The Whale's Tooth from IrelandApr 21, 2022
3rd July 1977, I have been back here in Ireland on holidays after my first four years missionary work in Fiji. My mother had lovingly knitted a sweater to keep me warm during the notoriously ... Read more
Be Wise as Serpents and Simple as DovesApr 18, 2022
April 1977, Archbishop Pearce was the second Archbishop of Fiji from 1967-1974. He was concerned for the evangelization of the ethnic Indian people of Fiji ... Read more
Savenaca on PilgrimageApr 14, 2022
26/07/1995, Savenaca Momo from Nadelei in Ba Province is the epitome of a gentle giant. He joined the first team of lay missionaries to leave Fiji. They were appointed to Ireland. He was assigned to a town called Newbridge about 25 miles from Dublin ... Read more
Seeing the World with Tinted GlassesApr 12, 2022
21/11/1973, Learning a new language is only part of the challenge for missionaries. Local people have their own cultural values and see things differently from outsiders ... Read more
An Interview with NovicesApr 11, 2022
14/6/2014, The Good Shepherd Sisters from Australia contacted me some months ago. They asked if I could do personality assessments for three I Kiribati girls who had applied to enter their novitiate. Sometime later I visited Tarawa, the main island ... Read more
Planting PotatoesApr 08, 2022
19/3/2004, My father was a great gardener. He had all kinds of vegetables, and potatoes of course as well as fruit trees and different kinds of flowers and bushes. Whenever we visited the botanical gardens in Dublin he would return with a few cuttings in his pocket ... Read more
The Fijian Word for PhilosophyApr 06, 2022
17/9/2017, Four of our Columban seminarians are studying philosophy at PRS. During our community night one Sunday evening someone asked one of them, who was serving the yaqona, what the Fijian for philosophy would be. Being somewhat at a loss he said “talo” ... Read more
