How It All Started

Soon after Hurricane Mitch wrought devastation throughout Honduras, the friars moved to Comayagua, Honduras and set up their first friary in Central America. After years of listening to the people, and discerning what their most pressing material needs were, the friars, under the leadership of Fr. Herald Brock, CFR, and in collaboration with Light of the World Ministries, started fundraising for a new medical center, the Saint Benedict Joseph Medical Center, and God provided! As Fr. Herald says so eloquently, the Saint Benedict Joseph Medical Center is quite clearly "a work of God."

About Us

The St. Benedict Joseph Medical Center is a two story facility with consult rooms, a pre-op area, 4 operating rooms, recovery room, patient rooms for short-term recovery after surgery, a pharmacy, a dental clinic, and the St. Gerard Program for pre and post-natal care.

Those We Serve:

  • Families with income of less than $200 per month

  • Single mothers and their children

  • Senior citizens with no family support

  • The homeless, handicapped, and mentally ill

  • Residents of homes for children, youth, and the elderly

  • Manual laborers without professional degrees or titles

  • The malnourished, undernourished, abused and neglected

  • Those who lack adequate housing

  • Those who live in remote rural areas, engage in substinence farming for survival, and members of indigenous tribes