El Paso
Hope Springs in the Desert
Editor’s Note: During this spring season, lay missioner Mary Liston Liepold, OFS recognizes how hope springs in nature and in her ministry sites. March 25, 2025 In DC, my home for most of my adult life, the cherry blossoms are blooming in the rain. El Paso typically gets about 9 inches of rain each year,…
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A Poem for the Aqui Estamos March and Vigil
Editor’s Note: On March 24, 2025, members of the El Paso community gathered in downtown El Paso for the “Aqui Estamos March and Vigil” to show support and be in solidarity with our immigrant neighbors. In this blog, lay missioner Kim Wagner shares her reflections after this march and vigil in a poem. In a…
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The Gift of Tongues
Two years ago, a group of students from The Catholic University of America boarded a plane en route to El Paso, Texas for a weeklong immigration immersion trip on the border. They knew very little about each other and even less about the struggles that Central American migrants face on their journeys, but they were…
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