Sr. Euphrasia (Efu) Nyaki, MM, who serves in Brazil, wrote the following reflection which was published in A Maryknoll Liturgical Year: Reflections on the Readings for Year B, available from Orbis Books.
Sr. Melinda Roper, who serves the people of Darien, Panama, near the border with Colombia, wrote the following reflection.
Fr. John McAuley, MM, has spent much of his mission life in Asia.
Maria Montello is a lay missioner living and working in Cambodia.
Sr. Carol Marie McDonald serves as a missioner in Central America, most recently in El Salvador.
Kathy McNeely, who served as a lay missioner in Guatemala and was a member of the Office for Global Concerns’ staff for many years, wrote the following reflection.
Sr. Ann Hayden has spent her mission life in Central America, Korea and Sudan.
Sr. Rebecca Macugay has spent much of her mission life in east Africa and South Africa
Marie Dennis is co-president of Pax Christi International, the Catholic peace movement, and formerly served as director of the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns.
Fr. Tom Burns served for many years in poor areas of Lima, Peru.
Gerry Lee serves as director of the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns. He, his wife and their children lived as a Maryknoll mission family in Venezuela for 10 years in the late 1980s-1990s.
Sr. Connie Krautkremer has spent much of her mission life in Tanzania. ” … God decides that our hearts will be responsible for holding the law. God decides to forgive and forget our past failures, and we can go on from there.”
Fr. Jack Sullivan served many years in Hong Kong. “Let us rejoice that our Brother Francis is calling us to awaken and repent; let us rejoice that the nations of the world are finally awakening to the challenge to save our earth, to save ourselves, to love each other and all creatures so loved by God.”
The following reflection was prepared by Sr. Efu Nyaki, who works with women in Brazl.
Fr. Steve Judd, who has ministered to the Andean people for many years, writes this reflection on the readings for the second Sunday of Lent.
Judy Coode with the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns participated in a February 2015 delegation to Haiti; this reflection is based on that visit.
One of the greatest contemporary battles that we face today is the struggle to protect our natural world, which many indigenous cultures affectionately refer to as “Mother Earth,” which includes the interconnected web of living creatures that sustains and nurtures the balance of all life on this planet.
Sr. Genie Natividad, MM, who serves in Morogoro, Tanzania, wrote the following reflection.
