by Fr Oliver McCrossan
Josefina pedals passengers like these through Ozamiz streets on his three-wheeled pedicap called a sika-sikad
By Beth Sabado
The author is a Columban lay missionary working at the Hope Workers’ Center in Chungli City,Taiwan.
Working in the migrant ministry, I get used to all the ‘hellos’and‘goodbyes’ from migrant workers coming and going. Before leaving, some share their excitement to be home with their family, their anticipation of playing with their children and handing over their mga pasalubong. Others share their worries and fears, what to do when their little savings will all be spent, how to relate to their children, concerned if the kids would still recognize them, how to deal with an unfaithful spouse, how to handle a sick family member. Others promise not to return. But after a while they’re back again.
By Reverend Noe H. Pedrajas
The author was ordained deacon on 15 November in preparation for the priesthood. He belongs to the Diocese of Marbel.
During the ordination
to diaconate at Cacayan de Oro
Cathedral, with Bishop Zacharias Jimenez,
auxiliary of Butuan
A Buddhist temple in Yangon, Myanmar's capital city. Eighty-nine percent of people in Myanmar are Buddhist.
By Sister Grace Dorothy Lim MM
Early one morning, I received a call. ‘Sister, please, help us with the Immigration.’ Someone had received notice of voluntary deportation. At 8 o’clock I drove to their house. It was a one-room structure, an extension of a bigger house.
Sister Grace Dorothy Lim MM
By Armando Machado
The author, who writes for The Catholic Northwest Progress, www.seattlearch.org/progress, is originally from Panama. Raised in New York, he has been in western Washington State since 1987.
Church of the Assumption
Bellingham, WA — Pilar Lim was happy to share her traditional Filipino celebration honoring Blessed Mother Mary with members of other cultures within the Assumption Parish community.
By Sr Cresencia G. Lagunsad CB
Sister Cris, from Kidapawan, Mindanao, has been a member of the general board of the Sisters of Charity of St Charles Borromeo, www.cbsisters.org , since 1999 and on 5 August 2005 was elected to a six-year term as Vice General Superior.
(L-R) Srs Melanie, Cresencia, Rosarie and Lisbeth - members of the General Board - one Filipino and three Indonesians
An Interview With ‘Henrique Of The Trinity’. His Cloth Shoulder Bag Contains All His Worldly Possessions: A Bible, A Crucifix, An Icon Of The Trinity And A Towel.Q. Can you tell our readers how you arrived at this special vocation in the Church?
A. I was born in France and arrived in Brazil in 1987. I began to live in one of the large, very poor favelas of São Paulo. I spent two years living there, getting to know the situation in Brazil, living in a small wooden shack, the same kind of shack that everybody else lived in all over that area. I had come to Brazil to share in the life of the most marginalized people and to try and lead a life of contemplative prayer in that setting. I did not go to the favela to help resolve the huge problems of the people there, I just wanted to work on a person to person level. I spent two years there and they were happy years, but deep down I somehow felt called to something deeper, a greater simplicity of lifestyle.
One time I brought my cousins, Henry and Benita, to our cemetery at Christ the King Seminary inQuezon City. I told them, ‘Today we’re going to where I will be one day. When that day comes, you must come and visit. It doesn’t matter which of the empty graves I’ll be in. I’ll still listen to you from the grave.’ I think I scared my cousins because they asked to leave right away.
By Sr Emma de Guzman ICM
What happens when Filipino missionaries working all over the world come home, either for vacation or for good? Just imagine them in Africa or in any other part of the world, giving their best to the people they are called to love and serve, sharing those people’s lives and dreams and struggles, learning to speak their language. Then after five, fifteen or 30 years they must come home to thePhilippines. They are somehow lost. They experience cultural shock in reverse. The Philippines has changed and is still rapidly changing.
By Sabrina Gloria
Dear Father Seán,
Reading Misyon I’m touched by some of the articles. Because of this I would like to share my insights about a simple gesture which has left a special dent in my heart. I hope you’ll appreciate it.
