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The basic question: how to be Christians in a world of destitution.(Special feature: the push-pull of immigration)
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From Introducing Liberation Theology, published by Orbis Books.
A woman of forty, who looked as old as 70, went up to the priest after Mass and said sorrowfully: "Father, I went to communion without going to confession first." "How come, my daughter?" asked the priest. "Father," she replied, "I arrived rather late, after you had begun the offertory. For three days I have had only water and nothing to eat; I'm dying of hunger. When I saw you handing out the hosts, those little pieces of white bread, I went to communion just out of hunger for that little bit of bread! The priest's eyes filled with tears. He recalled the words of Jesus: "My flesh [bread] is real food ... ...
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