Love Begins Here is an apostolate in the Diocese of Madison that was started/is run by several UW-Madison graduates & students who were/are involved at the campus ministry here in Madison (St. Paul's Catholic Center...which houses the 'other' Badger Catholic :). They learned of a program of local service in Kansas, based on Mother Teresa's advice to those who wanted to come and serve in Calcutta with here - that they should begin love at home, to reach out to their neighbors and serve them. Because if everyone did that, well, you get it :)
So during several weeks of the past couple summers, a crew of young Catholic adults lead week-long service trips within the Diocese of Madison, serving a variety of parishes, families, organizations. Each day includes prayer, Mass, service, and intentional community - which leads to a great deal of catechesis, friendship, and knowledge and love of God. They also have the opportunity to go to Confession at some point during the week and get to know seminarians, deacons, and priests of our Church. It's been a hugely successful apostolate - so many beautiful stories and a lot of grace.
Also - they've submitted a video (it's the 2011 program promo video) to potentially win a trip to World Youth Day and are up for the People's Choice Award at the sponsoring organization...and they could use some help winning that! - it's seriously a beautiful video with great exhortations from Bl. Teresa of Calcutta. The link to see the video and vote is here and perhaps your readers would also be interested in supporting this Wisconsin group:
http://goodnessreigns.com/vote/all/love-begins-here/
HT Carolyn
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Guess who won the High School Group award? http://goodnessreigns.com/vote/winners/
Thanks so much for the LBH love! We are busy getting ready for this summer - please do keep following along on our blog. 10 of us LBHers are really excited for our pilgrimage to Spain that we won. Keep us in your prayers throughout this summer.
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