Letters - 2013
![Christ and His Disciples in Emmaus by Jacob Andries Beschey. Via Wikimedia Commons](/cm-files/img/2018/04/23/jacob_andries_beschey_-_christ_and_his_disciples_in_emmaus-n.jpg)
I can’t keep letting events in my life happen without bearing witness to the facts that I perceive to be changing me. The most recent and clear evidence was at the National Equipe this year in Rochester, MN...
![Remains from the 2013 typhoon in the Philippines. Photo by Trocaire via Wikimedia Commons](/cm-files/img/2018/04/23/tacloban_typhoon_haiyan_2013-11-14-n.jpg)
I am so touched by the outpouring of concern about our condition here in the Philippines from CL friends from around the world. We have been mercifully spared the devastation caused by the typhoon...
![The Calling of the Apostles Peter and Andrew by Duccio di Buoninsegna. Via Wikimedia Commons](/cm-files/img/2018/04/23/639px-duccio_di_buoninsegna_036-n.jpg)
I started going to School of Community when a friend invited me and honestly everything everyone said went way over my head and I literally couldn’t follow anything they said...
![The Abbey Church, New Norcia, Western Australia. Photo by Gnangarra via Wikimedia Commons](/cm-files/img/2018/04/23/800px-new_norcia_gnangarra_1_v2-2-n.jpg)
The last weekend in May, the adults of the Perth community and the CLU students of the University of Western Australia attended the Fraternity Exercises in New Norcia...
![The Annunciation by John William Waterhouse. Via Wikimedia Commons](/cm-files/img/2018/04/23/john_william_waterhouse_-_the_annunciation-n.jpg)
Straightening up my desk drawer, I found the notes of what you told me before I departed for Africa. Six years have gone by already. My experience here has not been a walk in the park; yet, by accepting your challenge, today I find myself changed...
![Nebraska prairie. CC0 Creative Commons](/cm-files/img/2018/04/23/nebraska-321291_960_720-n.jpg)
When I was at the National Diaconia a few weeks ago, you posed a question to a crowded New Yorker Hotel conference room: “How do you know you need to change?” Immediately, hands rose, followed by a string of answers...
![Pope Francis. Photo/pixabay](/cm-files/img/2018/02/22/pope-francis-707390_1920-n.jpg)
A reflection on the past three Popes. "... three theological virtues: the hope of John Paul II, the faith of Benedict XVI, and the charity of Francis... "
![Hands joined in prayer. CC0 Creative Commons](/cm-files/img/2018/04/23/prayer-2544994_960_720-n.jpg)
Reading and listening to the recent painful events that involved some persons in the Movement in Italy, I felt the urge to write. Over the past few days, I thought about it all a lot and I discovered a new way to face these circumstances...