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Editor’s note: Father Bill Mobley was a Worship columnist for The Beacon in the early- and mid-1990s until his death in 1996. A few times this year, we will be revisiting his columns. This column ran in 1994.

A few decades ago I read a poem by the Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko entitled, “People.”

It’s first few lines go like this:

No people are uninteresting.

Their fate is like the chronicles of planets.

Nothing in them is not particular.

And planet is dissimilar from planet.

And if a man lived in obscurity

Making his friends in the obscurity.

Obscurity is not uninteresting....