeling next to a little boy from a mountain village who was waiting in the pre-op area of our Medical Center..
By all accounts she was dying. As she lay in her mother’s arms, the sound of Jennifer Suyapa’s labored breathing came to us across the back seat of our pick-up. Jennifer’s mother, Dilcia, had brought her eight-month-old daughter to St. Benedict Joseph Medical Center that morning.
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This year, by the Providence of God, the feast of Saint Benedict Joseph Labre, April 16th, fell the day after the Second Sunday of Easter, which according to the revelations the Lord Jesus gave to Saint Faustina Kowalska in the 1930s, is to be celebrated as Divine Mercy Sunday. At a Mass for local friends and benefactors of the Medical Center on Sunday, April 15th, this providential alignment provided the opportunity to reflect on the mission of SBJ in the light of the message of Mercy, the greatest of the qualities of God, and the example of our holy patron.
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