Posted on 08/26/2016 6:34:00 PM PDT by COBOL2Java
"Sister Paula was an angel," says Joe Morgan Jr., of Lexington, Miss., Friday, Aug. 26, 2016, standing at a businesses adjacent to the Lexington Medical Clinic where he was a patient of Sister Paula Merrill, one of two nurse practitioners who were found slain Thursday in their Durant, Miss., home, a few miles away. Merrill and Sister Margaret Held, were known for their kindness and community involvement in the mostly rural Mississippi Delta towns.
Sisters Margaret Held and Paula Merrill were nurse practitioners who dedicated their lives to providing health care to people in the poorest county in the state. And as authorities search for the killer, many residents wonder how they will fill the hole the women’s deaths have left.
“Right now, I don’t see no forgiveness on my heart,” said Joe Morgan Jr., a 58-year-old former factory worker who has diabetes and was a patient of Merrill’s at the clinic where the two nuns worked.
He said Merrill would want him to forgive whoever killed the women, but he hopes the perpetrator is arrested, convicted and executed.
“She doesn’t deserve to die like this, doing God’s work,” Morgan said, shaking his head. “There’s something wrong with the world.”
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This was so shocking. Sister Margaret had been to the school where I used to teach. My two nun friends are devastated as the community of nuns in Mississippi is small & tight. People unfamiliar w/ nuns have no idea how hard they work & how truly selfless they are. This is so tragic. May they catch the monster who did this.
May the dear Lord free these dear Sisters from any trace of sin and sorrow, and make them glorious in His Kingdom.
BLM, I suspect.
Two nurses helping the community....
I’ll say they were helping. I did a brief stint in the
Florida panhandle, similar area, rural. Most of the direct
medical care these folks get is from nurse practitioners.
pretty sad community if two people are not there and there is this big a hole left. maybe time for a lot more folks to finally step up.
BLM, I suspect.
Let’s just call this what it is - evil. This was probably somebody looking to steal meds or get money for drugs. What a horrible crime.
Has anyone heard if they have any leads on this yet?
Did anyone hear “Allahu Akbar” being shouted?
Yes, there is.
The hotter regions of hades are reserved for such evilness of the vermin who do such atrocities. Gonna suck to be them at Judgement Day.
nuns are generally very highly educated...
The world is OK...some people aren’t.
A suspect has been apprehended and charged with 2 counts of capital murder.His name is Rodney Earl Sanders.You don’t even have to ask.
Having worked for decades at a major Boston hospital I know what NPs are.Yes,an NP can serve a community in ways that people who are "just a nurse" can't.But any nurse,regardless of what advanced training he/she might have,provides a vital service...particularly in a place like the Mississippi Delta.
It seems unlikely that either of the nuns murdered,or their Order,were big fans of the DP.Sometimes you hear it argued in a particular case that the DP shouldn't be applied because the murder victim opposed it.Ordinarily I'd ignore such an argument because the murder *victim* wasn't the only one violated by the act...all of society was.
But in this case I might accept such an argument.It might even be considered disrespectful to the women murdered to apply the DP in their case.
Just thinkin' out loud...
"Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. Consequently, whoever rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves. For rulers hold no terror for those who do right, but for those who do wrong. Do you want to be free from fear of the one in authority? Then do what is right and you will be commended. For the one in authority is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for rulers do not bear the sword for no reason. They are God’s servants, agents of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer." - Romans 13:1-4
From the article:
Dr. Elias Abboud, who worked with the sisters for years and helped build the clinic, said it provided about 25 percent of all medical care in the county.The two nuns cultivated relationships with drug company representatives, who often left extra free samples, according to clinic manager Lisa Dew.
“This is a poor area, and they dignified those who are poor with outreach and respect for them,” Plata said. “They treated each person as a child of God.”
Leni
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