Missionary Society of St. Columban US
Since the damaging floods last monsoon season, the villages that were affected here in Badin parish have recovered remarkably well. My last…
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At the close of 2022 (At the dawn of 2023) we look back in gratitude not only on the year gone by, but also on the life of Pope Emeritus Benedict…
One of the main issues is food security for poor families in rural areas who have lost livestock and crops and in many cases in some of the worst…
Fr. Antiquera Uses Art
in Lenten Recollection
Columban Fr. Jason Antiquera lives and works in South Korea. Thanks to Columban benefactors like you, after a two-year hiatus due to COVID, he was finally able to enrich the lives of his parishioners by hosting a face-to-face Lenten recollection.
I am happy to be able to share with you his thoughts on this very unique and effective way to contemplate Jesus’ journey to the cross. The entire Lenten recollection focused on …
Stories from Columban Missions
From the Director
A Day in the Life of a Columban
In my 20 years of mission in Chile, my family and close friends rarely asked about my daily life in the mission. What they saw were the broad strokes of global travel, exotic places, different cultures, colorful cuisines, etc. There general impression was that I lived as a tourist. Also, their basic assumption about my daily life was that I just waited in parish house until someone knocked on the door asking for a sacrament or some pastoral need. Thy would be surprised that a missionary’s daily life was not so different from their own.