History of St. Josephine Bakhita Parish
Tracing the roots of St. Josephine Bakhita Parish in our new four-part series. This week we travel back to the 1930’s and discover how one
Tracing the roots of St. Josephine Bakhita Parish in our new four-part series. This week we travel back to the 1930’s and discover how one
born in 1869, in a small village in the Darfur region of Sudan. She was kidnapped while working in the fields with her family and subsequently sold into slavery. Her captors asked for her name but she was too terrified to remember so they named her “Bakhita,” which means “fortunate” in Arabic.
“In that way, the parts of the body will not take sides. All of them will take care of one another. If one part suffers, every part suffers with it. If one part is honored, every part shares in its joy. You are the body of Christ. Each one of you is a part of it.” (1 Corinthians 12:12-25)