{"id":3387,"date":"2025-03-03T23:16:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T23:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.maryknollsociety.org\/magazine\/?p=3387"},"modified":"2025-12-31T14:03:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T14:03:31","slug":"missioner-tales-spring-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.maryknollsociety.org\/magazine\/missioner-tales-spring-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Missioner Tales, Spring 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A group of our Maryknoll community including myself went to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryknollmagazine.org\/2024\/06\/trial-by-fire-in-the-amazon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Amazon region of Bolivia<\/a> to celebrate Holy Week with the Indigenous people of Sant\u00edsima Trinidad parish. It was wonderful to learn about the joys and struggles of the people as well as their cultural traditions celebrating Easter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the Easter Vigil, a 7-year-old boy joyfully sang out the word \u201cAlleluia\u201d with all his strength. He had trouble pronouncing the Ls in that word and sang \u201cAyeyuya\u201d instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pronunciation did not matter. What was more important was the joy of singing that Jesus is Risen and is present in this Indigenous community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryknollmagazine.org\/2025\/03\/missioner-tales-spring-2025-mission-life\/%20https:\/\/www.maryknollmagazine.org\/author\/mbassano\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Michael Bassano, M.M.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>As a Maryknoll sister, I spent my first three years <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryknollsisters.org\/shop\/prize-awaits-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in mission<\/a> in Guatemala City, where I learned to read the newspaper in Spanish. Later, I went to a town more than 300 kilometers (about 200 miles) away, where the rural population spoke the Mayan language called Mam. There was no newspaper delivery, but the sacristan told me I could get newspapers in a little shop down the street. When I told the shopkeeper I wanted to buy a newspaper, he asked me, \u201cHow many pounds?\u201d He sold old newspapers by weight to vendors who used it to wrap their produce on market day. There are <a href=\"https:\/\/maryknollmissionarchives.org\/digital-exhibits\/mission-from-your-nightstand\/what-prize-awaits-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">things about culture<\/a> that you don\u2019t learn from books!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryknollmagazine.org\/author\/bkita\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Bernice Kita, M.M<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>I am a nurse currently in mission with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryknollmagazine.org\/2023\/03\/mklm-class-sent-to-show-soul\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Maryknoll Lay Missioners<\/a> in Tanzania, where access to medical care is nearly impossible for the families I serve. One day I visited a couple who requested that I assess their 6-month-old daughter. They had taken her to the hospital, yet could not understand the information they received there about her diagnosis of cerebral palsy. As I unwrapped the baby, I noticed the telltale scarring on her arms that I see on so many children with disabilities. The child had been taken to a witch doctor before being treated at the hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As an outsider, I\u2019m not privy to this world of witchcraft, and I don\u2019t know exactly what occurs in these sessions. But I do see the permanent scars on many children I work with. None of it will heal cerebral palsy. Education is critical for these families, yet without help, it is severely lacking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The couple now understands their baby\u2019s diagnosis of cerebral palsy. They have been trained in methods of basic physical therapy for muscle relaxation and administering medication to control seizures. Now they know what can be done to help their child live up to her full potential as she grows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/mklm.org\/our-people\/missioners\/profile-anna-johnson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Anna Johnson, MKLM<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The sun was close to setting at the end of a very hot and dusty day in the Amazon of Brazil, where I served as a <a href=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5d4eea7c384fa900012d9c53\/t\/5e1f60470946ac20d4560b5e\/1579114569634\/20120304NSFA.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Maryknoll brother<\/a>. I was still far from home, and exhausted after long hours of uninspiring tasks. As I pulled into a gasoline station, I saw a poorly clad young man by the gas pump. I confess that my first thought was not at all charitable \u2014 \u201cOh dear God, this is all I need right now, to deal with a beggar!\u201d But, when my car came to a stop, I was surprised by his cheerful greeting, \u201cFill her up?\u201d I got out of the car, while he started to pump the gas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I finally, really looked at him, I saw that he had a large misshapen head. Yet his manner was very pleasant, and it was easy to converse. He seemed so open that I dared to ask, \u201cDoes your head hurt much?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His response was gentle and uttered without self-pity: \u201cAll the time.\u201d The bone in his cranium, he said, was constantly growing. He had been to some of Brazil\u2019s better hospitals, but no treatment was available. The condition would eventually kill him. At no point in our conversation did he express resentment about his state in life. We parted with friendly goodbyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I drove away, I realized that the real beggar, the truly needy one, had been me \u2014 awash in my own self-pity. The young man at the pump, on the other hand, was a remarkable person and a marvelous witness. 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