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Stories from Columban Missions

Children Are the Most Important of All

Christmas is to celebrate the birth of Jesus of Nazareth, the greatest man who ever lived, the one man that gives meaning and purpose and values…

A lighted candle on a table
The Light that Overcomes the Night

Christmas night in 1983, Father Leo and I trudged up the long street bringing us up to our house in a working-class neighborhood of the capital…

Child lighting a candle
Dumingag

Families develop their own unique ways to celebrate Christmas. Many have vivid memories of Christmas family rituals. The warmth and joy may even…

Subanen crafters and their families enjoy the festivities
Subanen Crafters Celebrate Christmas

Every year the Subanen crafters and their families hold our annual Christmas reunion. The occasion has its usual games and food. We crown a queen…

A Subanen crafter carries her baby in a sling.
Healing Body and Spirit

The Subanens are an indigenous people whose ancestral homeland is in the mountains of northwest Mindanao, Philippines. Like other indigenous…

Columban Lay Missionaries Vida (left) and Sai
Let Heaven and Nature Sing

Here in Hong Kong, during the final week of Advent, so much of my time and attention is divided between two things: preparing for the Christmas…