Scripture Reflections

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First Sunday of Advent

Kevin Carroll, nonviolence and peace fellow at the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns, reflects on his students who have awakened him to hope and peace on this first Sunday of Advent.

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Feast of Christ the King

Maryknoll Sister Antoinette Gutzler, president of the Maryknoll Sisters, reflects on the solidarity with all who are afflicted, as we all share in the body of Christ. 

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33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time

 Maryknoll Lay Missioner Peg Vamosy, a horticulturist by training who works with Catholic parishioners in El Salvador to improve agricultural production, writes this week’s reflection.

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32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time

Maryknoll Father Gerald Kelly, director of the Maryknoll Society mission promotion house in Houston, Texas, writes this week’s reflection.

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Feast of All Saints

Liz Mach, a Maryknoll Lay Missioner in Tanzania, reflects on the challenge of following Jesus’ teachings in our daily lives.

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29th Sunday in Ordinary Time

The following reflection was prepared by Judy Coode in 2014, while working with the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns. Ms. Coode is the coordinator of the Catholic Nonviolence Initiative, a project of Pax Christi International.

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25th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Charles Dittmeier, a diocesan priest from Kentucky who is on mission with the Maryknoll Lay Missioners in Cambodia, reflects on our generous and caring God.

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24th Sunday in Ordinary Time

The life story of South African Anglican priest Michael Lapsley, a friend to many Maryknoll missioners, is an inspiration for forgiveness.

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23rd Sunday of Ordinary Time

Larry Parr, a Maryknoll Lay Missioner in El Salvador, reflects on the power of conversion to transform people and places broken down by violence.

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22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time

Marknoll Father Rodrigo Ulloa-Chavarry, who was ordained a Maryknoll priest in 2011, is currently serving in China.

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21st Sunday of Ordinary Time

Maryknoll Sister Jean Fallon lived and worked on mission in Japan. “Living and working in a non-Christian milieu is very different from what Missioners might expect, say, in Latin America,” Sister Jean said. “The New Testament, however, brings insights to us all that are ever-new, ever deepening our faith and ever giving life to everyone.”