Please welcome Rev. Alfred Lopez, who will join us at Masses next weekend to speak about a ministry providing direct relief to the poor throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. Fr. Lopez will share personal witness about Food For The Poor’s mission to care for the destitute as a means of living out the Gospel mandate to love one another. He is a priest of the Dominicans Province of St. Albert the Great U.S.A. After ordination, Fr. Lopez served as a chaplain at the Newman Center at the campus of the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, NM. He then went on to begin and complete his dissertation. Fr. Lopez worked as a counselor in the Departments of Clinical Social Work at the U of NM Hospital. He has taught at Northern Michigan University and at the Dominican College of San Rafael. In his role as a speaker for Food For The Poor he also vigorously promotes education among the children and young adults.