Kamilla Kesto, ’23, ’25, wrote a powerful theological reflection on her recent spring break trip with University Ministry in Joppa Mountain, Tenn.
“One of Glenmary’s sayings is, ‘Peace came and stayed,’ and as I prayed with this, I realized that peace comes when you meet people in their miseries, and it stays when you become a Simon of Cyrene—helping them carry their crosses and carving calvary beside them,” she wrote. “We walked into this trip accompanying people in their sorrowful mysteries, and by the time sweat prayed and tears toiled, we walked out in the luminous ones. Service immersion trips are not merely acts of charity beyond the pew but acts in which sheep graze together in the universal sheepfold: the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church.”