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Overcoming Fear

As he lies in his sick bed, Columban Fr. Frank recalls some of his mission outreach: The first time I went to the leper colony, I traveled…

Garage Sale in the Philippines

It all started as a simple idea. I remember Columban Fr. Dom Nolan and Lourdes de Guzman both of Mission Awareness asking us if we would accept…

From Microsoft to Mission

In 2010, Kevin Sheerin was working in Dublin for the high profile computer software giant Microsoft, earning a good salary and living a…

The Beautiful Game

Sport is always a great way to bring people together. This is especially important when you live in a barrio, an area with a high poverty rate,…

Commitment to Justice

Language is a basic skill we need to communicate, to express our feelings and to understand other

I Learned Love

"Lord, You created me through your love…" This is the first verse of a Korean morning prayer which I pray every morning. This beautiful verse has…

Tata

My grandfather's name was Ireneo, but he was best known and called "Tata" by everyone in the fami

The Wish Zone

Back in 1990 a missionary priest in Taiwan was the parish priest of a small parish that had a sma

The Fijian for Philosophy

Four of our Columban seminarians are studying philosophy at the Pacific Regional Seminary (PRS). During our community night one Sunday evening…

Children Are Victims of a Globalized World Economy

The Philippines is a country with some of the greatest inequality. There are 16 million Filipinos who suffer serious poverty out of population of…