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Stories from Columban Missions

Balloons fill the air
“Happy Buddha’s Birthday!”

“Happy Buddha’s Birthday!” It is a greeting rarely heard in the Philippines, where nearly 80% of the country’s 110 million people are Catholic.…

Airport walkway
Airport Resurrection

There have been many significant landmarks in Columban Fr. Ray Collier’s sixty years of priesthood, but surely none can rival the moment in 2010…

Daybreak over a mountainous lake
The Time of God

I wrote a song once, in a small wooden room on a humid night in the Fiji Islands.

Wedding scene
When Rice Is Sprinkled

One of the great privileges of missionary life is the opportunity to encounter cultures profoundly different from one’s own. In interior Sindh (…

A dirt path between two stoney mountains
Missionary Journey into the Unknown

As I was on the last journey of my initial formation in the seminary, I was privileged to share a couple moments with my fellow brother in mission…

Diary - In So Many Words
Meaningful Benefits

The ethics of missionary work sit at a delicate intersection of faith, culture, power, and human dignity. At its best, missionary activity emerges…