Precious Blood Companions
R-L: Tim Deveney, Nora O’ Connell, Kara McNamara, Evelyn Moreira, Kathy Keary, and Carolyn Wynk during a young Companions meeting at Precious Blood Center in 2016
My Precious Blood Pathway by Evelyn Moreira, Companion in Formation
Evelyn Moreira is a has been a parishioner at St. Agnes Church in Los Angeles all her life. She participated in a retreat in Salzburg with Fr. Barry Fischer, c. pp. s. and has also served as a member of the Young Adult Task Force for the Companion Movement. She currently is in formation to become a Companion and is working with other young adults in the parish who are in formation as well.
My road to Precious Blood Spirituality began with one simple question in the summer of 2012 in the International Center for Precious Blood Spirituality in Salzburg, Austria,“ What is Precious Blood Spirituality?” It was a gathering with Precious Blood members from seven countries answering the same question to unravel our topic“ New Blood: a Conversation with Today’ s Youth.” Before attending the gathering, Danny Oliva( young adult member from St. Agnes) and I were given the task to ask youth from our community various questions. Little did I know that it would be an enhancement of my faith in a significant way.
I never knew about Precious Blood Spirituality except that the Missionaries of the Precious Blood was
8 • The New Wine Press • February 2017 the congregation at our parish of St. Agnes and that the founder was St. Gaspar. I was also not aware that it was so big in an international level. Seeing different people with different languages, and cultures coming together to share common interest makes everything so beautiful. One of the many questions and reflections that were given at this workshop was to“ Find a symbol of how have I been attracted to pbs?” While walking around the beautiful outdoors of the center, the symbol that described my understanding was a garden. Different plants and flowers with distinctive petals, colors, shapes, and sizes gathered together to show God’ s beautiful creation. Although, it is not easy for a garden to contain so much beauty. It needs care, soil, sun and water to grow and maintain its place. As we need, prayer, love, passion, and unity to contain Jesus in our hearts and accept all those around us. From a garden, seeds travel with the wind to find a new establishment to show its beauty. We ought to be like these plants and flowers, travel and share our spirituality of God’ s love to others. So that they may