By Fr Sean Coyle
[With a little help from the neighbor's dog!]
Fr Seán Coyle SSC
By Fr Sean Coyle
[With a little help from the neighbor's dog!]
Pulong Ng Editor
At 3'40" into the video our editor uses the expression 'non-active violence' when he means 'active non-violence'.
A Pineapple, A Junk And A Spitfire
by Fr Seán Coyle
The first book I ever read, when I was 7, was Treasure Island. A map guided Jim Hawkins and his friends to the hidden treasure. God drew a map with clues that guided me to discover the treasure of my vocation during my teenage years.
The first clue was Sister Gemma in my second year in kindergarten. She spoke about the need to support missionaries and asked us to speak to our parents. My classmates brought in the equivalent of a peso but mine gave me the equivalent of five, a lot of money for them as my father worked as a carpenter on a construction site. Sister Gemma gave me a little calendar with a picture of St Thérèse of Lisieux, Patroness of Missionaries. I didn’t know at the time that the saint would influence me greatly years after my ordination, even though I still don’t like the name she gave herself, “the Little Flower.”
COLUMBANS’ 90TH ANNIVERSARY
By: Father Seán Coyle
The Missionary Society of St Columban was officially approved by Pope Benedict XV on 29 June 1918, the feast of Sts Peter and Paul, and so celebrates its 90th birthday this year. The article below is a preface to the Constitutions and Directory of the Society (1992).
