This little piece on what four Missionaries of Charity are able to do is beautiful.
They bring food to those who are house-bound, help the disabled by doing, among other things, house cleaning, and pray with those who wish to pray. They are the Sisters of Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity who are helping about a hundred elderly and ill people in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
In a Muslim country whose Catholic community consists of 250 people, the four sisters visit those in need three times a week, regardless of their faith. They also run a soup kitchen for the poor.
What this means for each soul is remarkable.
“The sisters are everything for me. My wife and I are absolutely alone and nobody comes to see and talk with us, except for them,” said Yuri Vorobkin, a 67-year-old former mountain rescue official who lost his legs. “Some days, I sit in front of my window waiting for them for hours.”
and another,
“You can't even imagine how much we appreciate the work of the sisters. Do you know how horrible it is to stay in a bed full of bedbugs when you can't do anything because of your disability?” Sherstneva said. "The sisters help us live as human beings.”
Sister Lamola regrets that she cannot visit elderly folk only two or three times a week, because on other days all four of them are busy running their soup kitchen.
“We want to help all of the disabled old people, but we don't have enough time to do it,” she said.
We each have lonely souls we can visit who are only looking for smiles. Although time is often cramped, think of the graces, think of the joy, think of Christ. I must do better ...
Hat tip: Genevieve
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