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The first formal activity of the returning missioners program, after the cookout last evening, was a mass together on Sunday morning. Fr. Mike Duggan, from the Maryknoll Society across the road, was the celebrant and all lay missioners who happened to be around were invited. |
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Fr. Mike Duggan is an accomplished singer. Here he adds his voice to the music of David Kane's flute and Susan Weissert's guitar. |
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As soon as the mass was ended, the returning missioners got right to work in the downstairs meeting room where they will gather throughout the coming week. |
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Charlie Dittmeier on the front porch of Bethany, the headquarters building of the Maryknoll Lay Missioners. This is the first time he returned to Bethany since finishing up his job as Asia Area Coordinator five years ago. The bell in the picture is traditionally rung as each new class of lay missioners leaves for their first assignment. |
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The Bethany Building, now the headquarters for the Maryknoll Lay Missioners. Originally a family estate, it was used as an infirmary by the Maryknoll Sisters. Last year it was sold to MLM by the Maryknoll Priests and Brothers for one dollar. |
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This is a stone pillar that marks the entrance to the main Maryknoll campus, the original site of Maryknoll and now the location for the joint offices and all the programs of the Maryknoll Priests and Brothers. |
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Originally built as the Maryknoll Seminary, which is now located at the Chicago Theological Union, this is the largest Chinese-style building in the United States. |
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A new edition to the Maryknoll campus is the stone memorial of the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Pyongyang diocese in what is now North Korea. Maryknollers worked in Pyongyang until the Communists took over. |
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Another new addition to the Maryknoll campus is this exhibit hall which has interactive displays to introduce visitors to Maryknoll and to mission as it has been practiced in the past 90 years of Maryknoll's history. |
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Fr. Michael McKeirnan worked in Hong Kong from 8 December 1941 until his recent retirement. Fr. Charlie Dittmeier lived with Fr. McKeirnan at the Bishop Ford Center for twelve years before moving to Cambodia in 2000. |