By Sister Marcelle Theresa, SPC

Sr. Marcelle Theresa a placid and unflappable Filipino Sister from Cagayan de Oro City, find herself in the midst of the INTIFADA: the prolonged Arab uprising in the occupied territories. She is bewildered but she trust in God and asks Him to lead her on quietly in faith.

            In 1967, a war between the Arabs and the Israelis resulted in the occupation by Israel of certain Arab territories: Sinai, Gaza, Golan Heights, the West Bank and a part of Jerusalem. Sinai has been returned to Egypt but the other territories remain under Israeli control.

By: Zosing Mecasio

Zosing Mecasio came to England from the Philippines three years ago to work as lay missionary. At present she is engage in pastoral works parish in London.

Most conversations here begin with the weather, so I will begin with it too. The first thing that met me when I arrived in England was the cold outside the airport. I shivered being used to the heat back home in the Philippines. I felt as if I was in the freezer. The cold went right into my spine. Even how much I wrapped myself I remained cold and frozen. I felt awkward with the several layers of the thick clothing, and sometime a felt a short of breathe.

In Guatemala poverty and homelessness are the direct results of concentration of land in a few hands; 65% of the land belongs to a small minority who are growing richer all the time because of this situation.  Three out of four Guatemalans are very poor and live in very ineadequate housing, with the direct result that infant mortality is 170 for every 1000.  There is no sharing, not even a little, by those few who own thousands of acres -some properties extending from the volcanos to the sea --with the majority who spend sleepless nights in vercrowed shacks worrying about how to earn a few centavos the next day for their families.

FATHER ROMEO G. NIMEZ, CICM, from the Philippines, who writes this article, has been a missionary in Guatemala for five years.  While working in the parish of Santa Lucia Cotzumalguapa in the department of Escuintla along the Pacific Ocean,  Father Nimez is also the CICM Vocation Director in Guatemala.

Fr. Arthur Price

We arrive in Manila on a beautiful tropical evening just before sunsets, four newly ordained priests, Father James McDevitt, Dermot Feeny, Martin Strong and Arthur Price. We made our way to Malate church, which we found in a festive mood as that annual novena in honor of Our Lady of Remedies was then in Progress. It was on November 15, 1936. A wonderful atmosphere of relaxed enjoyment. Religion was really seemed to be the center of the lives of these people in more ways than one.