Site Under Construction

This site is still being polished, especially on mobile and smaller screens. Some things may not look perfect just yet.

Magazine

Departments

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...
Read More

Readers’ Responses, Fall 2024

By Our Readers | September 3, 2024
SHARE PRAYER I wanted to comment on the beautiful “Prayer for Vocations” written by Deacon (soon to be Father) Charles Ogony in the Spring 2024 edition of your magazine. We are blessed with good and holy priests in our parish, and I pray for them, for those in formation and for those who struggle to be the salt of the earth and light to the wor...
Read More

Partners in Mission: Healing with Art

By Carolyn Trumble | September 3, 2024
In these stormy times of climate change and global unrest, Brother Mickey McGrath uses his talent as an artist and storyteller to connect people to each other and the beauty of creation. The Oblate of St. Francis de Sales says he felt called to his vocation. Being a religious brother, he says, allows him the freedom to share his passion as an artis...
Read More

Vessels of Love

By Robert Ellsberg | September 3, 2024
In her new work, Vessels of Love, Joyce Rupp, one of the most popular spiritual guides of our time, offers a collection of prayers and poems addressed to readers “in the later years of life.” Each of them is an invitation to greater faith, hope, and most of all love. As she writes in her introduction to Vessels of Love: Poems and Prayers for th...
Read More

World Watch: Water Rights Victory in Peru

By Thomas Gould | September 3, 2024
AMaryknoll-supported organization in the southern Andes of Peru has won a landmark victory in a case for water rights. Maryknoll Sister Patricia Ryan founded Derechos Humanos y Medio Ambiente (Human Rights and Environment) to elevate voices of Indigenous peoples in the area who are easily exploited by extractive industries and often marginalized in...
Read More

Toward an Ecological Spirituality

By Alejandro Marina, M.M. | June 3, 2024
WEB-ONLY: Recently I found myself reflecting on the Biblical passage where God speaks to Noah after the flood: “See, I am now establishing my covenant with you and your descendants after you, and with every living creature that was with you” (Genesis 9:9-10). For the first time, I noticed that God made this covenant not with one man, nor even w...
Read More

Partners in Mission: Return to the Border

By Andrea Moreno-Diaz | June 3, 2024
In July 2023, Doctor Guadalupe Jimenez signed up for a Maryknoll immersion trip to El Paso, Texas. But it wasn’t her first time at the border.  Thirty-nine years ago, her family crossed that same border after a perilous journey from Puebla, Mexico. Hunger, poverty and danger had driven them to seek a better life.   “I was in my mom’s wo...
Read More

World Watch: Indo-Pacific Economic Prosperity?

By Thomas Gould | June 3, 2024
Out of the limelight of public awareness, a deal is being forged right now between the United States and 13 major economies in the Indo-Pacific region that would cover 28% of all global goods and services trade and 40% of global gross production.  The Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF) was launched on May 23, 2022, by the Bi...
Read More

Orbis Books: Soul Brothers

By Robert Ellsberg | June 3, 2024
This book on “men in the Bible” really has a message for everyone. If you are a man (or know one), I am happy to recommend the new edition of Richard Rohr’s Soul Brothers: Men in the Bible Speak to Men Today. Rohr, a Franciscan priest, is recognized around the world as one of the leading spiritual teachers of our time. (An anthology of his wr...
Read More

Prayer for Vocations, Summer 2024

By SJ Consulting | June 3, 2024
The Persistent Call Jesus, why did You call meto Your work at age 11?Why make me imaginemy mother’s jubilationbefore the ordaining bishop? At the time, I thought I knew.It wasn’t my vocation;it was my mother’s. Whew!Surely one so sinful wasn’t being calledto work in the Vineyard. I thought it was over — but Youreturned like the hound of h...
Read More
A large, colorful, hand painted picture of Jesus hangs on the side of a wooden building.

Spirit of Mission: On Finding Jesus

By Joseph Veneroso, M.M. | June 3, 2024
"Who do you say that I am?” If you could go back to the time of Jesus, what would you see? The first challenge, of course, would be figuring out which one was Jesus. He wouldn’t be wearing the bright white, red and blue robes portrayed on holy cards. He would be wearing the same faded cotton or linen robes as everyone else. Without a halo, he...
Read More

Missioner Tales, Summer 2024

By Missioner Tales | June 3, 2024
At the United States-Mexico border where I serve as a Maryknoll lay missioner, an Annunciation House shelter for asylum seekers was in full swing. At the time, the shelter was welcoming 15 to 60 guests per day. The majority of arrivals were families. I especially got to know a single mom with three children ages 1 to 7. The youngest son was a toddl...
Read More

Readers’ Responses, Spring 2024

By Our Readers | March 4, 2024
FROM AN OLD FRIEND Please thank Father Bob McCahill for his interview in the Spring 2023 issue of Maryknoll, from an old friend in Bangladesh! I enjoyed the article about his ministry and the articles about other ministries too.  Also, please thank the lovely young lady — Jacqueline Romo — for the eye-and-heart-opening butterfly Way of the Cro...
Read More
left-space-line Separator Icon right-space-line