“He is not Here”

“He is not Here”

by | Mar 31, 2024 | Features

Easter reflection by Fr John McEvoy on Scripture passages Acts 10:34, 37-43; Col 3:1-4; Jn 20:1-9 Some years ago, I visited the Holy Land, and one stand out moment was the Shrine of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Pilgrims from all over the world visit an empty tomb,...
“Christ is the Life of the Rejected”

“Christ is the Life of the Rejected”

by | Mar 29, 2024 | Features

Twelve months ago, the Far East magazine had a striking picture of a young man, stripped down and tied to a cross in Fiji, while soldiers in mock cardboard uniforms alternately derided and worshipped him. It came from a Good Friday liturgy I had led. I commented then:...
Easter Reflection from the Far East Magazine

Easter Reflection from the Far East Magazine

by | Mar 27, 2024 | Reflections

Let Him Easter in Us The song, ‘The Dance of the Cherry Trees’ by John Spillane sets the tone for Spring, New Life and Easter whereby the “cherry tree puts on the most outrageous clothes” and sings and dances saying, “we have travelled all around the sun that has...
“No Cross, No Crown”

“No Cross, No Crown”

by | Mar 27, 2024 | Features

As Easter approaches, Fr John McEvoy recalls his years spent in the Gold Mines Parish of Vatukoula which he has “always considered as the happiest years of my missionary life in Fiji”.   Back in 1981, as Easter approached, dark clouds of industrial strife also loomed...
Easter celebrations at Holy Trinity Church in Xiantao

Easter celebrations at Holy Trinity Church in Xiantao

by | Apr 27, 2023 | Features

By mid-afternoon on Holy Saturday, there was already a steady hum of activity at Holy Trinity Church in Xiantao, about 100 km west of Wuhan, writes Columban missionary Fr Dan Troy. Food was being prepared for those who had travelled long distances two days earlier and...