Today we had the third and final day of training for job coaching for people with disabilities. We got a lot of good information but it will be a major initiative to implement it as a DDP project.
I like it…
This Caritas Cambodia mission statement is probably the shortest and most power mission statement I’ve seen. I’m proud to be part of the organization.
Job Coaching Training
Today we began a second three-day training on job coaching for people with disabilities.
Different styles
Not all priests should offer the sacrament of reconciliation (confession). Not all priests should preside at mass. Not all priests should preach. Just because a man is ordained doesn’t mean he has the training or the skill and ability to do those things well.
Most priests (I hope) spend time preparing to preach. But those who do prepare have different styles. I know a couple priests who write out their homilies word for word. Myself, I use bullet points in an outline. The photo above shows how another priest prepared for preaching today, the 1st Sunday of Advent. His notes above would not help me but they helped him give a really good homily. Different strokes for different folks….
Heavy and Solid
Today I had to go back to the doctor to change the bandage on my arm surgery. I was only in the waiting room five or ten minutes but that gave me a chance to take some other photos of the obsession with heavy wooden furniture and “objects” like the tall wooden cylinders for which a tree was cut down.
Thanksgiving in Cambodia
Thanksgiving is different in Cambodia. Actually, it doesn’t exist here but we Americans get together continuing the tradition we grew up with. In previous years, it was the Maryknoll NGO that gathered but after the NGO closed, it’s just a ragtag group of us for Thanksgiving this year.
Training the way it should be….
“Can I help you?”
Autism School Concert
The Catholic Church is one of the major actors in providing schools for children in Cambodia with autism. Today the Church of the Child Jesus in the Boeung Tum Pun area of Phnom Penh had a benefit concert to raise money for an enlarged school building on their campus. Performing was a professional ensemble of singers and musicians from Japan.
Life and Death in God’s Family
This morning at our Sunday liturgy, we had a special blessing, a remembrance for Raymond Leos, our parishioner who died three weeks ago. His brother Greg and Greg’s wife Kristen and their daughter Alexandra came from the United States and celebrated Ray’s life and death with us. I think it is very important for a parish to mark the special and important events in the lives of our church family like this.