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Glenmary Challenge is the quarterly magazine of the Glenmary Home Missioners. Its purpose is to keep before U.S. Catholics the home mission challenge that Glenmary has been sounding since its founding in 1939: to bring a Catholic presence to the neglected small towns and rural areas of the United States.
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Autumn 2009 |
Michele Bertot, pastoral coordinator of Glenmary’s Holy Redeemer mission, and her dog Grretta visit with Kay Lockaton, 88, a member of the Vanceburg, Ky., mission. Since 1989, professional lay ministers like Michele have led the Catholic community in Eastern Kentucky. |
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Summer 2009 |
Members of St. Andrew mission in Danville, Ark., organized an emergency food pantry in response to a local pultry plant's closing. they are living the Gospel mandate to feed the hungry. |
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Spring 2009 |
Social outreach programs have been an important part of Glenmary's 70 years of home mission ministry. Clients of Industrial Opportunities, Inc., continue to benefit from Glenmary's outreach efforts. |
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| Winter 2008 |
Father Bob Bond's photos introduced readers of Glenmary Challenge to the people of the home missions—like this shepherd and his home-made sheep. |
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| Autumn 2008 |
Glenmary mission communities may be small in number but they are made up of Catholics from diverse cultural backgrounds and traditions. And they are richer because of it. |
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| Summer 2008 |
Glenmary's two missions in Scottsville, Ky., and Lafayette, Tenn., are filled to capacity each Sunday. Both missions are in the midst of building new churches while continuing to build on their evangelization efforts. |
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| Spring 2008 |
Glenmary brothers have a long history of serving the home missions. Today, many of these men work in secular jobs and are involved in diverse ministries. The thread that ties job, ministry and vocation together is their commitment to service.
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Winter 2007 |
Matt Smith became a server at age five because there were no older boys in his North Carolina mission. He, and others like him, reflect on being a child and Catholic in the home missions.
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Autumn 2007 |
Volunteers like these at the Glenmary Farm, spend a week, a month or even ayear in service with Glenmary. They say these experiences are 'life changing.'
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Summer 2007 |
After a visit with Father Frank Ruff, two visitors found there are no typical days in a Glenmary mission and also met 92-year-old Hazel Bissaillon who Father Frank regularly transports to morning Mass.
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Spring 2007 |
Hurricane Katrina evacuees Clarence and Emma Jean Barbour are welcomed by Father Neil Pezzulo to a new church home in Glenmary's mission in Waldron, Ark.
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