Eight men and women—singles and couples with children—go forth to help build that world with God’s grace || As eight new members of the Maryknoll Lay Missioners (MKLM) embarked on their journeys...
Maryknoll seminarian reflects on his overseas training experiences and mission || Mission is different for every person. That’s what I am learning working in the Mabatini parish in Mwanza, Tanzania,...
“I prefer a Church which is bruised, hurting and dirty because it has been out on the Streets.” || In bringing to a close Pope Francis’ Jubilee Year of Mercy on November 20, we’re reminded...
A Maryknoll priest draws on his farmland upbringing to fight global hunger. || For most of his mission career, Maryknoll Father Kenneth Thesing has grappled with the specter of hunger. Assigned to East...
The Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers have accepted two new candidates to the priesthood—both from mission lands—and has welcomed a diocesan priest from northern New York State to serve as a priest associate...
For years, Don Agustin Lazarte was an itinerant catechist in our St. Francis Xavier parish in the village of Monte Verde, Santa Cruz, Bolivia. He would spend a week or a month in a village, helping with...
A Maryknoll Lay Missioners veteran marks 40 years of ministry || As the Maryknoll Lay Missioners’ longest serving missioner, Elizabeth Mach has had a powerful impact on tens of thousands of lives...
Reading another mother’s Mercy Moment in the May/June MARYKNOLL magazine about the compassion she experienced when her son was injured in an accident moved me to share my own Mercy Moment. In May 2013...
|| Driving across the grasslands to a distant chapel to celebrate Easter during the rainy season in Tanzania. Halfway through a swampy plain the mud becomes so thick I abandon my truck and walk...
