Mission Trip West Virginia
Energy Immersion, Direct Service, Prayer, Reflection and Call to Action Trip West Virginia 2017 Saint Nicholas of Evanston parishioners, Jeanie Brabeck and Patricia Trafton, are leading an energy...
View ArticleHEAL’s Newest Project: a Security WALL!
We recently received this update from Home to Enhance African Life (HEAL), which serves the spiritual, educational, material and legal needs of orphans and widows in Nigeria. President, Nick Costello,...
View ArticleFoundation for Children in Need
Let the Children Smile! One of the missionary organizations that the Mission Office supports, Foundation for Children in Need (FCN), has successfully coordinated (for a third year) cleft lip and cleft...
View ArticleBolivia Summer Immersion for Young Adults
IMMERSION IN BOLIVIA —— When: Monday August 14, 2017 at 9:00 AM PDT -to- Saturday August 26, 2017 at 7:00 PM PDT Where: Cochabamba and Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia —— Young Adults seeking to...
View ArticleFr. Andrzej Dzida, Missionary in South Sudan
These are recent letters from Fr. Andrzej Dzida. He writes about the Pope’s visit to Egypt and his future visit to South Sudan. In both contexts there is great need for peace and understanding. He...
View ArticleMaryknoll Mission Immersion Trips
Leaving the comfort of home to meet our brothers and sisters in another land is a real and concrete way we encounter Christ in each other. Come see what new dimensions of faith, hope and love Jesus...
View ArticleWorld Mission Sunday 2017
We will celebrate World Mission Sunday on October 21-22 this year. In preparation, Pope Francis has prepared his message to coincide with the celebration of the Feast of Pentecost. You can find the...
View ArticleMongolia Has a New Parish
As we mark a quarter century since missionaries first returned to Mongolia, the faith community of Divine Mercy on Most Holy Trinity Sunday was raised to the rank of parish. Father Prosper Mbumba,...
View ArticleMission In China & Hong Kong
For the months of July and August 2017 the Mission Office was blessed to have two guests on the Mission Matters LIVE! radio show who are familiar with mission efforts in China and Hong Kong. You can...
View ArticleLife and Justice Conference
The Life & Justice Conference, hosted by the Department of Parish Vitality and Mission, will unite Archdiocesan leaders who respond to the Gospel call by putting Catholic Social...
View Article100 years Since St. Frances Cabrini’s Death
St. Frances Xavier Cabrini 1850-1917 “Prayer is powerful! It fills the earth with mercy, it makes the divine clemency pass from generation to generation; right along the course of the centuries...
View ArticleThe Challenges in Haiti and South Sudan
FLIER HERE — When: Thursday, October 19 at 7:00pm to 9:00pm 6:30pm Reception 7:00pm Discussion Where: DePaul Student Center (Lincoln Park) 2250 N Sheffield Ave. Chicago — On the heels of Pope...
View ArticlePast, Present, and Future
FLIER HERE – When: Thursday, November 9 6:30pm Reception 7:00pm Presentation Where: DePaul Student Center (Lincoln Park) 2250 N Sheffield Ave Rm. 314B Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural...
View ArticleThe Spirituality of the Comboni Missionaries
“The Spirituality of the Comboni Missonaries” by Kathleen M. Carroll in Comboni Missions Vol. 55 No. 3 A Thousand Lives for the Mission. Of all the introductions one might have to a way of living, this...
View ArticleMission Event at DePaul’s Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural...
Burying the Dead: Extrajudicial Killings in the Philippines and the Catholic Church’s Response January 25, 2018 6:30pm Reception 7:00pm Presentation Rev. Amado Picardal, CSsR, gives this third talk...
View ArticleLetter From Pope Francis RE: Extraordinary Missionary Month October 2019
FULL English text HERE To my Venerable Brother Cardinal Fernando Filoni Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples On 30 November 2019, we will celebrate the hundredth anniversary of...
View ArticleNew Ecumenical Preaching Resource from the American Society of Missiology
The American Society of Missiology (ASM), the ecumenical professional association for mission studies in North America, includes more than 600 academicians, mission agency executives, and missionaries...
View ArticleDiscerning a Missionary Vocation Part 1
My name is Roberto Carvajal, I’m from Chicago, but I’m currently living in Guadalajara Mexico. During this time I been living with the brothers from Verbum Dei Missionary Fraternity. The missionary...
View ArticleMaryknoll Lent Resources
Empowering communities of missionary disciples to go forth in JOY to share the Good News of God’s love at home, on the margins and around the world through formation and immersion opportunities…...
View ArticleSolidarity Bridge Weekly Lenten Reflections
Join the Solidarity Bridge community for prayer and reflection throughout Lent! Solidarity Bridge is a lay initiative of the Archdiocese of Chicago. Together with our Bolivian partners and US...
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