{"id":3511,"date":"2023-12-04T23:57:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T23:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.maryknollsociety.org\/magazine\/?p=3511"},"modified":"2025-12-31T02:00:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T02:00:25","slug":"from-the-editor-lifes-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.maryknollsociety.org\/magazine\/from-the-editor-lifes-purpose\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Editor: Life\u2019s Purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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\u2019 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. With this, our Winter issue of <em>Maryknoll<\/em>, we seek to reflect that spirit of the holiday in our pages, and I think this issue certainly does that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If we look for the three theological virtues of faith, hope and love, so <a href=\"https:\/\/bible.usccb.org\/bible\/1corinthians\/13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">emphasized by St. Paul<\/a> in the New Testament, we find them in abundance in this edition. Faith is eloquently expressed in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryknollmagazine.org\/photo-meditations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Father Joseph Veneroso\u2019s photo meditation<\/a> and spirituality column and in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryknollmagazine.org\/2023\/12\/christmas-finding-the-christ-child-in-the-lowly-and-vulnerable\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Father Daniel Kim\u2019s reflection on Christmas<\/a>. Of course, faith underlies the motivation of all the missioners featured in this issue. Hope comes through, not only in the title of our story from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryknollmagazine.org\/2023\/12\/borders-of-hope\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">U.S.\/Mexico border<\/a>, but underpinning, like faith, the amazing works and ministries we\u2019ve highlighted in these articles. Maryknoll missioners bring hope to others all year long. As for love, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryknollmagazine.org\/2023\/12\/a-rich-poverty-in-bangladesh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Father Robert McCahill<\/a> says it best in our cover story: \u201cThe purpose of life is love.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The three virtues go together: faith expressed through love and enduring hope in Jesus. As we prepare for the coming of the Christ Child, we wish you all a blessed and merry Christmas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><em>Lynn F. 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