Cemetery Sunday 2023

Cemetery Sunday 2023

Ten minutes walk from Dalgan’s front door, in the eastern corner of the grounds, is the Columban cemetery. Here more than 350 Irish Columbans, including our two co-founders, Bishop Edward Galvin (died February 1956) and Fr John Blowick (died June 1972), are buried,...
World Religion Day in Hong Kong

World Religion Day in Hong Kong

After presiding at the Japanese Catholic Community’s Sunday Eucharist on 5th February 2023, Columban Fr Brian Vale attended a celebration of World Religion Day hosted by believers of the Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Network on Religion...
Kiribati President hosts state banquet for Fr Donal McIlraith

Kiribati President hosts state banquet for Fr Donal McIlraith

On Monday 16th January, the President of Kiribati, the Hon Taniti Mamau, hosted a banquet in honour of Columban missionary Fr Donal McIlraith. Fr McIlraith is from Macroom, Co Cork and has taught scripture at the Suva Seminary for the past 34 years. Over those years...
We Who Grieve

We Who Grieve

November is the month of the Holy Souls writes Columban missionary Fr Michael O’Loughlin.   Every year in the month of June a Memorial Mass is celebrated in Dalgan Park on Cemetery Sunday for deceased members of the Columban Fathers. Families of those who have died...
Celebrating Pentecost Sunday in Wuhan

Celebrating Pentecost Sunday in Wuhan

Having waited for more than two years to receive news of a resumption of Mass for the international community in Wuhan, the announcement of it happening for Pentecost Sunday seemed delightfully appropriate for its members. For those who have lived with tighter...