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...
From the bottom of our hearts: Thank You!

From the bottom of our hearts: Thank You!

“Why would people so far away care so much for us?” one person asked Fr Eamon Sheridan when he told people at the Rebirth Rehabilitation Centre in Myanmar’s Kachin State that readers of the Far East had donated enough money to finish the building of the...
2021 Review from Fr Liam in Pakistan

2021 Review from Fr Liam in Pakistan

The long shadow of Covid has hung over the world causing much suffering and death, as well as substantial economic loss. According to the WHO, as of 21 December 2021, worldwide over 275 million people have been infected with Covid and 5.36 million deaths reported, but...
China: Christmas in Xiantao

China: Christmas in Xiantao

Beginning the Vigil Mass on Christmas Eve, a gentle word from Fr Paul encouraged the people to be grateful for the opportunity to gather to celebrate the Nativity at the Church of the Holy Trinity in Xiantao, about 100 km west of Wuhan. From where I was sitting in the...