Maryknoll Father Lance Nadeau talks to Maryknoll Lay Missioners about the “blatant craziness” of becoming a missioner and about “choosing to intensify one’s experience of humanity’s deep, perennial, universal, everyday problem, seeing our shared humanity in others.” He quotes French philosopher Simone Weil’s “paradoxical way of mission,” of being other-centered and reverentially attentive to the other.
This video is a recording of Father Lance’s keynote address at the Maryknoll Lay Missioners Sending Ceremony Dec. 2, 2023, El Paso, Texas. Father Lance is the superior general of the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers
Father Lance Nadeau, MM is the superior general of the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers. He is originally from Philadelphia and has served with Maryknoll throughout the Middle East and Africa.
THANK YOU, Lance, for sharing your powerful reflections on the occasion of Sarah, Theresa, TT and Kathy’s Sending Ceremony. You offer much for us to ponder!
Appreciatively,
Beth Rademacher
Brasil, 1983-87 with husband Tony Aspholm