TO CENTRAL AMERICA PILGRIMAGE/RETREAT Annual PO Box 302, Maryknoll, NY 10545-0302 Maryknoll, PO Box 302, Annual PILGRIMAGE/RETREAT Fr. David La Buda, M.M. TO CENTRAL AMERICA January 10-21, 2022 Fr. Robert Dueweke, OSA For more information, contact Kris East Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers P.O. Box 302 Maryknoll, NY 10545-0302 510-276-5021 [email protected]@maryknoll.org www.maryknollpilgrimage.org “The violence we preach is the Stamp Place violence of love” Here Bro. Octavio Duran Archbishop Oscar Romero PN 30975-21? A 10 DAY SPIRITUAL Witness statements FROM PREVIOUS JOURNEY FOR BISHOPS, PILGRIMAGE/RETREAT PARTICIPANTS PRIESTS, BROTHERS AND PERMANENT DEACONS “I find it difficult to express in words the impact that this pilgrimage/retreat of January 14th-25th, 2019 had on me. I felt alk in the footsteps of modern day connected to these inspirational martyrs Wmartyrs. Learn why these coura- in a way that could not have been possible geous women and men, caught up in situations without the personal testimonies of others of civil war in which the people they served and and our physical presences in the sites of the Catholic Church itself suffered persecution, their martyrdom. Am eternally grateful!” were able to give their lives as witnesses of Jesus Christ. “By far this was a blessed pilgrimage – better than Rome, Ireland, France.” We will visit the tomb of Saint Archbishop Romero and celebrate Mass at the altar where “My participation in the Maryknoll he was assassinated. We will also visit the site Pilgrimage/Retreat to Central America in El Salvador where Maryknoll Sisters Ita Ford, during January 2019 impressed on me the Maura Clarke, Ursuline Sister Dorothy Kazel power of the preached word of God.” Fr. David La Buda, M.M. and Cleveland Lay Missioner Jean Donovan “This is an unusual form of “The martyrs ‘spoke truth to power’ were murdered in 1980. retreat / pilgrimage: and shed their blood as witnesses to the Included will be a visit to the University of you will be implicated Gospel in their solidarity with the people Central America where six Jesuits, their house- in their martyrdom, the massacres they served.” keeper and her daughter were killed. with those who died, with “This is how I am ‘implicated’ and this In Guatemala, the participants will visit beau- those who survived is what I must preach: expose the evil of tiful Santiago Atitlan where Blessed Stan Rother and live with the everyday the lie and welcome the ‘crucified’ poor from the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City gave martyrdom of the poor. seeking compassion and hospitality at our his life for his Mayan Indian parishioners. You dared to walk with them; nation’s borders.” All this and much more will be experienced you are implicated. during this ten day spiritual event by those who Now you can tell their story; make this Pilgrimage/Retreat journey. now you can tell your story.”.