“Why do you serve the poor?” “Why do you spend time with the poor?” These two questions have been put to me recently, and they’ve gotten me thinking about my current life in inner city Edmonton’s “shelter district.” This is the place I call home,...
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Madonna House: Aspects of Our Vocation, Our Mission, and Our Message
Those of us who are members of Madonna House make promises of poverty, chastity, and obedience. So ours is a vocation of total self-gift, like that of marriage and priesthood, and like that of monks and nuns and friars. But it’s also sort of its own...