Many decades ago I left the Midwest and moved to California because I knew I didn’t belong there. Although at the time ...
“What’s a WOG tree ?” you ask. For that I will have to go back a little. I just retired and am beginning to create new ...
Topics: JOY, GRATITUDE, SPIRITUALITY, sacred space
One week before this year’s Holy Week, the Vatican announced that the centuries long Doctrine of Discovery had been ...
Topics: MISSIONARY DISCIPLE, indigenous people
A little more than two weeks ago, I got out of a rickety bus, on a small, dusty, winding road, in a small, rural, town ...
Topics: el salvador, MISSION IMMERSION TRIP, MARYKNOLL
Through a Maryknoll Immersion trip to the U.S./Mexico border, Mission Educator Ray Almanza encountered people whose ...
Topics: MARYKNOLL, Immersion Trip, El Paso, TX - Juárez, MX, Immigrants
Español abajo Being a single mom catches up with you in the most unexpected of places. I remembered one of those places ...
Topics: GOSPEL, CHRISTIAN MISSION, Zacchaeus
REFLECTION ON THE EL PASO, TX / JUÁREZ, MX IMMERSION TRIP August 6 – 12, 2022 By participant Deacon Joseph (Joe) ...
Topics: mission, FORMATION PROGRAM, MISSIONARY DISCIPLE, CATHOLIC, JOY OF THE GOSPEL, CHRISTIAN MISSION, CHRIST, AFFIRMATIONS, GRATITUDE, MARYKNOLL MISSION IMMERSION TRIP, Immersion Trip, El Paso, TX - Juárez, MX