The first book I ever read, when I was 7, was Treasure Island. A map guided Jim Hawkins and his friends to the hidden treasure. God drew a map with clues that guided me to discover the treasure of my vocation during my teenage years.
Suzzanne is from Consolacion, Dalaguete, Cebu. She graduated as a
Bachelor in Secondary Education major in Physics and Chemistry last 2007 and has
been teaching in B.R.I.G.H.T. Academy, Banilad, Cebu City for two years.
Presently she is a Chemistry teacher.
As a child, I was told to tell the truth always. I remember confessing just
before my First Communion that I had lied many times. The value of honesty has
always struck me and I have observed how people easily get around it. As I was
growing up, I got confused with telling a twisted truth and a lie. I also
realized how being frank enough to tell the truth could even lead to
persecution. So if being honest at all times is not good, we try to be prudent.
ShareThisBy Fr Andrew Labatoria CICM and Fr Edito Casipong CICM
Father Andrew Labatoria, from Zarraga, Iloilo, joined the CICMs in 1991, and was ordained in 2003. Father Edito Casipong, from Victorias City, Negros Occidental, joined in 1986, and was ordained in 1998. They currently work as the founding pastors of the first CICM parish in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti.
Our cover captures the lively waterfalls in the hidden paradise of Bauko, Mountain Province, Philippines, waiting to be discovered and to be shared. It is likened to the Word of God that continuously flows in the deepest recesses of our hearts, even in the most barren of souls, also waiting to be discovered, to be recognized and to be shared with others.
Year 2007: The year I wrote ‘Letter to My Brother Kokong’ that was published in Misyon in November-December that year. I had no idea what could be next; all I knew was that the story had never really ended. The letter only concluded with a sad, haunting plea asking my brother to come back.
Ms Kathryn Boyle is a lecturer in the Social Teaching of the Catholic Church at Australian Catholic University, Melbourne.
Since 1929 Columban priests have served the people of Our Lady of Remedies parish in Malate, Manila. This was the first Columban parish established in the Philippines and it remains in their care today. Malate is thus, the ‘oldest parish’ in the Columban world.
‘I will pour out my spirit and my blessings on your children. They will thrive like watered grass, like willows on a riverbank.’
By Bev Trach
Bev Trach is a Scarboro Lay Missionary working in Brazil. This article first appeared in the November 2009 Newsletter of the Scarboro Missionaries whose headquarters are in Scarborough, Ontario, to the immediate east of Toronto. Monsignor John Mary Fraser, a diocesan priest of the Archdiocese of Toronto, founded the Scarboro Missionaries in 1918. Some years earlier Fr Edward Galvin, who was to become one of the founders of the Columbans, traveled to China with Father Fraser. A talk that the Canadian priest gave in St Patrick’s National Seminary, Ireland, stirred the interest of a young professor there, Fr John Blowick, who became the other co-founder of the Columbans. Father Fraser was interned in the Philippines during World War II.
The first book I ever read, when I was 7, was Treasure Island. A map guided Jim Hawkins and his friends to the hidden treasure. God drew a map with clues that guided me to discover the treasure of my vocation during my teenage years. 
Suzzanne is from Consolacion, Dalaguete, Cebu. She graduated as a
Bachelor in Secondary Education major in Physics and Chemistry last 2007 and has
been teaching in B.R.I.G.H.T. Academy, Banilad, Cebu City for two years.
Presently she is a Chemistry teacher. 
Ms Kathryn Boyle is a lecturer in the Social Teaching of the Catholic Church at Australian Catholic University, Melbourne.
Bev Trach is a Scarboro Lay Missionary working in Brazil. This article first appeared in the 
