Malick: the Tailor
One day he had an idea. He spoke about it with the youngest among other nearby tailors. They decided to form a cooperative. Every afternoon, for many years, when Malick came home from school, he would go to his father’s tailor shop and help as best he could. At first, he would do the cleaning, […]
Mission Diary: Zambia – Promoting Integral Health
Sister Sonia de Jesús García, an Ecuadorean Comboni Missionary Sister, shares her mission experience at Mongu, in Zambia. When I came to Zambia, I had no idea what this new experience would be like, as it was in Africa for the first time. But I was sure that if God had brought me to this […]
Bolivia: Pachamama, Mother Earth
August is the time of Pachamama, Mother Earth (also Pacha Mama or Mama Pacha) for the Quechua and Aymara cultures in Bolivia. During the preceding months, the earth took a break in the agricultural cycle, it slept… it is dry and August is a time of transition, of passage from sterility to fertility, of rejuvenation. […]
The Youth Corner: Living One’s Vocation in Freedom
The path of vocation is a path of liberation and discernment of one’s own personal freedom. “Affection will still solve the problems of liberty; those who love each other will become invincible.” These verses by the American poet and journalist Walt Whitman recently came to my table and made me think about the dimension of […]
Bolivia: Waturikunapuni that Inspires the Time of Creation
Beauty and the importance of the encounter with others that is a bearer of things new Waturikunapuni is the word with which the women of the Cochabamba valley express co-responsibility in the care of relationships. When you miss someone or something, the word waturikunapuni emerges which means “you always have to ask about the other […]
Refection: stop the extinction of a million species
We have to change, the world has to change, and the humans that are controlling the oil, gas, and coal industries and power plants have to change. They are the root cause of the CO2 in the atmosphere that is causing the planet to overheat. Immediate evidence of this is the present heat waves that […]
Mission Diary: Kenya, the Gospel of Patience
Fr. Gervais Katya Mutsopi speaks to us of his mission experience among the Pokot. The Mother of Peace Parish of Amakuriat, in the western Pokot region of northwestern Kenya, was my first mission land. I was not yet a priest when I was sent here for a missionary experience and, after my priestly ordination in […]
Summer Reading
Three interesting books for this summer It’s A Continent, Unravelling Africa’s History one Country At A Time, Astrid Madimba & Chinny Ukata, Coronet, 2022, London, 332 pages. Why is Africa still perceived as a country when there are around 2,000 languages spoken on the continent alone? The book It’s a Continent seeks to counter the […]
The Youth Corner: Discernment is a gift
Asking ourselves the question what is the meaning of life, especially our own life, may appear a pointless, rhetorical exercise, and yet, we human creatures continue to ask it in the hope that there may just be someone out there who has the right answer. We want to be able to discern what is the […]
Oral Literature: How the Tiger Got His Stripes
Once upon a time, ages and ages ago, so long ago that the tiger had no stripes upon his back and the rabbit still had his tail, there was a tiger who had a farm. The farm was very much overgrown with underbrush and the owner sought a workman to clear the ground for him […]
