Fr Anthony’s blog: Thy Kingdom Come…
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…
5th March 2024
Fr Anthony’s blog: Candlemas and Kisumu
‘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…
2nd February 2024
Fr Anthony’s blog: Christmas hope
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…
13th December 2023
Fr Anthony’s blog: ‘Kisumu Town Youth Chaplain’
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…
7th August 2023
Fr Anthony’s blog: A night to remember
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…
11th April 2023
Soldiers threaten Sisters and patients at a Cameroon hospital
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…
19th November 2021
Impact Report 2021: You helped children in South Africa
In 2020, around 30 abandoned and orphaned children living with HIV were cared for at St John’s Care Centre, where three Religious Sisters provided a loving home, nutritious meals, and…
5th June 2021
Helping people to know God
In many mission dioceses there are increasing numbers of students for the priesthood and religious life. As their communities are poor, they must undertake their training with very basic facilities…
8th April 2021