News - February 2024

We will gather at the Pallotine Retreat and Conference Center just outside St. Louis. Our theme is "The Mission of the Eucharist – Gather, Unite, Send.”

Fr Mike Salah shares his work with Retrouvaille, a marriage program that helps couples restore their marriage and rebuild a loving relationship

There are times when missionaries must speak truth to power. 

Host Ben OuYang provides an update on Maggie's adventures since completing her year of service with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps at Homeboy Industries.

Our synod synthesis study group will gather on February 29 for a conversation about a formal response based on our conversations. Please register via Zoom if you have not already participated in a study group session.

On February 22 at 2pm, the study group will focus on Part III of the synod synthesis document, paying particular care to how mission is used in sections 16, 17, and 18 and discussing how the Church listens to missionaries and adapts to the need for digital evangelization.

The new executive director at Franciscan Works, a Chicago-based nonprofit that supports Liberia Mission using the model of St. Francis of Assisi and three pillars: God, Education, and Work.

On the Second Sunday of Lent, the readings remind us to have faith in Jesus and leave behind your fear and doubt.

Podcast host Ben OuYang invites you to include Go Forth in your Lenten journey of prayers fasting and almsgiving and updates you on Fr. Tage Danielson, OFM Cap., our very first missionary interview.

The fourth session on Thursday, February 15, at 2pm ET will conclude Part II, focusing on the five groups the assembly considered in living out the mission of the church. Those five groups are women; consecrated life and lay associations and movements; deacons, priests and bishops; and the Bishop of Rome.

How we live directly affects our natural environment, and our Gospel perspective challenges the limited views and recklessly exploitative practices of our societies and commercial entities.

Fr. Raphael Garcia, SJ, shares his work on the border in El Paso, TX. An immigrant himself, Fr. Raphael works to provide the community in El Paso with the spiritual and practical resources they need.

To supplement your favorite Lenten practices, we're offering two additional podcast episodes a week.

After two meetings, the synod synthesis study group is pivoting to focus on passages that use the word "mission" or a variant. All are welcome to register and join!

Mercy is the beating heart of mission. Maryknoller James Kroeger explores how Pope Francis frequently reminds us that mercy is the foundation of our Christian life, using St. Damien the Leper as an example.

The weekly USCMA podcast featuring missionaries from around the world and down the street earned 2,000 cumulative listens in mid-January.