Led Where I Did Not Plan to Go

One would rarely consider the word INCIDENTALLY a word with the power to launch events that would change the direction of ones life.

In my case, that was the word that did just that, and I would like to tell you about it.

It all began with a letter I received the year after the opening of Augustinian Academy, a new high school in St.

Louis, Missouri. When this letter came, I was principal at Mendel Catholic High School in Chicago, Illinois.

I had been brought back to Chicago where I began my teaching ministry in 1953 as a young priest.

This was the begining of my faith adventure in Peru.