My first three years of pastoral work in eastern Cameroon were spent as a diocesan youth chaplain. I was involved with at-risk youth during my years of ministry in the CICM formation house in Cameroon as well. Each of these experiences awakened in me a passion for the spiritual mentoring and attentiveness needed to work with...
In early 2013, I arrived at the parish of El Calvario in the diocese of Verapaz. After some 14 years of commitment to the missionary ministry in Mexico, I dedicated myself completely to the observation and discovery of my new mission field in Guatemala.
I spent a long time learning the local language and familiarizing myself...
Whenever I tell people I meet that I am the pastor of Christ the Savior Church, they always ask me to tell them more about the church. The reality is that our church is not very well known here.
Yet, our small parish is still making a big difference in the Catholic and non-Catholic communities around us.
One indicator of this is...
The basic human function of honoring and burying one’s dead is a personal one. It also often involves one’s family, church, and community. Local custom and traditional attitudes have their parts as well. This is the story of an elderly woman of our parish, who had just celebrated her 90th birthday when she passed away in...
After my ordination to the priesthood in April 2013, I was assigned as the assistant parish priest of the St. Roch parish in Grosse-Roche. Grosse-Roche is a vast village that stretches through the majestically high mountains of the Commune of Vallieres, in the North-East of Haiti.
It is only traversed by one very rocky road,...
Missionhurst Missionaries build Catholic communities in frontier situations: places where the gospel is not preached or lived. This blog is about their work in the four corners of the globe, and their holistic work in four areas of focus: relief and healthcare, socio-economic development, education, and pastoral work.
