Dinner with the Friars-Lisa, Ana, Fr. Peter, Br. James, and just barely Br. Benedict

Dinner with the Friars-Lisa, Ana, Fr. Peter, Br. James, and just barely Br. Benedict
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So we went to Nicaragua. Random, eh? It was a very blessed time and we are very grateful to have had the experience. We have always thought that we were called to be missionaries in some sense, but always thought of ourselves as being missionaries to a wounded Church right here in America. Who knows, this might bring us either one step closer to making that crazy leap and going for it down there, or it will make us that much more firm in our resolve right here.
This is a picture of us joined around the table with some men that have radically committed their lives to Jesus and loving Him in the poor, not just by kindness or deeds, but by becoming poor for the kingdom. Their example is a real blessing. They live in a wooden friary they put together in the middle of a coffee plantation and beg all their meals from those around them. Their only thing they have to return is the love of God. Let us be conformed to you Lord in this season of purification. Help us to draw closer to you and further away from those things that separate us from you.