By Celia E. Ceballos, 2025 RiSG participant Opening GroundingI live and work on Lenapehoking, the unceded homeland of the Lenape people. This groundingmatters because place matters. The land beneath us holds history, memory, struggle, resilience, andstory. And so much of Rooted in Sacred Ground invited me to return to that truth: that who we are,where […]
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Service Shapes Futures: A Year That Shaped Everything
By Victor Jose Jaimes, Jesuit Volunteer Corps Alum Many of my college friends entered Catholic volunteer programs after graduation. As a Lasallian university grad, most of them joined the Lasallian Volunteers — but I yearned for something bigger. I decided to join the Jesuit Volunteer Corps and journey to Philadelphia. What drew me there was […]
Slow Down, and Look at the Grace
By Lia Paolucci, Jesuit Volunteer Corps Editor’s note: Lia’s story is a notable entry to our RESPONSE 2021 Volunteer Story Contest. Each year, Catholic Volunteer Network shares notable entries like this one to our Stories of Service blog – where volunteers reflect on daily life to share and celebrate their experiences of faith-based service. How […]
Learning Humility
By Sarah Jane Cauzillo, Franciscan Mission Service Editor’s note: Missioner Sarah Jane Cauzillo reflects on her ability to be present to those she serves in Cochabamba, Bolivia and the graces God has given her to do so. “If you have come here to help me… you are wasting your time. But, if you have come […]
From Vision to Mission in South Sudan
By Sarah Rubino, CMMB Global Health Volunteer Program I first wanted to be a midwife the day my mom went into labor with my littlest sister. I was eight at the time and begged to come to the hospital to watch her give birth. When she told me, “No, you are too young,” I stubbornly […]