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storm surge. Lakeshore, a small community near Waveland, MS, was at the eye of the storm and sustained near-total devaluation.
St. John’s mission church was wrecked by the storm and may be beyond repair, Fr. Trinh said, while St. Ann’s survived but was damaged by wind and eight feet of water that filled the church and coated it with mud. The flooded priest’s home is mud-caked and turning green with mold inside, with all furnishings and equipment ruined. The priest has been living for a month in a shelter at an Air Force base, while most of his homeless parishioners are either in shelters, away with relatives, or living in tents or trailers on their rubble-strewn properties.
At an outdoor Mass Sunday, September 25, Fr. Trinh gathered with about 70 of his parishioners for the first time since the storm. Amid tears and hugs of consolation, he prayed with them and offered his condolences for their losses. Standing under a
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