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.
Category: Church
The Catholic Church in Cambodia.
Quarterly Meeting
Today we had our quarterly meeting of the priests of the Phnom Penh vicariate. Cardinal Ling from Laos was with us at the diocese’s pastoral center.
Boat Ride for Clergy
This morning was the celebration of the Cambodian martyrs under Pol Pot and this evening was a boat ride and dinner on the Mekong River to introduce the Phnom Penh clergy to Cardinal Ling, the archbishop of Vientiane, Laos.
Khmer New Year Day 1
It’s not only the local Cambodians who have abandoned Phnom Penh. Many, many of the expatriates here have followed the locals on to the highways for a long holiday weekend for the Khmer New Year. Today, the first day of the new year, we saw attendance at our Saturday evening mass down a great deal.
Saturday Night Liturgy
The English-speaking Catholic community was formed in the late 1980s when Fr. Tom Dunleavy was the first priest to return–at the request of the Vatican–to Cambodia after the Khmer Rouge era. The community met in hotel rooms at first, then in a classroom, then a cultural center, and then moved to the auditorium of World Vision Cambodia pictured above. The third-floor windows on the wing extending to the left are those of the auditorium which we use on Saturday evenings at 5:00 PM. We have another liturgy on Sunday mornings at 10:00 AM at St. Joseph Church on the other side of town.
Easter Sunday
Easter Sunday started off with a gathering of the English Catholic community and ended with a gathering of the Maryknoll Cambodia community.
Holy Saturday: Easter Vigil
The Easter Vigil service Saturday evening at the World Vision auditorium.
Good Friday
Celebrations on Good Friday at the Deaf Development Programme and at St. Joseph Church.
Palm Sunday
The Palm Sunday services at World Vision and at St. Joseph Church.
Trip to Australia: Wednesday
Most of the day was spent at the cathedral presbytery and at the Caritas Australia office and then in the evening we went to the Finneran residence for dinner. Click here to see today’s limited activities.