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Category: Missionary Vocation
Missionary Vocation

A Cross in the Soap

The cross in a bar of soap: This is how the Vietnamese bishop Nguyen Van Thuan kept the sign of his Christian faith in the long years he spent in communist prisons. A descendant of martyrs, he was called to witness the faith the hard way, before being chosen as a cardinal and a preacher to the Pope. Because of all this, Benedict XVI, in his last encyclical letter, singled him out as a heroic witness of hope.

Fr. Lorenzo Carraro | Comboni Missionary
Missionary Vocation

“Give Me The Price of Two Bombers”

“With the price of two of your planes destined to spread death, I can cure all the lepers of the world.” This bold challenge of Raoul Follereau, the “vagabond of charity,” was directed, in vain, to the two great leaders of USA and Russia in 1954, at the peak of the Cold War. A gifted poet and orator, this Frenchman, with his wife Madeleine, toured the world to tell everybody that the real leprosy was our superstitious fear that condemned millions of unfortunate brothers and sisters to isolation and neglect.

Fr. Lorenzo Carraro | Comboni Missionary
Missionary Vocation

Sr. Dorothy Stang Martyr Of The Amazon

When the world hardly noticed the need to protect the environment, Sr. Dorothy Stang was already defending the Amazon and the poor people who depend on the forest. Because of that, she was murdered – just after blessing the hired assassins who ended her mission with six bullets.

John Dear, SJ | Peace Activist And Writer

A Human Holiness

The life of Magdeleine Hutin, the founder of The Little Sisters of Jesus, is an inspiring lesson; her love for the poorest of the Earth, an example; her words, something we must engrave in our hearts: “I would like to pass the important ideal of a holiness which is human.”

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Missionary Vocation

A Man For Others

One hundred years ago, in the Basque region of Spain, a man was born who was destined to renew the legacy of his great countryman, Ignatius of Loyola. For Pedro Arrupe, being the General of the Jesuits, brought to fruition his extraordinary life experiences. It also crucified him in a wheelchair for the last ten years of his life.

Fr. Lorenzo Carraro | Comboni Missionary
Missionary Vocation

Prophet Of Weakness

Hero of the French resistance, member of the French parliament, Abbé Pierre embodied in himself the courage of the saints and the stubbornness of the social reformers. But, above all, the tiny Franciscan priest recognized and honored in the poor our common humanity.

Fr. Lorenzo Carraro | Comboni Missionary
Missionary Vocation

The Bells Of Nagasaki

He was himself a victim of the atomic bomb and became its mystic. This is the heart-rending story of Dr. Paul Takashi Nagai, who gave his life to the mission of making Christian sense of one of the greatest war tragedies of modern history.

Fr. Lorenzo Carraro | Comboni Missionary
Missionary Vocation

Sister Mary Christine Tan The Pearl Of Great Price

Sister Mary Christine Tan was a human rights advocate, a nationalist activist, a religious leader but, above all, she was a true friend of the poor. Shortly before dying, she said that, in prayer and in the poor’s bosom, she had found “the pearl of great price.”

Ma. Ceres P. Doyo | Staff Writer and Columnist of the Phil. Daily Inquirer
Missionary Vocation

The Example Of St. Francis

Francis embodies the Gospel journey from violence to nonviolence, wealth to poverty, power to powerlessness, selfishness to selfless service, pride to humility, indifference to love, cruelty to compassion, vengeance to forgiveness, revenge to reconciliation, war to peace, killing enemies to loving enemies.

John Dear, SJ | Peace Activist, Lecturer & Writer
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