Spirituality Articles
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An Integral Approach to Mission
At Easter, a group from Britain visited St. Bernadette’s Children’s Centres in Lima, Peru. Here, Fr. Tony Coney (pictured below), who began the project, believes we are called to nurture and value the goodness in every child.
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Reflections on Mission for April
Week 1, Active nonviolence
Week 2, Appreciating the natural world
Week 3, Civilisation of Love
Week 4, Nuclear nightmare -
Columban Love Story
“When I left Peru to go to the Philippines, I wondered what I’d find there”, observes Marisol Rojas, a former Columban Lay Missionary. Perhaps the last thing she expected to find was a husband. This is a true love story
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Reflections on Mission for March
Week 1, Fair Trade
Week 2,Globilsation
Week 3, Bleeding to Death
Week 4, A simpler Lifestyle -
Reflections on Mission for February
Week 1, Mission Today
Week 2, Indifference kills
Week 3, Enthusiasm for Mission
Week 4, Water of Life -
Reflections on Mission for January
Week 1, Companions in Mission
Week 2, Mission as Pilgrimage
Week 3, Blessed Peacemakers
Week 4, Missionaries as Dreamers -
November prayers for the Dead
During the month of November, the Columban community places lists of the dead before the Altar in our chapel and are remembered during our Masses.
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Reflections on Mission for November
Week 1, The Spirit of God in Creation
Week 2, Warped Values
Week 3, The call to undergo an “ecological conversion”
Week 4, Mission Spirituality -
NJPN Conference: Unearthing the buried Jesus
In a workshop at the NJPN Conference last weekend, David Rhodes, Anglican minister and author, spoke of how the Church over time buried Jesus under heaps of dogmas, rituals and institutional structures.
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Poor Britain!
‘Britain is a wealthy nation, a developed country, and a society which offers multiple opportunities to some of its people. But, ‘don’t forget the poor!’ Mauricio Silva, Columban Lay Mission Co-ordinator, shares his experience of mission in Britain.
