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
Clothed in Grace By Mr. Greg Darr
It’s often said that you can tell a lot about people from the clothes they wear. But, as I was reminded recently in a noisy convention center hall filled with hundreds of Catholic youth, clothes tell us nothing if we do not first open our hearts to the stories of...
Of Walking Sticks and Wonder – The Apostolic Life By Mr. Greg Darr
Spiritual author, Fr. Richard Rohr OFM once remarked, “Transformed people transform people.” It’s the chemical equation of a spiritual life – when one person encounters another through love, a transforming reaction takes place changing both lives, making each more...
The Maryknoll Mission Bell By Fr. Rodrigo Ulloa M.M.
The Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers had the first mission departure on September 7, 1918. At eight o’clock the ringing of the mission bell announced the departure of our first four men to the Orient. This tradition has been passed down from generation to generation...
Pope Francis is a Missionary Pope
We in Maryknoll admire Pope Francis because he expresses so well what a Maryknoll Missioner is all about, namely service to God’s mission in the world. He is a missionary pope who says we should “smell like the sheep”. On Holy Thursday several years ago he said:...
VOCATION NEWSLETTER
Join Father Rodrigo as he shares recent events and reflections on Maryknoll Vocations and those who commit to a life of service and mission.