Mark Lodico’s blog

Being in another culture helps me to see my own

2008-08-07T12:13:21Z

There is nothing quite like being in another culture in order to see your own. I suppose it is just easier to see the assumptions others take for granted. I count it pure grace to then be willing to ask “what assumptions do I take for granted...

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Praying for Anglican bishops and our Bishop Marc in particular

2008-07-16T16:06:34Z

Friends -- Let us pray for the bishops of our church throughout the world as many meet in Lambeth for the international gathering of bishops. 25% of the bishops are boycotting this meeting: it must be stressful for the ones who are there. Our own ...

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Celebrating a graduation

2008-07-10T00:40:35Z

I attended the graduation tonight of the five women in the adult literacy and math class I have had the pleasure of assisting these past few weeks. The lead teacher in the literacy section, Mike, asked me to work with Rosa, who is the student wh...

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On feeling like I am about 2 ½ years old

2008-07-10T00:26:20Z

One year of Spanish learned from CDs is not quite enough to conduct interesting daily conversations in Spanish and the more I learn of Spanish, the more I realize that I know very little. It is one thing to be able to recognize a particular verb...

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Eating Kwee (cui) -- and loving it (surprisingly)

2008-07-06T21:09:16Z

Saturday, July 5 Today, I went with my teacher to try a very old Ecuadorian delicacy, kwee (cui) which is BBQ guinea pig -- the sort of guinea pig that appears on your plate with head and teeth and claws. I thought I would eat it just to prove ho...

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The gift of tears at Tony Roma’s

2008-07-05T22:53:58Z

Saturday, June 28, 2008 Today I wandered throughout the local huge mall called just “El Super-Maxi” and explored the avenue where we live. Mainly, El Super-Maxi is an American mall with KFC, McDonald’s Tony Roma’s, to name a few of the American...

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Home visits to some of the families of El Centro

2008-07-01T00:28:15Z

Tuesday,June 24. Leaving the colonial era churches, one teacher from El Centro who was referred to as “abuelita”, "dear grandmother", took us to three homes of families participating in El Centro. When I worked in Appalachia, I saw very small ...

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Visiting colonial era churches

2008-07-01T00:16:24Z

Tuesday June 24 Today we took a very well organized and informative tour of several of the main colonial era churches in Quito including the basilica with a statue of John Paul II who visited Quito some years ago and was much beloved, as well ...

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Ecuador – El Centro del Muchacho Trabajador –Una Famila des Familias – Summer 2008

2008-06-27T23:52:20Z

June 27, 2008 -- First Impressions I arrived here last Friday the 20th around 9 PM and Padre Juan (Father John Halligan, SJ) drove me to the Centro deftly driving through signs pointing tourists to the not-for-real- Middle of the world (Mitad d...

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Learning to pray

2007-07-07T22:38:00Z

I feel like a total beginner in prayer and like someone with a very large appetite. I want to get up early in the morning to enjoy the the quiet, the dark and the solitude. Yet, my first temptation is to answer email -- E-mail, for God' sake. T...

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