Discern your call at a Maryknoll day!

During 2012, Maryknoll will offer a unique experience to young men and women to answer the call of Jesus and serve in overseas mission.  Prospective candidates for the four entities of Maryknoll will gather at different locations around the country for a day long program to discern a call to overseas missionary work.

Mission is about relationships!

Maryknoll offers you a unique experience to answer the call of Jesus.  Come join us July 16-27, 2012 in Guatemala and El Salvador to see how Christ’s salvific work continues among the poor and marginated of Central America.  During the first week of the trip, participants will spend time visiting a Q’eqchi' Indian village in the northern jungle region of the Petén in Guatemala. 

Discover the call to overseas mission!

Maryknoll offers men interested in the missionary priesthood and brotherhood a unique cross-cultural mission experience during Holy Week 2012.   Come join us on the border in El Paso, Texas April 2-8, 2012.

This year's Holy Week Retreat takes place at Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish in the poor barrio of Westway, on the border of New Mexico.  The retreat is centered within a community of poor Mexican immigrants who are seeped in the Holy Week traditions of Mexico.  Retreatants will participate with the local people in the Sacred Triduum, the celebration of the Paschal Mystery of Jesus. 

During the retreat, participants will have a unique experience to meet and talk with vetern missioners who have spent years in the mission fields, working with the poor in parish ministry, and leadership formation.  They will also attend retreat conferences, participate at Mass with the people, celebrate the Stations of the Cross outdoors, pray together the Liturgy of the Hours, reflect before the Eucharist in adoration, and pray the Mission Rosary.  They will also participate with the local people in their small Christian communities.

Come, learn, experience mission, and share your heart with others who feel the call, who seek to serve the Lord in overseas mission.

Christ finds a home in Flores, Guatemala

The images of Mary and Joseph, under the watchful eyes of Father Edward Custer, have arrived at the dwelling to spend the night. The home is on a steep and picturesque cobblestone street on Flores Island in Petén province in Guatemala.

"The people of Flores love their popular religiosity," said the 66-year-old Maryknoll priest from South Bend, Indiana, who accompanies children and their families as they blow whistles and play maracas. Followed by musicians playing Guatemalan music on marimbas, the people usher in the traditional Las Posadas. Inside every home where the images rest, children enjoy papaya candy and homemade drinks as the adults pray and sing Christmas Carols.

Las Posadas is a nine-day celebration with origins in Spain and now celebrated mostly in Mexico and Guatemala during the evenings from December 16 to December 24. Posada means "lodging," or "inn." Each family in a neighborhood will schedule a night to host Las Posadas. Each home has a nativity scene. The neighborhood children and adults are the pilgrims who request lodging as they carry lit candles and images of Mary and Joseph.

The Grunt Priest

View the new video of Fr. Vincent Capadonno, M.M. who served the 5th Marines in Vietnam  as a US Navy chaplain .  Fr. Capadonno was killed in action on September 4, 1967 and awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor on January 7, 1969.  The cause for Fr. Vincent Capadonno, M.M. has been presented to Rome by the US Military Ordinariate.  He has been declared a "Servant of God".  Before becoming a chaplain, Fr. Capadonno served in Taiwan and Hong Kong as a Maryknoll missionary.

Mission is about relationships!

Maryknoll offers you a unique experience to answer the call of Jesus.  Come join us in Guatemala during Christmas break to see how Christ’s salvific work continues among the poor and marginated of Central America.  We will join a number of Maryknoll missionaries who live and work with the Q’eqchi' Indians in the northern jungle region of the Petén in Guatemala during the mission trip.  The mission immersion trip will take place January 2-9, 2012. 

The pastoral mission experience will begin in Guatemala and center on visiting the impoverished Indian villages served by Father Bill Mullan and Brother Marty Shea.  Participants will also accompany Fathers Ted Custer and Bill Senger to visit homes, meet people, and celebrate Mass in the small village around the provincial capital of Flores, Petén and Lake Itza.  An added attraction to the mission immersion trip will be a guided tour of the ancient Mayan ruins at Tikal.