Signs from MARCH FOR OUR LIVES

This is not left-right, this is life-death.

Signs from MARCH FOR OUR LIVES

Now is the time to grab the NRA by the Glock.

Death of Jim Noonan

Yesterday morning I woke up to messages that Fr. Jim Noonan had died during the Cambodian night. Jim was a Maryknoll priest who served in Cambodia from 1991 to 2009. He and I lived together for several years, and he was one of the finest people and finest priests I know. We will miss him a lot. Here we have his picture before the altar as we set up for our liturgy with our regular Wednesday meeting today.

The Nippon Foundation Visit

Today we at the Deaf Development Programme had a visit from Ms. Ikumi Kawamata (second left) from the Nippon Foundation in Japan. Here she is with our Sign Language Project staff and her interpreter John (far right).

Signs from MARCH FOR OUR LIVES

Save your thoughts and prayers. We need gun control now!

Signs from MARCH FOR OUR LIVES

Human lives over hunting rights

Still Killing

Today the Phnom Penh Post published this photograph and a short article about a bulldozer which was destroyed by an anti-tank mine in Phnom Penh on the weekend. It turned out the mine was in a truckload of dirt hauled from one of the provinces to be used in a construction project near this Buddhist wat. The driver was thrown over the wall and suffered serious injuries but survived.

The last mines were put down forty years ago but they’re still killing and maiming. We average a casualty every four or five days–after four decades.

Topics: Sun #2

An earlier posting looked at how Cambodian people avoid the sun on their heads. This post today looks at how they avoid the sun on their arms. Click here to see some of their techniques.

Signs from MARCH FOR OUR LIVES

The only thing easier to buy than a gun in America is a Republican senator.

First Communion

This evening at the 5:00 PM mass, thirteen of our younger children received their First Communion, always a significant marker in a Catholic child’s spiritual development. Here one of the boys reads the first reading for this weekend’s liturgy.