Easter invites us to new life and new love
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Signs of hope: Lay missioners have a lasting impact on Cambodia's Deaf community
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Through their work with the Deaf Development Programme (DDP) in Phnom Penh, Maryknoll lay missioners have helped Cambodia’s Deaf community to build a better future.
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The partnership is also the subject of a
5-minute video
that recounts the many contributions of lay missioners over the years.
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Ted's Talk
Dear friends,
As we approach the Easter season, we are reminded that the resurrection places Jesus in the midst of our lives, not in some heavenly world in which he beckons us to join him in eternity. Jesus is standing with us, accompanying us, inviting us to new life and new love.
The good news of the resurrection is that Jesus comes home to us, walks the road with us, and brings all his hungry, thirsty, sick, naked, imprisoned sisters and brothers with him. The resurrection puts us squarely in the heart of God’s mission
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to live our lives in ways that express Jesus’ inclusive love for us, for others, and for the whole of God’s extraordinary creation. This is “life in all its fullness.”
In these holiest of weeks, in this sacred season of Easter, may all of us discover (and rediscover over and over) that the resurrected Jesus is indeed in our midst, ever inviting us into God’s mission of love wherever we are and however we serve!
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Ted Miles
Executive Director
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'Signing your name in the book of poverty'
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South Sudan has the highest percentage of out-of-school children in the world.
Gabe Hurrish,
who trains teachers at the Solidarity Teacher Training College in Yambio, reflects on the immense challenges facing teachers — and students — in the war-torn country.
Read the full story on our website.
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Do these stories inspire you to go serve?
APPLY BY MAY 1
to join the Maryknoll Lay Missioners orientation class of 2019 this September
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and head overseas early next year!
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"I was hungry, and you gave me food."
(Matthew 25:35)
As disciples of Christ, we are called to live the
corporal works of mercy.
Maryknoll lay missioner
Tim Ross
not only brings sandwiches, water and "
cafécitos
" to people who are homeless on San Salvador's skid row, but he offers his friendship and hospitality in the Catholic Worker (El Trabajador
Católico
) house that is his ministry.
During this Holy Week and Easter, please pray for and support Maryknoll Lay Missioners.
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It's not too late to sign up for our HOLY WEEK DISCERNMENT RETREAT
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Explore with us whether God is calling you to global mission
Discernment Retreat
April 18-20 (Holy Week) at
Maryknoll in Ossining, New York
This retreat is open to all considering a call to serve —
whether as a lay person, a sister, a priest or a brother.
For more information, to
REGISTER NOW (by April 11)
or to learn more about the opportunities for mission as a Maryknoll lay missioner,
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Join a webinar this Thursday
to learn more about what life as a Maryknoll lay missioner would be like.
Thursday, April 11 at 7 p.m.
(Eastern time).
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Friends Across Borders
Immersion Program
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Come travel with us and see what life is really like in communities where Maryknoll lay missioners are living out their faith and helping to create a more just and compassionate world.
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Sign up NOW for one of these trips this year:
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August 7 – 17, 2019:
BOLIVIA
Deadline for signups: May 7, 2019
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August 10 – 20, 2019:
CAMBODIA
, with
Just
Faith Ministries
Deadline for signups: May 10, 2019
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August 13 – 25, 2019:
TANZANIA,
with
Just
Faith Ministries
Deadline for signups: May 13, 2019
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October 17
–
28, 2019:
KENYA
,
Deadline for signups: July 17, 2019
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November 29 – Dec. 8, 2019:
EL SALVADOR,
with
Just
Faith Ministries
Deadline for signups: August 29, 2019
Call 914-236-3474
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Maryknoll Lay Missioners and
Just
Faith Ministries will continue to offer immersion trips to
Just
Faith graduates, as the two organizations share similar visions and ways of integrating faith and social justice.
This year there are three immersion trips for JustFaith graduates—Cambodia (Aug. 10-20), Tanzania (Aug. 13-25) and El Salvador (Nov. 29-Dec. 8).
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