Guadalupe Mancilla, smc In the diocese of Kaande, I’ve come to see how the shortage of trained lay leaders leaves entire communities without guidance — many parishioners have only a limited understanding…
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Dialogue that begins in the classroom
Valeria Ruiz Sánchez Armida. From Aswan (Egypt) Saint Daniel Comboni was a fervent believer in the transformative power of education. From the very beginning of the Comboni story, we see him founding…
World Rainforest Day: a tribute to the planet’s green lungs
Prado Fernández. Smc World Rainforest Day is celebrated on 22 June, a day dedicated to highlighting the importance of these unique ecosystems and raising awareness of the need to protect them. Rainforests…
The Grace of Being Sent
Sr. Tirhas Tesfalidet Araya, Smc., de Nacala-Porto, Mozambique “Una vida que no se entrega a los demás no merece ser vivida” (San Juan Pablo II). Abandona tu patria El Señor le dijo…
Cultivating Difference: The Agricultural Work of Intercultural Life
Inma Cuesta. Smc Sister Laura Díaz chose an unusual word when describing what intercultural community actually requires. She didn’t reach for the standard vocabulary—tolerance, respect, acceptance. Instead, she used a verb that…
Speaking the language of love and friendship
Vera Lúcia Geraldo. Smc. Mozambique My name is Vera Lúcia Geraldo and I’m from Brazil. I can say that I’ve spent my whole life in Mozambique, apart from a few years when…
When Mission Becomes Mutual: Learning to Receive
Inma Cuesta. Smc. There’s a particular moment that happens to many missionaries, usually a few months or years into their work. It’s the moment when they realize the script has flipped—that the…
Incarnate Mission
By Lorena Ortiz, cms A few months ago, I told an Italian friend that my next mission destination would be Dubai. She laughed, thinking I was joking. When she realized I was serious,…
The Desert School: When Nothing Happens in Prayer
Inma Cuesta. Smc. Sister Teresina Minelli spent decades in Africa, in places where there wasn’t much of anything. Not many resources, not many programs, not many of the supports that modern missionary…
Light from Light
Inma Cuesta. Smc. When Grace first heard the words from the Letter to the Ephesians during an ecumenical gathering in Juba, South Sudan, something inside her awakened. “There is one body and…