Tuesday, Week 15 in Ordinary Time, 2020

By the age of twenty five he had lost everything.
Rejected as a priest.
He devoted himself to those who had nothing.
Despite every obstacle he refused to desist.

The hospitals were filthy . The staff violent and uncaring.
His reforms introduced against opposition stealthily.
But he had known these hospitals from inside, himself sickening .
And now his people emerged healthily.

He became bursar of Rome’s St Giacomo Hospital
He founded an order of the Camillian.
His work was as strong as forged metal
Against a bureaucracy truly labyrinthian .

We may not be able to follow those who in hospital care now too.
We can only say thank you.