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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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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