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- We are a US Catholic society of priests and brothers dedicated to missionary work overseas in 22 countries. Additionally, we animate Catholics in the US to follow their own baptismal call to share God’s compassion with the poor, the sick, & those most in need.
  
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  Our Society's history all started with a mutual desire by our founders to build a seminary for the training of American men for foreign missions.
  
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  Of Wind and Water...
  
  Discover how a Maryknoll priest draws on Midwestern heritage to bring water to parched African villages. Read
  
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  Mentally Ill in Cambodia are chained to their beds because there are NO mental services!
  
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Mother holding her baby (Cambodia)

May 11, 2012June 9, 2016 Prayers mother's day, mothers prayer, prayer for mothers

A Mother’s Prayer

A Mother’s Prayer How soft and beautiful are your little hands. How innocently they snuggle up against my breast. Some day… Some far-off day these little hands must leave behind the warmth, the toys of fun-filled childhood days to find their place in the world… to take up the work of mankind. Oh how I […]