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ent in a time of COVID-19. Sadly, we’ve been here before. Little did we know as we began Lent last year that a year later we would still be in the Rediscovering Tribal 2 From the Editor Lgrips of this deadly pandemic. It was not even officially a pandemic then, ‘Earth Wisdom’ 10 and wasn’t until the World Health Organization declared it so on March 11. by Maria-Pia Negro Chin 4 Photo Meditation The death toll and infection rates we’ve seen were unimaginable, as was the impact on our daily lives. Families Working Together 8 Missioner Tales “How we long to go back to that sure safety/ Where bad habits, cool in El Salvador by Carolyn Trumble 18 indifference, and/ Cruel apathy made us blissfully forgetful/ Of death’s sad 16 Spirit of Mission certainty,” writes Maryknoll Father Joseph R. Veneroso in this issue’s photo meditation. A Fond Aloha 30 Orbis Books We have spent the year mourning, not only for lives lost but for our lost by Jim Krupka 24 lives, for all that we’ve missed, from the essential to the trivial, from the 56 World Watch sacred to the mundane. We have coped with sudden unanticipated changes, ‘Welcome Home, Father’ and we have coped with daily monotony. We have suffered. by Sean Sprague 34 Partners in Mission Amid this disruption of the world as we knew it, many of us have also 58 counted our blessings and gained new appreciation for whom and what Readers’ Responses we love. As people of faith, we also have hope—hope that in the worst of We’ll Get Far by 61 circumstances, even in death, there is a tomorrow, a renewal of life beyond Walking Together! 40 our temporal existence. There is a light, a new dawn and a resurrection. by Brenda Noriega

Lynn F. Monahan Lifting Spirits, Restoring FRONT COVER: Life in Bolivia Editor-in-Chief 44 Melisiana John and her son Alvini in by Giovana Soria Ndoleleji parish in Tanzania, where Maryknoll Father Hung Dinh is pastor.

Seeking Sustainability COVER CREDITS: in East Africa 50 Front: Sean Sprague/Tanzania by Lynn F. Monahan Back: Rafael Carranza/El Salvador

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Editorial Staff: Maryknoll, the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of Raymond J. Finch, M.M., Publisher America, Inc., was established in 1911 by the U.S. Lynn F. Monahan, Editor-in-Chief bishops to recruit, train, send and support American Margaret Gaughan, Editor missioners in areas overseas. Maryknoll is supported David R. Aquije, Editor, Misioneros by offerings and bequests. Maria-Pia Negro Chin, Associate Editor Giovana Soria, Staff Writer Maryknoll (ISSN 0025-4142) © 2021, Catholic Mary Ellen Manz, M.M., Maryknoll Sister Liaison Foreign Mission Society of America, Inc. All rights Joseph R. Veneroso, M.M., Contributing Editor reserved. Maryknoll is available in audio without 10 24 44 Diane Mastrogiulio, Art Director charge from Xavier Society for the Blind: (212) 473- Michael Calvente, Graphic Designer 7800. The title Maryknoll ® is registered with the Marco Gallo, Graphic Designer United States Patent and Trademark Office. Facebook.com/MaryknollSociety Twitter.com/MaryknollFrsBrs Instagram.com/MaryknollSociety Regina Gelfer, Graphic Designer Visit MARYKNOLL online The Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers, the Maryknoll Sisters of St. Dominic and the Maryknoll Lay Missioners share the Direct all correspondence to: MaryknollMagazine.org Maryknoll name and charism of commitment to the mission of Jesus Christ, sharing God’s love with people worldwide. Raymond J. Finch, M.M., Publisher MisionerosMaryknoll.org/RevistaMisioneros While these three Catholic organizations often work together in mission, each is responsible for recruiting and supporting P.O. Box 302, Maryknoll, NY 10545-0302 Magazine of the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers 914.941.7590 its own missioners. The Maryknoll Affiliates is a movement grouped into local chapters both in the United States and abroad of lay people who seek to reflect the Maryknoll charism within the context of their own lives, careers and communities.

2 SPRING 2021 MARYKNOLL • VOLUME 115 • NUMBER 2 MARYKNOLLMAGAZINE.ORG 3 Photo meditation on Lent and Easter FROMto Easter ASHES

By Joseph R. Veneroso, M.M.

Called to leave behind slavery To sin and self-centeredness Still we hesitate to cross such a vast, Empty, trackless wilderness fearing Our newfound freedom most of all.

Reminders of our mortality haunt every step. Dust we are, to dust we shall return. We know. We know. O would that we did not! How we long to go back to that sure safety Where bad habits, cool indifference, and Cruel apathy made us blissfully forgetful Of death’s sad certainty. CNS/Barbara Fraser/Peru

4 SPRING 2021 MARYKNOLL MARYKNOLLMAGAZINE.ORG 5 At length we reluctantly resolve to forge ahead, Before daybreak we rise to walk Not realizing our prayers and penances Alongside the mourning, myrrh-bearing women. Would lead us to walk his Way. The stone removed, our sadness devolves into despair. But now we are Pilate, we the soldiers, An empty tomb taunts us with renewed doubts. The crowd, the women, Simon, Veronica. Grave robbers? The owner? The wrong tomb? Or... We stand at the foot of the cross and Cannot help but wonder why “Why seek the living among the dead?” Undergo such sacrifice and He says our name. Unspeakable suffering and humiliation. He whom we thought dead now lives again We rush back with Magdalene As if reading our unspoken thoughts, he says, To spread the Good News and henceforth “Do you still not see or understand? To live for him who died and rose for us. Nothing you can do, no sin you can commit Amen Will ever make me stop loving you.” Alleluia And with that he bows his head and dies. Pixabay

6 SPRING 2021 MARYKNOLL MARYKNOLLMAGAZINE.ORG 7 Musoma, Tanzania. This center teaches Missioner Tales young women who have disabilities or are otherwise at risk, such as young single mothers or those living with HIV/AIDS, to t was the Monday of Holy Week quite figure out why this foreigner is learn sewing and crafts so they can have at Ndoleleji parish in the Shinyan- helping her, but she is grateful. a better future. We sell their beautiful I ga Diocese in Tanzania. After the Then there are the children, dozens bags, napkins, cards, etc. of them, everywhere I go. They come morning celebration of the Eucharist, We recently finished the construction of Michael Bassano/South Sudan the catechist told me that a woman running and laughing and sticking our second shop, enabling us to move the named Martha, who couldn’t speak, out their dirty hands. But their hearts first shop to the new location and make wanted to go to confession. are pure gold. the previous shop into a classroom. Right Martha came into the sacristy, I greet them with my limited Pazan- now students are sharing sewing ma- knelt down and sighed profoundly. de, the language spoken here, and chines in a crammed space. She crossed her arms on her chest we all laugh. They practice their lim- One miracle that happened recently is and bowed deeply. ited English, and we laugh again. I that we created a mural for the center. You She pointed to the sky, then bless them and move on. do not see much art around here, so it has clutched her heart. She raised her God is good and I love these walks. attracted lots of attention. The Serengeti fists in anger, then again crossed her Gabe Hurrish, MKLM National Park is not too far from Musoma. arms on her chest and bowed deep- It helped inspire the animal theme of the ly. She repeated this several times or over 10 years, I have spent mural, which also includes women enjoy- with different gestures. the third week of January as a ing each other’s company. As Martha communicated her sor- F volunteer Spanish interpreter A friend of mine created the mural. It row and her desire to return to God with a large U.S. and Guatemalan was a labor of love. She spent so many through signs and gestures, I could medical team called Children of the hours working on it, and many others got feel God’s love and mercy powerfully Americas. They go to a different part involved in helping. At the bottom of the alive in that small rural sacristy. of Guatemala each year to do pediat- mural are the Swahili words, “Matumaini I gave her absolution and a sign of ric and gynecological examinations, kwa waketi ujao,” which means “Hope for peace. I experienced as never be- surgeries, etc. Gathering with this the Future.” fore the meaning of the words of the group feels like a family reunion. Angelica Ruppe, MKLM prophet Joel, “Rend your hearts and Last year I was embarrassed when return to the Lord.” both soles of my old sport shoes n my first trip to Bangkok, I was Joseph Healey, M.M. came unstuck and flopped when nervous about the possibility of I walked. It was quite an awkward Obeing taken advantage of in the ven COVID-19 has not stopped evening at the hotel, where they sur- airport. I was pleased to see a prepaid my daily walks on jungle paths prised me with a spontaneous cele- taxi service and took it to our Maryknoll E in Western Equatoria, Yam- bration of my 80th birthday. center house in the city. When at one bio, South Sudan, where I serve as The next morning Audrey, a U.S. point the driver spoke haltingly about an- a Maryknoll lay missioner. Wearing nurse, and Julio, a Guatemalan pros- other charge, my fears were getting con- my mask and social distancing, I en- thetic specialist, presented me with firmed. I decided to memorize the large counter wonderful ordinary people a special gift: a brand new pair of numbers on his taxi registration card in along the way. An elderly man sits shoes! case I needed to report him. on a teak tree stump. I greet him in Bernice Kita, M.M. When I got to the house, I learned there Arabic with the respectful hand mo- actually was an extra bridge toll and that tions common to this area. A woman y work with the Rosemiri- the number I had memorized was the pumps water at the well and I walk am Dagg Center continues number of the Thai calendar year! over and pump for her. She can’t M serving the community of John P. Martin, M.M.

8 SPRING 2021 MARYKNOLL MARYKNOLLMAGAZINE.ORG 9 fter completing an agricultural class, a young indigenous farmer in Thailand said he “had to apologize to the earth for his previous be- havior, for using chemicals that were poisoning her and throwing Atrash that ruined her face.” Rediscovering The teenager was a student at the Research and Training Center for Re- Tribal ‘Earth Wisdom’ ligio-Cultural Community (RTRC), which focuses on community and agri- cultural development work with ethnic groups. Founded by Father Niphot By Maria-Pia Negro Chin Thianwihan, the center helps these indigenous communities rediscover their relationship to God’s creation and provides sustainable farming alternatives Missioner trains farmers from tribal villages in Thailand that empower them while encouraging them to live in harmony with the to face climate change while caring for the earth environment—something Pope Francis calls “integral ecology.” Maryknoll Father Lawrence Radice has been a visiting teacher at the cen- ter for a decade. Ethnic minorities in the mountains of Thailand, he says, have often been marginalized and are economically disadvantaged. Over

Father Tidkham, a Betharram priest who works with the Karen indigenous people in 10 SPRING 2021 MARYKNOLL Chiang Mai, and villagers ask God to bless their rice field. (SunthornMARYKNOLLMAGAZINE.ORG Vichitporn/Thailand) 11 a much more important role here in “He has young people helping him the tropics,” he says. “It increases the pick up trash in the village,” Fa- carbon content of the soil so that the ther Radice says. “In the beginning soil itself is ecologically healthy, hav- the people thought maybe he was ing a balance of water and air that crazy, but now they too are seeing supports a diversity of beneficial mi- their environment and village in a croorganisms that are important for new light.” more nutritious crops.” Recently, Thai universities asked “We teach them to see, analyze why RTRC students return home to and think ‘this is why you do this,’” share their new knowledge with he says. “When you start to teach their people when most university people to question what they see, students move away from village it changes them. And it can change life. Father Radice credits the cen- the world.” ter’s call to critical consciousness. Student Jaroen Dinu, for example, “We ask the students to reflect became a youth leader. After re- on: ‘Who are you? Who is your fam- turning home from RTRC, he taught ily? What is the village?’ in order the village children about the en- to help them recognize their social, vironment through music, creating religious, economic and cultural re- Maryknoll Father Lawrence Radice celebrates Mass with visitors from Singapore on a an ecology-minded musical group. lationships, and that consciousness mission exposure trip to villages in northern Thailand. (Sean Sprague/Thailand)

time, he continues, their “Earth wis- connecting their ancestral roots with dom” and centuries-old connection renewable agricultural methods, with the earth have been eroded, they return to their villages to prac- resulting in plastic waste and using tice what they learned and work the pesticides and herbicides in farming. land. After some time, they head “A lack of harmony harms the back to RTRC, in the Diocese of earth, harms our relationship with Chiang Mai, for another four to six each other, which, of course, hurts weeks to continue training and shar- our relationship with God,” says ing their experiences with each oth- the missioner from Grand Junction, er on the best approach to support Colorado. “Integral ecology re- their people. thinks the Genesis story and places “I work with farmers on how humans as part of nature, not dom- to adapt to climate change condi- inant over it.” tions,” says Father Radice, who is Every year, men and women from now working full-time at the cen- the hill tribes—such as the Hmong, ter. Teaching subsistence farmers to Karen, Kachin and, most recently, adapt to climate change will help the Lahu—go to the center for two them to continue feeding their fam- months of leadership training with ilies. The priest helps villagers find classroom and hands-on education crops suited to their environment on the best ways to care for their and teaches composting to help the environment, improve their farm- soil withstand harsh rains and high- Staff members of RTRC (l. to r.) Ms. Phut, Mr. Sornchai, Father Radice and Mr. Manut ing and support their people. After er temperatures. “Compost also has make biochar by burning organic waste material. (Courtesy of Lawrence Radice/Thailand)

12 SPRING 2021 MARYKNOLL MARYKNOLLMAGAZINE.ORG 13 ties them back to their rural home,” Father Radice says being back how to take care of livestock. encyclical on the environment and he says. “Without that, the city, the home is encouraging young villagers To tackle the reforestation proj- to take action. potential for money, has a big pull.” to try to make a living off the land ect, he says, “I also had to study and Vichitporn recently helped orga- In their villages, the RTRC stu- rather than work in the big cities. learn a lot about forestry and East nize a blessing that made a local dents have become mentors to oth- He adds that the center is exploring African farming.” rice field a sacred space. This bless- ers. During the COVID-19 lockdown creating a new agricultural and envi- Father Radice’s drive to learn ing, Vichitporn says, discourages imposed in Thailand, thousands of ronmental program to support these new farming methods to pass on to the owner from using chemicals on people who work and live in Bang- workers, who might feel disconnect- farmers only grew throughout the the land. “We are bringing our liv- kok were forced to return to their ed from the land. years. Since his ordination in 1985, ing faith into the field,” he adds. villages. Once home, Father Radice The missioner’s own consciousness the priest has served the poor and Reflecting on his own ministry, explains, they encountered chal- of God’s creation was nurtured by marginalized in Tanzania, Thailand Father Radice says, “My work of- lenges during rice planting season his mother when he was growing up and China—focusing on pastoral ten has a kind of practical aspect of due to climate change. on four acres of farmland in Colora- and ecological work. teaching about the earth, teaching “Temperatures are hotter and rain do. He remembers nature walks and Father Radice, 70, is grateful for about farming, but linking that and unpredictable,” he says. “But adapt- camping trips with his family and the doors Pope Francis has opened building that within a faith con- ing to climate change is the focus of how his mother would pick up trash when talking about integral ecol- text” gives it a deeper meaning. many of my lessons, and so those I to clean up the forest. ogy and ancestral cultures. He is “Helping people to rediscover or have taught are now teaching the “I don’t know if it was something overjoyed, for example, that Sun- recognize how God through the homecomers.” my mom said or whether it was her thorn Vichitporn, one of the teach- Holy Spirit has been active in their actions that said, ‘When you go into ers at RTRC, organizes a “Laudato culture and lives and their deep cul- the forest or go onto the mountain, Si’ week” in Karen villages to call tural link to the earth is a joy,” Fa- it should be better for your having people to reflect on Pope Francis’ ther Radice says. been there,’ ” Father Radice says. This drive to make the world a better place led him to Maryknoll, he adds. During his overseas training as a Maryknoll seminarian in Tanza- nia in 1982, he kept thinking about how to help people going through drought and famine. “Finally, after prayer and thought, I came upon the idea of tree plant- ing since the area I lived in, Ndolele- ji, had had serious deforestation,” he recalls. Father Radice, who has a dual bachelor’s degree in chemistry and physics from Regis University in Den- ver, Colorado, says his drive to tack- le agricultural matters is tied to the critical thinking and scientific pro- cess that formed the basis of his edu- Father Radice (left) and Somboon, a student of cation at Regis and to the experience he had on his family farm, where he the Lahu ethnic group, work on composting. Church leaders of the Karen indigenous people celebrate Laudato Si’ week during which (Courtesy of Lawrence Radice/Thailand) learned gardening, composting and they reflect on Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment.(Sunthorn Vichitporn/Thailand)

14 SPRING 2021 MARYKNOLL MARYKNOLLMAGAZINE.ORG 15 Spirit of Mission

Patron of dreamers and discerners By Joseph R. Veneroso, M.M.

ather Benedict Groeschel, who saint of troubled marriages and bro- taught at Maryknoll School of ken engagements. FTheology during the 1970s and Instructed by an angel in a dream, 1980s, once opined, “I’ll tell you why he took Mary as his wife, making the St. Joseph’s a saint. Imagine sitting at child she bore from God legally his the breakfast table every morning and own. A patron saint for adopted and having to look at the two most perfect foster children! people in the world!” In addition to be- Forced by the imperial census ing funny, Groeschel’s observation re- to return to his hometown, Joseph veals a glaring gap in our knowledge had to take his very pregnant wife to of the foster father of Jesus. Bethlehem, “because he was of the Still, there is enough information house and lineage of David.” Again in about Joseph in the Gospels to paint a dream, Joseph was ordered to flee more than a pious picture of the saint with his wife and child to escape King A statue of St. Joseph carrying the baby Jesus. Pope Francis has dedicated the year to to whom Pope Francis has dedicated Herod’s murderous rampage. Lead- St. Joseph starting on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception in 2020. (Pixabay) this entire year. Indeed, what emerges ing the Holy Family’s flight to Egypt is a very human and relatable image surely earns him the title of patron of anxiety.” (Luke 2:48) Parents of miss- spiration and intercession. of a man beset by problems, uncer- refugees. ing children may find comfort in Jo- At the end of his letter Patris Corde tainties and dangers, who, like us, had After Herod’s death, Joseph is seph’s patronage. (With a Father’s Heart), in which he to live by faith. again called by an angel in a dream to The boy Jesus’ apparently brusque announced the Year of St. Joseph to Matthew describes Joseph as a return home. But using his own good response to his mother—“Why did be celebrated from Dec. 8, 2020 to “just” or “righteous” man. That is, he judgment, he avoids going back to you look for me? Did you not know Dec. 8, 2021, Pope Francis offers this was someone who lived according to Bethlehem due to the unpredictable I must be about my father’s busi- prayer to St. Joseph for all of us: the law of Moses. Yet, his very dedi- Herod Archelaus, and instead goes to ness?”—shows that even the Holy cation caused his first dilemma. Mary, Nazareth. Joseph therefore can right- Family dealt with misunderstanding Hail, Guardian of the Redeemer, his beloved betrothed, was preg- ly be considered the patron saint of between parents and children. Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary. nant—and the child wasn’t his. The those in discernment. And that’s the last mention of Jo- To you God entrusted his only Son; law was very clear: the punishment After a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, seph in the Gospel. Presumably, he in you Mary placed her trust; for infidelity and adultery was death. losing the 12-year-old child for three died in the presence of Jesus and with you Christ became man. How could he subject her to pub- days surely filled Mary and Joseph Mary, thus earning Joseph the title of lic condemnation and execution by with anxiety. Mary expressed as much patron of a happy death. Blessed Joseph, to us too, stoning? He resolved to “divorce her when they found him in the Temple Joseph, by his absence no less show yourself a father in secret,” thus breaking off their en- amid the scholars: “Son, why have than by his presence, stands out as and guide us in the path of life. gagement yet sparing her life. Joseph you done this to us? Your father and the silent yet strong witness to family Obtain for us grace, mercy and courage, could rightly be considered the patron I have been looking for you with great life to which all of us can look for in- and defend us from every evil. Amen.

16 SPRING 2021 MARYKNOLL MARYKNOLLMAGAZINE.ORG 17 FAMILIES WORKING together IN EL SALVADOR

By Carolyn Trumble n January 2020 there was great excitement at Acomujerza, a selling coop- erative in Zaragoza, El Salvador, where Maryknoll Lay Missioner Melissa A cooperative born out of the trauma of war gives Salvadoran IAltman serves. The members were about to turn their first profit since the cooperative’s founding in 2002. women the opportunity they need to support their children “We had just started being debt free,” says Altman. “Everyone had worked very hard so they could finally record a profit and disperse funds to the members at the end of the fiscal year, and then COVID-19 shut every- thing down.” During quarantine some of the staff were able to make masks in their homes for frontline workers. While the government has begun easing re- strictions, the economic toll has been profound across the country. Acomujerza (an acronym derived from the legal name of this industrial cooperative of women in Zaragoza) provides an opportunity for community members to earn a living by producing and selling clothing and other hand- made goods. The cooperative was born out of a desire of members of the social concerns ministry at Nuestra Señora del Pilar parish to help children orphaned during the country’s 12-year civil war. In the years following the war, which ended in 1992, these parishioners wanted to expand their out- reach to women who needed to provide for their children. The dedication of the parishioners working with members of the Cleveland Mission Team and others led to the creation of the cooperative, which today has about 25 members. The majority of members working at the cooperative are single moms. One of them is Esmeralda. She and her 11 siblings fled their countryside farm at the onset of the war when they were told soldiers were coming to burn everything. The family became displaced people in their own country. After the war, Esmeralda took a job at a sewing factory, where, she says, it was common to have someone standing over her shoulder checking the piec- es she made. Workers there were not even allowed to go to the bathroom when they needed. One day, she says, the workers were told they had to work through the night to finish an order. They did not get paid for overtime.

The Altmans (left to right), Melissa, Eli, Evey and Peter, are building friendships in El Salvador that are changing the lives of others and their own. (Melissa Altman/El Salvador)

18 SPRING 2021 MARYKNOLL MARYKNOLLMAGAZINE.ORG 19 ing the women’s story so that those who hear it will be moved to lend their support. Altman has also been able to connect Acomujerza to local young people and to supporters through a friendship bracelet project. The cooperative buys the fabric for the bracelets from a local family. Then the women at Acomujerza make strings and distribute them to four or five high school and college stu- dents, who make the bracelets in their homes and return them to be sold. The students are paid 25 cents for each bracelet and Acomujerza receives part of the proceeds from Esmeralda sews buttons on school uniform shirts at Acomujerza cooperative, where she each sale. has worked for 15 years and is now a head seamstress. (Ana Morales/El Salvador) The Maryknoll Fathers and Broth- A youth joins co-op members at a bracelet- ers, Sisters and Lay Missioners making workshop. (Rafael Borja/El Salvador) Esmeralda, who was pregnant at we always find a way to make it bought a bulk order of the brace- the time, says the workers began to through the challenges we face.” lets to give out at a conference. to lighten the burden of their par- talk about organizing to stand up Altman says she sees clearly the From that order, one bracelet maker ents by buying things like gym uni- for themselves. Soon after, the fac- dignity that working at Acomujer- earned $75. “I did not have enough forms or school supplies,” Altman tory shut down and everyone was za gives Esmeralda and the others money to pay for my gym uniform; says. “This is another way for us to out of a job. However, Esmeralda who work there. “These women are now I can buy it,” the overjoyed stu- help families. We hope we can con- had not only gained valuable sew- coming together against sexism, vi- dent told Altman. nect more people who would like to ing experience at the factory, she olence and trauma from a terrible “These kids are using the money purchase these products to help the also learned firsthand about work- civil war,” she says. place abuse. As members of the cooperative, Her sister Paula Perez, one of the they have a voice and they are able founders of Acomujerza, invited to make their own decisions, Alt- Esmeralda to join the cooperative. man says. However, they still strug- There, to Esmeralda’s delight, she gle financially. Each worker makes not only acquired more sewing skills only about $1 an hour and at times but also learned about self-esteem, they find themselves scraping to- working together in a group, con- gether pennies to pay the coopera- flict resolution and communication. tive’s light bill. Now, after 15 years at the cooper- Acomujerza members are not ative, Esmeralda is one of the head looking for a handout but a way seamstresses. to sell their products, she says. Alt- “The fact that I get to work with man’s goal is to help open up new my friends and be part of the deci- markets for their products. She sees sion making is amazing,” she says. her most important role as assisting “Even when times are difficult, with product development and tell- Bracelets are made out of hand-woven Salvadoran cloth. (Melissa Altman/El Salvador)

20 SPRING 2021 MARYKNOLL MARYKNOLLMAGAZINE.ORG 21 families in El Salvador earn enough every person, no matter what their Secure Income for you. money to stay in their communities economic situation, deserves respect and provide basic necessities for and dignity.” their families.” In his recent encyclical Fratel- A brighter future for others. As a mission family, Altman, her li Tutti, Pope Francis calls us to be husband Peter, who works with in- peacemakers and to work togeth- ternally displaced people, and their er as a human family for the com- Your charitable gift annuity supports the Maryknoll Fathers children, Eli and Evey, are building mon good. He encourages us to go and Brothers’ mission to care for all God’s people, especially the friendships in El Salvador that have beyond our comfort zones to form poor throughout Asia, Africa and Latin America, by providing not only changed the lives of others social friendships that will help us food, clean water and shelter. While your gift supports God’s but their own lives as well. to build a culture of peace and di- work, it also secures for you a personal income for your lifetime “It is most impressive for me as a alogue in order to work together to mom to witness my children advo- care for each other. or the lifetime of a loved one. cate for the dignity of the friends The Altman family is living this they have come to care for in El message. Working together with Your gift can be funded with cash and/or appreciated securities Salvador,” Altman says. “They have Salvadoran families, they are striv- such as individual stocks, bonds or mutual fund shares as well friends who come from neighbor- ing to build a more just, compas- as proceeds from matured CDs. hoods where the homes have dirt sionate and sustainable world. floors and my children have the ability to see that these friends are Carolyn Trumble is a consultant For more information or to receive a Or write to: no different from their friends with who writes and edits educational sample annuity proposal: Rev. Dr. Peter Le Jacq, M.M. a different economic reality. At 14, materials for Maryknoll’s Church En- 1-888-627-9566 Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers I see my son through his lived ex- gagement Division. She served as a Mon-Fri (8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.) PO Box 345, Maryknoll, NY 10545-0345 perience being the voice that says Maryknoll lay missioner in Brazil. [email protected] MaryknollSociety.org/Annuities

Maryknoll Father Paul Sykora greets a mother and baby outside Nueva Vera Cruz center in Bolivia, where the missioner gives schoolchildren homework help and a nutritious meal.

Maryknoll Lay Missioner Melissa Altman (fourth from left), co-op-members and friends stand before a mural of four churchwomen killed in El Salvador. (Peter Altman/El Salvador)

22 SPRING 2021 MARYKNOLL MARYKNOLLMAGAZINE.ORG 23 Nile Sprague/Bolivia A fond

ALOHA hen Maryknoll Sister Ardis Kremer was first invited by a more senior sister to live on the Hawaiian island of Molokai, her response By Jim Krupka Wrevealed her character. The other sister needed a companion as she fulfilled her own assignment. Sister Maryknoll Sister Ardis Kremer leaves Molokai Kremer replied, “Sure, but I need a job.” That was in 1975, the beginning of a 45-year so- 45 years after bringing her adventuresome journ for Sister Ardis. Her insistence on having a job in energy to the Hawaiian island Molokai was an expression of her tireless, service-ori- ented and cheerful spirit. When you think of mission work, Hawaii may not pop first to your mind, yet its small, beautiful island of Molokai, with fewer than 8,000 people, was home to two saints: Saint Damien of Molokai and Saint

With St. Damien of Molokai looking over her shoulder, Sister Ardis Kremer served for 45 years on that Hawaiian island before she returned recently to the Maryknoll Sisters center in New York. (Hawaii Catholic Herald)

24 SPRING 2021 MARYKNOLL MARYKNOLLMAGAZINE.ORG 25 Marianne Cope, both of whom de- ter of an engineer who operated a New Orleans, and got a job working voted their lives to working with boat-building business, she loved to for her uncle in his auto parts shop. people afflicted with Hansen’s dis- sail. She was educated at St. John’s “It was good fun,” she says, echoing ease who were exiled to Molokai’s Elementary and High School in Gulf- her assessment of many of her ex- Kalaupapa Peninsula. port, Mississippi, but she yearned to periences. Meeting and being with Sister Kremer followed the ex- see lands beyond the Gulf Coast. people was her favorite part of the ample of these saints in being pres- As soon as she graduated from job, although she suspects her uncle ent to love and serve the people of high school, she approached the may not have been thrilled with her Molokai, but when she speaks of Maryknoll Sisters about joining. tendency to hand out discounts to her life, it is often in terms of adven- The Maryknoll congregation told all comers. ture. “I am a dreamer,” she admits. her that she would have to wait a After her year of waiting, Ardis Growing up on the Mississippi year before entering religious life. Kremer was invited to Maryknoll, coast, she spent much of her time Accordingly, she studied for a year New York, to begin life as a Mary- outdoors and on the sea. The daugh- at St. Mary’s Dominican College in knoll sister. She was taken with the beauty of the Maryknoll mother- house in Ossining, with its hills and streams. To a Gulf Coast girl who had never seen snow, the Northeast winter cold was shocking. But she embraced it, and in the midst of a heavy class schedule, found time to learn to ice skate. Her Maryknoll vocation would ful- fill her wish for travel. First assigned to Chile in 1965, she taught religious education at a time of political tur- An animal lover who has assisted the local moil in the country. Sister Kremer veterinarian, Sister Ardis Kremer cradles acknowledges the environment was two kittens.(Connie Krautkremer/Hawaii) “scary.” She next was sent to Micro- nesia, where she again taught re- ligious education and drew on her ter and St. Francis Hospital. girlhood skills in teaching children After she moved to Molokai, Sis- to sail. ter Kremer began working at Molo- Serving in Micronesia led to her kai General Hospital as a licensed assignment to Hawaii, where the practical nurse, and later worked at Maryknoll Sisters have served since the state’s Department of Health, 1927, with nearly 400 women in where she served for 30 years. mission there at one time or anoth- She found her job, and many less er. Initially, Sister Kremer was in- official roles, too. Sister Kremer was volved in catechetical and pastoral actively involved in both liturgy and work in Honolulu, the state capital, religious education at St. Damien while also earning a degree in li- of Molokai Catholic parish. When censed practical nursing from Kapi- the pastor or deacon was not on Sister Bitrina Kirway demonstrates the marvels of the smartphone to her Maryknoll Sister olani Community College. She then the island, she served as presider at companions Ardis Kremer (left) and Rosalinda Barrozo. (Courtesy of the Maryknoll Sisters) worked in The Queen’s Medical Cen- Our Lady of Seven Sorrows Church’s

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PROGRAM PLAN FOR 2021

during 2021. Write for an application form. Maryknoll Mission Institute, Maryknoll Sisters P.O. Box 311, Maryknoll, NY 10545-0311 Tel. 914-941-7575 ext 5671 or e-mail us at [email protected]

May 10-14 Leaning into the Gospel: Sr. Anne McCarthy, OSB (Mon. - Fri.) Learning Love and Freedom

May 17-21 When Tears Sing: Rev. William Blaine-Wallace, PhD (Mon. - Fri.) Lament as a Way Home to the Heart of God

Sister Ardis Kremer (back, center) poses with members of the Maryknoll Sisters congregation who were serving in Hawaii. (Courtesy of the Maryknoll Sisters) June 7-11 Transforming Individuals Joanne Blaney, MKLM (Mon. - Fri.) and Communities: Restorative Justice Practices Communion service. Beyond parish The evident joy, energy and enthu- life, she served for years as president siasm she brings to life, and her love June 14-18 Deepening One’s Sr. Nancy Sylvester, IHM of the Molokai Humane Society, and of God make it easy to understand (Mon. - Fri.) Contemplative Practice: at times even assisted the local vet- why she classifies so many of her Necessary for the Transformation of Our Time erinarian when the usual assistant varied experiences as “great fun.”

was unavailable. There is a saying on the island, June 24-25 eogenesis: Sr. Ilia Delio, OSF, PhD Sister Kremer was the woman “Don’t change Molokai; let Molo- ( urs. - Fri.) Is God Becoming God? on the main street of Kaunakakai, kai change you.” However, in Sister Molokai’s big town, who always Kremer’s case, it’s fair to say Molo- wore a genuine smile. She was the kai is better because she spent more July 12-16 A Living Gospel: Robert Ellsberg, MA one driving around the island in a than half her life there. (Mon. - Fri.) Reading God’s Story in Holy Lives (and our own) well-used pickup truck, who could At 80-plus years, she loves the is- easily be mistaken for an island land but remains ready to go wher- July 19-23 Finding a Way in Rev. Larry Lewis, MM ranch woman. Her generosity and ever Maryknoll sends her. In consid- (Mon. - Fri.) the Wilderness: kindness flow freely, and, as Hawai- ering the possibility of going back Drawing Courage through the Art of Film ians might say, “aloha” comes natu- to the motherhouse in New York, rally to her. her main response is, “I hope they Her decades of work in healthcare have a job for me.” Application forms and program descriptions may be found on our on this rural island—known as “The Website http://www.maryknollsisters.org/missioninstitute Friendly Isle”—exemplify the depth Deacon Jim Krupka is a Maryknoll of her calling as a missioner: being Deacon Mission Partner and serves present and bringing good news at parishes in Michigan and on ONLINE REGISTRATION AVAILABLE through the ordinary stuff of life. Molokai, Hawaii. Please be aware due to the COVID-19 pandemic all programs

28 SPRING 2021 MARYKNOLL will be online Zoom presentations. of good will throughout the world to The Orbis edition of the encyclical recognize our common humanity, includes an insightful introduction by Orbis Books Spotlight to build bridges, and to care for our Franciscan Father Daniel Horan. While common home. situating the encyclical within the tra- Preview The pope addresses specific is- dition of Catholic social teaching, and by Robert Ellsberg sues, including the death penalty, in relation to the specific challenges the practical limitations of “just war” facing the world today, he also help- teaching, the rise of new forms of fully lays out the Franciscan lens that popular nationalism, the challenges informs Pope Francis’ reading of the of the pandemic, and the plight of Gospel and the world. migrants and refugees. Beneath all In his letter to Orbis, the pope un- these topical issues lies a profound derscored the important role books call to discernment and conversion can play in offering “a compass that and a conviction that in the Gospel of points the way, guides and allows us Jesus we may find a different way of to cultivate a spirit capable of moving being in the world. toward great goals that embrace the In one particularly moving section, good that awaits us all.” He encour- Pope Francis reflects on the parable aged us in the “delicate task” of cre- of the Good Samaritan, asking us to ating volumes that “give flight to the consider, “Which of the persons do spirit” and that help people imagine you identify with? ... Which of these that “a different way of writing history characters do you resemble?” Ac- is possible.” cording to Francis, we face a funda- With that encouragement, and with mental choice: “Here, all our distinc- this new encyclical, we look forward ince the commencement of his Last fall we were deeply moved to tions, labels and masks fall away: it to embarking on our next 50 years! papacy in 2013, we have felt a receive a personal letter from Pope is the moment of truth. Will we bend Sstrong resonance between the Francis, commending Orbis on our down to touch and heal the wounds Robert Ellsberg is the publisher of agenda of Pope Francis and the pro- 50th anniversary, and thanking us for of the other?” Maryknoll’s Orbis Books. gram of Orbis Books. In his strong all the efforts we make “to sow, even ✁ mission-centered agenda, his em- ‘against wind and tides,’ a culture phasis on mercy and on care for the based on fraternity.” M0221 poor and for the earth, and his deter- That theme of “fraternity and social Please send: copies of #426-4 Fratelli Tutti @ $20.00 each mination to reach out to those on the friendship,” as it turned out, would Standard Shipping: FREE margins and peripheries, we found be the precise focus of the pope’s *CA, CT, DC, FL, IL, KY, LA, MN, NY, OH, TX, WA, WI Sales tax*: so many connections with our work. most recent encyclical, Fratelli Tutti. In the past seven years we have pub- The title is drawn from words of St. ❑ Check enclosed ❑ MC ❑ VISA ❑ AMEX ❑ DISC TOTAL: lished over a dozen volumes of his Francis of Assisi, who expressed his writings, including addresses to young brotherhood and friendship with all Name people, his morning homilies, reflec- creatures, especially the poor, under- Address E-mail tions on mission and the Gospels, on lining, as Pope Francis has so many City State Zip Phone the Creed, the Works of Mercy, and on times since selecting his papal name, migrants and refugees, along with his the spirit that inspires his vision for re- Card Number CVV apostolic exhortations on the call to newing the Church. Exp: Signature: holiness and the Amazon Synod, and Fratelli Tutti outlines the path to Orbis Books • POB 302 • Maryknoll, NY 10545-0302 his encyclical Laudato Si’: On Care for a culture of encounter and solidari- 1-800-258-5838 • M-F, 8-4 ET • Online: www.orbisbooks.com Our Common Home. ty, calling on Christians and people use code M0221 for FREE standard shipping!

30 SPRING 2021 MARYKNOLL MARYKNOLLMAGAZINE.ORG 31 “The culture of care … calls for a common, supportive and inclusive commitment to protecting and promoting the dignity and good of all. ”

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A children’s program in Nepal is coordinated Caption goes here..eandam quis undit em by the Care and Development Organization, a que provit quatio te receribus. non-profit organization supported by Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers. (Gregg Brekke/Nepal) 32 SPRING 2021 MARYKNOLL • VOLUME 115 • NUMBER 2 MARYKNOLLMAGAZINE.ORG 33 In Hokkaido’s port city of Muroran, Father Frank Riha is ‘ WELCOME HOME, considered one of their own ’ he train pulls into Higashi-Mu- he was first assigned to the parish of FFather!ather! roran Station on Japan’s Higashi (East) Muroran. Tnorthern island of Hokkaido “It was my first parish as a pas- Text and photos just before 9 a.m. Maryknoll Father tor,” Father Riha says. “Coming back by Sean Sprague Frank Riha is waiting outside in his after 30 years in a neighboring city full-size Toyota Crown hybrid to pick was somewhat emotional for me. up his visitors. But the reception I received was be- The missioner serves in Muroran, yond my imagination.” a port city of 80,000. At 79, he looks Born in Boston and ordained in strong and healthy, and he’s happy 1968, Father Riha has spent all his to be here. He has served on Hok- overseas missionary years in Japan. kaido for 43 years, and the first doz- For about seven years he served in en were spent in Muroran. He only other parts of the country before recently returned to this city, where coming north to Hokkaido.

At a barbecue after Mass, a smiling Father Riha mingles with members of his Higashi (East) Muroran parish.

34 SPRING 2021 MARYKNOLL MARYKNOLLMAGAZINE.ORG 35 In his previous assignment in the city of Tomakomai, Father Frank Riha enjoyed interacting with the children in Holy Mother Kindergarten, where he served as principal.

Father Riha is not only pastor of Returning to Muroran, he finds Higashi (East) Muroran but also of himself director of the Noboribetsu the Noboribetsu parish as well. He is Sacred Heart Kindergarten, with an also the director and principal of the enrollment of 140 children ages 3-6, large kindergarten attached to the and 20 teachers. Noboribetsu Catholic church. Today Father Riha drives his visi- At an unadorned altar in Higashi (East) Muroran parish Father Frank Riha celebrates “When I first came to Muroran all tors to Higashi (East) Muroran Cath- Sunday liturgy with a “different aliveness” than in Africa and Latin America. those years ago, I used to celebrate olic Church compound. At some Mass with the Benedictine Sisters churches in Japan you keep your candle-lit altar, a beautiful carved in the middle aisle while two eu- at their nearby convent,” he says. shoes on, but at this one you take wooden crucifix overhead. charistic ministers stand on the side “I got involved with the kindergar- them off and wear provided slip- Father Riha describes the typical aisles offering the chalice with the ten which the sisters were running. pers. The highly polished wooden Japanese Mass as unlike liturgies in precious blood. I would go once a week to teach the floors match the clean white interi- Africa or Latin America with their Parishioner Ken-ichi Matsuoka, children English, or rather play with or of the church, recently rebuilt. drums or guitars. “It is a different 79, provides context on the local the children in English. When I went It’s Father’s Day, before the arrival aliveness here,” he says. “Singing Catholic community. He was bap- to [the neighboring city of] Toma- of COVID-19. In the kitchen of the psalms and Gregorian chant-style tized in an earlier version of the komai, I already had 10 years of ex- community room right behind the is popular.” Accompanied by an same church 51 years ago. There are perience working with kids and also church, women are busy preparing organ, the singing is solemn. Sake around 300 Catholics in the parish, teaching the teachers, not just En- a special feast. decanters hold the water and wine he says, although fewer than 200 at- glish but talking about Christianity.” Mass starts at 9:30 and the church to be consecrated, and the rite of tend church. “Japan’s aging popula- This proved useful when the bish- is almost full. Most of the congrega- peace consists of bowing to each tion and [negative] growth rate are op asked him to be the principal of tion is elderly, many of the women other, though some members of taking a toll,” he says. “Different the Tomakomai Holy Mother Kin- wearing lace veils. The missioner be- the congregation shake hands after eras have different ways of think- dergarten, which had between 40 gins the liturgy with an altar server bowing. At Communion time, Fa- ing. The youth are in a bind today. and 60 children at different times. and two lectors at the unadorned, ther Riha distributes the sacred host Their work is difficult and we have

36 SPRING 2021 MARYKNOLL MARYKNOLLMAGAZINE.ORG 37 Jesus said, "Follow me..." — Matthew 4:19 A MISSION OF UNCONDITIONAL LOVE

IS GOD CALLING YOU TO A LIFETIME OF COMPASSION, ADVENTURE AND At a typical Sunday liturgy in Higashi (East) Muroran parish, most of the congregation is elderly and women wear lace veils as they solemnly worship in Japanese style. MERCY OVERSEAS? a constant shortage of youth. We time for the Mongolian barbecue Join the Maryknoll must reflect on: What are the young feast in the community room. The people looking for? What is it that whole congregation, sitting at half Fathers & Brothers motivates them, that helps them a dozen tables, enjoys the grilled look toward the future with hope? meat, rice wrapped in seaweed, Isn’t this the hope and love we can vegetables and green tea. Father find in Jesus? How do we get this Riha gets up and mingles with mem- across to the younger generations?” bers of his community afterwards. Father Riha says that the major On this Father’s Day it is clear he is changes of Vatican II took place a father figure to his community, around the time he arrived in Ja- which shows great love and respect pan in 1968, and Maryknoll mission- for him. He says he has no intention ers helped the congregation here of retiring any time soon and hopes to transition by providing study to stay here as long as possible. groups. As was the case around Recalling the warm greetings he the world, the shift away from Lat- received here after 30 years away, in Mass meant greater variations he expresses great joy in the way pa- among congregations within Ja- rishioners treat him as one of their pan. While in Muroran the Mass is own. “There were … quite a few traditionally Japanese and solemn, who said, ‘Welcome home, Father!’ I in churches in other regions of the don’t think there is anything better country with large migrant worker one can say about the people and populations—coming from coun- the city called Muroran.” Maryknoll Father Gregory McPhee tries like Peru, Brazil, Kenya and the will serve in Bolivia. Philippines—the Mass is likely to in- Sean Sprague, a freelance photog- clude drums, guitars and big hugs. rapher and writer living in Wales, Mass ends with a blessing for all U.K., is a frequent contributor to Contact: Fr. Rodrigo Ulloa the men who are fathers. Then it’s Maryknoll magazine. Vocation Director [email protected] MaryknollVocations.org (914) 941-7590 x2416 38 SPRING 2021 MARYKNOLL MARYKNOLLMAGAZINE.ORG 39 We’ll get far by walking together! By Brenda Noriega

A young minister highlights the participation of youth in the Catholic Church

hen I read the final document of the “Synod of Bishops on Youth, the Faith and Vocational Discernment” in 2018, I was Wparticularly interested in the following paragraph: “The Synod asks that the active participation of the young become effective and ordinary in places of co-responsibility in the particular Churches and in the organs of the Episcopal Conferences and the universal Church. It also asks that the activity of the Office for the Young in the Dicastery for the Laity, the Family and Life be strengthened, not least through the constitution of an organ to rep- resent the young at an international level.” (para- graph 123) “The young people were heard!” I thought. But I felt a little skeptical and noted: “Maybe one day… at best in 100 years.” We young people sometimes see things moving slowly in the Church. We are disappointed when we see no action in response to our concerns. But God has ways to revive our hearts. The Synod of Bishops on Young People, the Faith and Vocational Discernment took place from Oct. 3 to 28, 2018, in Rome. But preparations for the Syn- od began two years earlier, when Pope Francis an- nounced the theme for this 15th general assembly of bishops. From the beginning, the Holy Father communi- cated his desire for young people to be part of the synod process. As a result, the Synod on Young Peo- ple was organized so the voices of the young were

The 20 members of the first Youth Advisory Body, including Brenda Noriega (top row, third from left), represent young people from around the world. (Courtesy of Brenda Noriega)

40 SPRING 2021 MARYKNOLL MARYKNOLLMAGAZINE.ORG 41 the world, the first of its kind in the rich dialogue and shape my own history of the Church! I was among ministerial perspective. 20 young people from different Being part of the Maryknoll Fa- parts of the world chosen to con- thers and Brothers’ family as an tinue the dialogue and consultation educator and mission promoter has with the Dicastery for the Laity, the enriched my participation in this ad- Family, and Life. This Vatican office visory body. Through Maryknoll, I is responsible “for the promotion have learned about a diverse global of the life and apostolate of the lay reality and ministry on the peripher- faithful, for the pastoral care of the ies. I have learned that one pastoral family and its mission according to response is not the solution for all. God’s plan and for the protection My brothers’ and sisters’ promotion and support of human life.” is always more important than my Since the formation of IYAB, I’ve own. That is part of being a mission- learned that the same Spirit who ary disciple. moved in Jeremiah and Samuel in Listening to the Maryknoll mis- biblical times continues moving sionaries about the circumstances and speaking today through Sofia, in some countries in great need has At the Synod of Bishops on Young People, the Faith and Vocational Discernment in Makoto, Émile and the rest of my helped me be mindful during IYAB 2018, Pope Francis meets Yadira Vieyra, a delegate from Chicago. (CNS/Vatican Media) colleagues. My 19 brothers and sis- meetings of the African proverb, “If ters are each bestowed with gifts, you want to go fast, go alone. If you very present before, during and af- beautiful letter he wrote for young charisms and experiences that en- want to go far, go accompanied.” ter the Synod. people and all who walk with us. Young people worldwide contrib- But the Holy Father’s desire to en- uted their life testimonies, challeng- gage young people did not conclude es, and social realities and dreams there. He called for a post-synodal through online questionnaires and international forum. Thus, at the end international meetings before the of June 2019, about 250 young peo- Synod. During the Synod, young ple from all over the world arrived in people from different countries par- Rome to discuss ways in which Chris- ticipated as auditors and, at times, tus Vivit had been received in their were invited to express what they realities. I was one of two represen- carry in their hearts. tatives of the United States. During World Youth Day in Pana- At the end of the forum, we were ma in January 2019, the Holy Father told that paragraph 123 of the Syn- continued listening to young peo- od on Young People’s final docu- ple’s concerns and dreams. I had the ment would become a reality. You privilege of being one of 10 young can imagine the joy among us that people who had lunch with Pope day. Here was the Holy Spirit blow- Francis at the end of World Youth ing like at Pentecost, renewing the Day. My life was transformed, and Church and inviting us to be part of my flame reignited. the forward march. Two months later, Pope Francis On Nov. 24, 2019, the first In- released the Apostolic Exhortation ternational Youth Advisory Body Brenda Noriega (yellow shirt) joins other young people sharing their hopes and dreams Christus Vivit (Christ Is Alive), the (IYAB) was officially announced to for the active participation of youth in the Church. (Courtesy of Brenda Noriega)

42 SPRING 2021 MARYKNOLL MARYKNOLLMAGAZINE.ORG 43 Lifting spirits, RESTORING LIFE IN BOLIVIA

By Giovana Soria

Maryknoll lay missioner accompanies sick and disabled people in the city of Cochabamba

aryknoll Lay Missioner John berculosis and respiratory problems O’Donoghue pushes Fran- or, like Ayala, are disabled. Mcisco Ayala’s wheelchair O’Donoghue, 67, received training and brings him to a small rehabil- in physiotherapy for three months itation space at a center in Cocha- to learn how to work with disabled bamba, Bolivia, where the missioner patients. “The patients asked me to helps Ayala and other patients do help them walk, because it is bad to physical therapy exercises. be in a wheelchair every day,” says Ayala, 32, was struck by a hit- the missioner. “They become obese, and-run driver while crossing the which is bad for their heart, and it road near his home in the city of is depressing to be in a wheelchair.” Montero two and a half years ago. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, The accident left him with injuries O’Donoghue was able to physical- to his head and legs. He can’t walk, ly touch and exercise Ayala’s legs, his speech is limited and he suffered arms and head, but now he has to brain damage. change his routine. “I tell him at a After the accident, Ayala spent distance what exercises to do,” says time in a hospital. Then Joseph the missioner. “At the moment Fran- Loney, director of the Maryknoll cisco can’t use the parallel bars to try Lay Missioners in Cochabamba, ar- and walk, although we have tried.” ranged to have him transported However, O’Donoghue adds, Ayala to Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of has shown progress. He is capable of Charity home, where O’Donoghue lifting weights and his arms are get- has been serving for the past four ting stronger. O’Donoghue also tries years. This home was established by to engage Ayala in simple conversa- the Missionaries of Charity in collab- tion every day and have him draw oration with a local parish 12 years pictures to keep his mind sharp. ago, and is staffed by four Mission- In addition to helping the men aries of Charity. The sisters provide with their exercises, the missioner daily meals, shelter, medicine and begins each morning cleaning the care for up to 20 men who suffer dining room, sweeping, dusting, Lay Missioner John O’Donoghue brings from illnesses such as HIV/AIDS, tu- washing dishes and emptying the Francisco Ayala to the dining room area to have lunch. (John O’Donoghue/Bolivia)

44 SPRING 2021 MARYKNOLL MARYKNOLLMAGAZINE.ORG 45 O’Donoghue consoles Calixto Cejo, an elderly patient who has a hearing problem and is blind in one eye, at the center in Cochabamba, Bolivia. (Nile Sprague/Bolivia)

trash. He helps the sisters prepare fact that people get depressed. We and serve lunch for the patients and laugh and have a lot of fun.” helps to keep patients’ minds active Edgar Medina, 33, who had par- by playing games and watching TV tial paralysis, was a patient with and DVDs with them. whom O’Donoghue worked. “John The majority of the residents, is a good person, kind and gen- O’Donoghue says, have been aban- erous. He doesn’t feel for himself doned. “The sisters and myself are but feels for others,” said Medina, the only family they have and that is who left the home after five years why many get depressed,” he says. when he decided he could live inde- “We try to spend time with them, pendently. “I believe God has sent have time for prayer and bring them him to support us.” some hope.” O’Donoghue recalls meeting O’Donoghue sees his job as a min- Mother Teresa when he served for istry of accompanying the men by six months in one of her houses in being present, listening and talking Calcutta 26 years ago. “I remember to them. “I try to keep their spirits Mother Teresa as a small woman, up, helping them with their dai- but with a tremendous amount of ly tasks and keeping my eyes on energy,” he says. “In her 80s, she was them,” he says. “It is kind of a one very active. Even though she had ar- on one with the patients. I actual- thritis and a pacemaker, she would ly enjoy working here despite the conduct meetings, give orders and

The missioner walks around the home to check on the patients. Here he is talking and 46 SPRING 2021 MARYKNOLL joking with Justo in the outside washing area at the center. (NIle Sprague/Bolivia) Working for a more just and compassionate world

Sister Adelbert (left) and another Missionaries of Charity sister share a time of prayer and reflection in their small private chapel at the center. (Nile Sprague/Bolivia)

organize events. Now, ironically, I ty and explore my faith.” Before ended up working with Missionaries joining the Maryknoll Lay Mission- of Charity in Bolivia.” ers 14 years ago, he worked with Maryknoll฀Lay฀Missioner Juan฀Gomez฀teaching฀a฀computer฀class฀in฀Tacopaya,฀Bolivia.(Photo:฀Nile฀Sprague) Sister Adelbert, director of the non-profit organizations in India, home, is grateful to have the sup- Sri Lanka, Lesotho, Malawi, Nigeria port of the missioner. “He has a way and Sudan. mklm.org of welcoming and making people As a Maryknoll lay missioner, feel good,” she says. “For me, the O’Donoghue served in East Timor, men who come here are like Jesus where he administered a pro- VISIT THE MARYKNOLL LAY MISSIONERS WEBSITE FOR on Calvary, and we want them to gram making specialized shoes, find and see God’s love here.” hand-powered tricycles and wheel- • INSPIRING STORIES O’Donoghue emigrated from Ire- chairs for the disabled. Then he land to the United States when he worked in Kenya with groups on in- • NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD about mission during COVID-19 was 18 years old. He has a bache- come-generating projects. lor of science degree in accounting In his current ministry, he says, “I • VIDEOS about our ministries from Bentley College in Waltham, really thank God, our Lord, that I am Massachusetts, and a post-graduate able to help in some small way. I feel • Opportunities to join our efforts through degree from Cambridge University, part of a family and get along well - PRAYER England, in development studies, with the sisters and the patients.” - SUPPORT focusing on the social, economic and Seeing people who are sick or dis- - DISCERNING your own call for mission political development of the Global abled makes him appreciate his own - our NEWSLETTER South. He worked in the business blessings. “It makes me realize how world as an accountant for 10 years. lucky I am to walk and have good “I felt like I needed to do some- health,” he says. “I love to get the thing more spiritual and it stayed men out of the wheelchairs, on the with me for a while,” he says. “I walker or using crutches because wanted to deepen my spirituali- they have life again.” mklm.org

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By Lynn F. Monahan, photos by Sean Sprague

A Maryknoll priest works to build up a sprawling rural parish in Tanzania

mission parish in the Shinyanga Diocese of Tanzania is a ministry of challenges and blessings for Maryknoll Father Hung M. Dinh, whose A life of service to the poor has taken him from his native Vietnam to the vast savannahs of East Africa. As pastor of Ndoleleji Catholic Church, Father Dinh today lives out the calling he first heard as an “underground seminarian” studying in secret for the priesthood in Communist Vietnam and serving there as a catechist in a rural parish, ministering to “the poorest people who had only one meal a day.”

Maryknoll Fathers (l. to r.) Edward Schoellmann, Hung Dinh and John Lange concelebrate Mass in Ndoleleji Catholic Church in Tanzania.

50 SPRING 2021 MARYKNOLL • VOLUME 115 • NUMBER 2 MARYKNOLLMAGAZINE.ORG 51 Lake Victoria. In addition, he holds he relies on financial help from his ongoing catechist seminars every family and friends in the Vietnam- Friday at one of the three centers in ese community back home in the the parish, and on the fourth Friday Diocese of Orange in California to does a seminar for all the catechists. help the catechists’ families while With 32 catechists in the parish, the catechists study. “The catechists Father Hung depends heavily on his go to study for a whole year and chief catechist, Faustine Mihumo, to when they return, they have noth- help manage the organization. The ing because they didn’t cultivate two men are about the same age, (crops),” he says, noting that as and the missioner says he relies on many as a dozen catechists may be catechist Mihumo, who acts as his studying in Mwanza at a time. “The representative when the priest is whole year they are studying there away. Maryknoll Father John Lange they don’t have income.” also serves at the parish and contrib- In addition to helping the fam- utes his advice and counsel, but at ilies of catechist trainees, Father age 90, he has to limit his outreach. Dinh maintains crops of corn, green While Father Dinh draws on funds beans, peanuts and rice to feed from the Maryknoll Fathers and parishioners during meetings and Brothers for the catechists’ training, events, and to help the neediest.

Maryknoll Father Hung Dinh, center, and Father John Lange help a family in Ndoleleji parish remove dried corn kernels from their cobs in Shinyanga Diocese in Tanzania.

“My purpose is to strengthen ital problems and for their spiritu- the Christian life here,” says Father al life.” He adds that he also visits Dinh of his ministry in Ndoleleji. the sick and attends meetings with “It’s a mission parish and has many the members of the Small Christian outstations.” The parish consists Communities on his monthly circuit. of three pastoral centers that each In a sprawling rural parish of 27 encompasses eight or nine outsta- villages spread over almost 1,400 tions, or chapels, with two to five square miles, where only 5% of the Small Christian Communities asso- people are Catholic, one of Father ciated with each outstation. Father Dinh’s priorities is training cate- Dinh goes to each center once a chists. “The priest won’t be able to month and will say Masses at three manage it alone,” he says. “I have different, widely spaced outstations to get catechists.” on any given Sunday. “That takes all To do that, he sends catechist day,” he says. candidates for a year of training in “I have a schedule,” the 54-year- Mwanza, the country’s second-larg- old missioner says. “I not only say est city, located two and a half Mass but I visit the families for mar- hours northwest on the shore of Father Dinh greets a local man at the medical clinic he helps support in Ndoleleji parish.

52 SPRING 2021 MARYKNOLL week, most of whom suffer from try in Ndoleleji began while he was a malaria, which is endemic to the seminarian doing his overseas train- area, as well as typhoid and other ing in Tanzania from 2005 to 2007. infections. It employs 14 people, While assigned to assist a Maryknoll including a clinical officer (equiva- pastor at a parish in Mwanza, semi- lent to a medical technician), five narian Dinh would spend one week nurses, two part-time laboratory every other month working with technicians and a midwife, as well Maryknoll Father Daniel Ohmann as cleaning staff, a driver and a se- among the indigenous Watatulu curity guard. who live near the Ndoleleji area. In “I try to use minimal funds to sub- 2009, the year after his ordination, sidize the dispensary so when I go Father Dinh returned to the Shin- away, they’ll be able to manage it yanga Diocese and served with a for themselves,” Father Dinh says. local priest in Ndoleleji before be- “If you put in a lot of subsidy and coming pastor in 2012. you leave, it collapses. I am building To this day, Father Dinh works to it up slowly so it can continue to be maintain some of the projects start- managed on its own.” ed by his mentor Father Ohmann, While the clinic is run as a who returned to the States a few non-profit venture, it does charge years ago after more than 50 years patients fees for services, medicine as a missioner in Africa. These in- and lab tests. For illnesses and in- clude a windmill project that pro- juries beyond the expertise of the vides clean, reliable water to vil- clinical officer and nurses, patients lages in the semi-arid region and a are sent to area hospitals. The clinic honey project with 60 beehives that maintains a driver and ambulance produce “some of the best honey in to take patients to the nearest hos- Tanzania,” he says. pital, which is 12 miles away, or to a The missioner clearly enjoys his larger hospital that is more than 40 busy mission and life with the peo- miles away. ple of Ndoleleji. He finds similarities Father Dinh says the parish has between the people he serves now been spared from the COVID-19 and the Vietnamese with whom he pandemic. “In our place, Ndoleleji grew up. “Hospitality really matters Father Dinh blesses an ailing woman while making rounds with a clinical officer at the Ndoleleji medical clinic and dispensary that treats about 40 patients a week. clinic, there are no cases of patients here,” he says, just as in Vietnam- affected by COVID-19,” Father Dinh ese culture. Furthermore, he says, says. “We have been blessed, really.” “They respect the elders, similar to To get the catechists to where the people of his parish, but he is His parishioners are very mind- Asian culture.” they need to go to do their minis- conscious that the work needs to ful of God in their lives, the priest Especially significant for Father tries, the missioner buys good used be sustainable given the fact that says, noting they often use the Dinh is that the people trust him, bicycles from Japan for $50 each. the next pastor will likely be a local Swahili phrase mungu yupo, mean- even though he’s different from The cost is shared: the catechist pays priest. ing God is present. “That God is them. “They talk to me and seek a third, the people pay a third and Ensuring sustainability is particu- everywhere,” he says, “and if they counsel from me,” he says. In turn, Father Dinh contributes a third. larly important for the parish medi- achieve something, they recognize he credits the Tanzanians he serves Father Dinh is very willing to cal post and dispensary, he says. The God’s help.” with teaching him “patience and reach into his own resources to help clinic receives about 40 patients a Father Dinh’s experience of minis- generosity.”

54 SPRING 2021 MARYKNOLL MARYKNOLLMAGAZINE.ORG 55 World Watch

Danger to Water Defenders

By Kathleen Kollman Birch

hortly after Marcelo Rivera and This “David and Goliath story,” his colleagues had won a pres- documented in the newly released Stigious human rights award book The Water Defenders: How Or- in Washington, D.C., in 2009, the dinary People Saved a Country from teacher in El Salvador abruptly dis- Corporate Greed by Robin Broad and appeared. Two weeks later Rivera’s John Cavanagh, demonstrates the body was found in a well; he had potential of nonviolent campaigns to been tortured and murdered. protect the interests of local commu- People in San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador, protest the privatization of water in (CNS/Jose Cabezas, Reuters) Rivera and his colleagues had nities against corporate powers. It 2017 and demand lawmakers provide water access to the poor. gained attention for their work as also shows the power of the Catholic “water defenders,” having spoken out Church to be a voice and instrument trators and masterminds behind these for impoverished communities to ask against a large international mining for justice within such campaigns. murders are almost never discovered complicated, difficult questions: When corporation for polluting water sourc- However, the victorious ending of or prosecuted, and their victims are and where should mining be allowed? es on which their communities relied. this campaign is an anomaly among most often rural citizens who spoke Is there a less destructive way to do They gave voice to the concerns of countless stories of other water de- out to protect community resources. it? Who should be held responsible for thousands of Salvadorans, mostly fenders today. In many countries in As residents of the United States environmental damages that will affect impoverished and disempowered, the world, access to clean water is and consumers of everyday goods generations? who were affected by the destructive increasingly scarce due to climate produced through mining—such as practices of the corporation. change, mismanagement and pol- cell phones, jewelry, building materials, Kathleen Kollman Birch is communica- Over the course of the following lution. Because of the way trade etc.—we are compelled by the con- tions manager at the Maryknoll Office decade, the movement started by this agreements are structured to favor sequences of many mining projects for Global Concerns. small group of ordinary Salvadoran international corporate interests over villagers gradually built a supporting local efforts to protect environmental FAITH IN ACTION: coalition that included international resources and community interests, • Read more about the campaign of the Salvadoran water defenders in The advocacy groups, researchers, law- companies in extractive industries Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country from Corporate yers, Salvadoran politicians and lead- such as mining are often able to pol- Greed, by Robin Broad and John Cavanagh, available in March 2021: http:// ers in the Catholic Church. Against lute natural resources with impunity bit.ly/WatDefendElSalv all odds, after a transnational law- through the course of their work. • March 22 is World Water Day. Read more about efforts to protect the right to suit played out in secret tribunals in Those who stand against this kind clean water around the world: https://www.worldwaterday.org/ Washington D.C., and after an ardu- of environmental destruction are in- ous campaign in the Salvadoran na- creasingly threatened. The year 2019 The Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns, based in Washington, D.C., is a re- tional legislature, El Salvador in 2017 was the deadliest on record for envi- source for Maryknoll on matters of peace, social justice and integrity of creation, became the first nation in the world to ronmental defenders around the world, and brings Maryknoll’s mission experience into U.S. policy discussions. Phone ban metal mining. with 212 recorded murders. The perpe- (202) 832-1780, visit www.maryknollogc.org or email [email protected].

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Abundant Graces Flow in Taiwan By Yu-Mei Lee

hen I knocked on the Mary- to tapes while driving. I recorded the knoll Language School door Sunday Scripture readings in Man- Win Taichung, Taiwan, in 1974, darin for him. Meanwhile I had the I was applying for a job. I had no chance to read the Scriptures myself. idea this would be the beginning of a My second principal at the lan- friendship with the Maryknoll Fathers guage school, Father Frank O’Don- and Brothers that continues today. nell, asked me to translate the Ordi- At that time, I was a freshman at nary parts of the Mass from Chinese Tunghai University in Taichung and to Taiwanese. The other teachers heard that the Maryknoll Language could not understand why he would School was looking for a Manda- ask me, a non-Catholic, to do this rin teacher. When I went for the in- job. Eventually I realized he was giv- terview, Father James A. Collignon ing me a chance to know the Catholic Yu-Mei Lee (flowered blouse) sat next to Maryknoll Sister Shu-Chen Wu, a native of told me, “We do not need Mandarin religion better. Taiwan, in the congregation at the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers’ Centennial Mass teachers, but if you’re interested in I began studying Catholic doctrine at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City in 2011. (Courtesy of Yu-Mei Lee/U.S.) teaching Taiwanese, can you learn with a Taiwanese sister and was bap- Taiwanese romanization (Taiwanese tized. My husband, Zhe-Feng Lin, fol- written in our Roman script)?” lowed me after studying Catholicism priests to come to the Maryknoll cen- New York City and to read one of the I said “yes.” After six months of with Father Murray. ter house to translate the Sunday petitions in the Prayer of the Faithful. study, I passed the test. It wasn’t just studying doctrine that Mass books from Chinese to Taiwan- “Is it really true?” I asked myself. “Am I became a part-time teacher at drew us to the Catholic Church, but ese. Even now, most of the Taiwan- I dreaming?” the Maryknoll Language School un- the example of the Maryknoll mission- ese parishes use these books. I wanted to bring a special gift to til I graduated from college in 1978. ers. They were so kind and dedicated I was pleased when Father Clar- Maryknoll. My husband said, “Let me That’s when Father John Moran hired to their mission, and they persevered ence Engler set up the Maryknoll In- engrave the founders’ names and me to teach Mandarin and Taiwanese in learning the difficult Taiwanese lan- formation Service Center in Taichung photos on stones.” The Maryknoll Fa- full time. guage so they could better serve the and asked me to record the Lection- thers and Brothers put them on dis- Over the years I taught many Mary- people. ary with the Sunday Mass readings play at their center in New York. knollers. My long-term student was I remember Father O’Donnell im- in Taiwanese and Mandarin for the The day of the Centennial Mass, I Father Eugene Murray. From 1997- mediately writing down a word the website. was very nervous to stand before so 2000 he would spend four hours first time he heard it and asking me One of the happiest moments of many people and recite my prayer. every Monday studying the New to help him understand what it meant. my life came in 2011 when Father But God helped me. Catechism of the Catholic Church in He was concerned about hearing-im- Alfonso Kim, then the Maryknoll So- I thank God for giving me the grace Chinese characters. paired people and learned to commu- ciety’s Asia regional superior, invited I needed that day and for the abun- Father Richard Devoe had a four- nicate with them in sign language. me to attend the Maryknoll Centen- dant graces I have received for over wheel-drive jeep and liked to listen He also invited five Taiwanese nial Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in 40 years with Maryknoll.

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ONLINE CREATION AS SACRAMENT fortitude and then work to prepare the Thank you for your wonderful pub- way of the Lord. lication, which has been a favorite of Mark A. Sleboda We invite you to visit us on the web at maryknollmagazine.org to mine for many years. In the Winter Redford Township, Michigan read our digital edition as well as our expanded online coverage of 2021 issue a reader was concerned that Father Joseph R. Veneroso had REST IN PEACE Catholic news worldwide. made a serious error when he spoke I was sorry to see Father Gerard of creation in the September/October McCrane’s name included among issue as being the first sacrament. those Maryknoll missioners who died We remain committed to bringing you stories of God’s mission We are truly blessed in our faith to during this past year. I was privileged through our quarterly print issues of Maryknoll magazine. have access to the seven sacraments to know Father Gerry in the fall of that were given to us by our Lord, Je- 1983 when I spent three months at sus Christ. It’s correct that “creation” the Maryknoll Language School, the itself is not among those blessings Instituto de Idiomas in Cochabamba, that we acknowledge with holy, for- Bolivia. Then the school’s director, mal rituals. However, the act of the Father Gerry was a wonderful host existence of anything at all is given and friend, with a language program to us by God the Father in union with that included an introduction to the our Lord. Thus, for example, we can Latin American reality, ably assisted speak of the “sacrament” of humor in by Maryknoll Sister Barbara Hen- the same breath as we rejoice over dricks. I am writing this on the 40th the “sacrament” of creation without anniversary of the murder in El Salva- disrespecting our beloved seven. dor of Maryknoll Sisters Maura Clarke Peter M. Murray and Ita Ford and their companions, Brookfield, Wisconsin Sister Dorothy Kazel and Lay Mis- sioner Jean Donovan. The Church AN OBEDIENT SERVANT owes much to your community. May The Winter 2021 edition of your they all rest in peace. Maryknoll magazine with the photos Thomas P. Rausch, S.J. and meditative prose on St. Joseph Los Angeles, California the Carpenter is encouraging during these times. I like to think of St. Jo- ONE-SIDED STORY seph as the worker since he works in As a longtime reader and support- our hearts and minds to give us cour- er of Maryknoll magazine, but also age. We don’t know too much about a nuclear engineer and scientist, I Joseph in Scripture. What is known found the article by well-intentioned is that he was summoned to be an Sister Kathleen Reiley to be entirely obedient servant to God as well as a one-sided. Nuclear, in all of its imple- SUBSCRIBE TODAY for Maryknoll magazine, chaste spouse to Mary and a pater- mentations—from commercial elec- nal mentor to Jesus. To be called in tricity generation, to space research, online and in print at maryknollmagazine.org that form is quite moving to me. As to medicine, to the maintenance of or call 1-888-627-9566. Joseph did, we must gather all our world peace by the U.S. arsenal of 60 SPRING 2021 MARYKNOLL MARYKNOLLMAGAZINE.ORG 61 nuclear weapons—has two sides, but been safely handled for over 70 years only one was told and even that was and poses minuscule radiation risk to misleading due to the hysteria asso- the public. ciated with radiation. Sister Reiley “believes” that Ja- The facts are that the radiation lev- pan’s 52 nuclear power plants pose els in and around Three Mile Island, an enormous threat to human life. The Chernobyl, Fukushima and Tokaimu- reality is that the science and the data ra, even right after the accidents, show just the opposite; they are sav- are similar to the naturally occurring ing thousands of lives yearly because radiation levels in many parts of the of pollution reduction alone. world today. We scientists have not Thomas McLaughlin succeeded in educating society that Los Alamos, New Mexico there is no evidence that these rela- tively low radiation levels that people WONDERFUL NUN worldwide are exposed to from Moth- Think about an article on Sister er Nature’s sources pose any health Dede Byrne. She is a wonderful Cath- risks whatsoever. olic nun who truly practices her Cath- I have worked and lived here in olic faith with the poor. Her life is ded- CARING FOR Los Alamos, New Mexico, for over icated to the many who suffer. When 50 years and was the chief nuclear Sister Byrne spoke at the Republican scientist on a Department of Energy National Convention, she said her three-person team sent to Tokaimura weapon of choice is the rosary. I pray God’s Creation directly after the accident. I can attest this isn’t too controversial for your Courtesy of Lawrence Radice/Thailand to the media hysteria and unfortunate beautiful magazine. Thank you, Mary- scaring of the local populace associ- knoll. Honor the Blessed Mother and ated with the low levels of radiation many blessings will follow. because of the accident. Unfortu- Maureen Theresa Krepol Maryknoll Father Lawrence Radice (left) helps farmers from rural Thailand adapt to climate nately, our educational system and Media, Pennsylvania change conditions, often by using natural methods for pest control and soil conservation. Your the popular media do not mention gift to the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers will enable Father Radice and other missioners the science and data that support Correction: In a Missioner Tale by around the world to help others re-establish their relationship with God’s creation. my statements herein nor do they Maryknoll Lay Missioner Susan report about all the positive sides to Nagele in the Winter 2021 issue, we ✁ the world’s uses for nuclear energy mistakenly identified the two young Yes, I wish to share in the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers’ today and into the future. Thousands men who delivered polio vaccine to of lives are saved yearly from both a remote area in South Sudan as a mission of helping people throughout the world respect and care pollution-free electricity generation Maryknoll lay missioner and a priest for God’s creation. by commercial nuclear power plants from the St. Patrick’s Missionary So- and by applications of radiation in ciety. 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