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Clergy as Catalysts, Agents of Change

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A tearful mom hugs volunteers who furnished her home and made beds for her family. She can now be reunited with her three children who have been in foster care. A young couple and their infant are astonished when volunteers furnish their apartment after hardships endured living in a cardboard box in the woods. A Read More
Sergio Gonzalez

From the Streets to the Ambo

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My name is Deacon Sergio Gonzalez. That name still sounds strange and unreal to me when people call me a deacon. It has been a little over a year since I was ordained a permanent deacon for the Diocese of Joliet, Illinois. I am 39 years old, a father of four children and sacramentally married Read More
Off the Streets ministry

One, One, One — Just Begin

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“So, you begin … I begin. I picked up one person — maybe if I didn’t pick up that one person, I wouldn’t have picked up 42,000. The whole work is only a drop in the ocean. But if I didn’t put the drop in, the ocean would be one drop less. Just begin … Read More