Maryknoll Lay Missioners - December 2023 mklm news

The missioners of the "Class of 2023" (from left): Sarah Bueter, Theresa Glaser,

T.T. Hoang and returning missioner Kathy Flatoff

“Some people have wondered about your adventurousness, your audacity, your risk-taking, your blatant craziness,” Maryknoll Father Lance Nadeau addressed MKLM’s Class of 2023 during their Sending Ceremony last Saturday. “They should wonder, and so should you. You are choosing to be an outsider who entrusts herself to another culture’s insiders.” He added, “You'll always be on the periphery.”

Father Lance talked about the “call to be an intercultural missioner,” which he says, is about “seeing our shared humanity in others, ... about being other-centered and reverentially attentive to the other.”

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The season of Advent, Elvira Ramirez says, calls us to live in the space of hope and expectation, while also being awake to the pain and suffering in the world.

Christmas is different in Tanzania, Joanne Miya finds. She says Tanzanian Muslims’ reverence for Jesus and Mary can help us find common ground.

Bob Cunningham says we think of Jesus in the manger in a quaint country setting along with words of “peace” and “joy,” but we rarely notice the real poverty into which he was born. He reflects on spending Christmas with the poor Jesus in El Salvador.

Join an online presentation and invitation to discern and apply to become a missioner:



Thursday, Dec. 28, 2023, 2 pm ET

Join our next online gathering to learn more about Maryknoll Lay Missioners and how you can get involved. Maryknoll lay missioner Dee Dungy will join our conversation:

Friday, Dec. 15, 10 am ET

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