Don’t Stop - Fr. Peter Sticco SAC +

The Sorrowful Mysteries — One of my life’s most painful losses.

Fr. Peter Sticco SAC funded We Are A Mission since it was but a seed of a vocational calling. Over 7 years, it grew in its collaboration with the Vatican, and I shared our initiatives when I spoke with Pope Francis.

By nature of this work, I was asked to present the Offertory to Pope Leo for the Jubilee Mass of the Missions and Migrants. It was the proudest I had been after the toughest of years, in which it all seemed impossible. I questioned whether I was strong enough to fulfill my vocation, but Fr. Peter told me “do not stop.”

During the Offertory I felt that for the first time I could give to Fr. Peter just a part of what he gave to me, that his investment and belief in me were worth it. We did it.

God works in mysterious ways. He gives and He takes away, all in His perfect time and in accordance with His perfect plan. I believe that some deaths pierce more than others, because we realize what we knew to be true all along — we were in the presence of a Saint.

Thank you, Fr. Peter, for giving We Are A Mission the wings to fly. Now it's on yours that it continues its flight. May you who championed the youth and the missions, New Jersey and New York, rest in God's mighty & eternal peace.