Megan McKenna, a native of New York City has lived, visited and gypsied through North and South America (especially Bolivia/Peru), Europe and a collection of islands: Celtic, Japanese, the Philippines, Singapore, Haiti and the Hawaiian Islands and through Malaysia, India, Marshall Islands, Thailand, Australia and China. She works with Indigenous groups, in base Christian Communities and with justice and peace groups as well as parishes, dioceses and religious communities. She has been on the United States National Board of Pax Christi and in 2002 was appointed an Ambassador of Peace for Pax Christi.  To read more about Megan, click here.

Megan McKenna Awarded 2012 Isaac Hecker Award

Megan McKenna with her Godchild, Megan, at Isaac Hecker Award presentation.

Since 1974, the Paulist Center Community has presented the Isaac Hecker Award for Social Justice to an outstanding North American Catholic. Recipients of the award have included locally and nationally recognized women and men — lay people, sisters, priests, and bishops. Some have been involved in direct service to those in need, others in advocacy work and the transformation of structures and institutions. Many of the recipients have been committed to both these dimensions of social action. Most of them overtly and directly connected their faith and action. All have been committed to building a more just and peaceful world.

Isaac Hecker, founder of the Paulist Fathers, was particularly concerned with the growth and development of American Catholicism. Isaac Hecker and the early Paulists devoted themselves to mission preaching, communication of the Word of God. Hecker’s spirituality involved looking to the heart, listening to the Spirit, and living in America. The Award was named to honor Isaac Hecker.

Text of Hecker Award presentation to Megan, click here.

List of past recipients.

New Release from Veritas!

In Breaking the Word, Megan McKenna presents commentaries and reflections for the lectionary readings, Cycle B, which are from the gospels of Mark and John. In her own inimitable style, the author reflects on readings for the Sundays and feast days of this year, accompanying the reader through the peaks and troughs of the biblical landscape and making scriptural connections to life that will challenge, uplift and sustain. Breaking the Word will be an invaluable as a resource for homilies, personal reflection or group study. 

U.S. Orders, click here.

International Orders, click here.

Join Megan in Ireland in 2012

Carpe Diem Pilgrimage

Once upon a time…

Join Megan McKenna for a week of pilgrimage, prayer and storytelling in the wild and wonderful Gaeltacht (Irish-speaking) area of Corca Dhuibhne in south-west Kerry, Ireland.

PROVISIONAL DATES:  JUNE 20-24, 2012

For further information and booking, please contact Micheal de Barra at info@carpediem.ie or visit www.carpediem.ie

For a brochure, click here.

NOTE:  The brochure does not reflect the new dates of June 20-24, 2012 but all other information applies!

Digital Recordings and CDs Now Available!

F. Gerald Martin Pastoral Ministry Conference

Rooted in Our Tradition:

Growing Our Future

The 2011 F. Gerald Martin Pastoral Ministry Conference focused on key issues of importance viewed through the lens of justice. Within this context and for the good of us all, including the Church and the World, we focused on: Women, Sexuality, Culture, Race, City, Power, Medical Advances and more.

With wonderfully wise presenters (Megan McKenna, Fr. Tom Lumpkin, Dianne Bergant, C.S.A., Fr. Mark Miller,  Jesse Cox, Elena Herrada, and Bishop Thomas Gumbleton) as our guides and gardeners, we took up the challenge and grounded our exploration in our Biblical and Lived traditions. Then, considering the many terrains, obstacles, and pathways, seeds were planted. We grew in mind and heart with a greater understanding of these complex realities and concerns. Together, we probed the soil as we considered how best to sow seeds of justice and tend to the nurturing of hope. Fed with the Word and the Fruit of the earth and vine, we were properly fortified to meet the future with a renewed and deepened sense of purpose rooted in Faith and to go out and be justice in our communities and to share the harvest of our labor.

For more information and an order form, click here.

Reflections on the 10th Anniversary of 9/11

Spirituality and Practice is connected to a group of sensitive, wise, and articulate Living Spiritual Teachers, some of whom have graciously contributed reflections for this anniversary observance.  Links to Megan’s articles are found below:

• All My Relations
• Sharing the Gift of Peace Pie

Megan McKenna Book

receives 2011 Catholic Press Award

A recent book by Professor Megan McKenna, has just received an award from the Catholic Press. The book, This Will Be Remembered of Her, has been awarded THIRD place in the SPIRITUALITY Category of the 2011 Catholic Press Awards.

The Committee said, “Megan McKenna has been a theologian and storyteller in our Christian community for the last 40 years. Here she brings together stories from various traditions and true life stories that promote an inspirational vision of dedication and justice within the Christian church.”

 New Release!

Tasting the Word of God

Commentaries on the Sunday and Daily Readings

“In the sacred books the Father who is in heaven meets his children with great love and speaks with them; and the force in the Word of God is so great that it remains the support and energy of the Church, the strength of faith for her children, the food of the soul, the pure and perennial source of spiritual life.” These words from Vatican II’s Divine Revelation can serve as a vital foundation for these volumes of commentaries on the Lectionary readings for the cycle of the Church’s liturgy, worship, prayer and preaching. The readings serve to help us realize our connection to the universal Church praying as the Body of Christ together with one heart, mind, soul and body. The liturgy of Word and Eucharist is like a huge web strung across the world, holding it together and gathering all peoples into one before God.

These commentaries are offered as jumping off places, and there cannot be enough of them for no matter how many years we listen and celebrate the liturgies of the Church’s year and participate in the great mysteries of our God, there is always so much more to say, more food for thought, more hope and courage distilled, more essence of the scent of God among us; more to hear of wonder, delight and the love that God bears for us in Jesus and the Spirit.

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 Purchase photos from Megan’s travels!

 A large number of beautiful new images have been added to Megan’s Gallery and are available in a variety of print sizes.  To view and for ordering information, click here .