Catholic Extension Annual Report 2022

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mom and dad, after risking everything on their perilous trek, were finally safe at the shelter. With their sense of human dignity replenished, they could continue their journey, knowing that there were good and kind people willing to help them, like the ones at the Catholic shelter in El Paso. There is HOPE on the Texas border. We see hope in the orchards of the Pacific Northwest. There is a bishop in Central Washington, Joseph Tyson, who has attracted and ordained many young priests during his tenure in the Diocese of Yakima, which serves primarily agricultural workers. We see hope in Texas along the U.S.- Mexico border. A religious education center supported by Catholic Extension in the Diocese of El Paso, Texas was converted into a makeshift shelter to accommodate the surge of migrants who are otherwise left on the streets helpless and penniless. Among the hundreds who passed through the center last year was a 4 year-old. She laid on a cot in a posture that any parent would recognize as complete exhaustion. The girl was wearing a ballerina outfit. She had personally picked it out from the donated clothing closet, which the shelter volunteers had dubbed “JCPenney.” When the tutu-clad girl awoke, she was no longer a “migrant” running for her life, running from the cartel. She was a little girl again, ready to play in her new outfit. And she, her infant brother, (Both above and right) Families line up for food outside a migrant shelter in Sacred Heart Church in the Diocese of El Paso, Texas. 24 / Catholic Extension
(Left) Father Jesús Mariscal helped launch the Diocese of Yakima, Washington seminarian migrant ministry program. The bishop requires that, as preparation for ordination, all seminarians must work side by side in the orchards picking apples with migrant workers. “Calluses before chalices” was how he explained it. If a seminarian was unwilling to lift a box of harvested apples, he would be unfit to lift the body of Christ and all of the holy weight it carries. Catholic Extension is supporting this unique training experience for future priests. When after some weeks a worker discovered that her fellow laborer was preparing to be a priest, she burst into tears. That a priest would know the sweat, hard work and effort it took to bring fruit from the orchard to the table touched her heart. That our priests, like Jesus, would know the beauty of the vine and the dignity of the “work of human hands” in the fields, that was truly a cause for joy. That was a church to believe in. There is HOPE in the Pacific Northwest. Appalachia. The Texas border. The Pacific Northwest. From places where poverty, pain and struggle abound—hope is found in abundance. When you support Catholic Extension, you are extending yourself to the abandoned, the sorrowful and the powerless, where we know the face of Jesus is visible and where we can see hope in the most compelling ways. It is there that we, as a Church, have been and will always be at our best. We are a church of hope. Hope is the true currency upon which all of Catholic Extension’s activities depend. Among the communities of this country that Catholic Extension befriends and partners with, there is hope. And so, we see a future filled with hope that only grows brighter with each passing year thanks to your generous support. (Below) Bishop Joseph Tyson visits with children at the Literacy Wagon in the Diocese of Yakima, Washington. 2022 Annual Report / 25
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