Holy Trinity Sunday
Ted Miles, Executive Director of the Maryknoll Lay Missioners, reflects on the power of love to heal our broken relationships and bind us together as God created us to be.
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Pentecost Sunday
Maryknoll Lay Missioner Karen Bortvedt reflects on lessons she learned from the deaf community in Cambodia.
Sixth Sunday of Easter
Maryknoll Father John Spain in El Salvador reflects on the lessons we can learn from the early Church.
Ascension of the Lord
Maryknoll Father Eugene Toland reflects on the gift of Jesus’ presence empowering us to share God’s mercy and love with the world.
Fifth Sunday of Easter
Maryknoll Lay Missioner John O’Donoghue in Bolivia reflects on the enduring need for people to hear Jesus’ commandment to love one another.
Fourth Sunday of Easter
Former Maryknoll Brother Mark Huntington lived and worked in Kenya as a Maryknoll Lay Missioner and in Tanzania and Mozambique as a Maryknoll Brother.
Second Sunday of Easter
Maryknoll Sister Sia Nyasari Temu reflects on the freedom from fear that the resurrection brings for all who follow Jesus.
Third Sunday of Easter
Fr. Sacha Bermundez-Goldman, SJ, who served in Tanzania and Cambodia with the Maryknoll Lay Missioners, reflects on God’s abundant love amid suffering.
Easter Sunday, Feast of the Resurrection
Bob Short, executive director of the Maryknoll Affiliates, reflects on the transformative power of the resurrection.
Palm Sunday
Kathryn Seib Vargas, a former Maryknoll Lay Missioner in Mexico, reflects on Jesus’ teachings about pain and suffering.
Fifth Sunday of Lent
This week’s reflection was written by Maryknoll Father Ray Finch in 2016. Father Finch lived and worked in the Andean regions of Latin America for many years, and is currently Superior General of the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers.
Fourth Sunday of Lent
Marj Humphrey, who spent many years as a Maryknoll Lay Missioner in East Africa, reflects on the well-known but still challenging Parable of the Prodigal Son.
Third Sunday of Lent
Maryknoll Sister Teresa Hougnon in Kenya reflects on the transformation that happens when we enter into conversation with our enemies.
Second Sunday of Lent
Maryknoll Father Rick Bauer in Kenya reflects on the the temptation to stay where we feel safe when we hear Jesus’ call to follow him.
First Sunday of Lent
Maryknoll Father Joe Healey, a Missioner in East Africa since 1968, looks at the 2019 Lenten Campaign Book offered by the Kenyan Conference of Catholic Bishops to reflect on the care of creation during this Season of Lent.
Ash Wednesday
Maryknoll Lay Missioner Susan Nagele, a family physician who recently returned to the United States from East Africa after 33 years of service, reflects on the opportunity to repent and change in the Season of Lent.
Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
We can look to the life of Dorothy Day, a lay Catholic woman, as an example of how to be a disciple as Jesus taught us.
Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Maryknoll Lay Missioner Mike Garr in Kenya reflects on loving one’s neighbor.