Sister Maryud Cortés grew up in Colombia unable to walk, until at age 9 she was miraculously cured. She loved learning, but sacrificed a higher education when she became a Catholic sister—until her order joined our U.S.-Latin American Sisters Exchange Program. With our support, she earned her bachelor’s, master’s and Ph.D., all while ministering to marginalized women and migrant farmworker communities in the The Catholic Diocese of Kalamazoo, Michigan. This National Vocation Awareness Week, we c

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