Past Magazine Stories

I arrived in Fiji as a Columban lay missionary in August 2017. Once in Fiji, I studied the language for three months. Studying a new language for the first time in my…

One year has passed since I came back to Korea for my second term as a Columban lay missionary. Indeed, time has flown so fast.

Being a stranger in a foreign land wasn’t always easy, in terms of learning and adopting not only the language and local dialect but also the culture. I was thinking about…

Each of us could write a book on disappointments, because there are so many in our lives.

What makes a life a success in the grand scheme of things, that is, a success in God’s plan?

After a 14-hour flight from Korea, with a fierce wind and torrential rain waiting to greet me in Dublin, I realized that I had finally landed in Ireland. It was the first…

I have just completed 40 years in Chile and for 25 of these I have been going to the oldest jail in Santiago called the “Peni,” which is pronounced like “penny.” It was…

More than 20 years ago, I left the Philippines for the first time as a Columban lay missionary assigned to Brazil.

I arrived in Pakistan in 1994 after joining the Columban lay missionary orientation program which included a focused study on Islam and the Pakistani culture.

I am Irma Lara Cantago, a Columban lay missionary for many years. A high school teacher by profession, I was teaching for 15 years and at the same time involved in the…

"Were not our hearts burning within us while he was talking to us on the road?" (Lk 24:32)

Learning a new language is really difficult. One has to become a child again and enter an entirely new culture.