Two weeks ago, Father took three teenaged boys from our parish to work with the Missionaries of the Poor in Jamaica. Learn more about their difficult but beautiful apostolate, serving Christ in the poor.
They welcome the help of volunteers like the group of priests and boys who travelled from our diocese to spend a week mopping floors, bathing and feeding those unable to care for themselves, and listening to people to whom the world has turned a deaf ear.
The Brothers of this order own nothing themselves, beyond two habits and, according to Fr. Andreas, who preached this morning in our parish, two pairs of pants. They offer their grueling work for free and rely on donations to carry on their service with the throwaways of the world. In Jamaica, which is set to legalize abortion, this will include work with pregnant women in crisis, to save them and their children together from the fate which already befalls the ill and elderly, abandoned to die by their own families when their lives prove not to be useful. In God's eyes, said Father Andreas this morning, no human life is a castoff; in God's eyes, human worth is never measured in merely utilitarian terms. The work of the Missionaries of the Poor is to treasure the fallen sparrow as God Himself treasures it.
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