Missioner Tales

Missioner Tales, Winter 2025

Missioners share vignettes drawn from mission life in Ireland, South Sudan, Bolivia and at the U.S.-Mexico border.

After four months of language school in Guatemala, I offered to take the Sunday Masses so one of...

In Mwanza, Tanzania, where I serve with the Maryknoll Lay Missioners, I help run a program for...

Ten months after arriving in Hong Kong and completing some beginner's lessons in the Cantonese...

Leung Ying, who was partially disabled after a stroke, came to live in our home for the elderly in...

I had recently arrived in Peru and was assigned to Taraco in the department of Puno, 13,000 feet...