Get your sweet potatoes this Sunday, November 9, and next Sunday, November 16, at the back of the Church. This Saturday, November 8, from 10:00 am – 12:00 pm, the Garden Gang will be washing sweet potatoes, putting away trellises, emptying rain barrels, and...
October was a sad month for Manos Amigas as we lost our founder Deacon Ross Beaudoin. Ross visited Anapra, Mexico 33 years ago where he met a bilingual resident, Estela Huerta. They built a relationship that resulted in many students finishing junior high, and then...
Nathan Soderblom once stated, “Saints are people who make it a little bit easier for the rest of us to be good.” They are light bearers, they are trail angels, they are people with rough edges like everyone else but who have somehow remained focused on God and our...
In 1920’s Mexico, under President Plutarco Calles, clergy were restricted from public religious practices, religious education was outlawed, and many Catholics were persecuted, imprisoned, or executed for their faith. These anti-Catholic measures or “Calles Laws”...
Catholic bishops throughout the world make “ad limina” visits to Rome every five to ten years. These periodic trips bring them to the threshold or entryway, as the Latin word implies. “Ad limina” refers more specifically to the tomb, meaning the crypt of Saint Peter...
