I started One City Mission at the end of 2017, driven by the desire to make the streets of New York a place of meaningful human relationships. A couple of months later, I met Ed and Martha, who decided to accompany me on an evening visit to three unshelte...
My family and I recently had the special opportunity to participate in a Community Day with friends from all across the state of Texas. We weren’t new to the experience of gathering for a community day, as we had done it many times before in Colorado. How...
https://english.clonline.org/news/church/2022/11/30/pope-letter-people-ukraine
On Sunday, November 20th, the Colorado Communion and Liberation communities organized a piano concert in celebration of Fr. Giussani's anniversary. Pianist and composer Brian Billion played music by Schubert and Chopin. The concert took place in the beaut...
I keep finding myself saying, “I feel more myself than I have in a long time”. I am so grateful for this. It has been difficult to try to put to words what has happened in my heart since the end of the summer. I first began to realize the change on my way...
Dear friends, On this time of great sadness over the call to Heaven of our fraternal friend Professor David L. Schindler last November 16, I express on behalf of the entire Movement my most heartfelt sympathy to his children, family members and all of ...
I am currently in my third year of medical school, which means I have finally made the transition from the books to the hospital. And for the first time in my life, I have no idea what I want to be when I grow up. Deciding to go to medical school was one ...
Recently I went to dinner at a friend’s house. She had attended the MedConference in Montreal and wanted to share her experience. We had dinner with around twenty people, most of whom I did not know. Our group ranged from seasoned doctors to a high school...
I was sitting on the sagrato of St. Peter’s square and from that vantage point I looked at the square and at the immense crowd of people. It was a huge turnout, filling all of the corners of the square. When the Pope said: “Your movement does not lose its...
The MedConference started as a way for Elvira, my mentor, to help some of us who were students at the time face the question of discerning a career in the medical field. What began as a simple desire to show us the beauty of caring for someone who is ill ...
I desired to attend the 2022 MedConference the moment I saw the advertisement come through my email. I had never been and almost did not go because I was scared to travel abroad on my own. However, to my own good fortune (and likely a grace), a nurse frie...
https://english.clonline.org/news/current-events/2022/11/07/booklet-audience-october-15
Some of our friends from the Houston Communion and Liberation community were able to go to Rome for the audience with Pope Francis on October 15th. However, most of us could not. Therefore, we decided to celebrate the centennial of the birth of Fr. Giussa...
A few friends asked me to share my experience as a candidate in the latest election cycle in Italy. This was the first time I was personally involved, as a candidate, with a political campaign. Many asked me, “Why was this risk worth taking?” I was bo...
At 3:30 a.m. EST on October 15th, I woke up in a dark hotel room, brushed my teeth, dressed, filled my thermos with coffee, and set out to meet the Pope. I wasn’t in Rome; I was on an island in the Bahamas, and I was trying not to be sad about it. Whe...
Drawn to make the pilgrimage to St. Peter’s Square on October 15, the 100th anniversary of Fr. Giussani’s birth, one hundred and thirty friends from across the United States gathered with several thousand others in St. Peter’s Square for the audience with...