Category: Missioner Tales
MISSIONER TALES
Vignettes from the lands of mission, told by Maryknoll missioners and volunteers. These popular little stories are sometimes funny, often moving and generally inspiring encounters with people on the margins.
Missioner Tales, Spring 2021
Missioner Tales in the Spring 2021 issue of Maryknoll magazine give snippets of mission life in Tanzania, South Sudan, Guatemala and Thailand.
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I first met Jose when he participated in my first Theater of the Oppressed group in a parish on...
Read MoreMissioner Tales September/October 2020
On Sunday, Feb. 23, 2020, there was a special ceremony for the blessing of the first child of...
Read MoreMissioner Tales July/August 2020
The idea of making protective masks during the COVID-19 pandemic started in our Maryknoll lay...
Read MoreMissioner Tales May/June 2020
Recently ordained a priest, I have been assigned to a Maryknoll parish in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania....
Read MoreMissioner Tales March/April 2020
I walked the Stations of the Cross on Good Friday with prisoners at one of the men’s prisons in...
Read MoreMissioner Tales January/February 2020
I was part of a pastoral team that had the responsibility for the parish of Capinota, Bolivia,...
Read MoreMissioner Tales November/December 2019
I was visiting patients at a medical clinic here in Malakal, South Sudan. I noticed one of the...
Read MoreMissioner Tales September/October 2019
As I usually do three times a week, I jumped on the number 800 bus to go to the local seminary...
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