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Sir, I am not worthy to have you under my roof.
Just give the word and my servant will be cured.
From our destiny we cannot stand aloof.
And then ultimately we will receive our reward.

St John Damascene.
Lived under the Umayyad caliphate.
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He accepted hate from the iconoclasts as his fate.

Will we walk humbly like the centurion.
Or act bravely  like St John.
Or will we just carry on.
Until what we hold onto is gone.

The centurion’s servant was paralysed.
But by his master’s faith, he was cured.

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I am not worthy
To have you under my roof
Said at every mass

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See Matthew 8: 5-11