Every day in our lives we meet people of various ages and from different backgrounds. Many of them we don’t know but some of them we get to know and interact with. And…
Past Magazine Stories
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March/April 2020
After completing my six year term as Regional Director for the Columbans in Ireland I had the opportunity to pay a return visit to Pakistan where I had worked for a number…
March/April 2020
It started, really, with an invitation from catechist Tobia to come and talk about the Marian Movement of Priests. I checked with the pastor, Fr.
March/April 2020
Strolling along the path, I turned a corner and suddenly my eye caught a statue. At first, I was unsure if the figure was male or female, human or angelic, but its pose…
March/April 2020
For the past seven years, I have traveled on Fridays to the Carmelite monastery located in a mountain canyon known as the Cajon del Maipo.
March/April 2020
On August 1, 2017, I travelled from the height of the Korean summer to an equally hot Philippines to study English.
March/April 2020
Although all Columbans may not agree with me, I think our life as Columbans has three important hallmarks.
Community
March/April 2020
"Loneliness has become a silent epidemic; it is, as one doctor wrote, "the most unrecognized health crisis of this generation."
February 2020
Last year, in December, I had the opportunity to attend the mission-sending Mass for Hazel Jean Angwani at Santa Rita de Cascia Mission Station in Bontoc, Montain Province…
February 2020
Time flies! As I write this, it is October again, but I did not notice since the time passed by so quickly. By now, I am already almost one-and-a-half years in my country…
February 2020
August is the month of solidarity in the Archdiocese of Santiago. Each year, there is a pilgrimage of young people to the Shrine of St.
February 2020
In March this year I was one of a group from the Region of Peru to attend a Columban meeting in Santiago, Chile.