Find today’s readings here. When Jesus came down from the mountain, great crowds followed him. And then a leper approached, did him homage, and said, “Lord, if you wish, you can make me clean.” He ...

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Olav Bjorgass threw an arm around the cook and beamed into my camera. Then the cook returned to chopping vegetables, and the Norwegian doctor showed me the rest of his clinic. The year was 1983, the ...

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He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me. My kinsfolk have failed, and my jamiliar friends have forgotten me . . . I am an alien in their sight. I called ...