As the Holy Father prepares for his next journey, our Mission Rosary this week takes inspiration from the four countries he will visit – Algeria, Angola, Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea. Let us remember all of our sisters and brothers in Africa, and across…
On World Mission Sunday, Father Gerry Hastie - the Vicar General of the Mill Hill Missionaries - shared his thoughts on being a follower of Jesus, and what it means…
Thy Kingdom Come, come what mayAs I write this, I am conscious that we are approaching the middle of Lent, which is a joyful time of celebrating the abundant mercy…
‘Now, Master, let your servant go in peace, just as you promised’ Luke 2:22-40Kisumu, Kenya, in 1981 was a charming, sleepy lakeshore town with two churches, four priests (two of…
My first Christmas in Kisumu town, Kenya, is fixed in my memory even though it was 42 years ago (one of the most unsettling aspects of growing older is that…
O God, from my youth you have taught me, and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds ~ Psalm 71:17 In 1984, the Bishop of Kisumu in Kenya appointed me ‘Kisumu…
It happened 40 years ago in 1983, when I was a young Mill Hill Missionary in western Kenya. My Parish Priest, Fr Pat Connolly, was a very experienced, committed, and…
Government soldiers have threatened Sisters at a Catholic hospital in the war-torn Anglophone regions of Cameroon for the second time this year. Army officers told the Tertiary Sisters of St…
