Second Sunday of Lent
Sr. Mary Grenough lives and works in Myanmar.
Sr. Mary Grenough lives and works in Myanmar.
Debbie Northern worked in El Salvador for eight years as a Maryknoll lay missioner. She now works as the training and education programs manager for the Maryknoll Lay Missioners.
Fr. John Sivalon, who worked as a missioner in East Africa, writes the reflection for Ash Wednesday.
Fr. Tom Marti, who spent many years as a missioner in the Philippines, lives and works in Seattle.
Sr. Connie Krautkremer, who lives and works in Dodoma, Tanzania, writes this week’s reflection.
Fr. Joe Thaler, a missioner in Nepal, writes this week’s reflection.
Sr. Carol Marie McDonald, a missioner in El Salvador, writes this week’s reflection.
Fr. Charlie Dittmeier, who lives and works in Cambodia, writes the reflection on the baptism of Jesus.
Kathy McNeely, MOGC’s interim director and a former Maryknoll lay missioner in Guatemala, writes this Sunday’s reflection.
Today’s reflection is written by Sr. Janice McLaughlin, president of the Maryknoll Sisters.
Br. John Beeching works with Burmese refugees in Thailand.
Maggie Fogarty, a former lay missioner who lived and worked in Bolivia, writes the reflection for today’s readings.
Brother Marty Shea, who missions in Guatemala, shares a story of a child who brought light.
Sr. Ann Braudis, who worked as a missioner in Bolivia and the Philippines, writes: “May Jesus be born in you tonight as surely as he was born in Bethlehem all those long years ago.”
The reflection for this final Sunday of Advent 2012 is written by Maria Montello, a lay missioner in Cambodia.
Maryknoll Fr. Dan McLaughlin writes about an archdiocesan initiative in Brazil to raise awareness of local issues.
This week’s reflection on the readings is written by Sr. Rose Bernadette Gallagher, who, after decades of work in Asia, now serves as a Maryknoll representative to the UN’s NGO community.
The first Sunday of Advent 2012 falls on the 32th anniversary of the martyrdom of the four North American churchwomen in El Salvador. This reflection is prepared by Marie Dennis, co-president of Pax Christi International and former director of the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns.