by Kevin Wells | Feb 18, 2021 | Blog, Father Al
THE SHACKS OF OUR LIVES Because our Lenten self-denials often involve a self-amputation of our will, habits and surface pleasures, forty days can seem like four years. Four years. Shortly after his arrival in Korea in 1957, Fr. Al actually made his Lent last four-plus...
by Kevin Wells | Oct 29, 2020 | Blog, Father Al, Sisters
I imagine a sadness that magazine writers, biographers, and authors have each shared is the discarding of veritable gold gathered from interviews. Often, because anecdotes, quotes, or stories don’t match up with written narratives, the profound stories shared by those...
by Kevin Wells | Sep 10, 2020 | Blog, Father Al
To understand the missionary heart of Venerable Aloysius Schwartz, one should come to know of the Belgian who helped to inflame it – Chinese missionary, Fr. Vincent Lebbe. “Lebbe stories” had been passed like cups of sugar from one neighbor down to the next within the...
by Kevin Wells | Sep 3, 2020 | Blog, Father Al
One of the treasures of having researched the life of Fr. Al for the biography I’ve been working on is the discovery of the many saints who’ve helped to engineer him. He drew from a wide and colorful palette of personalities, nationalities, and charisms. I found that...
by Kevin Wells | Aug 27, 2020 | Blog, Father Al
So, how did this mission even start? Who or what was the catalyst? Venerable Aloysius Schwartz kept the secrets of his interior life very close – and he was too busy to wax nostalgic about his early motivations, inspirations and movements of the Spirit. “How, then,...
