There were nine of us along with statues of St. Veronica
and Jesus packed into a station wagon as we headed for villages
beyond Ayacucho located high in the Andes mountains of Peru.
We assisted financially in restoring this chapel
after it was destroyed by the terrorists in the nineties and now
it is ready to be dedicated as the chapel of St. Veronica, who courageously
stepped out from the crowd and lovingly wiped the face of Jesus
on that first Good Friday.
St.
Maurice Building Supply
Mission Possible is making plans for setting up a cement
block factory in Chimbote. Presently six lots of land have
been purchased in Chimbote and equipment for molding cement blocks
and bricks has been purchased. The next step will be drilling
a well and putting a wall around the property.
The project is a memorial to Father Maurice
Mueller who was an outstanding priest in the diocese of Fargo,
North Dakota for 51 years until God called him home in 1999.
Father Mueller was a brother of Ralph Mueller of Mission Possible
and the Pastor of Fr. Jack Davis who worked as his assistant the
first 5 years of his priesthood. Father Davis has worked as
a missionary priest in Chimbote for many years and the small factory
will be located in the poorest part of his parish.
The purpose is to aid the poor of Chimbote in
replacing estera houses with cement and at the same time providing
jobs.
These are the special statues we took with us to the
mountains to present to St. Veronica's chapel. The people
were happy and filled the air with songs.