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The Catholic Church is one of the major actors in providing schools for children in Cambodia with autism. Today the Church of the Child Jesus in the Boeung Tum Pun area of Phnom Penh had a benefit concert to raise money for an enlarged school building on their campus. Performing was a professional ensemble of singers and musicians from Japan.
This morning at our Sunday liturgy, we had a special blessing, a remembrance for Raymond Leos, our parishioner who died three weeks ago. His brother Greg and Greg’s wife Kristen and their daughter Alexandra came from the United States and celebrated Ray’s life and death with us. I think it is very important for a parish to mark the special and important events in the lives of our church family like this.
Here is the latest column I wrote for The Record, the newspaper for the Archdiocese of Louisville
Patrick Labelle is a French friend of the deaf who has developed an app for learning and using sign language. It’s for use by deaf children more than the general public.
A seasonal favorite among the foods sold on the street is corn on the cob. It is sold either roasted or boiled and is usually offered from vendors pushing bicycles with a large bag of boiled or roasted ears of corn. It’s quite good!
One of my favorite fruits taste-wise is the pomelo. It’s quite a bit like a grapefruit but with a better taste. Eating a pomelo is not so pleasing, though. It has a huge soft rind around the fruit part and it takes some effort to get to what is edible. And the fruit part is not so readily edible as a grapefruit. There is a heavy protective skin around each section and it’s difficult to maneuver around that.
The day after the Water Festival ended, life started returning to normal.
Saturday was the third and last day of the Water Festival.
Here are some more photos, from Day 2 of the Water Festival
[All the photos are from The Khmer Times.]
Today is the second day of the Water Festival, a three-day holiday extravaganza. More than a million people come from the provinces to Phnom Penh to watch the annual boat races.
