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Sam Bellafiore

Sam Bellafiore is a first-year seminarian for the Diocese of Albany, NY. He graduated from Notre Dame with degrees in Philosophy and Vocal Performance in 2015 and is in formation for the M.Div. at Dunwoodie Seminary in Yonkers, NY.

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The Mass for Millennials: Prayer Over the Offering

Published by Sam Bellafiore

Every Wednesday another seminarian and I work at a shelter run by Mother Teresa’s sisters, the Missionaries of Charity. The shelter is in the poorest ZIP code in the United States. The men there have messy and complicated lives — many are estranged from families, suffer addictions or check knives at the door — but somehow these lives seem to work out. These guys have almost nothing but they find w...