A Strange and Amazing Morning by Catherine (a pilgrim)
The most amazing thing that has happened to me so far on this pilgrimage to Toronto was serving breakfast to the homeless and hungry people at one of the churches we visited. The church was St Bartholomew’s Anglican Church. It is in the poorest area in all of Ontario. The church feeds thousands of people every year through donations of food and through many faithful volunteers. We helped to cook, set up tables and hand out food, and then we cleaned it all up.
I was not looking forward to it at all because we had to get up at 4 AM so we could set up. I didn’t really know what to expect at first, but I’m really happy I did it. It was so strange to come into such close contact with and have conversations with the kind of people who I’m so used to staying far away from on the streets when I’m back at
home. Great experience.