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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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From the Editor: Legacy of Hope

By Lynn F. Monahan | June 2, 2025
As we were preparing to send this issue of Maryknoll magazine to the printer in April, we received the sad news of the passing of our beloved Pope Francis. As soon as he was elected in 2013, Pope Francis signaled a different approach to the papacy. As one colleague here at Maryknoll put it, “We finally have a pope who speaks our language.” By t...
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From the Editor: Jubilee of Hope

By Lynn F. Monahan | December 2, 2024
In announcing the Jubilee 2025, which begins on Christmas Eve, Pope Francis proclaimed hope as the central message of the year. Under the title “Hope Does Not Disappoint,” taken from the writings of Saint Paul, the papal bull is a treatise on hope. From the time of the early Church until Vatican II and into the present, the Church offers to the...
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From the Editor: Sent to Heal

By Lynn F. Monahan | September 3, 2024
Please join me in congratulating our newest Maryknoll priests, featured in our cover story. Fathers Joshua Maondo and Charles Ogony were ordained on June 8 at Maryknoll’s Our Lady Queen of Apostles Chapel in Ossining, New York. While ordinations are already joyous occasions, the presence of the two men’s Kenyan compatriots lent an especially fe...
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From the Editor: Going Forth in Mission

By Lynn F. Monahan | June 3, 2024
In each issue of our quarterly magazine, we include a recurring theme that dovetails with the work of the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers education program Discover Your Neighbor. The theme for the Summer issue is “Going Forth.” As a mission movement, that is certainly what Maryknoll does, all year long. Our cover story epitomizes this mission s...
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From the Editor: Daring To Dream

By Lynn F. Monahan | March 4, 2024
While we sleep, our minds mull over in dreams the events of our daily lives. Awake, we dream of our aspirations: the things we yearn for, desire to accomplish or hope to become. One story in this issue features three seminarians set to be ordained to the priesthood this June. Their dream is to become Maryknoll priests. In another article, on the se...
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From the Editor: Life’s Purpose

By Lynn F. Monahan | December 4, 2023
To start, let me wish every one of our readers a most joyous Advent. As we enter into this period of anticipation of Christmas, preparing for the celebration of Jesus’ birth, we tend to focus on happiness and cheerfulness, family and friendships, gift giving and generosity, and look to decorate our surroundings with the symbols of the season. Wit...
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