Category: Church

The Catholic Church in Cambodia.

New Church Building

There was more substantial progress in evidence this evening when we went to the 5:00 PM mass at St. Joseph Church. Before there was a lot of preparation and clearing the site but now actually construction is taking place. It looks like they are laying a concrete foundation or maybe even the flooring of a basement.

Notable Quotes

Shouldn’t we be wondering how it is that we go on arming ourselves to deliver death to unseen enemies while our society is dying in other ways at our own hands as a result?

And now our so-called representatives and senators tell us that those social things are too expensive for them to allow while they have pumped the military budget up and up, over and over, for all the years of our lives?

Sr. Joan Chittister, OSB, commenting on Sante Fe Archbishop John Wester’s pastoral letter calling for the abolition of all nuclear weapons.

Christmas Eve at St. Joseph Church

Our English community had our Christmas Eve mass at 6:00 PM because it was a work day and people needed to get from work to our chapel. At 7:00 PM, Bishop Olivier had his Christmas Eve liturgy (above) for the Khmer community. They met outside to follow the rules for distancing in large groups. Their big flood lights and our air conditioners in the chapel were too much for the church’s electrical service and the lights went out two times.