New Year Peace
Category: Church
The Catholic Church in Cambodia.
New Church Building
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.
Mission in Cambodia
Every two months I write an article about life and mission in Cambodia for The Record, the weekly newspaper for the Archdiocese of Louisville. Here is an article published in this week’s edition:
https://therecordnewspaper.org/living-mission-life-in-cambodia-is-improving/
Not yet finished….
Epiphany
Every year the bishop invites leaders of the Phnom Penh parishes and of the diocesan offices to a gathering on the feast of the Epiphany. Click here to see photos from this year’s gathering at the pastoral center.
Christmas Eve at St. Joseph Church
Sign of the Times
It’s an interesting indicator of the tumultuous times we live in when our Phnom Penh archbishop, at a priests meeting, gives us all a Christmas gift–a hand sanitizer, complete with his coat of arms! We also got some candy in the bag.
One step at a time
Preparing the ground
After laying the cornerstone last week, construction of the new church at St. Joseph parish has continued, especially assessing the firmness of the soil and the beginning of driving piles into the ground. Tonight when we finished our evening mass, the workers had departed for the day and left this crane silhouetted against the evening sky.