Holy Cross Mission Center Blog
Spes Unica
Highlighting impactful stories and updates from our international missions.

Christmas: A Time to Celebrate Our Humanness
Diversity has a unique and sophisticated way of shaping human lives towards the way of true beauty and goodness. My life in the USA has taught me...

They Say They Want to Live in America
This past summer, I participated in the Center for Social Concern’s International Summer Service Learning Program (ISSLP) to teach mathematics...

Learning in Every Work of Our Mission
Each summer during my time preparing to become a Holy Cross religious, each person in formation would visit an apostolate to live and work with the...

Physician Assistants from King’s College to Peru!
This past July seven Physician Assistant students and two PA faculty members from King's College traveled to Canto Grande, Peru. Prior to the trip...

Truly Joyful
It was the third time we had ventured out of our cozy compound in Srimangal and we were still getting our feet underneath us. With a couple of days...

Jani na: What’s in a Name?
The air condition was like a glass of ice cold water to my parched throat, but sleeping in itself would not be an easy task. Between bouts of...

We Build Together
“No one builds alone, we build together” says Fr. Basil Anthony Mary Moreau, the founder of the Congregation of Holy Cross. I came to...

Stretching My Sense of Family
Have you ever felt at home when you were really eight thousand miles away from home? This was my experience of the Holy Cross family in Jinja,...

Mother’s Day 2021
Celebrate your mothers while assisting other mothers throughout the world! This is the third year that the Holy Cross Mission Center is offering a...

You are Smart. You are Kind. You are Important.
“Oli munto murungi.” You are kind. “Oli munto mugezi.” You are smart. “Oli munto womugaso.” You are important....

Finding the Holy Cross Family: An Understanding of Love and Universality
When I chose to participate in the ISSLP in Kyarusozi, Uganda, I had no idea what kind of community I would be spending time with. The site was a...

The True Pearls of Africa: Witnessing Hope, Peace, and Joy in a Beautiful Country
This past summer, along with six other people, I had the opportunity to travel to Uganda as part of a global engagement program through the Center...