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September-October 1988

Edward J Galvin: Trail – Blazer For God

By Fr Pat Sayles

Seventy – Five Years Ago Edward Galvin set out for China

It was a step into the unknown, a step taken in faith. God had called him, and he wanted so much to respond, to follow his Lord even to the ends of the earth. Yet he found it so hard to leave his loved ones, especially his mother. He loved her more than all the world and perhaps he was going to China never to see her again. Although heartbroken, he resolutely set his face towards China. So began one of the most exciting pages of modern mission history. His exploits inspired many talented young men to follow him along the trail to China that he had blazed.

The Foxes Have Lairs

In Guatemala poverty and homelessness are the direct results of concentration of land in a few hands; 65% of the land belongs to a small minority who are growing richer all the time because of this situation.  Three out of four Guatemalans are very poor and live in very ineadequate housing, with the direct result that infant mortality is 170 for every 1000.  There is no sharing, not even a little, by those few who own thousands of acres -some properties extending from the volcanos to the sea --with the majority who spend sleepless nights in vercrowed shacks worrying about how to earn a few centavos the next day for their families.

FATHER ROMEO G. NIMEZ, CICM, from the Philippines, who writes this article, has been a missionary in Guatemala for five years.  While working in the parish of Santa Lucia Cotzumalguapa in the department of Escuintla along the Pacific Ocean,  Father Nimez is also the CICM Vocation Director in Guatemala.

Saving The Rain Forest

By Fr. Frank Connon, C.SS.R.

At Sunday Mass Fr. Pat Kelly, is a Canadian Scarboro Missionary, asked the question: ‘when the Rain Forest of San Fernando is cut down, will there still be any future for the children there? The word ‘any future for the children’ struck a sensitive chord in the heart of the small farmers. After all, it was for the sake of the children that they have uprooted themselves from their families and friends in the Island and settled here in San Fernando.

Malate Martyrs

Fr. Arthur Price

We arrive in Manila on a beautiful tropical evening just before sunsets, four newly ordained priests, Father James McDevitt, Dermot Feeny, Martin Strong and Arthur Price. We made our way to Malate church, which we found in a festive mood as that annual novena in honor of Our Lady of Remedies was then in Progress. It was on November 15, 1936. A wonderful atmosphere of relaxed enjoyment. Religion was really seemed to be the center of the lives of these people in more ways than one.

I Remember Manolito

By Sister Ann Rita Centeno

A poor mother in a Chilean barrio shares her grief with the author.

I wish I could forget that evening of September 4, but how can I? Early that morning Manolito was in a good spirits. He wanted to watch a football match of his favorite team on television but since there was no electricity in our area he asked permission to watch it at his sister’s house, which was only a block away. He washed himself – my Manolito liked to be neat and clean always- combed his curly black hair and was just ready to leave the house when he asked me, Mommy could I used you jacket tonight? ‘ But you have your own jacket,’ I replied. But he insisted and so I let him have his way. ‘And Mommy,’ with a big smile, ‘Id liked to borrow your rubber shoes too,’ How could I refuse him?

A Tiny Something Of Myself

By Sr. Walfridis, SSpS

Before I posted to Papua New Guinea in 1592, I taught in our college in Manila. When I received my mission appointment, I thought to myself, now I will really taste some bush mission work. But, to my disappointment, I landed in a school catechists the week I arrived.

But Every Thursday morning (our free day instead of Saturday) I went to Kananam, a nearby village, for religious instruction. When the sea was calm, I went by a small canoe and when the sea is rough, by push-bike.

Country Profile

CHILE, one of the strangest shaped countries in the world, is a long strip of territory sandwich between the Pacific Ocean and the highest peaks of the  Andes mountain range. This ribbon of lands is never more than 110 miles wide. Most of the population lives in the fertile central zone. To the north dry hills, the Atacama Desert, and mineral deposit which gave the country it’s main export-Copper. It is here, at giant workings like Chuquicamata (the largest open- cast mine in the world) that the copper is mined.

My Life Is In Your Hands

Sr. Rosita Mazon

I heard somebody open the door slowly. A man with a lighted flashlight was walking towards my bed. I got scared, but had a courage to say gently, ‘who are you? What are you looking for? What do you want?’ there was no response from the man, so I got all the more scared. Then I composed myself and prayed to God for help. When the man was about to grab me I gave him a very forceful kick, which knocked him down. I’m sure he was hurt. He then pulled me from the bed and started hitting me with his strong fist. My face and neck swelled up like a balloon. He punch my mouth and a number of my teeth fell out. Later I discovered that he had fractured my left jaw. He then stabbed me with a knife and wounded me at the side of my face and slightly at the back. I cried and shouted out for help and it was only then the intruder left me, soaked in blood and struggling in pain.

Mission Theology

INCULTURATION

All cultures have in one way or another deviated from justice. Human society, left to its own dynamics, has an apparently ineluctable tendency to structures of inequality and absolutize them. With the establishment of structures of inequality come the theories of legitimation, defending them, putting them beyond question or challenge, proposing them as the way things should be. Thus, we have a well - nigh interminable list of divisions, and polarities between the haves and the have-nots, the powerful and the powerless, the educated and the unlettered, masters and slaves, lords and vassals, kings and subjects, capitalists and the laborers, party members and the outsiders, citizens and foreigners, West and East, North and South, First World and Third World and so on. Structures of inequality and their absolutization continually produce marginalized groups in the society.

Through The Gospel

Roger Bourgeon: WHAT'S THE POINT OF TALKING JESUS TODAY?

Dom Helder:

Because this man changed history. He is alive in history. At every step I meet him everyday. And I meet him in the flesh. He said, whoever suffering humiliated, crushed is he. In our own times when more the two-thirds of the human race are living in the sub- human conditions, it’s easy enough to meet him in the flesh.