Missionary activity renews the Church, revitalizes faith and Christian identity, offers fresh enthusiasm and new incentive. Faith is strengthened when it is given to others! It is in commitment to the Church’s universal mission that the new evangelization of Christian people will find inspiration. John Paul II/Redemptoris missio This has been a summer of some […]
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of time…” So Charles Dickens famously begins his epic novel, A Tale of Two Cities. I kept thinking of that quote these past few weeks as my travels took me not to two cities but rather two islands: the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean and […]
Wednesday, July 14We took off from Reagan National for Miami at about 6am, then made a quick transfer there to our flight to Port-au-Prince. Surprisingly, it was a big plane and it was full. Many of the people on the flight were with Church groups (Evangelical Church groups), clearly identifiable by their T-shirts. As we […]
We are back from Haiti and sorting out all of our experiences. I will post an account of what happened to us day by day. It was an amazing and life changing trip, but I am not sure yet what we learned or what our next steps are. The experience is too fresh and too […]
Greetings from Les Bons Samaritains school in Haiti. It’s been an amazing three days, and it will be extremely difficult to sum up our experiences in just a few words. The weather has been hot with rain in the afternoons. Traveling from church to church is extremely difficult due to extreme erosion and lack of […]
Today we travel to Haiti to see how our church can serve God and the people of Haiti. Please continue to pray for our efforts.
This is an interesting time for our growing missions/service program. On Wednesday, Brain Crook (our new Mission Director) and I meet with the Director of Catholic Charities for the Archdiocese of Baltimore, Bill McCarthy. Bill is also a Nativity parishoner. We shared with him the conviction we have formed about mission/service, namely that we […]
The other day I got hit over the head. Here’s what happened. I was sitting in my living room and part of the ceiling fell down. I wasn’t hurt, and it wasn’t really a surprise. A leaky roof had been repaired a while back, but the damage to the ceiling had gone unaddressed. I just […]
Some more thoughts on our congregation and the positive signs of health and strength and maturity that I am witnessing. Here are five more: #6 Service This spring more people than ever stepped forward to get involved in “First Serve” (our program for people who want to get into a ministry). We have a strong […]
