Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Maryknoll Lay Missioner Heidi Cerneka in El Paso, Texas, reflects on the Gospel call to respond to our neighbors in need.
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Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Erica Olson, a returned Maryknoll Lay Missioner who lived and worked in El Salvador, writes this week’s reflection.
Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Christine Bodewes, a former Markynoll Lay Missioner in Kenya, reflects on learning the lesson of the parable of the Good Samaritan.
Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Christine Perrier, a former Maryknoll Lay Missioner who continues to live and work in Peru, reflects on making meaningful connections in a global culture distracted by social media.
Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Maryknoll Lay Missioner Mary Oldham Hannemann reflects on the care and compassion she has witnessed in her community in Mombasa, Kenya.
Feast of Corpus Christi
Maryknoll Father Frank Breen reflects on the sharing of the bread and wine in the Eucharistic feast as an expression of our human need for one another.
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.
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.