Mission Letters Archive 2012
Help Others This Easter
March 21, 2012 -- With Easter approaching, I looked forward to bringing much needed groceries to hungry families and seniors in the small town of Mosses, Alabama.
Celebrate Easter while giving to others...
Help Us Keep Families Together This Lent
February 28, 2012 -- Catie Allard sobbed as she told me, "Father, they took my children away from me!" These were the first words she uttered when Sister Nancy and I arrived at her home after a harrowing drive over washed out dirt roads.
Find out how to help keep families together...
Remember Others During Holy Season of Lent
February 8, 2012 -- It's alright to be human. All of us have despondent times in our lives and I am no exception. When I walk along the red, muddy paths of rural Vredenburgh and see the despair of forgotten elders shivering in dilapidated shacks or the swollen bellies of malnourished children, I feel their anguish in the depths of my being.
75 Years of Helping People
January 18, 2012 -- In July of 1937, a young, dedicated Edmundite, Father Frank Casey, pulled into Selma driving a beat up old Pontiac. Horrified by the poverty he found and with only 50 cents in his pocket, he immediately rolled up his sleeves.
Support us in helping others...
Help Elderly in Need of Urgent Care
January 1, 2012 -- In a thunderstorm, I drove over the tracks through an area in Selma once called, "shanty town," because the rundown houses with leaning roofs are the homes of the poor, many of them sick, elderly and living alone.
Find out how you can help the elderly...
