Father Damien, a Belgian Priest, also Saint Damien of Molokai, born on January 3, 1840, and died on April 15, 1889, was a Roman Catholic Priest and missionary. He was known for helping people with leprosy on the island of Molokai in Hawaii. Father Damien came to Hawaii in 1864. During this time, many Native Hawaiians were dying from many of the diseases they caught from the white settlers. The King of Hawaii made the people who had leprosy live in a colony away from other people. There they would live and never return, and there they would die. Father Damien went to help the sick people and gave them hope. He had great compassion on these poor abandoned people. He  made a plan  to go to help them, to live with them and since he knew he would never retun home, to die with them. He arrived on the island and built a hospital, a samll chapel and school and he changed their lives completely. He was someone who loved them and cared for them and gave them back some of their human dignity. Father Damien also died from leprosy, but what he did helped many people. In 1995, he was beatified, and he is recognized by both the Catholic and Anglican churches. Father Damien was canonised by Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday October 11, 2009. He is the Patron Saint of the Diocese of Honollulu, as well as all of Hawaii, of people with leprosy, and of outcasts, as well as people suffering from HIV and AIDS as well. God in heaven was worried about us humans, he saw that we had lost our way, but he loved us and had great compassion for us. God put his power to one side and sent an angle to a young woman in Nazareth, and requested if she would be willing to be the mother of his son. Mary said yes, and we can only imagine the joy and happinness of Jesus, when he could claim he was one of us. The word became flesh and dwelt amongst us.  He became our good samaritan.  Today the fourth Sunday of Advent, we are invited to reflect on this great event,  but not just as spectators.  Jesus wants us to join with him in his great mission; we don’t have to go to a faraway island like Fr. Damien.  Whereever we are, we can have hearts like Jesus, and love like him. Please God this Chrismtas,  we can reach out with the hands and heart of Jesus,  to those who need him.