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Every October the Board of Directors of the Maryknoll Lay Missioners meets at MKLM headquarters in Ossining, New York. Here is an account of the trip and meetings to New York and then on to Louisville for a visit with the family.
Every October the Board of Directors of the Maryknoll Lay Missioners meets at MKLM headquarters in Ossining, New York. Here is an account of the trip and meetings to New York and then on to Louisville for a visit with the family.
Apologies for the long absence! I arrived back in Phnom Penh Friday morning after a rough trip. In all the airports I was in (eight of them) I could connect to their free wi-fi but could only get an Internet connection in three of them and two of those were at the beginning and end of the trips.
Then in the US I was hampered both by the unavailability of both time and wi-fi connections. I have not ever before been so unconnected to the Internet and out of touch.
But now I’m in Phnom Penh and back on a regular schedule so postings should be daily now–unless a glitch reoccurs that for two hours this evening–kept me from being able to log in to the website that hosts this webpage. We’ll see!
Every October the Board of Directors of the Maryknoll Lay Missioners meets at MKLM headquarters in Ossining, New York. Here is an account of the trip and meetings to New York and then on to Louisville for a visit with the family.
Every October the Board of Directors of the Maryknoll Lay Missioners meets at MKLM headquarters in Ossining, New York. Here is an account of the trip and meetings to New York and then on to Louisville for a visit with the family.
This has been a rough trip. Travel and movement plans have been disrupted and communications have been almost non-existent. I’m now in Louisville, though–for another twelve hours–and I hope to get a first installment from the trip posted before I go.
Things have become worse, not better, schedule-wise. Again I couldn’t get to a wi-fi connection with enough time to start posting about this trip. Maybe tomorrow! Sorry!
My schedule is not working out! I haven’t had any time at all to sit down and work on this website. Too many meetings, planned and unplanned.
I can give you a note on the vehicles used coming here. I was thinking after I arrived about them:
The about took a total of 43 hours from take-off in Phnom Penh.
Greetings… I just arrived at Maryknoll, New York early this morning after almost two days of travel. We had some delays because of Air Traffic Control and the trip took longer than usual. I hope to get accounts of this trip online very quickly!
St. Joseph Church in Phnom Penh is the only formal parish in the whole country of Cambodia. There are other Catholic communities but they are known as pastoral centers rather than parishes.
This weekend St. Joseph Church celebrated its 25th anniversary. Starting on Friday evening and running through Sunday evening, there were a variety of activities. Saturday morning there was an anniversary mass presided over by Bishop Olivier. Because our English community has our own worship space in one of the buildings at the parish, we were part of the festivities.
The Saturday morning mass was held outside under a large semi-permanent tent because none of the halls are large enough to contain a crowd of this size.
At the end of mass, there was a procession to the entrance of the old seminary chapel where the bishop blessed a special statue of St. Joseph that was carried in the procession. Bishop Antony and Bishop Kike from the other two Cambodian dioceses were part of the celebration.