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2019 World Care Benefit & Celebration
Franciscan Mission Service Commemorates Active and Engaged Laity at the 2019 World Care Annual Benefit and Celebration On April 5, Franciscan Mission Service hosted the annual World Care Benefit and Celebration to highlight its unique commitment to mission and to recognize lay people who are heeding the call to work for peace, justice, and hope.…
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On January 27, Franciscan Mission Service held its annual Re-Commissioning Mass celebrating three recently returned missioners Anna Klonowski, Cindy Mizes, and Misty Menis-Kyler, who lived in solidarity with the marginalized of Bolivia, Jamaica, and Guatemala, respectively, for two years. The special Re-Commissioning Mass not only brought a close to the missioners’ time serving with FMS…
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Joy Incarcerated
Editor’s note:Missioner Catherine Sullivan offers a photo essay that is a window into a special day in her prison ministry–her goddaughter Michelle’s baptismal presentation. [unitegallery CHS717] Reflection question: Often light shines the brightest through the darkness. Where can you find light in your hardships?
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A Time to Rejoice
Editor’s note: Missioner Allison Dethlefs recounts a celebration at one of her service sites that gave her insight into her community’s strength and ability to turn trauma into joy. For the past year-and-a-half I have been volunteering at a girl’s home called Nuestra Casa (Our House). The home takes in girls ages 5-18 who have…
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Celebrating Diversity
Editor’s Note: Missioner Tom Little shares his change of heart during a week of activities at the University where he serves in Carmen Pampa, Bolivia. I just finished my first inter-carreras experience and it was not what I expected. Inter-carreras, or inter-major of study, is a week long group of activities to celebrate the founding…
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2015 World Care Benefit and Celebration Recap
When 190 people gathered in St. Francis Hall on May 1 for the 2015 World Care Benefit and Celebration, they expected to celebrate Franciscan Mission Service’s 25 years of sending lay Catholics on mission. No one, however, expected to be given drawing from a school in Guatemala or to be part of an impromptu sing-along…
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Sharing Love as Far as Possible
Editor’s Note: The featured image is of Guy and Lilian celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary. May 28th was the fiftieth wedding anniversary of my host parents, Guy and Lilian. I cannot put into words how humbled I am by their continued kindness, and how they have welcomed me into their family with open arms. At…
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