From the Director - We are now well into Lent, how is it going?
Lent is traditionally understood as a time of repentance and penance and it is easy to focus on ourselves as sinners. Fortunately, the liturgical…
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From the Editor – Transformational Experiences
Fr Donald Hornsey shares with us the celebration of Easter by the indigenous Quechua people of the Peruvian Andes Mountains. The Easter Liturgies…
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Leo’s last wish
It is a vast splash of colour, full of figures and events. From a distance it is a blur, but up close you see the details of all the activities…
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Speechless in the face of evil
Those who are prejudiced will take the situation as proof of their narrow-minded suspicions, but those of us who are committed to interfaith…
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Christ dying, Christ rising in the Peruvian Andes
First the men of Combapata lift a glass sided coffin containing a life-size image of “Cristo Muerto" - the "Dead Christ" which they carry on…
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Good Friday in Japan
The lights are then turned off and only a spotlight shines on the area of the Cross. Then each person comes up in procession two by two while…
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The Europe to which St Columban went
The people in Columban’s time were a mixture of Christians, some nominal and some fervent, and pagan tribes. The educated people spoke Latin,…
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Terminally ill – sources of income
In Pakistan terminally-ill patients are treated as sources of income by the medical profession and the hospital culture. Their illness is not…
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Mission World – March 2015
The report from the Peruvian Government's "Truth and Reconciliation Commission", which is attached to the cause of beatification, highlights…
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More than just a job
During my time working in the Columban office I have learnt to appreciate the generosity of the Columban benefactors who support the many works…
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My prison visitor
I have seen miracles even among my employers' families (who are not believers) when I pray for them.
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A missionary for 70 years
In 1967 Fr Vincent was appointed to Fiji where he served for 40 years in many parishes and as a teacher and chaplain at Xavier Secondary College.
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