The Columban Way: a Route to Jubilee 2025

The Columban Way: a Route to Jubilee 2025

Cristian Colombo writes about the completion of the Columban Way in Italy and its recognition by the Italian Tourist Board.   It all began with a dream. St Columban’s mother dreamt that the sun descended into the womb of a woman and that this sun in turn escorted the...
Join the Columban Way Pilgrimage in Britain

Join the Columban Way Pilgrimage in Britain

Columban Missionaries in Britain are celebrating Laudato Si’ Week by following in the footsteps of St Columban and reflecting on ‘the cry of the Earth and the cry of the poor’. A pilgrim group of ordained and lay Columban missionaries and co-workers, led by Regional...
The Christmas Tree and St Columban: Plant for the Earth!

The Christmas Tree and St Columban: Plant for the Earth!

Below, Jacques Prudhon, President of the Association of Les Amis de St Colomban, based in the French city of Luxeuil les Bains, where St Columban founded a monastery in 590AD, retells a local Christmas tale about the Christmas tree and St Columban. The current...
Reflection: September/October 2022 Far East magazine

Reflection: September/October 2022 Far East magazine

Three significant events keep niggling at me as I reflect on life in recent months: the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the presidential election in the Philippines, and the synodal process in the Church. There might be no obvious connection between these three but there...
Synodality : A Missionary Reflection

Synodality : A Missionary Reflection

Submission from Columban Missionaries in Ireland Conscious of our need to be open to the guiding Spirit, we listened in our meetings as each of us  shared some experiences of lived synodality, and also some of the things that had hindered it, in our lives and ...