‘No Hands, Great Faith’: Pontifical Missions Director Brings Christ to Lepers in Vietnam

Emotional testimony from the far corners of the world as the Pontifical Missions Society brings the Eucharist to those most in need.

Now serving as director of The Pontifical Missions Societies USA, Msgr. Roger Landry has been traveling the globe bringing Christ to the far corners of the Earth.

His latest travels brought him to Vietnam, where he visited Catholics suffering from leprosy. Giving witness to what he saw after celebrating Mass in a beautifully packed church, Msgr. Landry said:

“Then we had the great privilege to take Jesus to those lepers in this colony who are incapable of getting to Mass,” recalling, “The first leper we visited, with great hunger, looked up to the Lord through watery eyes and received the Lord on his tongue because he no longer had hands. His hands had been given back to God. And he received with great faith.”

Msgr. Landry shared another encounter he had with in the leper colony in Kon Tum, “to bring Communion to a woman in her home.”

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