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Show 2 On the morning after our arrival we erected our little fold ing field-altar and offered the Holy Sacrifice. On Sunday t he service was sung, with all the care that would be given in a parish church. Navahos watched, sitting on burros, from the canyon rim. The next Sunday they came near, hiding in the brush. The third Sunday they attended. So began our evangelistic work. Not far f rom our camping place we found the four walls, unroofed, of a stone building, 20' by 30'. This, with the discovery of a spring of pure water in the canyon wall above made a combination not to be resisted, and we chose that site. After planting a garden, our first construction work was the er ection of an out-door stone altar around which we hoped a church ' would in time be built. By Christmas we had a roof on the house, and it became chapel, refectory, kitchen, common- room - our tent s continuing as our bedrooms well into the Spring following. IvlISITORS often use the word "unique" in speaking of the Mission. They speak more truly than they realize. Externally it is obvious: the buildings definitely belong to the country - they are built of the stone and logs and mud with which we are surrounded, and they blend in with the landscape. But more important is what they symbolize: the Mission is dedicated not only to the presentation of the whole Gospel - full Catholic Faith and Practice - but this presentation is expressed in a manner suited to both the physical and spiritual background of the land and the People. We came not to teach sanitary plumbing 01' the polishing of shoes but health, education and the Gospel in terms that the Navaho can understand. The Mission is unique in that all staff members are volunteers. Each brings such talents as he has and lays them at the feet of our Lord. Each receives the essentials of life - food, clothing and shelter on the physical plane, the means of grace which the Church provides on the spiritual plane. rrN fifteen years we have seen growth on I.!J many fronts. You should have seen that first school! An old CCC shack, with a home- |