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Mission in Latin America

Mission Enriched by the Gifts of Others

By Alejandro Marina, M.M. | December 1, 2025
While reflecting on mission and the path of synodality proposed by Pope Francis, I find myself thinking of the presence and work of two companions who have enriched our mission at the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers center in the city of Cochabamba, Bolivia. “We know how beautiful and tiring that journey has been,” said Pope Francis. “We are m...
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The Wisdom of the Mojeños

By Alejandro Marina, M.M. | September 2, 2025
In our pastoral ministry in Santísima Trinidad parish in the Isiboro Sécure Indigenous Territory and National Park (TIPNIS) in the Bolivian Amazon, we encounter companions in our mission journey: catechists. They oversee pastoral activities such as sacramental preparation, celebrations in the absence of a priest and the leading of processions and...
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Faces that Sustain Mission

By Alejandro Marina, M.M. | March 3, 2025
The mission of the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers in Bolivia and in the world is possible thanks to countless invisible faces. They are of the people behind the scenes who, through their daily service, make it possible for us to carry out our mission. Two of those invisible faces are those of Zulema Flores Balderrama and Scarley Morales Patiño, ou...
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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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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...
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The Wisdom of Plants

By Alejandro Marina, M.M. | March 4, 2024
WEB-ONLY: Listening is an important element of Pope Francis’ call to care for our Common Home. How will we care without listening? How can we understand the needs of Mother Earth if we don’t listen when it cries out? When the poor cry out? How will we change our habits if we don’t learn what nature is trying to teach us? In Bolivia, one man...
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