Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Walking the walk - literally

Posted by Mary DeTurris Poust

A great story about a priest who is going to spend the next month walking 500 miles of the famed Santiago de Compostela in Spain to raise money for two Catholic parishes and a Catholic school in South Bend, Indiana. Inspiring summer reading. (h/t to the USCCB for the link.)

From the South Bend Tribune's interview with Father Chris Cox:

“It seems a good time to take some time in prayer and reflection upon my own life and also the people that I have served the last nine years here on the west side, and the people that I’ll be going to go serve in Santiago, Chile,” he said by telephone a week before setting off for Europe.

"...I’ve been thinking about doing this for so many years, and when the opportunity presented itself, I jumped in with both feet.”

Read the entire story HERE.

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