Missioners share vignettes of life drawn from their Maryknoll ministries in Bolivia, Guatemala, Tanzania and Brazil.
Missioner Tales
Missioner Tales November/December 2019
I was visiting patients at a medical clinic here in Malakal, South Sudan. I noticed one of the...
Missioner 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...
Missioner Tales July/August 2019
After eight years in São Paulo, Brazil, our family recently returned to João Pessoa, a coastal...
Missioner Tales May/June 2019
During my first month in Shariatpur town in Bangladesh, where I visit the sick poor and often...
Missioner Tales March / April 2019
When I was living among the Aymara women in the Andes Mountains of Peru, it was not uncommon to...
Missioner Tales January / February 2019
In Venezuela, I lived in barrio Nueva Tacagua. One of my neighbors was an elderly woman named...
Missioner Tales
When I first arrived in Nairobi and was trying to learn how to navigate this capital city of...
Missioner Tales
Making do is sometimes all you can do inside the United Nations camp for internally displaced...
Missioner Tales, July / August 2018
One Sunday returning from celebrating Mass in three different locations in the Diocese of Musoma,...
Missioner Tales, May / June 2018
On Wotje island in the Marshall Islands, we Maryknoll sisters were planning to head back to the...
Missioner Tales, March / April 2018
I happened to stop at the home of one of my African friends in Tanzania. As I entered, I could...
Missioner Tales, January / February 2018
In the March/April 2017 MARYKNOLL magazine, I wrote about a Guatemalan man, Antonio Perez, whose...
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