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        Legacy Club Mass
        In December Catholic
        Extension President
        Father Jack Wall will
        celebrate a Mass
        for the intentions of
        Legacy Club members.
        The annual Mass is
        one of the benefits for
        club members, who
        have designated a gift
        to Catholic Extension
        in their will. “We are
        enormously thankful
        for our Legacy Club
        members and their
        loyalty to our mission,”
        said Father Wall.
        “We remember you in
        our prayers.”           Transformative encounter on the border

        TV Mass                 In September, through Catholic Extension’s Pastor Immersion
        Please join us for our   Program, 18 priests traveled to the U.S.-Mexico border to experi-
        Weekly TV Mass at
        catholicextension.org/  ence firsthand the hardships that immigrants and refugees face
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                                and how the Church serves them.

                                    They were deeply moved by visits to migrant shelters, the
                                Humanitarian Respite Center, the Human Development Proj-

                                ect, an historic border church and other ministries that Catholic
                                Extension supports.

                                   The pastors, from Chicago, Boston, Atlanta, Louisville, Provi-
                                dence and Cleveland, encountered a completely different side of

                                the Church than the urban areas they serve.
                                   Above, the priests gather at the Rio Grande in Los Ebanos,

                                Texas, to pray for the safety and welfare of the immigrants.
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