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June/July 2025

Columban Mission Magazine June-July 2025
June 2025
 

By Fr. John Burger

Near the intersection of College Avenue and Frazer Road in Malvern, Pennsylvania, you will find the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary cemetery. It is an…

 

By Joan Yap

“Continue the dream for the family despite what happened in my life. Even though I lost one hand, I still have another one. I won’t give up. Just keep fighting. I believe…

 

By Fr. Gabriel Rojas Cruzado

This is the question that has resonated in my heart, contemplating each evangelizing member in the parish area that I accompany. Each year, it is essential to provide the…

 

By Fr. Don Hornsey

When I look back over the past sixty years, or seventy, considering the years in seminaries, I feel deep gratitude. First, I am very conscious of how God, through Jesus,…

 

By Fr. Al Utzig

This July (2025) the Ladies Ancient Order of Hibernians (LAOH) will hold its biennial meeting in Omaha. It could not be a more appropriate city to gather in for a couple…

 

By Fr. Daniel O’Connor

Shomo was a poor peasant farm laborer. In May last year, he was working alone clearing the thorn bushes from the side of a village track at the request of his boss when…

 

By Fr. Al Utzig

On the first Saturday of January 2025, I took a group of our altar servers to a small town at the foot of Mount San Gorgonio near San Bernardino, California. The mountain…

 

By Fr. Robert McCulloch

Some people say to me: “So, you live in Rome. You’re supposed to be a missionary. That doesn’t sound very missionary.”
It certainly wasn’t said to St. Peter when he…

 

By Fr. Kevn O'Neill

The members of the international Catholic community at the Holy Family Catholic Church, Wuhan, China, after processing out of the church, gathered in the church courtyard…

 

By Fr. Ed O'Connell

I have had an interest in politics since my days in the Young Christian Workers (YCW), way back in the sixties. Many YCW members in the fifties and sixties, formed in a “…

 

By Ellen Teague

Where does my own commitment to justice and peace come from? Growing up in London, I was sensitized by my parents, inspired by their Catholic faith, showing compassion to…

 

By Fr. Al Utzig

Justice is one of the four cardinal virtues, and there are many ways in which it is practiced. “Social” justice became important in our understanding beginning with the…