On Sunday the Theology II seminarians got split into two groups. One went to a women’s shelter and the other group, my group, went back to Saint Matthew’s Parish. Brother Joseph P.E.S, Michael Rienhardt, Adam Johnson, and I arrived early via Uber. The trek from the Basilica of our Lady of Guadalupe to San Matteo […]
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Since we have been on this journey something which I have found difficult is the language barrier. I took two years of Spanish in high school which has helped me read signs and menus. However, I cannot converse with anyone. This has been very difficult because I love talking with people. I enjoy sharing the […]
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This weekend we worked with an organization called “Hope for the Poor”. We visited a park near the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe on Saturday. It was an interesting place: full of pilgrim groups having picnics and forming up to walk the last few blocks to the Basilica, and also full of homeless people. […]
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I have a bit of a reflection to share today. This morning, we visited Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. We had the great privilege of being able to celebrate the Mass at the Grotto of the Manger, a small, intimate space where it is traditionally said the crib sat. Unfortunately, our hope for a […]
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Several days ago we had the opportunity to have Mass in the Holy Sepulchre – where Jesus rose from the dead. It was beautiful to realize that the reason so many millions of people come here each year is precisely because Jesus isn’t here – it is the Resurrection, the historical fact that Jesus rose […]
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On Wednesday some of the men returned to the lunch program in San Matteo to spend time with the kids and their mothers. They had quite a trip across the city to get there, but had the joy of serving both the children and their mothers just by being a joyful presence and an example […]
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Yesterday, we followed the footsteps of Jesus by praying through the Stations of the Cross. It is called the Via Dolorosa, or the Way of the Sorrows, and it marks the path that Jesus took to Calvary, the place of his crucifixion and death. It starts near the Chapel of Condemnation, which is very close […]
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Sometimes life can feel like it has a moving target, but this week we have been reminded of the ultimate goal that doesn’t change. Love. The Lord. Heaven with Him forever.
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On Monday some of the seminarians took a city bus out to the San Matteo neighborhood, where the Missionary Brothers of Charity live, to visit a public lunch program. Unlike in US schools, kids in Mexico don’t receive a free or subsidized lunch at school, so this program provides a lunch as well as some […]
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A few days ago, a number of us were blessed to make a pilgrimage to the Basilica of our Lady of Guadalupe with the Missionaries of Charity for the first time. It ended up being a longer adventure than we expected. A bus was supposed to come and pick us up at 7:30 but the […]
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