![](https://legacyfscdena.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/1-Team-Photo.jpg)
Office for Mission & Ministry team. Front row: Mrs. Maryann Donohue-Lynch, Associate Director of OMM; Br. Ernest Miller, FSC, Director of the Adrien Nyel Project; Mr. Justin Martineau, Associate Director of OMM. Back Row: Mr. Benjamin Ventresca, Provincial Delegate for Board Governance; and Mr. James Logan, Director of OMM.
After nearly thirteen years of dedicated service as the Associate Executive Director of the Office for Mission & Ministry, Mrs. Maryann Donohue-Lynch will retire June 1, 2023.
Beginning her tenure in DENA in the summer of 2012, Maryann helped to solidify the work of the then less than three-year-old Office for Mission & Ministry. Serving with then Executive Director Alan Weyland, Maryann was central in establishing many of the now foundational governance structures such as the Mission Assembly and Mission Council.
Maryann was also critical in growing many formation programs and retreat experiences, particularly the Brother Luke Salm Religious Education Workshop, VEGA Young Lasallians, the Women’s Retreat, and most recently the Spiritual Accompaniment Program.
For the last 20 years, Maryann has also been instrumental in organizing the Lasallian Youth programs. Her expertise in religious education, evangelization, and spiritual formation will be greatly missed.
Maryann has also been actively engaged, sharing her wisdom and experience at both the Regional and International levels. Over the years, Maryann has been a presenter at the Buttimer Institute, Brother John Johnston Institute, and multiple Huether conferences. In addition, she has served on various committees of the Region and as a delegate to the second (2013) and third (2022) International Mission Assemblies. Her commitment to high quality religious education, as well as to the poor and marginalized, has helped shape and positively influence the last two International Assemblies and the proposals which flow from them.
Her international travel led her to co-found Lasallian Women of Hope, an organization that works to ensure girls and women enjoy full access to Lasallian education, especially in some of the poorest areas of the world.
Throughout her 29-year Lasallian journey, whether serving as the Campus Minister at La Salle Academy in Providence, the Principal at Saint Raphael Academy, or the Associate Executive Director in the Office for Mission & Ministry, her zeal for the mission has been unwavering.
With a deep sense of gratitude for all she has done to further the Lasallian mission, working to bring about the reign of God, we wish Maryann well as she moves to the next stage of her life.
We are grateful that this next stage will see her continued involvement with Lasallian Women of Hope and free her to spend and enjoy much more time with her family, especially her grandchildren.
God bless Maryann as she turns to the next chapter of her life! Enhancing and harnessing the energy, compassion and dedication of Lasallian women who see St LaSalle’s values as their own has been a powerful contribution of her effort. Thank you Maryann! Hopefully this will continue to be a priority well into DENAs future.
Maryann, Patrick and I are so very happy for you! After all your years of dedicated service, now you’ll be able to dedicate time for yourself and family. Retired life can be filled with so many exciting possibilities!
I will always have fond memories of attending your LaSallian Women’s Retreats in Narragansett. Thank you for including me.
Welcome to retired life, friend!
Great thanks to and God’s blessings upon Maryann as she enters this new step in her journey to God.
She has spent many years of her life with our Lasallian mission.
We are all better because of her and her devoted service.
May God continue to bless you and your family as you continue your path.
May God bless the years ahead with good health , happiness, and peace.
With gratitude, Frank Brancato
Maryann,
You are such a valuable asset to the Lasallian community and I hope you will occasionally show up at a conference or event and surprise us.
Words cannot adequately express how you have touched so many lives and on so many levels.
I pray for joy to permeate your time together with family and friends.
Blessings,