Vocations Newsletter
Voices Of Our World
Spring 2024
Hi friends! I hope this newsletter finds you well. The Vocations Team prepared this edition thinking not only of your vocation discernment as a priest or brother but also in your interest in mission. In this issue, I share with you my participation in our Maryknoll Central America Pilgrim Retreat which took place this past January. Some 20 participants traveled to El Salvador and Guatemala to learn about the life of martyrs – men and women, lay and religious – who sacrificed their lives for the Gospel. I hope you enjoy it. Blessings in your discernment! – Fr. Rodrigo.
Blog & Articles
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...
Maryknoll: Looking For Dreamers And Visionaries by Fr. Mike Snyder
The missionary life takes us to so many cool places in the world! I took this photo from a plane while flying from Nairobi, Kenya to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and I have shared it in several newsletters. It was a very clear day. Having spent many years serving...
Our Fruit Orchard Maryknoll Initial Formation House By Sem. Joshua Mutende Maondo
Jesus turned and saw them following him and said to them, “What are you looking for?” They said to him, “Rabbi” (which translated means Teacher), “where are you staying?” He said to them, “Come, and you will see.” So, they went and saw where he was staying, and they...
Senior Missioner Fr. Dan Ohmann spent 50+ years serving in Tanzania including several serving at refugee camps for people fleeing the Rwanda genocide in 1995. Fr. Dan relates a story here.
In 1995, I was serving people who flooded into improvised refugee camps in Tanzania after fleeing genocide in Rwanda. On Holy Saturday morning I decided to see how the new camp was coming along. The bulldozer had made a road into the woods for about two miles and I...
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