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Letter from Father Wall

Responding are the tangible touch of
God’s hope, reconciliation
with creativity and healing in these chal-
lenging moments for our
and love country and our world.
Over the last several
months, we have heard from
hundreds of Extension-sup-
ported leaders throughout
the nation about the creative,
courageous and compel-
ling ways that the Church
Father Jack is “walking by faith” as we
Wall celebrated strive to help the poor, the
a special Easter sick, the vulnerable and
Mass that was
livestreamed for those on the peripheries.
viewers. As you will read in this edi-
tion of Extension magazine,
many inspiring priests, wom-
en religious and laypeople are
re-imagining their ministries
and finding new ways to keep
their communities connected
with God, with the Church,
and with each other during
this time of isolation and un-
rest. Just like our heroic first
responders, they are ordi-
W e are living in extraordinary is their very personal witness
Dear Friends,
nary people doing extraordi-
nary deeds. Their dedication

times. We are confronted
to every one of us that there
with a vastly different world
is something deep down at
than the one we knew only a
the core of their being—and
few short months ago. As we
indeed within every human
grapple with the pandemic,
heart—that is more power-
an economic downturn and
most recently, civil unrest, we
connecting than all the things
may be anxious, unsettled,
that we let divide us.
or hurting as we seek God’s ful than our fears and more
Whether these brave wom-
voice and presence in these en and men would articulate
difficult times. it or not, I believe that each
I encounter God’s presence one is revealing the reality of
in the thousands of people God’s love incarnate at work
supported by you, the donors in their lives. And the world is
of Catholic Extension, who witnessing through them the