Franciscan-led Group Visits the Yucatan Peninsula
The Divine Chapel on the Yucatan Peninsula
On the second last day of February, a number of parishioners from Holy Family Church in Albany, New York and St. Thomas Church in Delmar, New York flew to the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico with Conventual Franciscan Friar Joe Angelini.
This trip was not a vacation on the beaches of Cancun. It was a spiritual and interpersonal experience, which saw the group from New York State meet and get to know parishioners from the peninsula’s St. Anthony Parish. The Parishioners from St. Anthony’s welcomed their American visitors with generous hospitality. The two groups spoke about their lives and cultures. A sense of human unity that reaches beyond nationalities was palpable when the New York visitors and their Mexican hosts prayed together.
Chichen Itza on the Yucatan Peninsula
A tour of the Yucatan Peninsula took Friar Joe and his group to a number of chapels where everyone surely had time for moment of prayer or reflection. Driving around the Yucatan Peninsula also allowed the American visitors to take in the local landscape.
(Source of related photos on webpage and homepage: Conventual Franciscan Friars Immaculate Conception Province Provincialgram and www.wikipedia.org.) |
