Scripture Reflections

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Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Returned Maryknoll Lay Missioner Debbie Northern, who lived and worked for eight years in El Salvador and now coordinates the formation of new Maryknoll Lay Missioner candidates, reflects on the courage of the great prophets, Jeremiah and Oscar Romero.

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Feast of St. John the Baptist

Maryknoll Father Scott Harris, who was most recently on mission in Hong Kong, reflects on the value of working for justice and saying the unpopular truth.

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Feast of Corpus Christi

Maryknoll Father Shaun Crumb reflects on a simple meal he joined in Bolivia that demonstrates the Body of Christ.

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Trinity Sunday

Maryknoll Sister Nancy Connor reflects on her experience of Trinity Sunday in Bolivian culture.

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Pentecost Sunday

Maryknoll Lay Missioner Flavio Jose Rocha writes from Brazil on the feast of Pentecost, a watershed event when followers of Jesus first chose to unite prayer with action and the Church was born.

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Ascension Thursday

Maryknoll Sister Mary Ann Smith reflects on the need to be witnesses to the love God in dark places.

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Seventh Sunday of Easter

Maryknoll Father Daniel Kim, ordained into the Society of the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers on May 20, writes this week’s reflection on protecting our connection with God by caring for Creation.

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Fifth Sunday of Easter

Dave Kane, a returned Maryknoll Lay Missioner now living in Brazil, reflects on building our individual “spiritual homes” with rooms to welcome many guests.

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Fourth Sunday of Easter

Maryknoll Sister Anastasia Lindawati, who is on mission in Hong Kong, reflects on responding to God’s call to be a good shepherd in the Church.

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Sixth Sunday of Easter

Maryknoll Father Peter Barry, on mission for many years in Hong Kong and mainland China, reflects on opportunities to share his faith with students in China.

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Third Sunday of Easter

Maryknoll Father Roberto Rodriguez, who is on mission in the Diocese of Kyoto, Japan, reflects on a simple encounter like the disciples had with Jesus on the road to Emmaus long ago.

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Second Sunday of Easter

Chloe Schwabe reflects on the mission of the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns as part of the Christian call to share the Good News.

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Good Friday

“With all the violence, suffering, death and destruction which surround us in this life, we may be tempted to feel that sin and death are victorious, are winning out. But we know deep down in our hearts that Jesus, through his suffering and death has overcome sin and death.” Maryknoll Father Tom Marti, who lived and worked in the Philippines, reflects on the Passion and suffering of Jesus Christ.

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Holy Thursday

Maryknoll Lay Missioner Kim Fischer reflects on serving others in São Paulo, Brazil, and wherever we find ourselves, just as Jesus serves others in today’s Gospel reading.

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Palm Sunday

Jean-Jacques de Christ Nganya spoke at the Nonviolence and Just Peace conference in Rome in 2016 about the power of the good news in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where inter-ethnic and fratricidal wars have raged for more than twenty years.

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Fifth Sunday of Lent

Maryknoll Father Brian Barrons writes from Jilin, the second largest city in China, about the raising of Lazarus as a sign of hope for all.

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Fourth Sunday of Lent

Bob Short, executive coordinator with the Maryknoll Affiliates, reflects on the relationships members of a Affiliate chapter have with a community in Peru, and finds the answer to the question “How are we to live faithfully, lovingly, and justly, in these times?”