MOJ Novices educating the Masters in faith!

Aug 11, 2021 | Education, Masters, MOJ

Many years before HEAL became a formal entity, a former colleague of Rev. Leo Okonkwo pressured him to abandon the religious aspect of his mission and focus exclusively on clean water well projects in his home country of Nigeria. Leo refused, because his work on...

New Postulants Spell Relief for MOJs

Apr 28, 2021 | MOJ, News, Stories

Jesus looked out at the helpless crowds, telling His disciples that the harvest is plenty but the laborers few and to pray that God send more laborers. (See Mt. 9:37-38)  In HEAL’s mission, the Masters are our harvest, our planted seeds waiting to be watered and...

New Postulants Try Out the MOJ Sisters

Feb 25, 2021 | MOJ, News

In the movie Field of Dreams, a farmer walking in his cornfield hears a mysterious voice whisper, “If you build it, he will come.”  He obeys the voice by building a baseball field on his farm, which draws the spirits of historic players who appear on the field to play...

Give $10/month to Help Sr. Dorothy’s Mission!

Jan 22, 2021 | Appeal, Events, MOJ

In yesterday’s Gospel (Mk 3:7-12), Our Lord boards a boat off shore of the Sea of Galilee to avoid being crushed by a great crowd pressing upon him.  In the crowd, people with various diseases wanted to touch him and be healed.  Sr. Dorothy processing up the aisle...

MOJ’s and Masters Fending for their Food

Jun 11, 2019 | Food, MOJ

In 2017, HEAL’s Coordinator for Widow’s Outreach, named Dorothy, brought Deacon Leo and I to her home village of Ekwe to show us the squalid conditions many of her people were suffering there. We encountered a widow named Ijioma and two of her children, whom I...

MOJ Sisters: Making the Mission!

Jul 13, 2017 | MOJ

If someone asked me for one reason why they should support HEAL, I would answer instantly, “the Messengers of Justice”!  The Messengers of Justice (MOJ) religious order, founded by Deacon Leo Okonkwo with the spiritual charism of Jesus’ Self-Emptying (cf. Phil...