Molokai Leprosy
The Molokai LeprosyMostly they thought that the deserving and afflicted earned what they received. In this section we tell the tale of Father Damien, the leprous preacher of Molokai, a man who shows us what it looks like when Christians take the orders of the one they pretend to do.
Are Christians more known to connect with the wealthy, powerful and prosperous or with the needy, ill and reject? Please use the information about leprosy below to highlight a sentence that you find particularly unexpected. View this 1900 painting of two Hawaiian lepers. Paint a photo showing how the leprosy settlement on Molokai was before Father Damien arrived.
What do you think of Father Damien would be his answer to the things you have shown in your work? What is Father Damien's choice to take his brother's place, similar to Katniss's choice here? What did Father Damien do to the victims of leprosy? How did Father Damien show this kind of sympathy with Molokai?
And what could Father Damien's answer to someone who said he had squandered his Iife be? If you came into touch with someone who had leprosy in old Israel, you would become ceremoniously impuren. In this sense, what is appalling about the way Jesus treated the man with leprosy? What was it he decided to go to Molokai and remain there?
How he took care of the cats? In the face of the prospects of his own leprosy deaths, his stance? Just think, you are reporting in small groups about Molokai in the 1870s. Select a pupil as a journalist to interview Father Damien and several leprous (other pupils) about their experience and feelings of Father Damien.
How could a contemporary "Father Damien" look like? What makes you think that Christians have often neglected to obey the example of Jesus by sacrificing the needy, the ill and the outcast? Explore in small groups a charitable organization in Australia that cares for the ill.