Class of 2023 Sending
Watch a recording of the Dec. 2 Sending Ceremony of the MKLM Class of 2023 here.
Angel Mortel receives 2023 Bishop McCarthy Award
The award presentation to the returned missioner and community organizer took place Oct. 22 at Dolores Mission in L.A.
Class of 2022 Covenant and Sending
Watch the recordings of this year’s Covenant and Sending celebrations for Maryknoll Lay Missioners’ Class of 2022.
Merwyn and Kirstin De Mello receive 2022 Bishop McCarthy Award
Dedicated peacebuilders were honored on World Mission Sunday, Oct. 23.
Elvira Ramirez appointed Maryknoll Lay Missioners’ new director of mission
Most recently served as executive director of Catholic Charities in Stockton.
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.
Marty Roers receives 2021 Bishop McCarthy Award
Returned missioner continues his commitment to mission and global justice
Joe and Linda Michon receive 2020 Bishop McCarthy Award
Returned missioners continue to help migrants and promote fair trade.
Our commitment to anti-racism and the ‘Beloved Community’
A Maryknoll Lay Missioners statement
‘Great joy and relief’ at Supreme Court upholding DACA
Maryknoll urges continuing work toward permanent solution for ‘Dreamers’
A call for anti-racist transformation
Official statement by Maryknoll Sisters, Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers, and Maryknoll Lay Missioners
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
Cathy Breen and Wynnie-Fred Victor Hinds receive award
New Bishop McCarthy Spirit of Mission Award honors returned lay missioners.
Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns expresses concern over Central America aid cutoff
April 4 statement was issued by more than 40 U.S.-based faith, human rights, humanitarian and immigrant rights organizations
13 new Maryknoll missioners to be sent forth
Dec. 8 Sending Ceremony to launch 12 Maryknoll Lay Missioners and one Maryknoll Sister on their overseas missions
The call to be an intercultural missioner
Father Lance Nadeau talks to Maryknoll Lay Missioners about seeing our shared humanity in others.
Peace, joy and poverty
Bob Cunningham on spending Christmas with the poor Jesus
Advent dreamers
The season of Advent calls us to live in the space of hope and expectation while also being awake to the pain and suffering in the world.
Lessons from Isa & Maryam, Jamila & Michael
Christmas is different in Tanzania, and Tanzanian Muslims’ reverence for Jesus and Mary can help us find common ground.
‘No room in the inn’
In an effort to improve the lives of students and their families, HOPE Project has begun to help repair and rebuild homes.
Stewarding our pieces of the planet
Peg Vãmosy reflects on her experience with the environmental dimensions of the Parable of the Talents in El Salvador.
My ‘new life’
Francis Wayne reflects on his new full-time ministry in Mombasa’s Shimo La Tewa Prison.
Class of 2023 Sending
Watch a recording of the Dec. 2 Sending Ceremony of the MKLM Class of 2023 here.
A Maryknoll lay mission pioneer remembers
Mary Heidkamp served as a Maryknoll missioner in Japan before there was an official Maryknoll lay mission program.
A prayer for peace in Israel and Palestine
‘Let us burn incense, not children. Let us break bread, not bodies. Let us plant olive groves, not cemeteries.’
Medic comes full circle
Russ Brine shares the success story of a former student of Kitale’s St. John Bosco Rehabilitation Centre.
‘Once a missioner, always a missioner’
Kathy Flatoff is returning to Kenya to once again serve as a nurse, this time in Kitale.
Raise support for Maryknoll lay missioners
Peer-to-peer fundraising with a “Double your gift” match campaign
A Prophet has walked in our midst
Gabe Hurrish remembers South Sudanese Bishop Paride Taban.
A good shepherd
Susan Nagele remembers Bishop Paride Taban, the most compassionate, personable and kind bishop she ever worked for.
‘Why Maryknoll, Sarah?’
As she prepares for her time in mission, Sarah Bueter reflects on how to ‘reconfigure those on the peripheries as the center.’
‘Love your neighbor as yourself’
How different the world would be if we all took Jesus’ commandment seriously!
Preparing for mission
Theresa Glaser answers a call in her heart: to return to and serve in Africa.
My life
Gabe Hurrish reflects on his life as a missioner.
‘Bird chasers’
In rural South Sudan, many children have to stand guard on a platform, shouting and yelling to chase birds away from sorghum.
Angel Mortel receives 2023 Bishop McCarthy Award
The award presentation to the returned missioner and community organizer took place Oct. 22 at Dolores Mission in L.A.
Missionary discipleship — and a reset of mission
Marking World Mission Sunday (Oct. 22), Elvira Ramirez reflects on missionary discipleship and reimagining mission today.
Answering the call to ‘love one another’
Maryknoll Lay Missioners’ Orientation for the ‘Class of 2023’ begins on Oct. 9.
Jumpshots and water pipes
The Veryser family takes to the court and wades in the water.
Healing through reconnecting with nature
Kathy follows in the footsteps of St. Hildegard, and Flávio gives more ecoretreats.
Larry Parr returns to the U.S.
Grateful for the many blessings experienced during 15 years as a Maryknoll lay missioner working with youth in El Salvador.
Jhon Alex walks
A young Bolivian with severe disabilities benefits from targeted physical therapy.
Listening to the yearnings of our hearts
Julie Lawler shares her experience at the Asia Deaf Catholic Conference 2023 in Jakarta, Indonesia.
‘Hearts on fire, eyes opened, …’
This World Mission Sunday, we invite you to ‘walk together with us on the path of peace.’
‘The Lord Hears the Cry of the Poor’
If the Lord indeed hears the cry of the poor, we are called to listen as well.
Learning from an indigenous missionary
Hang Tran is inspired by the faith of the family of an Indian Missionaries of Charity Brother.
CBP One, Encuentro and ‘spiritual fundraising’
Coralis Salvador reflects on her border work and strives toward communion with God and with one another.
Interfaith sisters of reconciliation
A journey from the Altiplano of Peru to ESL and interfaith community-building in Delaware.
Soy Program continues to thrive
Entire Altman family and Ann and Suzy pitch in, helping the Soy Project succeed.
Live simply …
Joanne Miya shares lessons from students who put their own personal desires aside to assist others.
A different world
Mike Lattanzi reflects on a few of the ways life is different in Haiti.
Dressed for success
A HOPE Project student overcomes many obstacles in her pursuit of starting a tailoring business.
Joy on the border
Despite being displaced by a cartel’s threat of violence, Gilberto is a living testament to resilience and joy.
‘… until you can love yourself’
‘When I first got sober, I did not love myself much at all…. [I felt] I was not, in fact, worth loving.’
Simplify
Finding what is simply the right thing to do — and not getting ‘frittered away by detail’
In the spirit of St. Francis
Grant that my heart may beat stronger for love of you in the poor, abandoned and downtrodden …
Really living the Gospel
Dee Dungy advocates for women refugees in East Africa.
‘Nag-vocating’ for migrants in Chicago
For returned missioner Celine Woznica, ‘border volunteering’ came to her own backyard.
The ‘simple bare necessities’ of life
From rural South Sudan, Gabe Hurrish reflects on one of Maryknoll Lay Missioners’ core values: simple living
Assisting migrants just south of the border
Debbie Northern helped explain the asylum process to migrants in Juárez and guide border immersion in El Paso.
Do the right thing
Helping someone who needs help is usually simple but not easy.
Serving children with disabilities in Tanzania
A video interview with Jaclyn Geyer about her work at St. Justin’s Centre for Children with Disabilities
Skirting the dances
During Festa Junina, Margarita Durán leads fun traditional dances in several favelas.
Prayer for a nonviolent heart
O God, help us to persevere in nonviolence and to abolish the causes of war from our own hearts and the face of the earth.
Tackling the human trafficking of migrants
Heidi Cerneka’s new ministry addresses a serious global problem across three continents
