Would a Missionary give up Swahili (Facebook) for Lent?
What’s the first thing a missionary does? Learn the language. This is the language of the world we live. I’m sorry if you don’t like it. You could go “okay, I don’t like Swahili.”
What’s the first thing a missionary does? Learn the language. This is the language of the world we live. I’m sorry if you don’t like it. You could go “okay, I don’t like Swahili.”
Women religious have a history of seeing needs and responding to them. Sister Donna Dodge and her community of the Sisters of Charity of New York walk in that tradition.
The “Stir Into Flame” is from 2 Timothy 1: 1-8 — plays on Paul’s line here, and also Vincent’s “If love is a fire, then zeal is its flame.”