CNS reports on McCarthy Award
Catholic News Service story on award recipients Merwyn and Kirstin De Mello
Coverage of 2021 Sending Ceremony
Articles highlight ‘largest lay missioner class since 2005.’
In memoriam, Father Tom Henehan, MM
Maryknoll Lay Missioners mourns the death of a great friend and mentor.
13 new lay missioners ‘sent’ into mission
Maryknoll Lay Missioners’ largest class since 2005 will serve in Bolivia, Brazil, El Salvador, Kenya, Tanzania and at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Class of 2021 Covenant and Sending
Watch the livestream of this year’s Covenant and Sending celebrations for Maryknoll Lay Missioners’ Class of 2021.
Three missioners featured in St. Louis Review
Vicki Simon, Becca Muder, and Heidi Cerneka, three Maryknoll lay missioners who call St. Louis...
Heidi Cerneka in NCR and Jesuits magazine
Publications feature women’s work at the border.
Catholic News Service story features Melissa Altman
CNS highlights Maryknoll lay missioner’s work in El Salvador and the legacy of the four martyred U.S. church women
Brazilian TV features Kathy Bond’s online workshop
Lay missioner’s teaching of shantala baby massage is highlighted by Com Você program.
Spring 2020 issue of Voices of Compassion
Cover story features lay missioners combating climate change
Heidi Cerneka quoted in Buzzfeed
On the perils for older detainees in ICE custody.
Returned lay missioner reflects on COVID-19 isolation in Peru
With Peruvian borders closed because of the pandemic, ‘an infinite abyss’ has opened
2019 Sending coverage in diocesan publications
Syracuse, Worcester and Hartford dioceses report on new missioners’ Sending.
Texas public radio features Heidi Cerneka on ‘Withholding of Removal’
‘If asylum is the gold standard, withholding of removal is the aluminum standard.’
Watch the 2019 Joint Mission Sending Ceremony
Maryknoll Lay Missioners and Maryknoll Sisters jointly celebrate and officially send forth five new missioners.
Four new missioners sign the Maryknoll Lay Missioners covenant
Video of Covenant Mass
Five new Maryknoll missioners to be sent forth
Dec. 14 Sending Ceremony to launch four Maryknoll lay missioners and one Maryknoll sister on their overseas missions.
Meet the Maryknoll Lay Missioners Class of 2019
7-minute video introducing four new lay missioners who will be going into mission in Cambodia, Haiti and Kenya.
Maryknoll Symposium on Dorothy Day now available for watching
Robert Ellsberg, Kathleen DeSutter Jordan, Patrick Jordan and Kate Hennessy speak at Dorothy Day gathering at Maryknoll
Border ministry, Cambodia immersion, volleyball values and more
The Fall/Winter 2019 issue of Voices of Compassion magazine features compelling lay missioner stories
Living the Beatitudes in South Sudan
Gabe Hurrish reflects on the upside-down challenges of the Beatitudes in war-torn South Sudan.
Blessings on a washed out, muddy road
What I learned on the road less taken … because the normal one was blocked.
Border ministry expands to Mexicali
Effective January 2023, Maryknoll Lay Missioners has added a new location for its border ministries in Mexicali, Mexico.
Ms. Lin’s story of human trafficking
Hang Tran remembers a woman whose cry for help from the bondage of trafficking was heard by the Missionaries of Charity.
A prayer for 2023
A new year presents an opportunity to make personal resolutions, to anticipate plans and challenges and to hope for social change.
We need more epiphanies
When people in our immersion program meet migrants in the shelters, they begin to see them as human beings who have suffered and need help.
Celebrating Christmas with the Toposa
A glimpse of the Toposas’ Christmas Mass at Kuron Peace Village in South Sudan
The gaze of love
A Christmas reflection: God’s mission starts with the gaze of love God has for us.
Giving the opportunity to learn
Tawny Thanh and Hiep Vu, recently retired Maryknoll lay missioners, continue to live and volunteer in Bolivia.
Accompanying children with disabilities in Tanzania
Jaclyn Geyer reflects on her first year at St. Justin’s Centre for Children with Disabilities in Musoma
Mario’s joy
Do a little dance, in spite of it all — and spread some joy.
Choose your path to joy
Julie Lawler finds that we can choose joy by participating in community and sharing experiences with others.
Armando and the joy of Mickey
Armando’s tragically short life taught Louise Locke about the nature of joy.
Waiting on God
An Advent reflection on lighting the way with Love and choosing to wait on God in person, in service and radical hospitality.
Mission completed in San Ramón, and launching in Zaragoza
Ann Greig and her Soy Project transition to a new base.
Helping persons with disabilities with their livelihoods
Three examples of how missioners help persons with disabilities make strides toward sustainable economic independence
Class of 2022 Covenant and Sending
Watch the recordings of this year’s Covenant and Sending celebrations for Maryknoll Lay Missioners’ Class of 2022.
A new cycle in life
Kathy and Flávio’s year-end update from João Pessoa
Joyful celebrations and heart-breaking stories
Coralis celebrates Thanksgiving with homeless and migrant guests and accompanies families at a migrant shelter.
Signs of hope amid the darkness
We tend to focus on the bad news — war, shootings and hatred — but there is joy and hope.
‘A time to laugh, a time to weep …’
Mission is not just about the struggle for justice; it’s also about sharing life’s joys and celebrations with the people.
Choose joy
If the Tanzanian people have anything to teach us, it’s that joy is a choice.
Whom do we carry?
An Advent reflection from El Salvador
Continuing the mission of St. John Bosco Centre
Russ Brine reports on the 30th anniversary celebration of a Kitale center for street kids that he led a number of years ago.
Creating safe spaces for survivors of gender-based violence
JRS’ Safe Havens provide women refugees and their children with protection, security, solace and tools for healing and education.
Meet Maryknoll Lay Missioners’ Class of 2022
Two new families join Maryknoll Lay Missioners and prepare to serve in Haiti and Tanzania.
Joys and ‘Success’
Teachers pool their resources for Success — and for good times and hard times
Education can make all the difference
Rich Tarro draws inspiration from families whose faith-filled lives exemplify trust in God’s loving providence.
It’s all connected: Restorative justice work across Brazil
Joanne Blaney sees profound connections in her restorative-justice work — from São Paulo to the Amazon and other regions of Brazil.
Jean Donovan’s legacy continues
‘Whose heart would be so staunch as to favor the reasonable thing in a sea of their tears and helplessness? Not mine, dear friend, not mine.’ – Jean Donovan
Finding joy in South Sudan
Despite the backbreaking poverty, corruption and violence, South Sudan is not yet finished. Its pockets of joy can still inspire hope.
From harm to healing
A powerful reminder of the transformation of peace — from suffering to healing through the path of compassion
New peer-to-peer fundraising tool
Maryknoll Lay Missioners launches concerted Advent fundraising campaign with easy-to-use, new resource.
Saying Mass for the president
Fr. Charlie recounts an ‘unusual’ Saturday in Phnom Penh.
Bloqueos and other Bolivian road adventures
Joe Loney on what it takes to even just get to his ministry sites.
‘Who are these signs for anyways?’
Steve Veryser reads and ponders a few signs of the times.
CNS reports on McCarthy Award
Catholic News Service story on award recipients Merwyn and Kirstin De Mello
Continuing unrest in Haiti
Jill Foster reports on the blockades and violence in Haiti and their impact on people’s lives.
A day in the life of a saint
Accompanying lay missioners in Bolivia, Elvira Ramirez met many saints.
Standing up to unjust laws
At the U.S.-Mexico border, Debbie Northern reflects on the Christian call to seek justice for all who are oppressed.
We need each other
One thing Joanne Miya has learned working as a lay missioner in Tanzania is that we can’t make it on our own.
On healing and gratitude
Healing is a process, a journey of reintegration
You shall be my witnesses
What Aunt Ron — and Pope Francis — taught me about following Christ in mission (Oct. 2022 ‘Ted’s Talk’)
Merwyn and Kirstin De Mello receive 2022 Bishop McCarthy Award
Dedicated peacebuilders were honored on World Mission Sunday, Oct. 23.
Working for peace among cattle herders
Kuron Peace Village works to prevent, address and mediate the Toposas’ long-running conflicts around cattle-raiding
An unexpected auto mechanic lesson
Francis Wayne adjusts his vocational school’s lesson plan with a practical demonstration.
Finding the way
Lessons from walking the Camino and from the U.S.-Mexico border
Finding hope by admitting defeat
Recovering alcoholic/addict Megan Hamilton takes AA meetings to Mombasa’s mental health hospital.
Building community promotes nonviolence
In an environment of violence and trauma, young Salvadorans find ways to build community and a better future.
The Soy Program prepares to move to Zaragoza
Ann Greig is closing the San Ramón location of her 28-year-old nutritional program and transitions it to new leadership.
