Holy Saturday

Holy Saturday

Some months ago, a migrant friend here in Hong Kong texted me with the request that the Columbans hold her husband’s ashes in our chapel until she could bring them back to his home country for burial in the family plot. I was surprised that she did not want to keep...
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...
Fr Thomas Michael Murphy

Fr Thomas Michael Murphy

Thomas ‘Tommy’ Murphy was born in Castlebar, Co Mayo on 3rd of August 1949. He was educated at St Patrick’s Primary School and St Gerard’s Secondary School in Castlebar. He joined the Columbans in September 1967 and was ordained priest in Dalgan on Easter Sunday, 14...
Pentecost’s Flame Tree

Pentecost’s Flame Tree

Fr Tim Mulroy writes about the bright red flowers of Royal Poinciana, more commonly known as the Flame Tree, and sees a resemblance between its astonishing flowers and the tongues of fire through which the Holy Spirit came upon the apostles.  The morning after...