Maryknoll Lay Missioners - January 2023 mklm news

View of the border wall from Mexicali, Mexico. Maryknoll Lay Missioners has just begun a new presence at the border in Mexicali, Mexico. (Photo by Omar Bárcena via Flickr)

The beginning of a new year presents an opportunity to make personal resolutions, to anticipate future plans and possible challenges and to hope for social change. Like the cycles of changing seasons, the exercise never gets old, it beckons like a call, it feels like an invitation, it results in a prayer.

O God, you have given us eyes to see and ears to hear. You have formed Maryknoll Lay Missioners and called each person to embody compassion, to be a witness of justice and peace and to live in love. You are faithful, you are merciful, you are love. May our offering in 2023 be an offering of worship to your Holy Name.

The complete text of Elvira Ramirez’s New Year’s prayer is on our website:

A month before Pope Francis' visit to South Sudan, Gabe Hurrish shares a glimpse of the Toposas’ lively Christmas Mass at Kuron Peace Village in the remote eastern part of the country.

At the Deaf Development Programme in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Julie Lawler finds that we can choose joy by participating in community and sharing experiences with others.

Join our next WEBINAR on this Friday, Jan. 13 at 2 p.m. (EST) to learn more about Maryknoll Lay Missioners, how to apply and to discern what could be next in your life's journey.

... to become a Maryknoll lay missioner next year. 

Our application priority deadline is this Sunday, Jan. 15, 2023. General deadline is April 15, 2023.

Join us to pause, reflect, pray, and discern what could be next FOR YOU. (Past discerners were considering: career change, grad school, mission work, geographic moves, and many other potential next steps).

Virtual Discernment Retreat, Feb. 17-19, 2023

Support our ministries at the border & in El Salvador

We have just opened a new presence at the border in Mexicali, Mexico. In this time of special need — both for legal and humanitarian assistance at the border and for making life better in countries like El Salvador — your generous donation to our Border and El Salvador Fund makes a big difference.

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