By Sr Maura Gallahue SSC
The author is an Irish Columban Sister who worked in Mindanao for many years but is now in Peru. Sister Anne, the Director of the new clinic, is a Columban Sister from Cagayan de Oro City and is a psychiatric nurse by profession. She has appeared a number of times in Misyon, her most recent article being What’s on Their Mind in the March-April 2009 issue.
By Sr Anne Carbon SSC
Sister Anne, a psychiatric nurse by profession, is a Columban Sister form Cagayan de Oro. Misyon has featured a number of her articles about her missionary work in Peru.
On 10 October 2008, World Mental Health Day, the Commission on Mental Health of Ayacucho celebrated its fifth anniversary. Looking back on those five years, I cannot but thank God for the many advances that have made it possible for us to initiate and carry forward different programs at our clinic.
A little girl with her small brother strapped on her back gives us a glimpse of life in the mountains of Peru, especially for children.
Sr Anne Carbon SSC
Sister Anne is from Cagayan de Oro and worked as a nurse before becoming a Columban Sister. She qualified in mental health nursing in England. Her article shows how important that is as she works with children traumatized by years of terrorism in the area of Peru where she lives.
Sr Anne with the Children
by Ariel Presbitero
Ariel Presbitero went to Brazil as a Columban lay missionary in 1992 and after six years there moved to Peru. He is now living in the Philippines.
Ariel playing the flute
with friends in Peru
By Father Chris Baker SSC
The author, ordained in 1950, is one of three Australian brothers who are Columban priests. His elder brother, Father Leo, was ordained in 1948 and is now retired in Australia after many years in Japan. His younger brother Patrick, ordained in 1962, is based in OzamizCity and is coordinator of the Columban Associate Priests’ Program in the Philippines.
Map of PERU
by Monsignor Allen A. Aganon
Monsignor Aganon, ordained 18 September 1982, has been rector of San Carlos Major Seminary, Makati City, and was the first Filipino parish priest of St Joseph Parish, Las Piñas City, home of the Bamboo Organ, Diocese of Parañaque, before leaving for South America. He is now studying Quechua, in preparation for working in a small town in the southern Andes.
By Sister Mariana Reyes HGS
Sister Mariana came to the Philippines in 2000. She is a member of the Hermanas Guadalupanas de la Salle founded in Mexico in 1946 by Brother Juan Fromental Coyroche, a De La Salle Brother from France. The Sisters follow the charism of St John Baptist De La Salle and are involved in the promotion of Christian Education. Their spirituality in the service of God inspires them to look to Our Lady of Guadalupe in her role as evangelizer of the people they serve. They arrived in the Philippines in 1984. Other countries in which they work include Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Italy, Madagascar, Peru and Thailand.
An edited version of an article that first appeared in LADOC, Peru
With his front line role in taking religion to the masses in Brazil through the electronic media, Father Marcelo Rossi has been at the center of more than one storm in recent years. While he denies being a ‘pop star’, it is difficult to see him any other way. Newspapers describe him as ‘young, handsome and athletic, selling millions of records, with TV stations vying for his presence.’
I never took a communication course and don’t want to create a model (of mass communication). All I want is for the Church I love to grow more each day,’ says the 34-year–old priest, who is based in Santo Amaro Diocese in Sāo Paulo, Brazil’s largest city. More than 80 percent of Brazil’s 160 million people are Catholic. According to Fr Marcelo, as the priest is popularly known, about four percent of all Catholics took part in the charismatic movement in 1997, a figure that quickly grew to 12 percent. He thought it ‘could reach 40 percent’ soon.
By Ariel Presbitero
“VENGO YA!” The taxi driver shouted to the man on the roadside. He said he would be right back as soon as he had finished his service with the present passenger. The man hoped that the driver would come back soon but he was not exactly sure how long he would have to wait.
Vengo Ya is a common expression in Peru. If you invite somebody to your house, he’s say Vengo ya! If somebody is leaving the house to do some errands, he will say Vengo ya! I really find it hard to understand the meaning of this expression. Often I get confused with its concept of time.
