Do you consider yourself a missionary in the archdiocese at St. Alphonsus?
I do consider myself a missionary here at St. Al’s because I live in a community that is imbued with the spirit of St. Alphonsus, who started the Redemptorists to work with the most abandoned and the poor back in Naples, Italy, in 1732. Our community includes men who have spent many years in Brazil and Thailand as missionaries. We have a Vietnamese priest on our staff as well. One man taught for 18 years in Rome. . . . With our experiences in so many different parts of the country and world, we quite naturally bring this into our preaching and thus give people an understanding of the universal nature of the church. . . .
