Vocations Newsletter
Voices Of Our World
Summer 2024
Hello, friends! I hope this newsletter finds you well. The Vocations Team has prepared this edition with your journey in mind, whether you are discerning a call to priesthood or brotherhood, or simply deepening your engagement with mission. In this issue, we give thanks for Joshua Mutende and Charles Ogony, two of our deacons ordained in June to Maryknoll priesthood. We also look back on our Holy Week missionary discernment retreats in El Salvador and in El Paso, Texas – gatherings in which we were all touched and transformed by the Passion of our Lord experienced among the poor and marginalized of our world. We hope these brief stories will bless, in some way, your own discernment journey.
Blog & Articles
Our Better Angels
What motivates these prove souls to overcomeFears, doubts and, oft times, it seemsEven common sense to goNo, run towards that from which most people flee? And who are these who lay aside concern For their own health and safety to minister To strangers, whose only...
Bringing Home Joy
When Maryknollers return from abroad to our Center in New York, they often bring home the characteristics and concerns of peoples they’ve come to know and love in mission. Some Maryknollers return passionate about social justice causes that improve the lives of so...
Voices of Our World: Director’s Greetings
Dear friends, Thanks for reading “Voices of Our World.” One of the questions I receive often from young adults is “Why do you stay in this vocation as priest?” Or, another way to put it, why haven’t I left? Whenever I consider these questions, I’m reminded of wisdom...
Former Superior General, Fr. John Sivalon Once Described God’s Mission This Way
A tangle of twigs lies drying in the sun, And then a spark catches one, and she, Astonished by divinity, topples and tumbles and ignites Another and another and another and Soon the whole tangle is aflame Gibber jabbering in many tongues! Chattering and blabbering...
VOCATION NEWSLETTER
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