Resources
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Lenten Reflection Guide 2025: Jubilee of Hope
Join us for prayer this Lent with reflections on the readings from Ash Wednesday, March 5, through Palm Sunday, April 13. The 2025 Lenten Reflection Guide: Jubilee of Hope from the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns contains reflections, questions, prayers, fasts, and actions based on each week’s Gospel reading and the experience of Maryknoll missioners…
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March-April 2025
Vol. 50, No. 2 A bi-monthly newsletter on international justice and peace issues.
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Two-pager: Jubilee Year Explained
Download and share the handy two-pager on the 2025 Jubilee Year:
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Eighth Sunday of Ordinary Time
The images in Sirach and Luke’s Gospel in this Sunday’s readings create quite a mosaic collection of ‘fullness of heart’. The rhythm of winnowing, a potter’s preparation, and gathering fruit are not lofty images; they have been normal tasks for so many. What are we missing as symbols where we are and in the midst…
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Responding to the Foreign Aid Freeze
In this webinar we cover the recent changes to U.S. Federal foreign aid spending through a lens of Catholic Social Teachings. The questions we attempt to answer are: The recording of the webinar and the presentation slides are below, as well as the referenced resources from the webinar. This webinar was broadcast live at 3pm…
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Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
The people praised David for his bravery in defeating and slaying Goliath. We know through scripture that King Saul was very jealous of David’s success and eventually sought to kill him. David had to run. But, in today’s reading, David is given the chance to turn the tide and slay King Saul. He refuses to…
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Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Last year at a social event where I was bored making small talk, I spotted a black man wearing a t-shirt that read, “Get your knee off my neck.” Assuming he might be a firebrand with interesting things to say, I struck up a conversation with him. It turned out he was a professor at…
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Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
One theme from today’s Scripture readings appears crystal clear – Call. Today’s sacred stories also seem clear about the circumstances in which the Call was given and received; Isaiah, Paul, and Simon experienced something extraordinary. They couldn’t miss hearing God’s voice in unusual external events, and they probably couldn’t say no. Isaiah was confronted by…
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Feast of the Presentation of the Lord
Available for Service and Mission Today the Church celebrates the Lord’s Presentation. The narrative is only found in Luke’s gospel. It was Jewish Law that the first-born son belonged to God and had to be “bought back” from God forty days after birth. Thus, today, forty days after Christmas, Mary and Joseph, faith-filled Jews, bring…
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Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
In the readings for this week, the “body” and the “spirit” are mentioned multiple times. What a juxtaposition! In mainstream Western culture, we idolize the body. How we look, how much we weigh, how we feel, (or at least how we are supposed to feel according to our wearable devices,) all lead us to obsess…
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Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
Our first reading describes God’s covenant with his people through a marital metaphor, in which God is the bridegroom and the people are the bride. Isaiah says: “No more shall people call you ‘Forsaken,’ or your land ‘Desolate,’ but you shall be called ‘My Delight.’” This is truly an amazing way of thinking. Our creator,…
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January – February 2025
Vol. 50, No. 1A bi-monthly newsletter on international justice and peace issues.