Abandonment was the most unbearable pain Jesus felt while hanging on the cross || Every year when those ads come on TV to adopt or sponsor abused and rescued animals, I am no match for those mournful puppy-dog eyes and pouting kittens—with Amazing Grace playing in the background, no less. I mutter,...
Rusty, a rescue dog, joins his owner, Terry Brown, in visiting the sick and dying || Terry Brown says his life was changed the first time he heard about Maryknoll in the late 1980s when a Maryknoll missioner visited his parish, St. Isidore’s Catholic Church in Yuba City, Calif. “The message was very...
Pope Francis guides readers through the Gospel of Matthew || This inspirational volume of reflections on the Gospel of Matthew echoes everything Pope Francis says and does. Readers have the option of reflecting on the entire Gospel from beginning to end or simply dipping into a passage and allowing oneself...
Readers respond to our print, web and social media posts || Editor’s note: This issue’s Readers’ Responses column is devoted to reactions to a letter in our November/December 2019 issue criticizing Maryknoll Father Vincent Capodanno, who was killed serving as a military chaplain during the Vietnam...
Maryknoll priest reflects on humanity’s quest for something bigger, more powerful than ourselves || At noon every day, an office worker in New York City drops into the cool silence of Holy Cross Church on 42nd Street for Mass. Nine thousand miles away, Asmat fishermen offer prayers and fruits to the sea for a bountiful...
A young woman’s immersion trip to Bolivia connects her with nature and her grandmother || The monarch butterfly has always captured my attention, not just for its beauty but because it is startling to know how only the fourth generation of the monarch migrates across the continent to survive cold...
Reflections for Christians in Lent || It is difficult to read the Passion narratives—particularly the Gospel of John, which is read in Holy Week—without being confronted by texts that seem to lay the blame for Jesus’ death on “the Jews.” Because of this, Holy Week has traditionally been accompanied...
Readers respond to our print, web and social media posts || SAINT AND HERO I take issue with the response in the November/December Maryknoll magazine criticizing the late Maryknoll Father Vincent Capodanno, who was killed during the Vietnam War. The writer says that to be Christ-like, Father Capodanno...
Priest reflects on how living saints inspire us to be saints and angels for one another || The letter to the Hebrews (13:2) admonishes us to “show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some have entertained angels unawares.” Certainly if we regarded others as angels in disguise, our world would...
Mother and daughter are missioners to other migrants in Japan || Maryknoll Father Roberto Rodriguez says he would not be able to do his job without Carmen Muray Ochante and her daughter Rosa Ochante. “They are essential, an extension of what I am as a missioner,” says Father Rodriguez. Carmen and Rosa...
