by Kevin Wells | Oct 13, 2021 | Blog, Father Al
RESIGNED TO SERVE THE POOR Fr. Al with child wheelchair On a startling autumn morning in 1989, a doctor asked Fr. Aloysius Schwartz (founder of World Villages for Children) to sit down, looked him in the eye, and shared the hard news: the 59-year-old American...
by Kevin Wells | Oct 1, 2021 | Blog, Father Al
“THANK YOU LORD, I NEEDED THAT” On this Feast Day of St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus, it is good to recall how the Church Doctor and Carmelite nun broke like teams of wild stallions into Venerable Aloysius Schwartz’s (founder of World Villages for Children) soul. In...
by Kevin Wells | Oct 1, 2021 | Father Al
“THANK YOU LORD, I NEEDED THAT” On this Feast Day of St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus, it is good to recall how the Church Doctor and Carmelite nun broke like teams of wild stallions into Venerable Aloysius Schwartz’s (founder of World Villages for Children) soul. In...
by The Sisters of Mary | Jul 8, 2021 | Blog, Video
Day in the Life of Sister Marta “I want to take care of the children as if they were my own children and live for them.” This is the Day in the Life of one Mother-Sister who is dedicating her life to care for the children entrusted to her. Over 400 Sisters...
by Kevin Wells | Jun 29, 2021 | Blog, Children
FELT LIKE FREEDOM The plastic boat felt thin beneath the small boy’s feet. But the waters stirred up from the paddles that splashed onto the 12-year-old’s face and arms felt like freedom. As the boat pushed Edwin and his father over the Rio Grande River and closer to...
by The Sisters of Mary | Jun 25, 2021 | Blog, Video
A pair of graduates of the Sisters of Mary tell their dramatic stories of how the Sisters of Mary came to their rescue and set them on a firm path to success and sustained...
