On the Border

All is not well and calm in Ciudad Juarez! There have been 820 drug-related murders this year in our fair city. A drug rehabilitation center was attacked by paid assassins last week, and nine people were executed. Just last Saturday fourteen people were massacred outside a bar just south of here.

By now many of you are familiar with the vagaries of the supply and demand of the US/Mexican/Colombian drug trade so I won't attempt an analysis. Suffice it to say that there is a palpable sense of fear and insecurity in our city and here in our parish.

The parish community is still participating in our Wednesday evening missionary assemblies that are held out on the streets, the alley ways and football fields of our Colonia.

Soon we will take part in a Charismatic Congress with a cast of thousands including a three-night Parish Prayer Marathon and an intensive weekend Retreat. Eat your heart out St. John of the Cross.

Keep us in your prayers. We have found "the pearl of great price" among the friendly and committed folk of Rancho Anapra, my parish. Peace to you all.

Fr. Kevin Mullins spent many years in Chile before moving to the Border beween Mexico and the USA.