Since 1912 the Maryknoll Sisters have striven to bring the message and love of Jesus to the marginalized, working for over 50 years in Latin America. Arriving in the 1940s and 1950s, they focused on service and instruction. Gradually, awareness of the complex webs trapping the poor brought them to question their own role. Inspired by Vatican II and the Latin American bishops' option for the poor, they sought new ways to respond, moving from the shelter of convent life to a precarious existence among the poor. There the sisters found themselves evangelized by the poor they had come to serve.
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