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Redemption, taught through the environment

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Quite interesting from a theological & an environmental perspective, how a priest can buy a block of unwanted land, turn it into something beautiful, and let that be a model of how God can do the same with an unwanted person & bring out something beautiful.


There's a LOT of stories about redemption (thank God!), but to just grab one that is remarkable & not well known, here's a little article that goes along with finding beauty in undesirable people--or rather, people desired for the wrong reasons, people who have lost sight of their own beauty...

Merciful Like the Father: St. Vitalis of Gaza - Held By His Pierced Hands
 
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