Angelus News | September 6, 2024 | Vol. 9 No. 18
On the cover: Father Richard Sunwoo, pastor of St. Louise de Marillac in Covina, stands on the sidelines of an LA Chargers preseason game at SoFi Stadium in August. This year, Sunwoo is one of several LA priests with a side gig like no other: celebrating Mass for NFL teams before games. On Page 10, associate editor Mike Cisneros tells the story of the little-known ministry helping teams meet their spiritual needs.
On the cover: Father Richard Sunwoo, pastor of St. Louise de Marillac in Covina, stands on the sidelines of an LA Chargers preseason game at SoFi Stadium in August. This year, Sunwoo is one of several LA priests with a side gig like no other: celebrating Mass for NFL teams before games. On Page 10, associate editor Mike Cisneros tells the story of the little-known ministry helping teams meet their spiritual needs.
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STANDING UP FOR SERRA<br />
For pilgrims, this year’s 35-mile walk between missions was a way<br />
to ask for the saint’s help — and continue his mission.<br />
BY PABLO KAY / PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOHN RUEDA<br />
Some 300 walkers from the<br />
fourth annual St. Junípero<br />
Serra Walking Pilgrimage<br />
arrive at Mission Basilica San<br />
Buenaventura Aug. 11.<br />
As he walked along Pacific Coast<br />
Highway near Carpinteria, Greg<br />
Wood had fallen behind the<br />
group of 300 people he was supposed<br />
to be leading on the fourth annual St.<br />
Junípero Serra Walking Pilgrimage.<br />
With the group 100 yards ahead,<br />
Wood found himself almost alone,<br />
except for the item in his hands: a<br />
reliquary holding a first-class relic of the<br />
pilgrimage’s namesake.<br />
“Here we are,” Wood remembered<br />
thinking to himself. “We’re walking in<br />
your footsteps, we’re doing what you<br />
came to do, and we’re continuing your<br />
mission.”<br />
Wood said he felt a “deep connection”<br />
in that moment with the saint, who<br />
inspired him to start the pilgrimage<br />
four years ago in the summer of 2020,<br />
when a wave of protests against racial<br />
injustice led some demonstrators in<br />
California to target and tear down<br />
statues of Serra.<br />
But on the weekend of Aug. 10-11, the<br />
group of parents, nuns, monks, and kids<br />
who walked the 35 miles from Mission<br />
Santa Barbara to Mission Basilica San<br />
Buenaventura drew inspiration from<br />
the Spanish friar who endured all kinds<br />
<strong>18</strong> • ANGELUS • <strong>September</strong> 6, <strong>2024</strong>
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