Ministry of Hospitality

I spent most of my short New York City time downtown, and as I happened upon a Catholic church, would check the doors, hoping for a look inside.  Most of the time I was unsuccessful, for the doors were locked. Yes, I understand security issues, and they are real. But still, isn’t it sad to [...]

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You can fly

Union Square, New York City.

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High Line

Very nice. One of those good ideas that people have once in a while.

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Night View

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Speaking of Saltillo

This post at the Opinionated Catholic about the connections between the US Deep South and Saltillo, Mexico, reminded me of the fact that one of our mission team had previously been to Saltillo  as a teenager in his parish youth group with a priest he said whose cause was being proposed…so I looked it up, [...]

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Desert Day

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And then it rained…

Those few days we were in General Cepeda, drought was mentioned many times.  It had been twenty years, the people we visited said. Twenty years of drought. The last full day we were there, it rained. and since the mission house is typical Spanish style, it is built around an open courtyard.  A couple of [...]

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Saltillo

Saltillo is the nearest large city to General Cepeda, and the diocesan see. About 600,000 people live there. It’s about an hour west and south of Monterrey. We went there for an outing one afternoon, the focus being the Cathedral and a couple of other spots. I had to wonder why Mexico, Central and South [...]

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Working

Of course there was the manual labor. As I think I mentioned, we were given two major projects during the week: to rebuild the roof of a neighborhood chapel, and to help a family that needed a room added to their house and a ditch dug to the road for a water line. Those who [...]

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Fun

There was that, too. (Work photos forthcoming, once I get a few…come on, people!) A great slide a block away from the mission house.  The ranchos had these concrete slides, as well – not as tall, but solid, and often with four slides jutting out from the center.  Solid. Slick. There were two birthdays during [...]

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