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You know those error messages that pop up too frequently in Windows, the ones like 404 (Page not found)? Well, now there is an alternative if you would like to be informed with a little more poetry. Take this one for example:
Three things are certain
Death, taxes, and lost data.
Guess which occurred.
I was going through some old photos for a project for Bishop Olivier and I ran across this photo of our Saturday night mass when we used the Russian Cultural Center in Phnom Penh. This was in the year 2000.
Cambodia is 94% Buddhist but there is an element of Chinese influence visible throughout society. Here on a typical Khmer street is a small Chinese temple which doesn’t exactly blend in architecturally but is an accepted part of the neighborhood.
Since there’s confusion in the reporting about the present epidemic:
• CORONAVIRUS is a type of virus
• SARS-CoV-2 is the exact virus going around
• COVID-19 is the disease it causes, and
• “WUHAN VIRUS” is racist.
Lent…that space where we look, first of all, at what we set out to be, and then look consciously at what we are now doing to get there.
~ Joan Chittister, OSB
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Today we had a celebration of women at our DDP office grounds and it was a fun event even though on a smaller scale than in the past. Click here to see what was going on.
Breakfast in Phnom Penh on a Friday morning….
