By: Sr. Aquila Sy, PVM
Last summer in London, I met up a woman from China. She was studying English while I was attending a meeting of my congregation. We become friends. After much the effort to understand each other’s accent, we came to know something about each other. Her home was back in China. She lived there with her husband, her two children and her mother-in-law.
The triangle is an immense stretch of jungle close to the Chinese border. It is the area enclosed by two big rivers that flow from the ice-capped Himalayas and that gradually meet to form the headwaters of the River Irrawaddy.
Although the British had taken control of Burma in 1826 they made no attempt to enter the Triangle for another 100 years. The Kachins who lived there practiced slavery unmolested. The area seemed too wild and too remote.
By: Sr. Nora Wiseman
March 14th last year was just like any other day in the midwifery department in our hospital here in Mokpo, Korea. There was the usual quota of expectant mothers waiting to have their babies. Among them was Chang Hae Sook, a thirty-one year old woman who was to have her fourth child. She was premature labour and was hemorrhaging .
At 8:30 pm the obstetrician deliver a baby boy weighing 750 grammes – less than two pound bag of sugar. The doctor nodded to the pediatrician present, telling him that there was no hope, and he threw the little morsel into the trash can.
Four volunteer-legionaries who were going to Papua New Guinea were given a send-off Mass celebrated by Bishop Manuel C. Sobreviñas, and the spiritual director of the Senatus for northern Philippines at the St. Mary Goretti Church at Pius XII Catholic Center.
Three are going as Incolae Mariae and one as Extension Worker. They are Nelda Natividad, Emma Egan, Ma. Elena and Bro. Mariano Bernabe.
Antonio Lambino SJ
Who in Asia today are most responsible for the advance of inculturation? It is the poor grassroots of communities of faith, the Basic Christian Communities (BCCs) who are the principal agents of inculturation in many parts of Asia today. As the BCCs struggle to discern and to put up into practice what the Spirit indicates as the authentic Christian way in social situations marked injustice and oppression, the Asian face of Christianity emerges little by little.
By Father Vic Gaboury
It looked as though it was to be a busy time both before and during my first Christmas in Jamaica. Didn’t know the local customs and expectations. The parishioners in Seaford Town where I lived had asked for midnight Mass, and Christmas day there would be Masses in two mission stations at opposite ends of the area I cover.
The road resembles Chinese noodles with twist and turns all the way. I’d be picking up 20 to 35 people along the way in a van made to hold 15.
