Vocations
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Voices Of Our World
Summer 2026
Summer brings, in our Vocation Ministries Office, a time of change as Fr. Rodrigo Ulloa, our Director of Vocation Ministries, departs this ministry with much gratitude for the blessings he’s experienced through it. In our Summer 2026 newsletter, Fr. Rodrigo offers parting words and photos that look back over his past six years as Vocation Director. As Fr. Rodrigo remarks, “Praying our goodbyes is part of being a missioner… In moving on to my next assignment – our Formation House in Chicago – my bag is full of joy and my heart is bigger with the love of Christ, in whom we move, live, and have our being.” We are grateful to Fr. Rodrigo for his years of service in vocation ministries.
We also announce the tentative dates of our next “Come and See” missionary discernment retreat — October 16th to 18th in Chicago, Illinois. Please consider joining us for a weekend of insight, inspiration and encouragement in your own discernment of God’s call to missionary priesthood or Brotherhood. If you would like to learn more, please email us at vocation@maryknoll.org. Have a blessed summer!
Blog & Articles
Two New Candidates For Maryknoll
We have accepted two new seminarians to our Initial Formation Program and it is with pleasure that we welcome them to Maryknoll! Â Dr. Paschal Madukwa M.D. Paschal is 27 years old and comes to us from Mwanza, Tanzania. Nicholas Mulei Nicholas is 23 years old and...
Maryknoll Society Fall Vocations Retreat – Chicago Illinois
We held a vocations retreat at our Chicago Initial Formation Residence over the Columbus Day Weekend. Retreatants hailed from Texas, Arkansas, Illinois and Washington State. Unfortunately, due to other commitments, others who are interested in a vocation with...
Solidarity with South Sudan
Recently we read a letter from Br. Bill Firman SFC, the Executive Director of Solidarity with South Sudan.  Since gaining independence in 2011 as Africa’s newest country this nation has been plagued with violence that has left hundreds of thousands harbored in refugee...
And Now We Prepare For Pentecost
Former Superior General, Fr. John Sivalon, once described 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...
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