Vocations Newsletter

In this episode of Among The People, we sit down with Maryknoll Missioner, Fr. Doug May. Growing up in a small town near Buffalo, NY, Fr. Doug now serves as a missionary Priest in Cairo, where he has been for more than two decades. He is the only United States-born, English-speaking priest in Egypt.He provides pastoral care for several communities in the Cairo area. He also works as the international coordinator for the Center for Intercultural Dialogue and Translation and the Center for Arab-West Understanding, a nongovernmental organization that fosters dialogue between Christians and Muslims and sociopolitical pluralism in Egypt and in the Middle East.
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Friday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary TimeMk 7:31-37He took him off by himself away from the crowd. He put his finger into the man's earsand, spitting, touched his tongue;then he looked up to heaven and groaned, and said to him,"Ephphatha!" (that is, "Be opened!")And immediately the man's ears were opened,his speech impediment was removed,and he spoke plainly.
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In this One On One Interview, Robert Ellsberg and Elizabeth A. Johnson, discuss her new book "Come, Have Breakfast: Meditations on God and the Earth" .“‘Come, have breakfast’ (Jn 21:12) These three simple words followed by generous action open a portal into an ecological image of the living God who is active with cordial hospitality toward all creatures, nurturing their lives, desiring that all should be fed.” https://maryknoll.link/f38eb5Addresses contemporary socioeconomic concerns from a biblical and mission-based perspective. Offers a tool (a social justice inventory) for evaluating ourselves in light of a biblical theology of wealth and poverty.In her latest work, prize-winning theologian Elizabeth Johnson views planet Earth, its beauty and threatened state, through the lens of scripture. Each luminous meditation offers a snapshot of one aspect of the holy mystery who creates, indwells, redeems, vivifies, and sanctifies the whole world. Together, they offer a panoramic view of the living God who loves the earth, accompanies all its creatures in their living and their dying, and moves us to care for our uncommon common home. Get your copy online with Orbis Books: https://maryknoll.link/f38eb5
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In this episode of Among the People, Fr. Joe and Luna site down with Deacon, Gregory McPhee who will be ordained as a Maryknoll Priest on Saturday, August 22nd. Deacon Gregory shares his incredible, mystical experience of how he came to find his vocation as a missioner, along with his story of mission around the world. If you are interested in learning more about Maryknoll, please visit https://maryknollsociety.orgInterested in learning more about a life of mission? https://maryknollvocations.org
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