Colleen McDonough surveyed the crowd assembling for the weekly Lunch in the Park program on the lawn of Philadelphia’s Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul, the Mother Church of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. She spotted one man sitting by himself eating what might be his only meal of the day and she headed right to him with the most basic of questions: “How are you doing?”
He smiled and said simply, “I’m good. You talked to me.”
It was a small exchange, Yet, for McDonough, it captures the heart of her vocation. “It was just a simple thing to look him in the face and notice that he was there and to brighten his day,” she said. “Often, we might be the only people who do that.”
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