Category: Church

The Catholic Church in Cambodia.

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.

Lay Missioner Gathering

I’m not sure what happened but somehow this didn’t get posted yesterday.

Because of rain and conflicting schedules, this month’s gathering was smaller. The lay missioners were from Korea, Italy, Japan, Honduras, and the United States, and Brother John, a seminarian from the Thai Mission Society also came and took this picture.
Ai and Tomoko from the Japan Lay Mission Movement gave a presentation about their work.
Caritas from Korea prepared a lot of really interesting and tasty foods for us!
A picture with Brother John who is from Vietnam.
A farewell photo.

Sunday Liturgy

Today our Sunday liturgy was a little bit special. After the homily, Jay, one of our parishioners, received the sacrament of confirmation.

We celebrated the beginning of a new school year by inviting all our students–and even those not yet in school–to come forward after communion to receive a blessing.