We have arrived back in Erie! After a week full of encountering new people and reflecting on our experiences at the Father McKenna Center, we have all returned safely to our home base. Thank you for following along with this blog of our trip. The implementation of our knowledge into our daily lives will not be an easy task, but we are well prepared to take it on. We all have learned so much through our experiences this week and are excited to share and show others what respect for human dignity truly means. Homelessness is an extremely complex problem in our country, and we have all struggled to grasp what the best response on our part should be. At the end of this trip, I have come to affirm that complex problems do not have easy solutions, and that solving huge problems like hunger and homelessness involve more than one person or one ABST group. However, the power of one is still strong and present everywhere- we experienced that through meeting amazing and inspiring individuals th
Father McKenna Center and Monument Tours Today we closed up our time at the Father McKenna center. At the end of our time there we got to eat ice cream sandwiches with the staff, courtesy of our good friend and janitor at the center, Jhonny. We reflected on the week and what we had learned about homelessness and about ourselves. After we returned to Holy Redeemer we got time to relax before mass with Father Bava. Once mass finished we went towards the national mall again and got to visit several memorials and monuments including the WW2 memorial, the FDR memorial, the Korean memorial, and the MLK memorial. At the end of the day we came back to reflect on the day and prepare for the trip home. -Liz and Ryan