by Jack Gonsalves, ISP Orange County Coordinator I became a volunteer with ISP about seven years ago. I was a little intimidated by the whole idea, but inside the Lord had been inviting me for years to get to know those who are or have been homeless. Many years ago, I...
by Dawn Davis For me, Advent is about LOVE. Love can be found in the most unlikely places. On a street corner, I saw love. A random stranger stopped to help an elderly woman cross the street. Without hesitation, he greeted her with a smile and escorted her across the...
by Fr. Bill Creed, SJ Recently, I was surprised to be chatting with a guy I had not seen in nearly two decades. He talked about the time twenty years ago when I had known him as a kind of newly reformed gang member. Often he would show up for meetings wearing a tank...
Finding Hope: My First ISP Retreat by Dorothy Celestin In 2018, I was coming out of the hardship of drug addiction. I had nowhere to turn, I didn’t know which way to go, and I didn’t have much to live for. I was staying in a halfway house full of chaos–until I...
ISP invites you to reflect and pray with our reflection series for this Advent, this time of waiting in the darkness. Maybe you can recall a time in your own life when you felt a sense of being stuck in the dark, afraid, not knowing what was next. And then, in the...
by Vinita Hampton Wright Step 12: Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to others, and to practice these principles in all our affairs. When we’re having a hard time—grieving a loss, looking for a better...
