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Magazine

Summer 2024

The Cry of the Poor for Liberation

By Ray Almanza | September 3, 2024
WEB-ONLY: Maryknoll Father Stephen Judd describes an early encounter that shaped his mission life. As a young seminarian, in 1973, he and other Maryknollers were visited in Arequipa, Peru, by Father Gustavo Gutiérrez. “He touched on the essential elements of doing theology in a different way,” recalls Father Judd. This meeting with the founder...
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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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A Seminarian’s Reflection from the Amazon

By Leonard Kabaka | June 3, 2024
Human beings are God’s language. If you want to hear God, you have to hear God through the people. We Overseas Training Program students experience mission with a people, a cultural community. The missioner and the welcoming community learn from each other as God mysteriously evangelizes both of us. [The Amazon region we visit] is home to the Moj...
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Readers’ Responses, Summer 2024

By Our Readers | June 3, 2024
A NEW HERO I am hitting 80 and have been reading Maryknoll magazine since I was a small child. It was always my real-life adventure story with the heroes in black, white, and grey habits all around the world.  Today the saga continues. And a new hero is Father Joseph Veneroso. The Spring 2024 issue is a keeper with a prayer poem reflecting divine ...
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Maryknoll at the UN: Mission to Missions

By Lynn F. Monahan | June 3, 2024
The United Nations headquarters in New York City might not seem like mission territory, but for Maryknoll and the missioners who serve there, it very much is. For Maryknoll Sister Margaret Lacson, the distinctive U.N. building on the East Side of Manhattan is a long way from her native Philippines or Japan, where she spent 30 years in mission. Yet,...
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2023 Maryknoll Student Essay Contest Winners

2023 Maryknoll Student Essay Contest Winners

By Maryknoll Press | June 3, 2024
We asked students to reflect on this essay prompt: “Jesus teaches us to love our enemies and to pray for those who persecute us. How can we, as followers of Jesus, stand up for peace and against the growing violence in our country?” We received submissions in two divisions (grades 6-8 and grades 9-12) from students currently enrolled in a Catho...
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Martyrs of the Ixcán

By Meinrad Scherer-Emunds | June 3, 2024
In 1976, a powerful earthquake struck Guatemala, destroying more than 250,000 houses and leaving 1.2 million people homeless. In Auburn, Alabama, John Gauker and his wife, Phyllis, wanted to help. John owned a construction company and felt a call to help with reconstruction.  They knew Spanish from having lived in Spain for three years. Phylli...
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