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From the Editor: Heralds of Hope

By Lynn F. Monahan | September 2, 2025
Our cover features the two new priests ordained in June to the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers. Father Matthew Sim and Father Patrick Okok were both assigned to mission in Taiwan. The ordaining prelate, Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, recounted during the ordination Mass how his own vocation to the priesthood was inspired in part by a Maryknoll mis...
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World Watch: Modern Slavery at Sea

By Thomas Gould | December 2, 2024
More than 130 people from at least 17 countries participated in the three-day International Conference on Fisher’s Welfare in Taichung City, Taiwan, this past May. The conference was organized and hosted by Maryknoll Father Joyalito Tajonera, who serves as the director of Stella Maris-Taiwan. Stella Maris is the Catholic Church’s Apostolate of ...
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Spirit of Mission: The Thought that Counts

By Joseph Veneroso, M.M. | December 2, 2024
A rabbi was giving a workshop on Scripture to Maryknollers in Africa some years ago. As part of his visit, the missioners showed him around Tanzania: Mt. Kilimanjaro, wildlife in the Serengeti, and of course, the wonderful hospitality of a Tanzanian family. As they sat down to dinner, Father John Sivalon, who was Maryknoll’s regional superior for...
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Maryknoll’s Journey to the Yucatán

By Ray Almanza | December 2, 2024
Maryknoll accompanies U.S. Catholics to discern how to share the gift of mission, says Deacon Leonel Yoque, who leads the Maryknoll Society’s Missionary Disciples team. Deacon Yoque, Maryknoll Father John Martin and I guided two immersion trips last June. The destination for both groups was Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. Adults from different sta...
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Love Exists in Tonacatepeque

By Deirdre Cornell | December 2, 2024
It’s Wednesday. Robert “Bob” Cunningham gets up early in Zaragoza, El Salvador, where he and his wife Elizabeth “Liz” Cunningham serve as Maryknoll lay missioners. He sets out for Ciudad Merliot, 45 minutes away. At 8 a.m., Bob meets up with Mercedarian Father Jonathan Vásquez and other volunteers. They drive for an hour to a juvenile co...
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Sharing Light in a Circle of Life

By Mary Ellen Manz, M.M. | December 2, 2024
In Zimbabwe, Maryknoll Sister Chiyoung Pak is known by a radiant name. “As I walk along the street, people greet me jovially, ‘Sister Chiedza, how is it going?’” she says. “Chiedza is the Shona word for light and brightness.” It’s hard to tell from her sunny disposition, but Sister Pak’s optimism has been sorely tested in this count...
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From South Dakota to Zona Sur

By Deirdre Cornell | December 2, 2024
Growing up in South Dakota, young Paul Sykora came up with an innovative way to get around his family’s farm. “I would take the motor off a lawn mower and put it on my bike,” he says. Nowadays, Maryknoll Father Sykora nurses the engine of a 1985 Volkswagen Beetle. This beat-up but reliable vehicle takes him up the mountainous roads of Zona Su...
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Prayer for Vocations, Winter 2025

By Rodrigo Ulloa-Chavarry, M.M. | December 2, 2024
The Star of the Magi I want to discern my vocation, Jesus.But right now my life is a bit complicated.I seem to have lost sight of the Star.I heard that the three Magi returned to their country by a different route.Without the star. Can I discern my vocation through a different route?A different star? A different start? Contemplating a decision to a...
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Readers’ Responses, Winter 2025

By Our Readers | December 2, 2024
MISSION AND FAITH A friend gifted me your magazine years ago and I continue to receive it. Currently I go to it most mornings to read a page or two as part of my prayer time. It offers much helpful wisdom. The mission and faith of those who serve around the world is an inspiration to me to live my faith John HoweJefferson, Ohio TWO-STATE SOLUTION A...
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A Reality that Hurts

By Alejandro Marina, M.M. | December 2, 2024
Once a month we leave the springlike climate of Cochabamba and pass through the cold of Colomi in the Andes Mountains of Bolivia. We continue through beautiful valleys, mountainous canyons and semi-deserts until we reach the tropical Amazon jungle with its oppressive heat. After six hours of travel, we arrive at the community of Santísima Trinidad...
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Missioner Tales, Winter 2025

By Missioner Tales | December 2, 2024
The Missionaries of Charity, with whom I minister in Cochabamba, Bolivia, offer housing to men with disabilities. My fellow Maryknoll Lay Missioner John O’Donoghue (who has since retired) had been praying for a Christmas miracle in the lives of these men who have suffered so much. But as Christmas approached, there was no proof in sight that his ...
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Missioner Tales, Fall 2024

By Missioner Tales | September 3, 2024
Here in El Salvador, where I serve as a Maryknoll lay missioner, I am starting a children’s library at the school where I tutor. I’ve been using my free time to sort through books including a generous donation of new ones.The school day had ended, and after three English lessons, I was feeling unmotivated as I faced piles of books. Then a smili...
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Prayer for Vocations, Fall 2024

By Michael Bassano, M.M. | September 3, 2024
The Road Unfolding​ Traveler, there is no road, the road is made by walking. — Antonio Machado Oh guiding Spirit of lightEnlighten the path we are to follow asmissionary disciples of Christ Inflame within our hearts the fire of divinecompassion to embrace all the worldthrough the vocation you give us Lead us in the missionary call as Maryknollp...
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