Mission Sending: Fr. Eugene Montesi

Aug. 2003

Mission Sending: Fr. Eugene Montesi have been six years in the USA, three years in Chicago with our Theology students, and three at the Fatima Shrine in Holliston, MA.

Fr. Eugene Montesi receives the mission Bible from Bishop Daniel Reilly of Worcester, MAMy stay in Chicago got me into CTU and the Lutheran School of Theology. A wide field of learning was opened up for me with many great scholars as teachers, and I participated in or witnessed an amazing range of events and activities, academic, social and ecclesial. I have come to know and appreciate the vision and dreams of this great nation where all peoples can grow in freedom and whom I have come to love.

The three years of ministry at the Fatima Shrine in Holliston, MA have put me in touch with the day-to-day life of friends of the Xaverian Missionaries, and received pilgrims of many cultures and languages.

I have been enriched with their gifts of faith, hope and love, and I have been recipient of much love. Now I want to share these gifts with brothers and sisters in West Africa. I return to Sierra Leone, forever grateful.

Fr. Eugene Montesi, s.x.

(From Xaverian Mission Newsletter)