Un Programa Participativo

[English follows]Ayer tuve la maravillosa experiencia de estar en una reunión de jóvenes que están comprometidos a utilizar la nueva Internet – Web 2.0 – para mejorar sus propias vidas y las vidas de sus conciudadanos.

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Pray. Listen. Respond in Love

I adapted this brief video from a free download at The Work of the People. It is presented as a reflection….

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Más de la Navidad

P. Diego Plá, C.M., ha preparado esta hermosa presentación de Powerpoint. Se convirtió utilizando authorSTREAM — un servicio gratuito de conversión de vídeo. (Puede pagar para video sin “filligrana”.) Entonces, usé Avidemux para añadir la audio. Todo para ti desde el mundo de “software libre,” la web, YouTube y Linux. Habrá video pronto…

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Una Navidad Inolvidable || An Unforgetable Christmas

English follows below… La Navidad llegó temprano este año en Mocomoco. Flora y Diego compraron (y rogaron para) los regalos para los niños para completar una gran oferta de regalos de un grupo canadiense Luterana, y seleccionarse y acondicionarse con todos ellos…

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Vincentian Missionary and Poet to Return Home

Abdo Eid, C.M., a Lebanese Vincentian, is completing his eleventh year in the Vincentian International Mission in El Alto, Bolivia. He has worked as a spiritual formator with Vincentian and diocesan seminarians, and as a missionary in Mocomoco — a Vincentian mission with 53 rural communities. While in Bolivia, Abdo has also found time to [...]

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Picasa Web Album – Día de Los Estudiantes

You are invited to view my photo album: Día de Los Estudiantes Día de Los Estudiantes Cochabamba, Bolivia – Nov 28, 2009 by fatherr View Album Play slideshow If you are having problems viewing this email, copy and paste the following into your browser: http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/sredir?uname=fatherr&target=ALBUM&id=5409507443579382081&authkey=Gv1sRgCJPG4tWA05DUuAE&invite=CIO-nscB&feat=email To share your photos or receive notification when your friends [...]

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Día de Los Estudiantes

It’s time for vacation from school here, and the university students have a great party and parade in Cochabamba. There are bands and dance groups from all over. I had a wonderful time on the the “Prado” with a couple of thousand young people. There was a lot of drinking going on, but they were [...]

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Hijas de La Caridad, Bolivia || Reunión Provincial

I was happy to be with the Daughters of Charity for their Provincial Meetings, November 13-15. You can view some pictures here. Because of the meetings, on Sunday morning I had the privilege of presiding at Eucharist, and preaching the homily which follows below in both English and then Spanish. During the weekend, we welcomed [...]

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Democracia y cambio ¡Sí podemos!

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador – A leftist television journalist has won El Salvador’s presidential election, bringing a party of former guerrillas to power for the first time since a bloody civil war and ending two decades of conservative rule. Read the rest . . .

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Vincentian Blog Action Day

Blogs are a powerful advocacy tool. Blog Action Day was October 15 2008. The topic was poverty. We’re going to work towards a “Vincentian Blog Action Day” on the relationship of educational access to poverty reduction. We’ll be using “Vincent Experience 4” to train folks and learn together. Then we’ll join up with Blog Action [...]

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