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¡Carnaval!
Editor’s Note: As we journey through the season of Lent, lay missioner Ralph Anderson, OFS, recounts his cross-cultural experiences at two different Bolivian celebrations of Carnaval, a traditional Mardi Gras celebration in Latin America, and shares pictures and videos from this festival. When I was young, my impression of Carnaval was a drunken immoral Festival in…
New Mission Candidates get a taste of Bolivia
Over the Labor Day weekend the new mission candidates started arriving from all over the country. And what good timing! It just so happened there was a Bolivian festival going on at the Prince William County Fairgrounds in Manassas, VA. Many of these candidates are interested in going to Bolivia for their two years, so…
