The Rev. Canon John Schramm emailed the following Compañeros en Cristo update on April 29, 2024.
It is with great delight that I send you this message. I heard from Madre Rosa Angélica today. You know that we have sent some money to her on behalf of her parish, San José de la Montaña. St Thomas sent $500 from money they had earmarked for Honduras, and the diocese also sent $500 through Compañeros en Cristo.
I heard today what Madre Rosa actually did with the money. She hired a bus and took the whole parish to the diocesan retreat center, Muchilena, Omoa. Yesterday the bus took the whole parish and they had mass and teachings in the chapel whose foundations and first structure the Diocese of Northern Indiana began. Then they played games with the children and adults, and went swimming in the ocean nearby. Even the hard-working women who always do the cooking and such were able to spend time in the water. I have pictures appended to this email.
I hardly need to tell you what a blessing to the people of San José this was. These are poor folks, as you know, and a trip by bus to Muchilena and much less the beach on the ocean, these are things they cannot afford. I daresay that this will be a blessing that they will remember for a long time to come. And we can be pleased to think that somewhere along the line they will remember us in Indiana who enabled their priest to give them this blessing. Madre Rosa spent most of the money on the parish and so still lacks $170 for her alb. But I think I have a source from which I can secure this amount. Enjoy the pictures and keep Madre Rosa Angélica and the Church of San José de la Montaña in your prayers.
