Forty Years of Guilt
The Lord is Always with Us
Christ Forms a Family in Loving Friendship
A Carmelite in Peru
In similar ways throughout my time in Peru, I found my Carmelite vocation confirmed and affirmed through monthly letters sent to my home community.
Old Faith Come Alive
Witnessing others come to know God, encountering Him in Holy Scripture, or in the sacraments, for the first time is pure gift.
His Grace is Sufficient
It is in this tension the Lord has invited me to live. Sometimes it feels like it’s manageable, but more often than not, it feels like a whole lot.
So Much Reward When You Open Your Heart
Go. Don’t think too hard. Whatever doubts you have, put them aside. Just take a leap of faith and go!
Laborers for His Harvest
After the prayer she appeared to be a little lighter—as if a heavy weight had been lifted from her shoulders.
Maria Magdalena’s Home – A Fruit of Fortitude
Our first mission is to serve and walk alongside the mothers and children that the Lord sends here, but the second is to disciple them.
Memento Mori
I encountered in the house directly across from the church the face of our Suffering Christ in the person of Tulio.
Motherhood and Piglets
To The Heights
For the Sake of the Gospel
A Heart That Forgives
Forgiveness is never easy, but Kree shares how her friend came to do such as this through the help of God.
Pierce Our Hearts, Lord
Karen Del Castillo, a missionary mother, shares about how her heart was pierced with transformation through the journey of her friends’ marriage.
Living Among Friends in Peru
Dignity of Work
We have been able to employ some of the local men here. Four of them have been able to work full time, which has changed their lives in such a wonderful way. We have also found Mr. Sanchez, who is a woodworker, living a bit further up the mountain. We have employed him to make the home’s 19 windows and 19 doors by hand from his little humble dirt-floor home.
Keep Sending Them, Lord
With the arrival of the new missionaries in February we found ourselves working together in what we now call “Team Picota”