As part of a parish fundraiser, a priest in Texas, Father Brian Guerrini, recently walked 34 miles from Sacred Heart in Edinburg to the Queen of Peace Church in Harlingen.
Guerrini began the walk at 5:30am and hoped to be in Harlingen by 4pm but he arrived a few hours earlier than that.
The run/walk event was part of an event the parish is conducting to raise money for the Pacific Regional Seminary in Fiji. So far they have collected about $1,000.
Guerrini said the parish does not have any particular goal in mind as to how much they want to collect.
“Whatever we can raise, we’ll send,” Guerrini said.
The Queen of Peace parish is located in the Diocese of Brownsville, Texas, in the Rio Grande Valley.
The parish was founded by the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary (the Picpus Fathers) in 1967.
Some members of the Congregation are studying for the priesthood at the Pacific Regional Seminary.
Guerrini was a member of the founding Picpus formation community in Fiji when it began in 2015.
He has been at Sacred Heart since February 2016 and will be leaving next month for a new assignment in Tonga.
Guerrini said he wanted to do something meaningful before he went.
He has participated in many races in the past including an ultra marathon that was a 70-mile race through the Appalachian Mountains.
Source
- Valley Morning Star
- Congregation of the Sacred Hearts
- Queen of Peace Church
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