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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.

 

August/September 2018

Come the weekend, Americans have their baseball and football. Australians have their cricket and Australian rules football, and the Irish have rugby. Come the weekend,…

August/September 2018

Columban history in the Japan mission is behind this stained glass window of the Risen Christ.

August/September 2018

It is interesting to watch those television programs that deal with people passing through customs as they return from holidays or family visits abroad.

August/September 2018

We had our retreat in Nadi Ashram in May 2014. During our retreat I was passing by the road from the house where I stayed to the dining hall, along the way I saw a…

August/September 2018

In my opinion love and kindness are the two words that most clearly express the life of Jesus.

August/September 2018

An African saying is my reminder: "If I go alone I go faster. If I go with others I go farther." This year, I hope to go a little farther so here is a reflection on a key…

August/September 2018

Sometimes you come across a bond of love that makes you feel really humble. This is what happened to me when I met Josè and David.

August/September 2018

I am Peter, and I am a third year student at Columban Fr. Neil Magill's Higher Education Center [HEC] in Mandalay, Myanmar (formerly Burma).

August/September 2018

"The children, the young children, we have to do something about the children, they are at risk." Warmi Huasi is a small civil association (NGO) I set up with others…

August/September 2018

When Fr. Sean McDonagh, who taught at the University of Mindanao in the Philippines, joined one of his students on a research project among the T'boli tribe during the…

August/September 2018

The story is told of a good and prayerful woman who claimed to have had a vision of Christ. She went to see the bishop. "Did you talk to him?" he asked.

August/September 2018

The last time I crossed a body of water on a boat at night was on my first mission assignment in the Fiji Islands.