Having finally made it through the terrible rush-hour traffic, I hadn’t been on Olive Street for more than ten minutes before a large group of us set out for the inaugural picnic at Brooklyn Bridge Park...
One day, our 9-year-old neighbor Diego was playing in front of our house just as we were coming back from visiting. He mentioned he had a guitar and wanted to learn to play it, so I brought out ours and showed him the finger placement for one chord....
I would like to share more about our apostolate at the prison. I think it’s never a good sign when something has “penal camp” in its name, and this case is no different. We visit every Thursday...
One thing that I can say has definitely changed during my time on mission is my definition of love. The friends here have taught me so much of what pure love is, and I have been lucky enough to be so very loved for the 10 months that I have been here. Among all the...
Around November, we started a new apostolate of going to visit the cancer patients in the children’s hospital in Guayaquil. I have learned a whole lot about entrusting the Lord with our intentions and our loved ones even if we don’t know the outcome....
This year’s family reunion was such a gift. There is something deeply comforting about being surrounded by people who share the same desire to live a life rooted in this mission and share similar experiences....
I have been very moved by is the impact of our life of prayer. After a Sunday Mass one of our friends came up to me and asked that we pray for her; she had just had a biopsy...
The people I met and the conversations I had were a wonderful testament to the great work that Con-solatio provides to our world. I think what most impressed me about the evening were all the stories...
Maria and Pedro are some of our good friends who have three sons. One left to go to the US, when he was a teenager, and the other two live with their parents, but have many medical problems. Their middle son, who is 12, has brain tumors, epilepsy and a mild form of lupus. ...
As the mother of a Con-solatio missionary in Deva, Romania, I recently had the privilege of visiting her and her missionary teammates, and I couldn’t have been more proud of them. Everything I imagined a Catholic mission to be, how it is actually lived out, I saw in Romania. ...