Category: Church

Today was the first full day of retreat after the travel day yesterday to Kampong Som Province on the Gulf of Thailand.  Click here for pictures from the day as the retreat started.

Monday was a day for traveling from all over Cambodia (about the size of Wyoming) to Sihanoukville down on the southern coast of the kingdom.  The distances are not actually that great but for some of the priests it is a two-day trip because of the difficulty of travel in Cambodia.  This is Archbishop Sebastian Francis, our retreat leader.  Click here to see pictures from Monday.

Today was the beginning of the annual retreat for all the priests of Cambodia.  It is held at the Catholic center in Sihanoukville and for most of us it was a travel day to this southernmost province in the kingdom.  In the picture, Bishop Olivier welcomes everyone to the gathering

The Internet doesn’t reach to my room and I have to go to another building to make these posts so I probably will only get to post things here once a day. On Tuesday I will set up a main page for the retreat which will link to the individual days.

Many of the international schools in Phnom Penh are giving final exams to their students in May, and in the religious education program for the English-speaking Catholic community, we had our final class this past weekend.  There weren’t any exams but rather we had a farewell for Ms. Beata Pratiwi (far right) who has been a coordinator for the program but is now returning to Indonesia.

Today we had our Easter morning liturgy at St. Joseph Church with a very large crowd and coffee and doughnuts afterward.  Click here to see the pictures, but scroll down to Easter Sunday Morning.

Tonight was the culmination of the church’s liturgical year with the Easter Vigil celebration of Christ’s rising from the dead.  Our English community gathered at World Vision.  Click here for more and then scroll down to Holy Saturday.

Today was both New Year’s Day for the Khmer people and Good Friday for the Christians.  Because it was a holiday the traffic was much less for those traveling to St. Joseph Church but then many people also left town for the long new year holiday.  Click here and scroll down to Good Friday to see the service.

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Today is new year’s eve for the Khmer New Year but is Holy Thursday in the Christian calendar.  Only one liturgy is allowed for a parish community on this day and we gathered in the evening at St. Joseph Church.  Click here to see pictures from the ceremony. [The link is still not working properly so scroll down to Holy Thursday after clicking.]