Maryknoll Sisters

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Answering God’s call to religious life is just the first step in a journey toward becoming Maryknoll Sisters.  Women who embark on this spiritual journey spend years in preparation – training for their prospective ministries, learning new languages, adapting to challenges in cross-cultural communities, and grounding themselves in the foundations of faith that will serve as the driving force behind all they do.

Missioners in Progress

Like many missioners before them, these two women have been called to join the Maryknoll Sisters.  They are in the midst of their training and education, where years of study and sacrifice will prepare them to enter fully into the challenges that influence their community, ministry and mission.

We can’t do it without your help

Your gifts provide our Sisters with education, lanaguage training, practical support, and everything else they need to go out and serve the poorest of the poor.

Sister Susan Wanzagi, M.M., entered Maryknoll during our Centennial Year, 2012.  A native of Tanzania, she has worked in several ministries, including prison ministry and at a school for the deaf.  This fall, after she completes her studies in Scripture, theology and religious life, she will be given a mission assignment.

Sister Mara Rutten, M.M., was the 3,500th candidate to enter Maryknoll when she joined us after earning her doctorate in 2013.  Before entering Maryknoll Sisters, she lived with several of our Sisters serving in Cambodia. “There I witnessed Matthew 25 in action: feeding the hungry, giving shelter to the homeless, caring for the sick, and visiting those in prison as well as educating the poor, working with the deaf, and helping women and children escape the clutches of sex trafficking.” She has a year and a half to go before she receives her mission assignment.

The cost of education, housing, medical care, transportation, food, clothing, supplies and more are skyrocketing every day for all our Sisters.  For some of our  new Sisters, a decision to enter Maryknoll also means a strenuous effort to pay off student loans they need to go forward.

Can you help our Sisters
further their education in mission and further the plan
that Jesus himself set in motion?

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Pope Francis speaks of the importance of this kind of love and service:
“Jesus wants us to touch human misery, to touch the suffering flesh of others…to enter the reality of other people’s lives and know the power of tenderness.”

Through your support of our ministries in Guatemala and around the world, you can enter into that reality and show the power of tenderness to those who have been abandoned, oppressed, shunned, and forgotten.

St. Mary’s Hospice 

Through St. Mary’s HIV Hospice Center, Maryknoll Sisters Delia Marie (Dee) Smith and Marlene Condon are caring for those who have been rejected by their own communities, sometimes even by their own families. In our ministries, in our community, there are no outcasts. Every person is recognized as a child of God, and treated with the dignity and respect they deserve.

Our programs reach about 500,000 people in fhe Southwest region of Guatemala, serving people with HIV and special needs, such as nutritional deficits, beginners with antiretroviral treatments or those who have been abandoned by their family.

Project Life (Proyecto Vida)

Sister Dee’s caring led her to found Project Life, which is the umbrella organization encompassing St. Mary’s Hospice. This project offers literacy classes, transportation to doctors, and even basic farming opportunities, such as growing healthy food, raising chickens, and keeping bees.

Funding

We have to raise over 60% of our funding privately to support the hospice, which serves people with HIV and special needs, such as nutritional deficits, beginners with antiretroviral treatments, or those who have been abandoned by their family. Your support helps raise the additional 40% needed to continue saving lives.

Through your support of our ministries in Guatemala and around the world, you  show the power of love to those who have been abandoned, oppressed, shunned and forgotten.

Please help us replace rejection and despair with healing and hope by donating to the Maryknoll Sisters.

God bless you always.

The Power of Human Touch to Heal and Transform
Can never be Underestimated