Vocations Newsletter

Memorial of Saint John NeumannJn 1:43-51Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said of him, "Here is a true child of Israel. There is no duplicity in him."
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Church as Sanctuary: Reconstructing Refuge in an Age of Forced Displacementhttps://maryknoll.link/4juNo study has yet examined the tradition of sanctuary as the starting point for rethinking the church in an age of global displacement. Church as Sanctuary, argues that if church sanctuary is going to be legible as a pillar of ecclesial existence in modernity, then we need a theology of sanctuary that reconstitutes this rich tradition anew, placing it at the service of a displaced world. By its very nature, church sanctuary is and has always served as a creative ecclesial and sacramental response to persons whose life is threatened by generalized or state violence, and in our contemporary society the church’s rejection of its own tradition places at risk other forms of sanctuary that exist in symbolic relation to the church’s historical practice.Leo Guardado is assistant professor, the department of theology, Fordham University. The Salvadoran Civil War forced Guardado and his mother to migrate to Los Angeles, CA, where he grew up from the age of nine. Get your copy online with Orbis Books: https://maryknoll.link/4ju
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Memorial of Saint Elizabeth Ann SetonJn 1:35-42He first found his own brother Simon and told him, “We have found the Messiah,” which is translated Christ. Then he brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon the son of John; you will be called Cephas,” which is translated Peter.
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Christmas WeekdayJn 1:29-34John the Baptist saw Jesus coming toward him and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world."
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