Dear Religious Family, I would like to share with you a very valuable experience we had when we first arrived in Taiwan in the peak of the Covid epidemic. Due to the epidemic, we were able to enter Taiwan only by way of a student visa which obliged us to have 15 hours of Chinese […]
A concrete imprint that the Missionaries have left in the history and culture of China Read More »
On the day of the Ascension we finished our second mission ad gentes in Taiwan, and we remembered the mandate Our Lord gave to His Apostles, before His departure, to preach the Gospel unto the furthest ends of the earth (see Lc 24:47, Acts 1:8). A commandment that the Church cannot avoid without negating
In obedience to the missionary mandate Read More »
“Sometimes we feel like what we do is only a drop in the ocean, but the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.” –Bl. Mother Teresa of Calcutta On the Battlefield of the Fight for Life “The measure of civilization, a universal and permanent measure which includes all cultures, is its relationship with
The ProLife Office in Taiwan Read More »
It has been a year since I came to Taiwan. I remember that after having just gotten off the plane, I went out with Fr. Pablo to know the mission field. It was the first time that I walked around in the area of the Parish of Dayuan. We did not know a word of
From an Idolatrous Temple to the Tabernacle Read More »
Not everybody speaks a hundred languages like St. Francis Xavier did, as his great hagiographer Fr. Garcia hyberbolically said. Therefore, missionaries usually have to learn languages. Some languages are “strange” or are supposedly too difficult or even impossible to learn. One of those is Mandarin. So that’s why I write this chronicle, about the five-millenia-old language of the Celestial Empire,
Learning Chinese: an exciting challenge Read More »
In Taiwan only 1% of the population is Catholic. Therefore, events such as the following happen. In a conversation with two youth, a Missionary wished them a Blessed Easter. But none of them knew what Easter was. They did not have the slightest idea. In the end, after some explanations, one of them asked: “Easter
A Holy Thursday in Taichung Read More »
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