I was reduced to frustration the moment I saw my name listed among those who were assigned to stay home while my brothers will go for vacation or to their respective exposures.
The emotion was strong and obvious; I was not able to hide it. Or perhaps I did for I locked myself up my room for the most part of that day.
It has been almost 6 years since Haiti was hit by the worst earthquake in the region in over 2 centuries, a massive 7.0 earthquake in January 2010 that killed at least 200,000 people, injured more than 300,000, leveled the capital of what was already the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, and left over 1.5 million...
Earlier this year, when the parish priest of Nuestra Señora de Altagracia of Pedernales in the diocese of Barahona in the Dominican Republic left for a month-long vacation in Puerto Rico, he invited some priests to celebrate mass in his parish.
One Sunday, Fr. Jose (the assistant parish priest of San Antonio de Padua parish) and...
At the end of November last year, I entered a new stage of my missionary life. It started with a persistent pain in the left arm. I did not pay attention to it because I thought that it was a passing problem without great importance.
At the end of the month of December, a French friend who was visiting us expressed his concern to...
Though Japan is widely known to be an earthquake-prone country, the monster “Tohoku Earthquake” of March 11, 2011 was no run-of-the-mill earthquake. Occurring off the Pacific coast of the northeastern part of Japan, this massive magnitude 9.0 quake causing immense tsunami waves and touching off more than 80 aftershocks is thought...
Missionhurst Missionaries build Catholic communities in frontier situations: places where the gospel is not preached or lived. This blog is about their work in the four corners of the globe, and their holistic work in four areas of focus: relief and healthcare, socio-economic development, education, and pastoral work.
