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Various images from the Fall 2025 issue of Maryknoll Magazine

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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Maryknoll Sister Chiyoung Pak (first row, seventh from left) and members of the Norton Center in Zimbabwe have found a place to call home. (Courtesy of Chiyoung Pak/Zimbabwe)

Sharing Light in a Circle of Life

By Mary Ellen Manz, M.M. | December 2, 2024
Maryknoll Sister Chiyoung Pak brings joy and hope to a poor area of Zimbabwe through the Norton Center she founded, serving youth and adults.
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Suspected gang members are arrested in San Salvador, El Salvador. (CNS/José Cabezas/Reuters/El Salvador)

Love Exists in Tonacatepeque

By Deirdre Cornell | December 2, 2024
A Maryknoll lay missioner serves in prison ministry for youth in El Salvador, the country with the world’s highest incarceration rate.
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An image of the book, "Everyday Sacred, Everywhere Beauty"

Everyday Sacred, Everywhere Beauty

By Robert Ellsberg | December 2, 2024
Orbis Publisher Robert Ellsberg previews Everyday Sacred, Everywhere Beauty on the contemplative life by the late Benedictine Sister Mary Lou Kownacki.
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Maryknoll Father Charles Ogony celebrates his first Mass using a chalice and paten gifted to him by the Lafferty family, fulfilling their parents’ last wish. (Octavio Durán/U.S.)

Partners in Mission: Love Lives On

By Giovana Soria | December 2, 2024
Maureen Long recalled her parents’ last wish. Francis and Patricia Lafferty wanted their wedding rings to become part of a sacred symbol.
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A child of the Santísima Trinidad community plays outside, while parents and family members farm their parcels of land in the dense forests of the Bolivian Amazon. (Adam Mitchell/Bolivia)

A Reality that Hurts

By Alejandro Marina, M.M. | December 2, 2024
Maryknoll Father Alejandro Marina describes the reality faced by people in Santísima Trinidad, a community in the Amazon served by Maryknoll.
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A painting of three people riding camels into towards a dusky sunset.

Prayer for Vocations, Winter 2025

By Rodrigo Ulloa-Chavarry, M.M. | December 2, 2024
This heartfelt prayer by Maryknoll Father Rodrigo Ulloa-Chavarry invites us to reflect on the star that led the Magi, and that leads us today.
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An elderly Mapuche woman who worked with Maryknoll in Chile is pictured. (Sean Sprague/Chile)

Missioner Tales, Fall 2024

By Missioner Tales | September 3, 2024
Missioners share vignettes of mission life from the countries of Chad, Chile, El Salvador and from the U.S./Mexico border.
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