Today, we visited the Garden of Gethsemane on the Mount of Olives, the place where Jesus experienced intense agony before he was betrayed by Judas and arrested by the guards on the night before his Passion and Death. After the Last Supper, in the night, he came here to pray. Jesus and his disciples were […]
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In a few short months we will all go home to serve in our respective dioceses, but right now we have the gift of being together in formation. We learn a lot from our formation program, our classes, our pastoral assignments, but in a special way today I want to make note of the gift it is to learn from each other.
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On Saturday afternoon several of us visited the local parish church-Nuestra Señora de la Asunción-to pray. It was clear as soon as we came into the square in front of the Church that there was an event going on, but when we approached the church somebody in back assured us we had at least a […]
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Many of us joined the Missionaries of Charity in marching to the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe with a huge crowd of pilgrims for the Archdiocese of Mexico City’s annual pilgrimage. It was a wonderful experience getting to join so many people in paying tribute to Our Lady. See some more pictures below. Viva […]
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I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the Lord!” Our feet have been standing within your gates, O Jerusalem! Jerusalem, built as a city which is bound firmly together, to which the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord, as was decreed for Israel, to give […]
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The last few days have been a real whirlwind. We were all up early on Friday for 7am Mass with the Sisters at their house. 5 of the men stayed with the Sisters to work, while the rest of us rode in the van with Gabriel to the Missionary Brothers and split up again, half […]
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This morning I awoke late after a long night of sleep. I awoke not knowing anything about what the day would contain and to be honest the day was truly amazing. I awoke first to a bunch of text messages to our group chat, saying that we would be working with the Missionary Brothers of […]
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Grace and peace to you, It’s been a whirlwind of a week in a beautiful way, far beyond what we could’ve anticipated. Sunday we went to St. Peter’s for the Papal Epiphany Mass. When we arrived a guard looked at our ticket and asked, ‘are you vesting for communion?’ We said no. He clarified, ‘…but […]
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We’ve had two great days working with the Missionary Sisters and Brothers of Charity. The Sisters here seem to do it all: they run a home for young children and elderly women with disabilities, they distribute food aid they receive in several neighborhoods, they work at the local parish. The brothers, who live a few […]
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Day 1: 1/8/19 Running low on sleep, the group of Theology II men made it in one piece to the Santa Fe area of Mexico City, nearly everyone droopy-eyed and yawning. Yet as soon as we found our hotel and settled in, we all woke out of our stupor at the excitement of walking the […]
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