This beautiful Sunday morning we returned to our beloved Belen to attend mass. It was a new experience for us because for the first time the mass was said in both Spanish and English, so we could actually understand what was being said, haha. It was a very intimate mass because we have spent to much time with the people of Belen, and being able to pray with them and sing along in spanish was very touching.
Even though the mass was a new experience for us, what happened after mass REALLY took the cake! We all ate beef heart with potato and corn. We were told that beef heart is a typical Peruvian meal, and for most of us, this was a first. Another interesting thing was that we met an elderly woman in Belen whose husband was killed by the Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path), a terroristic communist group which ravaged Peru not more than 20 years ago. After her husband was murdered, she traveled from a village in another region of Peru seeking refuge from the Sendero, and eventally found her way to Belen. She lives in a makeshift house of miscellaneous pieces of ply-wood and woven grass mats, and her next-door neighbors, who are just starting to build the foundations for their house, had broken into her house and trashed the inside, and tore down some of her walls, all because they want her to move so they can use some of the land for their house. In the province of San Juan de Lurigancho, where Belen is, they don´t own the land they live on; they simply find a place they like and build thier house on it. Pretty much what we know as ¨squatting¨. So anyway, we decided to help defend her by building her a strong brick wall so that her neighbors cannot terrorize her anymore. We will begin construction the day after we return from Machu Picchu.
Other than that we didn´t do much today, aside from packing our bags and getting some last minute things together in preparation for our hike to Machu Picchu tomorrow. We are all very excited and cannot wait to start our Journey!!! This will be the last blog until we return from Cuzco on Friday. We miss you all and will fill you in on how our hike went once we return! Adios!
- Chris Castagnetti a.k.a ¨Keoni¨
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For years, colleges associated with the Congregation of Holy Cross have traveled to Lima, Peru to experience that ancient culture and the incredible work of the Priests, Brothers and Sisters there. Now, Holy Cross College has joined along. The trip to Peru is a 3 credit course that fulfills the International Experience requirement of the B.A. program.
About the trip
Our eyes of faith will see spectacular things. The Congregation of Holy Cross in Peru operates one of the largest parishes in the entire world — over 250,000 people! It serves several villages where the poor build higher and higher up, where others don't want to live. But Holy Cross is there.
Here are a couple pictures of the Peyton Center where we stay. Yes, it is very nice, definitely nicer than almost all accommodations in Peru and better than most places in the States as well! Students may feel even that it is too nice, but remember that we are there to serve, and so not having to worry about a clean, safe place to eat, shower and rest is a good thing. Also, fyi, the emergency contact where we stay is:
Fr. Bob Baker, CSC
Congregation of Holy Cross
Tel: 011-511-387-5329
011-511-387-4453
011-511-387-1472
robertob@telefonica.net.pe
Fr. Bob Baker, CSC
Congregation of Holy Cross
Tel: 011-511-387-5329
011-511-387-4453
011-511-387-1472
robertob@telefonica.net.pe
Also, Holy Cross runs a school for poor children that has become a model throughout South America. It is called Fe y Alegria (Faith and Joy). We will work at this school, helping to teach the kids and doing landscaping to beautify the campus.
Another ministry is for some of the many persons born with severe birth defects. We will help the speech and physical therapists, even as they travel to homes of the poorest of the poor who cannot afford the bus trip to the clinic.
Most of all, we travel to Peru simply to encounter the people of that beautiful land, to discover their joys and hopes, their griefs and anxieties. In so doing, we learn a lot about ourselves and the borders of our world inevitably expand.
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