Fr. Soc tells medical frontliners: You are the faces of Jesus
LINGAYEN-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas said the medical frontliners and health workers attending to COVID-19 patients are “the faces of Jesus”.
In a message on March 26 on the Facebook page of the Archdiocese of Lingayen-Dagupan., Villegas wrote, “You are taking care of God. We cannot pay back your love and service that you are giving them.”
He added, “Jesus in the sick, and Jesus in you, you meet together, caring for each other.”
Villegas cited the story in the Bible when Jesus showed His compassion, touching the lepers, blind and deaf when he raised the dead to life.
He also narrated a story about Pope John Paul II when he visited the Philippines in 1981 and wanted to meet the lepers from the Tala Leprosarium. Since it was not possible at the time to bring him to them, the lepers were brought to the auditorium of Radio Veritas in Fairview, Quezon City to meet the Pope.
When the Pope saw the lepers, he knelt and kissed the first leper he saw and whispered, “My Lord, my Lord.”
Villegas said the doctors, nurses, hospital workers, including the janitors and cooks “are all serving Jesus and we can also tell to the sick, My Lord”.
“And to you also, when you touch the sick, we can say to you, Lord Jesus, thank you for caring for us,” Villegas said.
Acknowledging the frontliners fears, Villegas said “there are many reasons to be afraid of but there are also several reasons to rejoice because the one you are taking care of is Jesus and you are Jesus to all of us”. (PhilStar Wire Service/ECV)
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