After 25 years, Alaska priest still loves his mission--in Russia!

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This American priest now serves in Siberia, and as far east in Russia as you can get.

“There are only about 250 registered members of the mission — Russia is still a predominantly Orthodox country — and perhaps 50 to 80 of them come to Mass on a given Sunday. But ‘there’s not a heart or a soul that I don’t know deeply’ among his congregants, Father Shields said.”

“His most telling dark night of the soul, which made him question his ministry, came in 2003, when workers attached a new roof for the church ‘upside-down,’ he said. ‘It would rain inside the church on cold days,’ of which there are plenty in Siberia”
 
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