BISHOP MUHM PREACHES TO CONFIRMANDI DURING CONFIRMATION MASS AT ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE, GUAM ON 13 MARCH 2020.
THERE IS A BALM IN GILEAD
BY BISHOP BILL MUHM
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uring January and February, I was able to visit our AMS Catholic communities and priests in Naples, Vicenza, and Aviano, Italy; Ankara and Incirlik, Turkey; Mons, Netherlands; Landstuhl, Daenner Kaserne, Hohenfels, and Wiesbaden, Germany; and Croughton, the United Kingdom. My spring confirmation visits to Korea, Germany, and United Kingdom all had to be postponed. By the time Salute readers read this article, I hope to have completed at least this year’s confirmations in Germany. As you might remember, the public health crisis unfolded quickly during Lent. This coincidence made me think of a wonderful African American spiritual, which is very appropriate for sickness during Lent: “There is a Balm in Gilead”:
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“There is a balm in Gilead, To make the wounded whole, There is a balm in Gilead, To heal the sin-sick soul.”
