Category: Church

The Catholic Church in Cambodia.

Christmas Caroling

Our musicians and choir members for our two English communities are really exceptional in their time, talents, energy, and willingness to minister to the English Catholic Community. Tonight, after the 5:00 PM evening mass, the Saturday choir presented a mini Christmas concert that was well attended and really well done. Thank you! Thank you!

Priest Meeting (December, 2023)

Bishop Olivier has quarterly meetings of all the priests in the Phnom Penh diocese and today it was a less formal, more social gathering.

After an opening prayer, Bishop Olivier led the group to a former hearing clinic that has been remodeled into offices for the vicariate staff.
Bishop Olivier introduced the staff and explained who would work from this new office center.

Then we had the official meeting but it was low key, noting so much that is going on in the vicariate.
Once we got into the dining room, Bishop Olivier recognized those having birthdays and other special occasions in the lives and ministries.
Under the Christmas tree in the dining room was a gift bag for each of the priests at the meeting with cookies and handicraft gifts from Bishop Olivier’s social enterprise in Takeo Province.

Farewell to Ann

Maryknoll Sr. Ann Sherman returned to the United States today after ten years of ministry in Cambodia. She regularly attends the masses I have with the Missionaries of Charity and today at the end of mass we said goodbye and took a group photo–with some of the orphans who come to the mass.

Sr. Ann Sherman (C).

End of Session 1

Today is the last working day of the Bishops Synod in Rome. Here at the end of the first month-long session are Bishop Kike (L) from Battambang in Cambodia and Fr. James Martin, SJ (R) whom I met at Maryknoll, NY, and a third unknown priest.

CACD meeting

Today we had the quarterly meeting of the Catholic Alliance for Charity and Development, the organization of the Cambodian Catholic Church’s social service agencies.

There were two main topics on the agenda today. Here Joseph from Caritas Australia presents the context of the strategic planning for CACD that is now taking place. That was followed by a reporting by Rozet on research on autism in Cambodia that has been done by CCAMH.