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January-February 1989

A Lonely Monk From Tibet

 By Fr. Flynn

A Catholic Missionary and a Buddhist monk find Friendship and much to admire in each other’s religion 

I have a friend who is a Buddhist monk: Nyechan Rimpoche Thuptenchodak Gyatso. That is his name. Gyatso is his family name; Nyechan is the name of the temple he entered at the aged of eight years, and Rimpoche would mean something like “Father”. But the whole name is important because only by the whole name would you know that he is a Lama (A Tibetan priest) of outstanding scholarships.

Joseph- The Leper

Sr. Leonora Miñoza, MM

Among my various involvement in Pare Pare, Indonesia, the most rewarding pastoral care for the catholic patients in a leprosarium about five kilometer from the city. I visit this patients regularly, Either in their home or in gatherings in small houses that serve as chapel. We informally shares life experiences or we pray and sing hymns as the ocassion demands. Through this I gather information and intimate stories from each of them-each one has a story all his own!

Gandhi: ASIAN PEACEBUILDER

By Robert Ellsberg

Gandhi believe that exploitation was made possible because by the active and passive cooperation of the exploited themselves. How else to explain that a single trading company, eventually reinforced by the thousand soldier, held hundreds of millions in captivity in their own lands? India’s moral weakness and visions of religion, caste, class, and language, were Britain's strength. Also, the nation’s educated were enthralled by Western culture and manner. A country that had been self- sufficient for food and clothing for a thousands of years and that of one principal of textile for centuries had been impoverished in the space of a hundred years. Land was taken up for the cultivation of cash crops like indigo; food was hoarded by the profiteers and famine for the first time swept over the countryside while wheat was exported to England. Peasants were forced to sell all their crops to pay massive taxes, only to re purchase their own food at increase prices. Government – supported moneylenders gave credit to farmers at staggering interest rates. The cottage textile industry was ruined with the importation of cheap English cloth made from Indian cotton. The village industries, which had supplies the peasant with 20- 60% of their basic needs, were destroyed. With nothing to replace these, industries the villages, once the cradle of Indian civilization, fell into ruin and stagnation. The cities, strongholds of British power and money, began to swell, draining the countryside of its population and wealth, as the country grew deeper into dependence on Britain.

Huwag Sisisgaw: Papatayin Kayo!

The Adventure of ten Carmelite Nuns by Muslim Revolutionaries

(From the last Issue)…Ten Carmelite nuns, kidnapped by the eagle commandos, are now on a boat on Lake Lanao going they know not where.

Continuation…

About two and half hours later, reached out destination 9on the other side of the lake: A Maranao house just by the shore, which would be our home for the next three days. It was a typical Maranao house one big whole with no partitions. In one corner was a big bed (the bedroom), which was given for our use. In the other side was a table bench, and that was all the furniture in the house. We were welcomed as guests, given the best they could offer –the best blankets, the best pillows, their best plates. Though we were packed like sardines on that one big bed, we found comfort of being so close to one another in such a strange place and amidst the strange people.

Through The Gospel

With Fr. Dom Helder Camara

Herod was  furious on realizing he had been fooled by the wise men, and in Bethlehem and its surrounding district he had all thee male children killed who were two years old and less, reckoning by the date he had been careful to asked the wise men (Mt.2:16)

The massacre of the Innocents, Dom Helder: Don’t you get the feeling that it is still going on?

Yes, I do. And this is the form, as I see it; the massacre of the Innocents takes today.