Page 4 - Spring 2019 Extension Magazine

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Letter from Father Wall

Follow the women who follow the Risen Christ

Father Wall
celebrates Mass
at San José
Mission Church
in Fairacres,
New Mexico.

Dear friends, where to her surprise she dis- This woman religious is not
covered an isolated but grow- alone. Over and over again,
NE OF MY FAVORITE sto- ing farm community. Through and in many diverse cir-
ries told by our staff after her warm and inviting pasto- cumstances, this missionary
one of our mission trips ral approach, she drew these pattern of first “encounter”
is of an enterprising, detached families into the and then “accompaniment,”
strong woman religious welcoming arms of the local encouraged by Pope Francis, is
in Dothan, Mississippi. parish, providing them with being repeated in the poorest
She curiously followed hospitality, an experience of communities of our coun-
Oractor that was hauling connection, and a spiritual try and is especially being
a t
chickens down a dusty road, sense of home. modelled by lay and religious