The first hours Morning prayer comes before anything is asked of him, and then Mass, often in a small chapel beside the house, sometimes with a handful of people and sometimes with a church already full. This is the still part of the day. After it, the demands start to arrive, and they rarely stop […]
Why the Society came The Society’s Latin American mission was not an old colonial inheritance but a deliberate, modern choice, made in answer to a Pope’s appeal. The Church across the region was vast and under-served, and the need was for priests willing to live among the poor of the cities and the countryside rather […]
Where it began The early decades were hard, and there is no point pretending otherwise. The first missionaries buried their own to fever and built what they could by hand. They learned the languages slowly, opened small schools and simple clinics, and trained local catechists, men and women who could carry the faith in their […]
