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Go out and dream \u2014 that was the message given by Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso, Texas<\/a>, 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<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During his homily at Cristo Rey Church in El Paso, Bishop Seitz said, \u201cIt became clear to me as I read up about Maryknoll and your history, y\u2019all are a bunch of dreamers. And as I thought about it, I realized that\u2019s a really good thing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In our dreams, he said, we recognize \u201ca world that Jesus dreamed of.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maryknoll\u2019s founders and the missioners who followed \u201ctook up the challenge to go out \u2026 and show that that dream was not just a dream but the possibility for a new world, a new life,\u201d Bishop Seitz said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elvira Ramirez, Maryknoll Lay Missioners\u2019 executive director<\/a>, noted the significance of the date of the Mass: the anniversary of the 1980 martyrdom of four churchwomen in El Salvador<\/a>. \u201cOn this 43rd anniversary,\u201d Ramirez said, \u201cwe honor their memory and their witness. Their lives have inspired many to stand on the side of marginalized and oppressed communities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The event also marked the fruition of a dream for Maryknoll Lay Missioners. Last year, the organization moved its mission services department from the Maryknoll campus in Ossining, New York, to El Paso. For the first time in the organization\u2019s 48-year history, the new missioners\u2019 orientation program took place near the U.S.-Mexico border. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Maryknoll Lay Missioners Executive Director Elvira Ramirez confers the mission cross on new lay missioner Sarah Bueter as Maryknoll Father Lance Nadeau and Maryknoll Sister Leonor Montiel look on. (Courtesy of Maryknoll Lay Missioners\/U.S.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Maryknoll lay missioners serve currently on both sides of the border<\/a> in ministries<\/a> including immigration law, hospitality for migrants, a border immersion program, pastoral outreach and children\u2019s programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year\u2019s orientation program connected candidates with such local ministries. Each Monday, they volunteered at migrant shelters at the parishes of Holy Family and Sacred Heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPreparing for mission service was a tangible sign of change for the persons in the eight-week orientation program,\u201d Ramirez noted. \u201cAnd moving the orientation to El Paso marks a sign of change for Maryknoll Lay Missioners as well.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the Mass, the new candidates signed covenants pledging to serve for three and a half years in Kenya, El Salvador and Cambodia. They were joined by a returning missioner who committed to serving for two years in Kenya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sarah Bueter, of South Bend, Indiana, will serve in El Salvador. Bueter said she sees mission work as \u201can extension of God\u2019s solidarity with creation.\u201d She continued, \u201cThat God chose to become enfleshed in a particular way in the margins is a sign of great hope and tenderness.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The young missioner has worked in a wide range of settings, including Catholic Worker communities in Denver and South Bend, a Jesuit social action center in Honduras and the Kino Border Initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bueter also spent a summer in Bethlehem, Palestine, in a conflict transformation program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFaith isn\u2019t about living perfectly,\u201d Bueter said. \u201cIt\u2019s about living differently, which at times looks a bit upside down.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her decision to become a Maryknoll lay missioner was influenced by the examples of people working at the Kino Border Initiative. \u201cI would watch them meet a migrant mother with grace and attentiveness, like they had just met Christ the King himself. And of course, they had!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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New Maryknoll Lay Missioner Julienne \u201cT.T.\u201d Hoang, a cantor, leads the responsorial psalm sung in English and Vietnamese. (Courtesy of Maryknoll Lay Missioners\/U.S.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Like Bueter, Theresa Glaser is no stranger to international service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2008, she volunteered for a year in West Africa as a member of a Catholic Relief Services HIV\/AIDS care team. The team supported people in remote villages with food and medical care, attended to vulnerable children orphaned by AIDS and offered educational programs for prevention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During her decades as a teacher in Ohio and South Carolina, Glaser chose to work in inner-city high schools. Glaser, who retired from teaching in 2021 and most recently lived in Taylor Mill, Kentucky, holds a doctorate in biological sciences from the University of Cincinnati. Prior to teaching, she worked as a research scientist, including for six years in Australia and Switzerland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGoing into mission,\u201d Glaser said, \u201cmeans living in solidarity with the poor and vulnerable of the world; working together to improve the circumstances of the lives of others.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Glaser, who says she looks forward to returning to Africa, will serve in Kenya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volunteering with refugee children in the Philippines while she was in her 20s led Julienne \u201cT.T.\u201d Hoang to a career of advocating for refugees, asylum seekers and victims of abuse and human trafficking. The desire to return to hands-on international mission service, however, remained in her heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the meantime, Hoang served as an active parishioner at Holy Vietnamese Martyrs Catholic Church in Austin, Texas. She sang in the choir, was a lector and eucharistic minister, taught catechism and helped organize fundraising events. She is also an active member of Dong Hanh Christian Life Community, a Vietnamese-American Catholic association grounded in Ignatian spirituality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hoang retired from her most recent job as a regional analyst with the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement to join the orientation program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Cambodia, she plans to help victims of human trafficking. \u201cTrafficking is the most heinous crime because it takes away a person\u2019s human dignity and self-worth,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Maryknoll
Maryknoll Father Raymond Finch, Elvira Ramirez, Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso, Sister Leonor Montiel and Father Lance Nadeau pose with portraits of the four churchwomen martyred in El Salvador at a reception held after the sending Mass and ceremony. (Courtesy of Maryknoll Lay Missioners\/U.S.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEach of us is called to mission when we are born, whether we choose to listen to this call or not,\u201d Hoang said. \u201cGod has a mission for each of us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joining the three new missioners, Kathy Flatoff, a nurse from Tomah, Wisconsin, is returning to Kenya. From 2018 until 2021, she served as a Maryknoll lay missioner in a medical dispensary in Mombasa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since returning to the States, Flatoff said, \u201cI have been enjoying the comforts of home, but the thought of returning to Kenya has never been far from my mind and heart.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She added, \u201cThe heart of a missioner is forever changed by service to the poor, the oppressed and other marginalized populations. After much reflection and prayer, I feel that God and my missioner heart are calling me back to Kenya. \u2026 That is where God wants me to be.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She will work in health care for the Diocese of Kitale, which runs three small rural hospitals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maryknoll Father Lance Nadeau, superior general of the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers, gave the keynote address.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking to the lay missioners during a reception following the Mass, Father Nadeau joked, \u201cSome people have wondered about your adventurousness, your audacity, your risk-taking, your blatant craziness. They should wonder, and so should you! You are choosing to be an outsider who entrusts herself to another culture\u2019s insiders.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, he added, many blessings will come in embracing the call to intercultural mission. The most important thing, he concluded, is \u201cseeing our shared humanity in others \u2026 being other-centered and reverentially attentive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deirdre Cornell contributed reporting to this article.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n


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