E-News Vol 1 - No. 10

July 30, 2008

From the Director - We don’t have to save the world

We need to believe that the Trinity is saving the world despite appearances. Our role is to play our part along with every man and woman of good will. (more)

All we own in 8’ x 8’

I took their family photo as they posed on the floor of their one-room home. Behind them lay their few possessions. What could not be seen in that photograph was their home’s new galvanized roof.. (more)

Second exposure even more frightening

I felt useless both as a priest and a missionary. I did not want to go out of my room. I felt it would be better to return to my own country where there was a shortage of priests. (more)

Export labour driven by fear and consumerism

 “They have a psychological tendency to fill up the vacuum of what they were not able to possess when they were poor, male workers tend to buy excessive amounts of IT equipment and females, excessive amounts of stuffed toys, cosmetics and jewellery.” (more)

Reflection - What direction am I taking?

Do we love with fine words and sentiments, lacking substance, or are we towel and water people, who, like the Lord, get down to wash the feet of the other (Jn 13), and in the process forget ourselves? (more)

Columban Prayer Books

A series of prayer books for those who Mourn, in time of Illness, for Cancer Sufferers and General Prayers (more)

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