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Prayer for Vocations, Fall 2024

By Michael Bassano, M.M. | September 3, 2024

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Departments, Fall 2024, Prayer for Vocations

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The Road Unfolding​

Traveler, there is no road, the road is made by walking. — Antonio Machado

Oh guiding Spirit of light
Enlighten the path we are to follow as
missionary disciples of Christ

Inflame within our hearts the fire of divine
compassion to embrace all the world
through the vocation you give us

Lead us in the missionary call as Maryknoll
priests, brothers, sisters, lay missioners
and affiliates wherever you wish us to go

Help us to be unafraid, full of confidence
that we are never alone as we walk with
the humble and poor of this earth

Help us always to discover your presence
in creation, in the unfolding universe
and within our hearts leading us
to fullness of life.

Amen. Alleluia!

— Michael Bassano, M.M.

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About Michael Bassano, M.M.

Father Michael Bassano comes to the African Region of Maryknoll after serving with Maryknoll in Chile and Thailand. Born in Binghamton, New York, he was ordained for the Diocese of Syracuse in 1975. He became a Maryknoll associate in 1987 and was assigned to the Society's Chile region for 10 years, where he ministered to the families of detained and disappeared peoples in the southern district of Santiago. Father Mike took his final oath to Maryknoll in 1998 and was assigned to Bangkok, Thailand, working with HIV/AIDS patients, as well as abused and orphaned children in the slums of Khlong Toey. Currently, he ministers to people in a U.N. camp in Malakal, South Sudan, who have been displaced by civil war.

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