
Celebrating Advent

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Last week the priests of the Phnom Penh Vicariate met at the pastoral center for a business meeting, prayer, a tour of the new seminary building, and lunch together. Click here to see pictures from the day.
For generations Cambodians have been small farmers, eking out enough to eat and a little to sell in order to buy what they can’t grow. And whenever there was an opportunity to sell something on the side to make a little extra income, they jumped at the chance. Nearly 60% of Cambodians now live in cities but the old ways came with them, and the family is always thinking of ways to supplement their income. This woman makes some sort of snack in her kitchen and sells it to passersby outside her front door.
The “cold snap” here in Phnom Penh is continuing and the low temperature today was 64ºF, really frigid by Cambodian standards–and nippy even for the foreigners when taking a morning shower with no hot water.
“Do not pray for an easy life; pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”
~ John F. Kennedy
The description “car seat” for children is the same in US English and Cambodian English, but the realities in the vehicles are quite different.
Finally all the clergy were vested and everything prepared and the installation ceremony began. It lasted about 2 1/2 hours. Click here to see pictures from the actual ceremony.
Fr. Bruno Cosme of the French Foreign Missions group was installed as the Apostolic Prefect of the Kampong Cham Prefecture on 30 November. Click here to see the preparations and gathering of the people for the celebration.