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Fall 2024

Celebrating a Life of Faith and Mission

By Giovana Soria | September 3, 2024
More than three decades ago, Arturo and Esperanza Monterrubio left their homeland of Mexico to start a new life in the United States. Esperanza had a degree in dentistry, and Arturo planned to obtain a master’s degree in chemical engineering. They arrived in Kingsville, Texas with their children Daniela, Omar and Fátima. The family’s first ref...
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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...
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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...
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Spirit of Mission: Healing from the Sacred Heart

By Joseph Veneroso, M.M. | September 3, 2024
As an Italian-American Catholic, I was raised on stories of Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini. The first U.S. citizen to be canonized, she is the patron saint of immigrants. My mother unknowingly implanted in my heart the desire to become a missioner when she read to me from Mother Cabrini’s biography Too Small a World. Pope Leo XIII, reluctant to ap...
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