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Past Magazine Stories

Below are stories from past issues of Columban Mission magazine. The Columban Fathers publish Columban Mission magazine eight times a year. Subscriptions are available for just $15 per year. Sign up to receive our next issue. Read more about Columban Mission magazine.

 

June/July 2018

Pat Visanti was born and raised a Methodist on the island of Rotuma. Rotuma is both an island and a nation.

June/July 2018

In the old world of European empires the mission of the church traveled with the expansive energy as it did previously in the age of trade routes and great migrations by…

June/July 2018

Life begins at forty! That's what Fr. Tony Coney was about to discover as his plane touched down in Lima.

May 2018

When I was growing up, I really didn't like reciting the Holy Rosary.

May 2018

Why visit the prisoners? It seems that it would be a fearful activity to engage in. Columban Sister Joan Sawyer bravely looked that fear in the face and visited prisoners…

May 2018

In 2012, while I was working in a parish among the aboriginal people called Atayal in the mountains of Taiwan, we organized a pilgrimage to the northern Philippines (where…

May 2018

What was the first thing you did when you entered the church today? I assume you dipped your finger in the holy water and made the sign of the cross.

May 2018

I live and work in a mountainous area of Taiwan with aboriginal people.

May 2018

This year, as Columban missionaries look back on one hundred years of mission, we recall with gratitude our accomplishments in various distant lands.

May 2018

In my new parish assignment, I am blessed to have met wonderful ladies who were named after our Blessed Mother. I would like to share my experience with them.

May 2018

Some days when it feels that God is far from us we may begin to harbor a real doubt: Is there a God at all?

May 2018

Aminiasi and I arrived in Lima on May 20, 2016, for our pastoral experience called FMA (First Mission Assignment). We arrived during winter, above all, at midnight.