{"id":3842,"date":"2024-03-04T23:33:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T23:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.maryknollsociety.org\/magazine\/?p=3842"},"modified":"2025-12-31T15:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T15:59:08","slug":"hearts-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.maryknollsociety.org\/magazine\/hearts-on-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearts on Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>This article was updated on May 13, 2024.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his message for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.osservatoreromano.va\/en\/news\/2023-01\/ing-004\/hearts-on-fire-feet-on-the-move.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">World Mission Day last year<\/a>, Pope Francis spoke of \u201chearts on fire, feet on the move.\u201d For two Maryknoll seminarians ordained to the transitional diaconate in 2023, the road to ordination as Maryknoll missionary priests is, quite literally, a journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joshua Maondo and Charles Ogony, from Kenya, are making final preparations to receive the sacrament of Holy Orders on June 8. With hearts ablaze and their bags packed, the three will carry on anew Maryknoll\u2019s mission to bring help and hope to the world\u2019s most disadvantaged.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><br><strong>Following in Footsteps<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>For Joshua Maondo, 29, the path to priesthood was envisioned from a young age. Born in Kakamega, in western Kenya, Maondo says his faith was nurtured at home. \u201cThe Catholic faith came through my grandmother,\u201d he says. \u201cWhen she married my grandfather, she converted the whole family.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Maondo became an altar boy after his First Holy Communion, his grandmother could not have been prouder, he says. She encouraged her grandchildren to go to catechism classes and reviewed with them what they learned. Maondo would often discuss with her ways in which the Church\u2019s teachings could be practiced within African culture.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maondo first learned of Maryknoll missions as a student of linguistics and literature at Kenyatta University in 2012 from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryknollmagazine.org\/2023\/06\/educating-heroes-in-kenya\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Father Lance Nadeau<\/a>, then a chaplain at the university.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although he had dreamed of becoming a priest since childhood, Maondo felt that the Maryknoll experience was unique: \u201cYou can easily single out [Maryknollers] from the rest of missioners. The way they handle people, with a lot of care, a lot of compassion \u2014 the way they move with the people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/dev.maryknollsociety.org\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/18-22-Threes-Company-01.jpg\" alt=\"Joshua Maondo assists at a parish celebration at St. Basil Church in Chicago. \" class=\"wp-image-3844\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dev.maryknollsociety.org\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/18-22-Threes-Company-01.jpg 700w, https:\/\/dev.maryknollsociety.org\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/18-22-Threes-Company-01-300x257.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Joshua Maondo assists at a parish celebration at St. Basil Church in Chicago. (Courtesy of Joshua Maondo\/U.S.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>He began his overseas training \u2014 a two-year-long experience of mission formation for Maryknoll priest and brother candidates \u2014 in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryknollmagazine.org\/2023\/12\/becoming-maryknoll-a-vocation-journey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cochabamba, Bolivia<\/a>, at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. He says that despite the risk, he resolved to remain by remembering that he was following in the steps of early Maryknoll missioners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Cochabamba, Maondo participated in ministry to prisoners at the maximum-security prison El Abra. He also served as a tutor for children after school at Hogar San Mart\u00edn-San Vicente, a home for at-risk children and youth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou can see hope in them,\u201d Maondo says of the students he was tutoring then. \u201cYou look at their faces and you can see gratitude: \u2018I\u2019m glad I\u2019m here \u2026 I look forward to a brighter future.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Maondo returned to Chicago to continue his studies at <a href=\"https:\/\/ctu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Catholic Theological Union (CTU)<\/a>, he volunteered at the <a href=\"https:\/\/aquinasliteracycenter.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Aquinas Literacy Center<\/a> to teach English to the immigrant community. He currently serves as a deacon at St. Basil Visitation Church and also assists at St. Benedict the African Church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maondo says the word \u201ccommunity\u201d sums up his thoughts about mission. \u201cCommunity lifts you up,\u201d he says. \u201cAt the end of it all, it\u2019s you in service to the community.\u201d He wishes his grandmother, who passed away in 2016, could have seen him become a priest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When talking about his own dreams for the future, Maondo says he wants to see \u201ca blossoming Maryknoll.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"598\" src=\"http:\/\/dev.maryknollsociety.org\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/18-22-Threes-Company-02.jpg\" alt=\"Charles Ogony helps with a reforestation project in Cochabamba, Bolivia. \" class=\"wp-image-3845\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dev.maryknollsociety.org\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/18-22-Threes-Company-02.jpg 700w, https:\/\/dev.maryknollsociety.org\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/18-22-Threes-Company-02-300x256.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Charles Ogony helps with a reforestation project in Cochabamba, Bolivia. (Courtesy of Charles Ogony\/Bolivia)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><br><strong>A Sign of Peace<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Charles Ogony\u2019s first steps in his vocation began in childhood, guided by his family in Migori, Kenya. His grandfather donated a plot of land for the construction of a small chapel and his father became a catechist. That was when, Ogony says, he began walking in the faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Ogony was only 6 years old, he witnessed robbers violently attack his father as they attempted to steal from his home. The attack left a huge impression on him, yet instead of resorting to resentment, the young boy began considering what he could do to foster harmony among people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI saw priesthood being a sign of uniting people together,\u201d he says. \u201cIf God calls me, I should respond so that I can be a sign of peace.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ogony also encountered Maryknoll in 2012 as a student of education, geography and history at Kenyatta University, where, he says, Father Nadeau\u2019s homilies were exceptional: \u201cHe could make students from different churches, different religions, come to the Catholic Church.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With Father Nadeau\u2019s encouragement, Ogony met other Maryknollers. \u201cWe saw the same spirit of welcoming, of compassion,\u201d he says. He remembers thinking that Maryknoll must be \u201cspecial.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ogony began his overseas training in Bolivia in 2019. When the outbreak of COVID-19 prompted lockdowns and caused many international volunteers to flee the country, Ogony remained to help in any way he could.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alongside fellow Seminarian Matthew Sim and Maryknoll Brother Ryan Thibert, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maryknollmagazine.org\/2020\/07\/going-where-you-are-needed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ogony volunteered at Hogar San Jos\u00e9<\/a>, a home run by the Little Sisters of the Abandoned Elderly for senior citizens at risk of homelessness. \u201cChanging their clothes, serving them food, that was the mission,\u201d he recalls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On his own initiative, Ogony also began a ministry to accompany the homeless population of the city. Soon he became known as <em>Hermano Carlos<\/em> (Brother Charles) to the marginalized street people he befriended. Fresh from language school as a learner of Spanish, Ogony shared meals with them, singing and listening to their stories. \u201cThe way they received me was quite humbling. I fell in love with that ministry.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back in Chicago in 2021, Ogony continued his studies at CTU while he served at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bsyc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Blessed Sacrament Youth Center<\/a>, tutoring children from violent neighborhoods in an afterschool program. He also currently assists at St. Benedict the African Church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ogony, 30, is open to going wherever mission will take him: \u201cBeing a missioner is to go out and meet the marginalized and listen to their stories. That is the gospel we can write in their life \u2014 and they\u2019ll also write the same in our life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><em>Featured image: Archbishop Gabriele Giordano Caccia (center) celebrates Mass during the ordination to the diaconate of Charles Ogony (left) and Joshua Maondo (right) on October 21, 2023. The seminarians will be ordained Maryknoll priests on June 8, 2024. 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