On the fourth of February, the feast of Saint Maria de Mattias, Eduardo Fredy Campos Toribio, made his definitive incorporation with the Missionaries of the Precious Blood.  It was the first definitive incorporation in Colombia in more than ten years. 

Fredy has been with us for quite some time.  He is a native of Peru and lived most of his early years in La Oroya.  He was in the formation program in Peru and made his temporary incorporation there.  He decided to take some time to live outside the Congregation and spent two years as a primary school teacher in Lima.  He reentered the formation program in Colombia after a year of pastoral experience with our Missionaries in Mexico.  After finishing his theological studies, he became the vocation director for the Mission.  He is now formator of initial formation and helps Rev. Robin Urrutia, C.PP.S. in managing the economic expenditures of the Mission.

The definitive incorporation liturgy took place at our parish “Our Lady of the Alpes.”  Rev. Joseph Deardorff, C.PP.S. presided and represented the Provincial Director of the Cincinnati Province during the ceremony.  The event was celebrated by the presence of all the Missionaries, candidates, and lay associates.  Many people of the parish were present as well.  The Mission also welcomed Fredy’s mother and two sisters who came from Peru.  There are now two members of the Congregation from the province of Yauli – La Oroya, where our members in Peru worked for fifty years.

Article and photographs submitted by Rev. Joseph Deardorff, C.PP.S.