Mission is about relationships!

Maryknoll offers you a unique experience to answer the call of Jesus.  Come join us in Guatemala and El Salvador this summer 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 first week of the mission trip.  The second week we will visit the sites of modern day martyrs in El Salvador. The mission immersion trip will take place from July 9--18, 2012. 

During the first week of their mission trip, participants will spend time visiting a Q’eqchi' Indian village in the northern jungle region of the Petén in Guatemala accompanied by Father Bill Donnelly.  They will also accompany Father Bill Senger to visit homes, meet people, and celebrate Mass in the small villages 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.

During the second half of the mission trip, participants will journey by bus to El Salvador.  Accompanied by Fathers John Spain and Jack Northrop, they will visit the sites of the Central American Martyrs; the chapel where Archbishop Oscar Romero was assassinated; the site of the massacre of the four Churchwomen, and the Catholic University of San Salvador where six Jesuit priests and their housekeepers were brutally slain.  Participants will also visit the AIDS clinic directed by Maryknoll Sister Mary Annel and do pastoral visits in the Zacamil parish.

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.