The Power of Touch
What is the largest organ of our body? The skin. This is probably the reason that among the senses, touch is the first to develop in the human infant, and it remains perhaps the most emotionally central throughout our lives But we have forgotten the power of touch.
Fr. Kurt Zion Pala
April 16, 2018
They Died in Their Parishes
At the end of WWII, Korea was divided at the 38th parallel. Tensions between the two parts erupted into armed clashes which eventually ended with the invasion of the South by the North on Sunday morning June 25, 1950.
Fr. Donal O'Keefe
April 11, 2018
Matt's Blessing
Matt was a bachelor farmer. He was consigned to bachelorhood probably because his mother lived way beyond the Biblical three score and ten. He was the youngest of the family. His older siblings emigrated. The family farm slipped into his ownership.
Fr. Bobby Gilmore
April 9, 2018
Easter Eggs at Veidrala
Veidrala village lies on the Northen coast of Nakorotubu in Ra, Fiji. The village had 85 houses before cyclone Winston and the deadly storm damaged 80 and left only five where the villagers took shelter.
Josfa Vasakula
April 2, 2018
Easter Challenge
Easter 2017 brought an unexpected challenge to the residents of St. Columban's Retirement Home, Bristol, Rhode Island.
What Is Happening?
January 6, 2017, was the Feast of the Epiphany also known as in Chile as La Pascua de los Negros (Passover of the Blacks). During colonial times this celebration was a rare opportunity for the black and mestizo slaves to celebrate.
Oisin Kenny
March 19, 2018
Walking with Chilenos
Chile is a country that has its beauty in so many diverse ways that for the two years I had journeyed with the Columbans there I realized there is more to learn about mission then just going out and preaching the Gospel to the people.
Martin Koroiciri
March 12, 2018
Celebrating the Centennial Down Under
You travel a long way from the United States of America to reach Australia which is accurately described as "Down Under." New Zealand is also "Down Under," a little bit further down to the south and east.
Columban Missionaries, Australia/New Zealand Region
March 7, 2018
Prayer and Cricket
Miss Evelyn used to stand on the side of the Long Hill road near the junction. She waited for a lift to Mass each Sunday morning. To get there she had to climb down a steep incline, walk across the unused rail track and clamber a few more yards before she reached the road.
Fr. Bobby Gilmore
March 5, 2018
An Easter Surprise!
When the last group of Columban missionaries left Myanmar in 1979, they did so with heavy hearts.
In So Many Words
"Remember your last end," scripture admonishes us. Yet it seems that few people do, or maybe they remember when they attend a funeral or hear of a friend's death.
Sr. Redempta Twomey
March 1, 2018
Finding Life in the Desert
It was a hot, sunny day in February when we four seminarians and four lay people from the Columban Mission Collaborators (CMC) set out to prepare for a month of mission in the north of Lima, Peru.
Columban Seminarian Martin Koroiciri
February 28, 2018
From the Minarets and Mosques in Pakistan ...
After 34 years of missionary work in Pakistan, I came to Rome at the end of 2011 to serve as the procurator-general of the Missionary Society of St. Columban.
Fr. Robert McCulloch
February 28, 2018
Follow Me
The Columban Fathers' house in Bristol, Rhode Island, was a seminary for many years, but in the 1960's there were a few vacant priest rooms and a few retired Columbans moved in.
Fr. John Burger
February 28, 2018
The Columbans are a society of missionaries, including priests and lay people, who minister to people of various cultures as a way of witnessing to the universal love of God.