Letter from Fr. John (LXIII)

Dear Friends, Magdala Family, I am writing to you from Puebla, my homeland, at the end of a 2-week trip to different cities in Mexico. First, I am grateful for my care during my visit to Monterrey, Mexico City, Los Cabos, Hermosillo, Puebla, Tehuacan, and Veracruz. In these cities, I had the opportunity to attend…

Letter from Fr. John (LXII)

Dear Magdala Family, During these weeks, I am traveling through Mexico, but my heart and mind are still fresh with the Youthfest experience, the event in the Holy Land from 21 July to 31. Days after the end of the pilgrimage, a young pilgrim wrote to me and described the event as an “ocean of…

Letter from Fr. John (LXI)

Dear Magdala Family,  We are now celebrating the Novena of Mary Magdalene. She is our patron, model and intercessor.    She is our patron. By God’s providence we have had the grace of God to serve in the Holy Land in her homeland and hometown. We recognize that she accompanies us from heaven with her example…

Letter from Fr. John (LX)

Dear Magdala Family, The month of June might seem a bit gray to some. For us, it is not. In the Catholic tradition, June is the month of the Sacred Heart. That is, it is the month in which we contemplate the love of God with greater intensity, expressed in the heart of Jesus. In…

Letter from Fr. John (XLXIX)

My Dear Magdala Family, Time goes by so fast. During these weeks, we have received many pilgrims in the Holy Land, some of them encouraged by our virtual pilgrimages: Welcome to the Holy Land! It is beautiful to meet the faces behind the ‘likes’ we got on our social networks during the pandemic. In May,…

Footsteps

Footsteps By Kathleen Nichols On an early April morning, I quietly slid one of the paddleboards at Magdala onto the glassy surface of the Sea of Galilee for a sunrise prayer over the water. After the sun rose into white heat above the Golan Heights, I turned back toward the Magdala shoreline, using Mt. Arbel…