by Father Alonzo CoxJust last month, we, as a diocesan community, said farewell to the active sisters of St. We are still blessed to have the contemplative Missionary of Charity sisters here in the Diocese of Brooklyn. As a seminarian, I was introduced to the Missionaries of Charity and worked at one of their large homeless shelters in the Bronx. All that we do must be for the building up of that kingdom Jesus talks about. Father Alonzo Cox is pastor of St. Martin de Porres Parish, Bedford-Stuyvesant, and coordinator for the Vicariate of Black Catholic Concerns for the Diocese of Brooklyn.