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March/April 2017

Break in

Thief

It was about three in the afternoon on a Tuesday. I was seated at my desk in the parish office chatting with a young couple who had come to ask for baptism for their newborn baby.

By Columban Fr. William Lee

March 1, 2017
Ditching the desk

Ditching the Desk

Now that I'm home, I realized I do not have a room to call my own. My room is the bag I carry on my back every time I move from one mission to another. Right after high school I left home to pursue a childhood dream– to become a priest.

By Columban Fr. Kurt Zion Pala

March 1, 2017

Compassionate Mission

I still have vivid memories of my first awakening in Lima, Peru, on June 24, 1971. The population all around our mission was made up of thousands of Peruvians from the highlands, who had ventured to the coastal cities looking for a better life for their children.

By Sr. Eileen Rabbitte

March 1, 2017
kite flying

Resilience Admidst Suffering

In the history of human life suffering is what every person will encounter in their lifetime. Not even Jesus, the Son of God, was spared from pain as He too had to suffer to fulfill the plan of the Father for His people.

By Angie Escarsa

March 1, 2017

Breaking the Bonds of Poverty

My name is Sr. Young Mi Choi, and I live and work in the parish of Cristo Liberador, (Christ the Liberator), one of twelve parishes which comprise the district of San Juan de Lurigancho in the eastern part of Lima, Peru, in the foothills of the Andes.

By Sr. Young Mi Choi

March 1, 2017
Be my feet and be my hands

Be My Feet and Be My Hands

I started to write these two poems last year during a workshop training on poetry writing in my ministry with asylum seekers.

By Ger Sampson

March 1, 2017
Adult baptism

Adult Baptism by Immersion

Ethnic Indian people are traditionally obsessed with matters of pollution and purity. Purity is a central value in the culture. The caste system in India is based on this.

By Columban Fr. Frank Hoare

March 1, 2017
Jesus on the cross

Why is That Day Called "Good" Friday?

In my early days as a missionary in Fiji, I worked mainly among the Hindu Indo-Fijians around the town of Labasa. I was often invited by head teachers of primary schools to explain to their students the meaning of Good Friday and Easter Monday, since both were public holidays.

By Columban Fr. Frank Hoare

March 1, 2017
Pakistani child

Glimmers of Light

When I was sixteen years old, my father was diagnosed with cancer and died ten weeks later. Soon afterwards, I dropped out of high school to manage the family farm in order to support my mother and four younger siblings.

By Columban Fr. Tomas King

March 1, 2017
Residents at the village

Mother of Divine Mercy Village

On the night of December 16, 2011, a sendong or typhoon struck the northern coast of Mindanao, the main southern island of the Philippines.

By Fr. George Hogarty

December 1, 2016

About us

Columban logoThe 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.

We go in the name of the Church to announce, by deed and word, the Good News of Jesus Christ.

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St. Columbans, NE 68056
Phone: 877-299-1920
Fax: 402-291-4984
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