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.

A birthday

Today was Soknym’s first birthday as a member of the DDP staff and the rest of the staff provided a cake for celebrating together with him this afternoon.

Farewell

At our Maryknoll liturgy today, Clara Biswas said goodbye. She is with a Christian missionary group but now after many years in Cambodia—and with us–she is returning to Bangladesh. We had to say goodbye to a good friend.

Sr. Lucita

I celebrate mass with the Missionaries of Charity on Tuesday and Thursday mornings, and so today, when Sr. Lucita celebrated her 25th anniversary, I concelebrated with Bishop Olivier for a very happy occasion. Sr. Lucita is assigned to the Missionaries’ orphanage in Phnom Penh and we had the celebration in a hall on the top floor.

A group of the children at the Home of Love, getting their first chance to perform traditional Khmer dance.
Bishop Olivier gave out gift bags to the children after they danced.
Sr. Lucita is from India and was given many flowers
and the traditional garlands used in her home country.