We finish our southern swing of our RV journey as we head through North Carolina on our way home. We spent several weeks in Mt. Airy, NC at the peaceful Mayberry Campground. Yes, Mayberry as this is the home of Andy Griffith.
We visited several nice, country churches in the area. Not as many Catholic Churches in each location around us, not like Pittsburgh or Florida which seem to have abundance of Catholic Churches displayed nearly on every corner. it seemed there are a lot of Spanish language Masses in the area – some parishes are only Spanish. That was a surprise.
St. Joseph’s in Woodlawn, VA located about 30 minutes north, started early with a praying of the Holy Rosary. This was a nice little country church with a fantastic priest from Africa. Really good homilist and like so many priests we’ve encountered in NC, very reverent. He knows Who the Eucharist is and handled the prayers and hosts accordingly. Nice to see in a world of the vocation-less and irreverential.
We came to realize the great news of America to change our ways. To turn things around in our churches and families. All the priests in Nc were African. The US produces so few priests of its own that we’ve become an evangelical ground for other countries to send their priests. Praise God He has given us this backup or we’d be in serious trouble. It looks dire but it is not too late. Fathers, mothers and grandparents, uncles and aunts, start raising the Church of tomorrow. Start teaching this generation and the next to revere Mother Church and Jesus Christ, teach them to be priests and religious.
