We Who Grieve

We Who Grieve

November is the month of the Holy Souls when we pray for our dear departed. We Columbans also pray for our deceased members at Cemetery Sunday Mass in June. We are joined at the cemetery in Dalgan Park by the families of those Columban Fathers who have died. After...
Let us remember them

Let us remember them

During the month of November we remember and pray for those we have lost during the past year. We invite you to join us in prayer for those members of the worldwide Columban community who have died over the past 12 months. They include the following Columban...
November: A Thin Place

November: A Thin Place

A ‘Thin Place’ according to the late Irish philosopher and poet John O’Donohue is a place or time where heaven and earth meet and we have access to ‘light’ or the beyond in a different way. It is a threshold experience where time and eternity embrace.  John O’Donohue...
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...
Reflection: Far East magazine November 2021

Reflection: Far East magazine November 2021

November is a month of special commemoration. It is the month during which we remember the members of our immediate families, our friends, communities, people of our parishes and all those who have no one to remember them. They have gone to Eternal Life and one day we...