When I was growing up, I really didn't like reciting the Holy Rosary.
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.
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
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.
May 2018
On Saturday August 12, 2017, I officiated at the wedding of my grand-nephew Killian to his bride Jenna.
May 2018
For more than a year, I spent most of my time visiting the elderly while on mission in South Korea.
March/April 2018
What is the largest organ of our body? The skin. This is probably the reason that among the senses, touch is the first to develop in the human infant, and it remains…