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PHOTOS COURTESY OF BROTHER JOHN SKRODINSKY
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BROTHER John
Skrodinsky
(left) discusses
legal issues
that migrants
in northern
New Jersey
face. With
him are colleagues Luz
Marina Bazalar, director of
the San Jose
Community
at the Shrine
of St. Joseph
in Stirling, N.J.,
and her husband, Alfredo
Bazalar,
Man with a mission
Brother John Skrodinsky has always been passionate about serving those
in need. When he found a religious community that cared as much as he
does, he found his home.
BY WHEN SOME teenagers leave LESLIE home after high school, they SCANLON also leave behind the church.
Not John Skrodinsky. When he became
a student at the downtown campus of
the University of Pittsburgh, Skrodinsky
attended Mass, made time for prayer,
and got involved with campus ministry,
extending an involvement with parish
life that began while growing up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Skrodinsky tells
young people in their late
Leslie Scanlon is a writer based
in Kentucky.
teens and early 20s: “It’s often at that
time when you find out what kind of
commitment you’re willing to make to
your church or your faith.”
Here’s the commitment Skrodinsky
made. At 36, he’s a brother with the Missionary Servants of the Most Holy Trinity. He’s a lawyer and director of migrant
ministries for the Diocese of Paterson,
New Jersey. In that work, Skrodinsky
helps immigrants with legal problems
ranging from legal status to landlord
troubles.
In the Missionary Servants, “we
believe that missions are people,”
Skrodinsky says. “You have to be totally involved in accompanying people.
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