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Spring 2024

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...
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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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Partners in Mission: Maryknoll Dreams

By Sandro Paiva | March 4, 2024
My name is Sandro Aldo Paiva Crispin and I am a 44-year-old Maryknoll volunteer in Cochabamba, Bolivia. I serve in the museum at the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers Center, where we share our collection of photos, publications and historical objects about Maryknoll in Latin America. This legacy is a wealth we cannot keep to ourselves.  I was born i...
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Orbis Books: Laudate Deum; Come, Have Breakfast

By Robert Ellsberg | March 4, 2024
“The world in which we live is collapsing and may be nearing the breaking point.”  —Pope Francis, Laudate Deum  Pope Francis’ recent apostolic exhortation, Laudate Deum, is a short but urgent follow-up to his historic encyclical of 2015, Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home. In that earlier document he firmly established eco...
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World Watch: Ethnic Cleansing in Sudan?

By Thomas Gould | March 4, 2024
In the civil war in Sudan, independent sources confirm reports of renewed ethnic killings of civilians in the long-conflicted Darfur region.  The civil war that broke out on April 15 of last year pits the Sudanese army against a rival military group known as the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The RSF and associated militias have been accused of e...
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Spirit of Mission: In the Shadow of the Cross

By Joseph Veneroso, M.M. | March 4, 2024
One of the first challenges a missioner faces overseas is learning to communicate in a different language. Scripture gives us ample warning that to communicate the love of Christ to all peoples, we must do a lot of “dying” to ourselves. We are “strangers in a strange land” (Exodus 2:22), and in a new place, missioners will make linguistic m...
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Pursuing Peace and Justice in the Holy Land

By SJ Consulting | March 4, 2024
For more than 25 years, Maryknoll missioners have looked to a group called Churches for Middle East Peace (CMEP) to provide ways for them to contribute to peace in the Holy Land. Especially at this time of deep division and violence between Israelis and Palestinians, our faith calls us not to lose hope but remain steadfast in our commitment to peac...
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Healing through Faith and Culture

By Leonel Yoque | March 4, 2024
As a child, Juanatano Cano witnessed the killings of many people, including his own uncle who was murdered in their home town of Santa Eulalia, Huehuetenango, Guatemala.  The decade of the 1980s was one of the darkest periods for the Indigenous people of Guatemala, who suffered the brunt of the country’s 36-year civil war when the army regul...
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Building a Future of Hope in Cambodia

By Mary Ellen Manz, M.M. | March 4, 2024
Maryknoll Sister Regina Pellicore summarizes the Maryknoll Sisters’ 33 years of service in Cambodia: “All along the journey, our mission has been to provide the care, love and support needed for a better life.” Cambodia was still reeling from the deep trauma of the Killing Fields when the sisters arrived in 1991 following the Paris Peace Agre...
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Sheep Find Their Pastor

By Lynn F. Monahan | March 4, 2024
María Inés Aspilcueta’s dream as a young girl was to be a teacher. However, after graduating from high school in Lima, Peru, she had to work to help support her family.  Then, in her early 20s, she began losing her sight due to glaucoma. By age 26 she had become completely blind, and went into a severe depression which lasted three years. ...
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Dream On: Lay Missioners Sent to Serve

By Meinrad Scherer-Emunds | March 4, 2024
Go out and dream — that was the message given by Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso, Texas, to three new lay missioners and a returning lay missioner during the Dec. 2 Covenant and Sending Mass for the Maryknoll Lay Missioners Class of 2023. During his homily at Cristo Rey Church in El Paso, Bishop Seitz said, “It became clear to me as I read up abou...
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A shepherd, facing a beautiful sunset, stands among hundres of shee.

Prayer for Vocations: Spring 2024

By Charles Ogony | March 4, 2024
O Jesus Christ Our Savior, you are the master of vocations. You proclaimed to us that “the harvest is abundant, but the laborers are few.” With hearts full of gratitude, we accept your invitation to follow you. May you send us as shepherds from your heart to journey with your flock, the people of God.  Inspire more men and women to come wi...
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Cultivating Mission in Cochabamba

By Deirdre Cornell | March 4, 2024
Hummingbirds whir and monarch butterflies flit from one bush to another. Koi swim in small pools. Chickens roam the grounds, as do two llamas — Domingo and Catalina — munching on hibiscus flowers.  The Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers center and residence in Cochabamba, Bolivia, bustles with life. “What I love here are two things,” says ...
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