Please submit your prayer intention(s) and we will be sure to include them during our daily Masses here at Maryknoll as well as in our private prayers. May God grant you all the strength and the grace you need during these unsettling times. God bless and keep you always!
Your prayer requests will be added to the intentions offered at our daily Mass at Maryknoll, NY, as well as being mentioned during our Morning & Evening Prayer and daily rosary.
Envíe su (s) intención (es) de oración y nos aseguraremos de incluirlas durante nuestras Misas diarias aquí en Maryknoll, así como en nuestras oraciones privadas. Que Dios te conceda toda la fuerza y la gracia que necesites durante estos tiempos inquietantes. Dios te bendiga y te guarde siempre!
Sus peticiones de oración se agregarán a las intenciones ofrecidas en nuestra Misa diaria en Maryknoll, Nueva York, y se mencionarán durante nuestra Oración en las mañanas, en las tardes y en el rosario diario.
In 2019, Fr. John provided scholarships for five students in a Culinary Arts Program, one in Agricultural Engineering, three in Carpentry School and one in Secondary School. Tuition was paid for three medical school students.
In 2020, Fr. John hopes to expand the program. A true measure of the success of the program is when the students succeed in their studies and enter the workforce.
The number of people with Albinism is very high in Tanzania–far more than in many other Sub-Saharan African country. People with Albinism are horribly persecuted in Tanzania. Their skin is thought to have magical properties, so they are killed, dismembered and their body parts used in magic potions. Or, they are killed because people think them cursed and bearers of bad luck. Either way, they’re in an incredibly precarious situation.
Your gift will help protect these people while providing food, medical care, assistance with rent, education, and necessities such as sunblock, umbrellas, sunglasses, and hats.
South Sudan has arguably the highest rate of preventable and treatable eye disease in the world. Cataracts are the primary cause of preventable blindness in South Sudan, and Onchocerciasis (river blindness) the second.
Father John Barth, M.M., continues to respond to the need in South Sudan to assist the blind and provide treatment for blindness prevention and rehabilitation. Father Barth is expanding his work in the Lui Hospial offering scholarships to medical staff to learn ophthalmic care as cataract surgeons, nurses and ophthalmic clinical officers.
Your gift will also help prepare a new eye clinic there where the newly trained staff will work upon completion of their studies. This new clinic will be the first eye clinic capable of eye surgery in the state of Western Equatoria, estimated population of 1.5 million people.
Over the last three years, Fr. Barth has worked with the pastor of St. Theresa Parish to feed the hungry. Fr. Barth used to live in the parish and now visits regularly from Uganda. In this parish, and a neighboring parish, there are three schools receiving food relief. St. Kizito primary school has over 1,400 day and boarding students; St. Augustine senior secondary school has about 250 students, and a nearby senior secondary school for girls, St. Matthew’s has 200 students. This project delivers food relief to the students in the two secondary schools each month.
The country has lapsed back into a perpetual state of war two years ago and the economy collapsed. The government rarely pays teachers’ salaries and food has become scarce and expensive for those who do have enough money to buy it.
In order to keep the faculty and staff working at the three schools, Fr. Barth has promised to provide ‘Food for Work’ to them to keep the schools open.
Otherwise, the school staff will migrate south to the refugee settlements in northern Uganda in order to feed their own families.
Items bought in from Uganda include maize, beans, cooking oil, salt, and soap. At the beginning of each term, school supplies are also provided as well as fuel for milling the maize. Beneficiaries of this program will include the families of the teachers and staff as well as the many elderly people of St. Theresa’s parish.
Fr. Bassano lives in a UNHCR (The UN Refugee Agency) camp near the devastated city of Malakal in northeastern South Sudan. Until early 2013 when it was destroyed in fighting between the SPLA (Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army) and the Nuer White Army, Malakal was South Sudan’s second largest city with a population of 150-200,000. Currently, about 30,000 IDPs (internally displaced persons) live in the UNHCR camp near Malakal where Fr. Bassano serves. Perhaps 10,000 people remain in the ruins of Malakal and the surrounding countryside.
During the last few years, Fr. Bassano has been able to offer food assistance to food-insecure people living in and around Malakal. He has done so with the assistance of the UNWFP (United Nations World Food Programme) who provide for the shipment of food, its distribution, and security during the distribution.
Today only 10,000 people remain in the ruins of Malakal and the surrounding countryside. There are about 2,000 people at the Wau Shillok Primary School, the Lul RRC compound, and Kokok World Vision compound who are in desperate need of food. Your gift will provide life sustaining food for these people.
We are a Catholic Society of priests and brothers based in the United States. We are dedicated to missionary work overseas in over 20 countries. Additionally, we animate Catholics in the United States to follow their own baptismal call to share God’s compassion and love with the poor, the sick, and all those in need.
The Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers Africa Region will provide tuition assistance to African clergy, male and female religious at institutes of higher education or specialized training. Read More
The life of a Maryknoll missioner is challenging, fulfilling, and deeply rewarding. Follow your baptismal call to mission by sharing God’s compassion with the poor, the sick, and people most in need.
Enrich your own vocation, walk-in solidarity with people overseas, and work together with Maryknoll Missioners. We offer US priests and Brothers ordained elsewhere the opportunity to work in overseas missions.
