THE VULNERABLE
THE VULNERABLE This elderly man of poor health has been coming to ME A SERVANT OF CHRIST MISSION every Sunday for the last two years needing twenty rupees to buy half a pound of rice. He never asks for more and blesses us every time for the money. Other than the blessing he rarely says anything else. Approximately a little more than a month ago the elderly man did not stop by to get his rice money and we noted this but since we did not know where he lived we thought he might be sick. The following week he stopped by to tell us he had been beaten up and the goons stole his property papers and took his land. He went to the police but since it was Diwali (Hindu Festival) the police refused to register his complaint or look into the fact he had been beaten until the festival was over making the elderly man return once more to them. The police took the complaint and placed it into the hands of an arbitrator, which in essence told the elderly m...