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Oct 26, 2018 · At 60, Fr. Ron MacDonell is the youngest of the Scarboro Missions priests. Even as his fellow priests back home in Toronto move into a seniors’ residence, MacDonell is working today in the upper reaches of the Amazon basin among Brazil’s Makushi people, bringing together village elders and young people to recover their vanishing language ...
Sep 4, 2020 · Father Ron MacDonell, a Scarboro missionary from Nova Scotia, writes on a whiteboard in July 2019 as he leads a workshop in St. Ignatius, Guyana. Based in Brazil, the Canadian is a linguist who...
Jan 26, 2024 · It’s a second life for the life’s work of Fr. Ron MacDonnell, general superior of the Toronto-based Scarboro Missions, who has launched a digital reboot of these endangered languages with four years worth of language lessons.
Scarboro Missions is a Society of Canadian Catholics, priests and laity, motivated by the Spirit, who dedicate themselves to the person, teaching and mission of Jesus Christ as expressed in his words: "I have come that they may have life and have it to the full." (John 10:10)
A reflection by Fr. Ron MacDonell, SFM, on Ezekiel 2.3-5, 2 Corinthians 12.7-10 and Mark 6.1-6 Have you ever had a thorn or a splinter stuck in your finger? It’s painful and aggravating, and we usually go about to remove it right away. St. Paul tells us today that “a thorn was given me in the flesh…to keep me from being too elated.”
Today, Fr. Ron MacDonell works in language revitalization. Above, Fr. Ron coaches an Apurina child at a language workshop in Manaus. The Apurina, an indigenous group, have moved to Manaus so their children will learn their ancestral language in a modern urban context. Credit: Luisa Fernandes, 2006.
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Oct 1, 2019 · Father Ron MacDonell, a Scarboro missionary from Nova Scotia, writes on a whiteboard as he leads a workshop in St. Ignatius, Guyana. Based in Brazil, the Canadian is a linguist who helps indigenous people in the Amazon region improve their reading of the Scriptures in their own languages.
