E-News Vol. 2 No. 16

I now think that living with questions, through frustrations and without a clear direction for the future is the way we “empty ourselves, become human and take on the form of a servant.” (more)

Thank God for our new upstairs office (built a few years ago with donations from Columban partnership parishes in Melbourne) it was a massive saviour. (more)

When a pilgrim, tourist or scholar approaches the cultural and spiritual domain of indigenous people, the experience invariably evokes a sense of interest, respect and wonder. (more)

Sister Pauline Rae has concluded her formal involvement in the Columban Mission Institute after more than 30 years. (more)

Obviously, there is more to settling in a new land than feeling welcome, but the welcome certainly helps the stranger adapt and also have a go at life in that land. (more)

Having choked the spiritual meaning out of Christmas in the Western world, it now offers this blatantly commercial product to China and inadvertently causes the Chinese to ask, ‘What is the Christmas story about?’ (more)

Give a mission gift this Christmas and support the work of the Columbans around the world. (more)