by Fr. Shay Cullen email: shaycullen@preda.org (Fr. Shay’s columns are published in The Manila Times,in publications in Ireland, the UK, Hong Kong, and on-line.) If we go to church just to get to heaven is is not the best kind of faith.We need to be acting to help others It seems so selfish and self-centred. […]
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE STRUGGLE FOR THEIR RIGHTS
October 22nd, 2013 | Comments Off on INDIGENOUS PEOPLE STRUGGLE FOR THEIR RIGHTS »by Fr. Shay Cullen The leader of the community of the Aeta indigenous people proudly led me around the hillside resettlement community where the 200 or so families were establishing a new village community. Their ancestral village and lands were wiped out in a torrential typhoon and gigantic floods. My mission, helped by the German Church agency Misereor, […]
THE GREATEST MISSION
October 16th, 2013 | Comments Off on THE GREATEST MISSION »By Fr. Shay Cullen Malala Yousafzai, the 16 year-old Pakistani girl who defied the Taliban’s ban on girls’ education and was shot in the head but survived, has been granted the European Human Rights Award. Many thought she would be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Instead, it went to the Organization for the Prohibition of […]
THE GREATEST STORM
October 10th, 2013 | Comments Off on THE GREATEST STORM »By Fr. Shay Cullen The rains would not stop even after the winds had died down. Rachel was terrified for her children and herself. Juanito, her husband had gone looking for food. The typhoon blew wild and wickedly across the Philippines leaving behind rising flood waters, mangled huts and shacks, and toppled mango trees. Even […]
A Mission in Life
October 10th, 2013 | Comments Off on A Mission in Life »Fr. Shay Cullen We have to have a mission in life, to make it meaningful,with purpose and to live more fully.The mission can be to accomplish any good work,motivated by a spiritual value of compassion, love of justice, care of others,empathy and solidarity with the sick, the oppressed and lonely. These inner convictions and commitments […]
