by Dionel Rodriguez | Mar 5, 2025
St. Mary’s Third Floor Renovation
Father Kim is an Assistant Pastor at St. Mary’s Church in Hong Kong and the parish is starting major renovations on its Third Floor Meeting Rooms this year. The renovations will be green friendly given the planned use for solar panels and eco-roofing.
Your gift can help the parishioners of St. Mary’s Church in Hong Kong have beautiful new rooms for community gatherings while promoting care for the environment.
“For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?”
Luke 14:28
by Dionel Rodriguez | Mar 5, 2025
Construction of Triunfo Chapel
Guatemala, Latin American
Father William L. Senger, M.M.
The community of El Triunfo de la Esperanza (The Triumph of Hope and Triunfo for short) has had an exceedingly difficult history. It involves their displacement by the Guatemalan government through the force of the army to a ranch the government bought where each family was given a small plot of land to live on and another plot to farm.
The Catholic Church along with five Protestant denominations received land gratis from the government and Maryknoll built a very simple and small chapel with a dirt floor using those funds.
Now Father Sentry wants to build a more permanent chapel to serve the small Catholic community in Triunfo and your gift can help to make this happen.
“And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”
Matthew 16:18
by Dionel Rodriguez | Mar 5, 2025
Parish Maintenance and Repairs
Where there are two or more, there is the grace of God and the faithful are generally blessed to have a place to worship under this energy of love.
Parishioners of the Our Lady, Mother and Queen parish in Jaraguá, São Paulo are fortunate to have such a place, but it is currently in disrepair and particularly due to leaky roofs. This is the parish where Father Moorman is assisting the local Pastor with basic maintenance and repairs that have been neglected for many years due to less care from the previous Pastors and the limited financial resources of the parishioners in this relatively rural area.
Your gift will help with general maintenance, repair of leaky roofs of the parish church structure and the parish house along with providing for the addition of a handicapped access ramp to the building.
“Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker!”
Psalm 95:6
by Dionel Rodriguez | Mar 5, 2025
Protecting Female Adolescents by Building a Dormitory
Fr. John W. Waldrep, M.M.
St. Charles Lwanga Secondary School is a charitable institution which provides education, shelter, medical care, recreation programs and basic needs to about 830 children from poor family backgrounds, orphans and from the streets in or around Ruai-Nairobi. The school’s goal is to empower these children through teaching, training, mentorship and role modeling to be self-reliant and easily integrated into the community.
Father Waldrep wants to help protect the 405 young women who attend this school from the harmful cultural practices of female genital mutilation and early marriage. This can happen through the building of a female dormitory, which will replace the current temporary structure built of corrugated metal sheets, and give day students, who have endured unsafe commutes to the school, the option of staying overnight.
Your gift will help these adolescent females buck the possibility of teenage pregnancy, dropping out of secondary school and many unpleasant consequences related to early marriage.
“And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit.”
Romans 5:5
by Dionel Rodriguez | Feb 14, 2024
Construction of Boys’ Dormitory for St. Joseph Secondary School, Gidel, Nuba Mountains
Gidel, Nuba Mountains, Africa
Fr. Dinh wants to provide a decent and safe accommodation for boys. Having a good dormitory will enhance their learning as they will be able to sleep well as security and space will be improved. In addition, teachers will be able to ensure class absences are minimized leading to a higher quality of education. For young people to take seriously their studies, the supervision of either parents of teachers is essential. Therefore, since their parents are far away, the construction of a school dormitory will enable teachers to follow them more closely. For young people to take seriously their studies, the supervision of either parents of teachers is essential. Therefore, since their parents are far away, the construction of a school dormitory will ensure children attend classes.
“Let no one have contempt for your youth, but set an example for those who believe, in speech, conduct, love, faith, and purity.”
– 1 Timothy 4:12
by Dionel Rodriguez | Feb 14, 2024
Construction of Nursery and Primary School in Ikinu Village
Aside from it being unsafe to walk alone, the public school is not within walking distance for the children so the Sisters began the school with the plan to respond to the need of the poor and working class people that can’t afford to send their children to private school. The group of Collegine Sisters of the Holy Family in Ikinu, Kiambu, Nairobi – Kenya, are building a Nursery and Primary School in a poor village north of Nairobi. The original school was built in 2019 with the nursery and primary school. There are three classrooms that were built with timber and no longer large enough for about a hundred children. During the meals, they sit outside under trees, with no tables or chairs. During the rainy season, these children must gather inside the church building during the lunch time. The Sisters are requesting funding for construction of the six classrooms, two offices, two dining rooms, one kitchen, 250 tables and 500 chairs. Aside from it being unsafe to walk alone, the public school is not within walking distance for the children so the Sisters began the school with the plan to respond to the need of the poor and working class people that can’t afford to send their children to private school.
“but Jesus said, “Let the children come to me, and do not prevent them; for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”
– Matthew 19:14
by Dionel Rodriguez | Feb 8, 2022
Social Hall at Transfiguration Parish
Fr. John Eybel’s project includes the construction of a social hall adjacent to the Transfiguration Parish church and rectory in Mabatini, Mwanza. The Social Hall will allow for large groups to meet, e.g. 500 youths, and for potential parish income from wedding receptions and other major social functions.
With your help, the re-acquired property will serve the social needs of Transfiguration parishioners offering potential space for education, meetings, receptions, recreation and Sisters’ housing.
“Poverty is not an option. The poor have no options. Develop a situation where the people have opportunities, and they will flourish.”
by Dionel Rodriguez | Feb 2, 2021
Clinical Pastoral Education at Bugando Medical Center Subsidy, Tanzania
With your help, we will subsidize school fees for the Clinical Pastoral Education Program (CPE) at Bugando Medical Center (BMC) in Mwanza.
Maryknoll priest Fr. John Eybel. M.M., supervises students in the program two days each week while living at Mabatini Parish in Mwanza Archdiocese. His education project is not self-sustaining but is paid for by student fees and contributions from the hospital and from the Tanzania Episcopal Conference. Most participants are seminarians currently coming from Musoma and Mwanza.
“As we reach out in compassion and solidarity with the poor, let us keep in mind that we’re not making God present but rather witnessing God already present.”
