The Pilgrimage Continues...
Why us, Lord? We continue on our way and decide not to dump Marta, but we still have questions. Why did LBJ Hospital insist that we accept this mother? Are they trying to get us into trouble? Should we have accepted her only because no one else in all of Harris County would accept her? No one ever told us that pro life work should exclude "illegal aliens."
No Way, José Poor José. He was really poor! We received this call yesterday from the San José clinic to say
that José, 16 years old, had a serious infection, but his only home
was under a bridge. Would we house him, since he was undocumented? Of course. What right does José have to live under a bridge anyway?
It's federal property. But why did Dr. Connally sent him to us? Is she trying to get us into
trouble? Or does she also believe in helping the stranger in a foreign land? Betcha she goes to confession to the same priest we do! That priest is causing a lot of work. Poor Pedro And the day before yesterday we visited Pedro at Herman Hospital. He
is an immigrant from Honduras. Pedro was gunned down several months ago--shot in the back. Now he is
lying paralyzed and helpless in Hermann Hospital. He has no life, no control
from his navel down. Pedro doesn't want to live anymore. No one wants to take Pedro home. So we get this barrage of calls from Pedro's church (Mormon), Pedro's
friends, the hospital social worker: please take Pedro. We really enjoyed this popularity. Maybe we are not so bad after all. But is Herman Hospital trying to get us into trouble? Will Immigration come and arrest Pedro? We will welcome Pedro to our home. Wheel chairs and crutches are not
an unusual sight at Casa Juan Diego. And you will see Ron or Benjamin or
Jerry working with them. But if Immigration visits us again, they had better bring an ambulance and not just pose as day labor contractors.  |
