Tag Archive for ‘Brownsville’
This Is What An Angel Looks Like
Cover Photo: New Zealander, Fr Tony O’Connor-Hickman SM baptises a baby in the parish church of San Felipe in Brownsville, a town on the border between the US and Mexico. It faces the Mexican town of Matamoros, divided by the Rio Grande and by the border wall. Fr Tony spent 12 years there, having also been […]
A Faith Greater Than Fear
This article is adapted from the SM Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation (JPIC) blog jpicblog.maristsm.org It is used with permission San Felipe de Jesus Catholic Church, Brownsville, Texas Here we were: ministering to Central American Minors in their centres and in the parish; taking food, clothes, and provisions to the asylum […]
LOGOS goes to Brownsville, Texas
Maggie’s Reflection Earlier this year I and three others on the young adult programme at Logos, a Society of Mary youth development project based in Auckland, set out on a Marist immersion experience that would later become very pivotal in our journey as young Marists. After much preparation, excitement and nerves, on the 12th of […]
“Posada”– Seeking Lodgings
I have written before about our contact here in Brownsville, Texas, with migrant minors from Central America: El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. The latter part of this last year 2015 has seen the arrival of so many more minors between the ages of 11-17. There had been some sort of difficulty for them to cross […]
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