Our newest Columban priest

Our newest Columban priest

Amid all the challenges and sadness of the Covid pandemic – loss of employment, restriction of movement, lockdowns and many deaths, there have been moments of uplift. For the Missionary Society of St Columban, one of these was the ordination of our newest...
What to do with the Eucharist in a Time of Lockdown

What to do with the Eucharist in a Time of Lockdown

This time last year, Columban missionary Fr Pat Colgan wrote an article entitled, ‘How to be People of the Eucharist, when there is no Eucharist?’ It was during Fiji’s first lockdown when Mass was not celebrated with a public congregation for three months...
A Dead Man Can’t Witness a Marriage

A Dead Man Can’t Witness a Marriage

Fr Frank Hoare writes about an Indo-Fijian marriage ceremony he celebrated near the town of Savusavu in Vanua Levu, the second main island of Fiji. The marriage ceremony was almost finished. It was time for the civil wedding. The groom’s younger brother had informed...
Labasa picks up the pieces after tropical cyclone Ana

Labasa picks up the pieces after tropical cyclone Ana

Fr Carlo Jung is a Columban missionary from Korea ministering in Fiji. He explains how tropical cyclone Ana, which recently hit the town of Labasa where he is parish priest of Holy Family Parish, left a lot of damage in its wake. “There was widespread flooding in the...
Seminary Life During Lockdown

Seminary Life During Lockdown

Lockdown changed life in the Philippines for Columban seminarian Jerry Lohera and spurred him to get planting fruit and vegetables to ease the stress. From September 2019 up to the first week of March 2020, I and four other Columban seminarians (one from Fiji, two...