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Psalm 89Psalm 90Reading 1: Ecclesiastes 6Reading 2: From an instruction by St. Columban, abbotSupport us at: sthelenaministries.com/supportPresentation of the Liturgy of the Hours (Divine Office) from The Liturgy of the Hours (Four Volumes) © 1975, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. The texts of Biblical readings are reproduced from the New American Bible © 1975

I hoped my calling would come true and I would become one of the Columban missionary priests in a future mission. The Far East podcast is narrated by John Doherty. Subscribe to the Far East magazine at https://goo.gl/5ukmQX

Columban co-worker Adam Williams gets much more than he bargained for on a sentimental visit to the Welsh land of his forebears The Far East podcast is narrated by John Doherty. Subscribe to the Far East magazine at https://goo.gl/5ukmQX

Le forze anglofrancesi affrontano l'esercito imperiale tedesco nella fase più cruenta di quella che sarebbe passata alla storia come prima battaglia di Ypres. Questo scontro rappresenta un terribile preludio di ciò che sarebbe divenuta la guerra sul fronte occidentale nei successivi quattro anni.Seguimi su Instagram: @laguerragrande_podcastSe vuoi contribuire con una donazione sul conto PayPal: podcastlaguerragrande@gmail.comScritto e condotto da Andrea BassoMontaggio e audio: Andrea BassoCon la partecipazione di Valeria IncandelaFonti dell'episodio:I. Beckett, Ypres The First Battle, Longmans, 2006 J. F. Bell, Everyman at war, Purdom, 1930 Hans Biegert, Realität und Mythos im Ersten Weltkrieg: Das Beispiel Langemarck/Ypern, Leviathan 44, 2016 Nigel Cave, Ypres 1914: Messines, Early Battles 1914, Pen and Sword, 2016 M. Columban, The Irish Nuns at Ypres: An Episode of the War, Smith Elder, 1915 Pierre Dupouey, Lettres, Les éditions du Cerf, 1933 J. E. Edmonds, Military Operations France and Belgium, 1914: Antwerp, La Bassée, Armentières, Messines and Ypres October–November 1914, History of the Great War Based on Official Documents by Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence, 1925 M. Evans, Passchendaele and the Battles of Ypres 1914–1918, Osprey, 1997 R. T. Foley, German Strategy and the Path to Verdun: Erich von Falkenhayn and the Development of Attrition, 1870–1916, Cambridge University Press, 2007 Peter Hart, La grande storia della Prima Guerra Mondiale, Newton & Compton, 2013 Ian Kershaw, Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris, The Penguin Press, 1998 J. Rickard, Battle of Nonne Bosschen, 11 November 1914, History of war Jack Rooney, The Irish Dames: A history of Kylemore Abbey's Benedictine nuns from Ypres, Belgium, to Western Ireland, American Catholic Studies Newsletter, 2018 J. Sheldon, The German Army at Ypres 1914, Pen and Sword Military, 2010 Hew Strachan, The First World War: To Arms, Oxford University Press, 2001 William Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Simon & Schuster, 1960 Fridolin Solleder, Vier Jahre Westfront. Geschichte des Regiments List R. J. R. 16, Verlag Max Schrift, 1932 K. Unruh, Langemarck: Legende und Wirklichkeit, Bernard & Graefe, 1986 Thomas Weber, Hitler's First War, Oxford University Press, 2010 What Happened at Bois des Nonne Bosschen During the First Battle of Ypres?, Roads to the Great War, 2022 H. P. Willmott, La Prima Guerra Mondiale, DK, 2006In copertina: fanteria germanica all'assalto, da una illustrazione del periodo

Full Text of ReadingsTuesday of the Thirty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 504The Saint of the day is Saint ColumbanSaint Columban's Story Columban (Columbanus) was the greatest of the Irish missionaries who worked on the European continent. As a young man who was greatly tormented by temptations of the flesh, he sought the advice of a religious woman who had lived a hermit's life for years. He saw in her answer a call to leave the world. He went first to a monk on an island in Lough Erne, then to the great monastic seat of learning at Bangor. After many years of seclusion and prayer, he traveled to Gaul with 12 companion missionaries. They won wide respect for the rigor of their discipline, their preaching, and their commitment to charity and religious life in a time characterized by clerical laxity and civil strife. Columban established several monasteries in Europe which became centers of religion and culture. His writings include a treatise on penance and against Arianism, sermons, poetry, and his monastic rule. Like all saints, he met opposition. Ultimately he had to appeal to the pope against complaints of Frankish bishops, for vindication of his orthodoxy and approval of Irish customs. He reproved the king for his licentious life, insisting that he marry. Since this threatened the power of the queen mother, Columban was deported back to Ireland. His ship ran aground in a storm, and he continued his work in Europe, ultimately arriving in Italy, where he found favor with the king of the Lombards. In his last years he established the famous monastery of Bobbio, where he died. Saint Columban’s liturgical feast is celebrated on November 23. Reflection Now that public sexual license is becoming extreme, we need the Church's memory of a young man as concerned about chastity as Columban. And now that the comfort-captured Western world stands in tragic contrast to starving millions, we need the challenge to austerity and discipline of a group of Irish monks. They were too strict, we say; they went too far. How far shall we go? Saint of the Day, Copyright Franciscan Media

Brian Farrelly was in for Cabrina on the 11-1 show today. He was speaking to 4 Lecturers from DKIT who have gone from been students to been lecturers . also we were speaking about the Columban way as Damien Howard joined us in studio to tell us about St Colbanus and this amazing walk which stretches 571km Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“When I have a difficult time, God always sends someone to help me. I remember this sergeant in the army. Then there were the Chief of Police, a Sister in the parish, and a Columban priest in Seoul. And Cecilia, of course.” The Far East podcast is narrated by John Doherty. Subscribe to the Far East magazine at https://goo.gl/5ukmQX

Visiting my Columban colleagues in various countries has strengthened my belief that living an ordinary life well is, in fact, something extraordinary. The Far East podcast is narrated by John Doherty. Subscribe to the Far East magazine at https://goo.gl/5ukmQX

To save his leg he needed a major operation that would remove two inches of his infected shin bone. With the help of Columban donors, Jemuel had the operation, after which he spent six months in a leg brace while waiting for his leg bone to regenerate. The Far East podcast is narrated by John Doherty. Subscribe to the Far East magazine at https://goo.gl/5ukmQX

Some Columbans were evacuated to Busan and then sent on to Japan. Some remained in Japan and never returned to Korea. The Far East podcast is narrated by John Doherty. Subscribe to the Far East magazine at https://goo.gl/5ukmQX

Looking back on these past thirty-three years of Columban lay mission, similar stories about thoughtful, caring, and humble service by so many women ought also to be treasured. The Far East podcast is narrated by John Doherty. Subscribe to the Far East magazine at https://goo.gl/5ukmQX

We had both received threats for supporting the rights of the poor and opposing the evildoers. That is the lot of a missionary. The Far East podcast is narrated by John Doherty. Subscribe to the Far East magazine at https://goo.gl/5ukmQX

Full Text of ReadingsThe Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe Lectionary: 160The Saint of the day is Saint ColumbanSaint Columban's Story Columban (Columbanus) was the greatest of the Irish missionaries who worked on the European continent. As a young man who was greatly tormented by temptations of the flesh, he sought the advice of a religious woman who had lived a hermit's life for years. He saw in her answer a call to leave the world. He went first to a monk on an island in Lough Erne, then to the great monastic seat of learning at Bangor. After many years of seclusion and prayer, he traveled to Gaul with 12 companion missionaries. They won wide respect for the rigor of their discipline, their preaching, and their commitment to charity and religious life in a time characterized by clerical laxity and civil strife. Columban established several monasteries in Europe which became centers of religion and culture. His writings include a treatise on penance and against Arianism, sermons, poetry, and his monastic rule. Like all saints, he met opposition. Ultimately he had to appeal to the pope against complaints of Frankish bishops, for vindication of his orthodoxy and approval of Irish customs. He reproved the king for his licentious life, insisting that he marry. Since this threatened the power of the queen mother, Columban was deported back to Ireland. His ship ran aground in a storm, and he continued his work in Europe, ultimately arriving in Italy, where he found favor with the king of the Lombards. In his last years he established the famous monastery of Bobbio, where he died. Saint Columban’s liturgical feast is celebrated on November 23. Reflection Now that public sexual license is becoming extreme, we need the Church's memory of a young man as concerned about chastity as Columban. And now that the comfort-captured Western world stands in tragic contrast to starving millions, we need the challenge to austerity and discipline of a group of Irish monks. They were too strict, we say; they went too far. How far shall we go? Saint of the Day, Copyright Franciscan Media

Fr Hong-Kison-Hijino, parish priest of the Sacred Heart of Jesus parish in Cheongdam-dong, marks 100 years of history and speaks of his relationship with the Columban Society. The Far East podcast is narrated by John Doherty. Subscribe to the Far East magazine at https://goo.gl/5ukmQX

Sarah MacDonald speaks to Columban seminarian Laurencio Woobin Lee about his call to missionary priesthood. The Far East podcast is narrated by John Doherty. Subscribe to the Far East magazine at https://goo.gl/5ukmQX

Between Christmas and the New Year, as some of my Columban companions and I hiked through the hills and valleys of Hong Kong, we rejoiced in the magnificence of the streams, the coastline and the islands. The Far East podcast is narrated by John Doherty. Subscribe to the Far East magazine at https://goo.gl/5ukmQX

Thursday of the Twenty-First Week in Ordinary Time: Office of Readings Hymn First Antiphon: The word of the Lord is a strong shield for all who put their trust in him. Psalm 18 Second Antiphon: Your strong right hand has upheld me, Lord. Psalm 18 Third Antiphon: May the living God, my Savior, be praised for ever. Psalm 18 Verse: Open my eyes, Lord, that I may see. Resp: The wonders of your law. First Reading: Jer 3:1-5,19-4:4 Response: We have been disloyal many times and have sinned against you. Second Reading: From an instruction by St. Columban, abbot. Response: The water I shall give you will become in you a spring welling up to eternal life. Presentation of the Liturgy of the Hours (Divine Office) from The Liturgy of the Hours (Four Volumes) © 1975, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. The texts of Biblical readings are reproduced from the New American Bible © 1975

Wednesday of the Twenty-First Week in Ordinary Time: Office of Readings Hymn First Antiphon: I love you, Lord; you are my strength Psalm 18 Second Antiphon: The Lord has saved me; he wanted me for his own. Psalm 18 Third Antiphon: Lord, kindle a light for my guidance and scatter my darkness Psalm 18 Verse: All wondered at the words of grace. Resp: Which came from the mouth of the Lord. First Reading: Jer 2:1-13,20-25 Response: So the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce a rich harvest. Second Reading: From an instruction by St. Columban, abbot. Response: If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink Presentation of the Liturgy of the Hours (Divine Office) from The Liturgy of the Hours (Four Volumes) © 1975, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. The texts of Biblical readings are reproduced from the New American Bible © 1975

The upcoming ecumenical Season of Creation is a special time in the liturgical year when Christians celebrate the wonder of creation and thank God, the Creator. The Far East podcast is narrated by John Doherty. Subscribe to the Far East magazine at https://goo.gl/5ukmQX

Warmi Huasi (Women's House) is a small non-government organisation (NGO) founded in 2003 by Columban missionaries in Lima, Peru. Its story continues … The Far East podcast is narrated by John Doherty. Subscribe to the Far East magazine at https://goo.gl/5ukmQX

The Columban response to prejudice is to build bridges. The Far East podcast is narrated by John Doherty. Subscribe to the Far East magazine at https://goo.gl/5ukmQX

Along with the family of Fr Peter, we, the Columban family, offer him warm congratulations for, and sincere appreciation of, his 60-year journey as a Columban missionary priest. The Far East podcast is narrated by John Doherty. Subscribe to the Far East magazine at https://goo.gl/5ukmQX

The Far East Magazine is published 8 times a year by St Columbans Mission Society. It features articles and photographs by Columban Missionaries from those countries where the missionaries work. The magazine was originally launched to promote mission interest in Catholic homes in Australia and New Zealand. The Far East Magazine is a major fundraiser for Columban Missionaries and was first published in Australia on 15th October, 1920. The Far East podcast is narrated by John Doherty. Subscribe to the Far East magazine at https://goo.gl/5ukmQX

„Ich bin dann mal weg!“ Pilgern ist immer noch in und erfreut sich beständiger Beliebtheit. Aber warum pilgern so viele Menschen und mit welchem Ziel? Diese Qualen, wofür? Ob dabei wirklich der eigene Weg des Lebens klarer wird, das Leben generell mehr Sinn bekommt? Neue Perspektiven, gar Neuanfang? Der Sänger, Buchautor und Theologe Barry Sloan ist durch Europa gepilgert – von Bangor in Nordirland nach Bobbio in Italien auf den Spuren des keltischen Mönchs Columban, der vor rund 1400 Jahre lebte. Er berichtet von seinen Erlebnissen, Begegnungen, erhabenen und peinlichen Momenten beim Pilgern und wie Gott durch ein Pferd zu ihm sprach.

A Columban whose wisdom and foresight I called on many times during my time as Director and later Columban leader in Fiji. The Far East podcast is narrated by John Doherty. Subscribe to the Far East magazine at https://goo.gl/5ukmQX

We had both received threats for supporting the rights of the poor and opposing the evildoers. That is the lot of a missionary. The Far East podcast is narrated by John Doherty. Subscribe to the Far East magazine at https://goo.gl/5ukmQX

Warmi Huasi began as a pastoral outreach program of the parish of Our Lady of the Missions, a Columban parish on the northern side of Lima, where I was the parish priest. The Far East podcast is narrated by John Doherty. Subscribe to the Far East magazine at https://goo.gl/5ukmQX

"Columban would often seek quiet places in nature where he would contemplate God. In one of his Sermons, he wrote: “If you want to know the Creator you must first know His creation". The Far East podcast is narrated by John Doherty. Subscribe to the Far East magazine at https://goo.gl/5ukmQX

Full Text of ReadingsSaturday of the Thirty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 508All podcast readings are produced by the USCCB and are from the Catholic Lectionary, based on the New American Bible and approved for use in the United States _______________________________________The Saint of the day is Saint ColumbanColumban (Columbanus) was the greatest of the Irish missionaries who worked on the European continent. As a young man who was greatly tormented by temptations of the flesh, he sought the advice of a religious woman who had lived a hermit's life for years. He saw in her answer a call to leave the world. He went first to a monk on an island in Lough Erne, then to the great monastic seat of learning at Bangor. After many years of seclusion and prayer, he traveled to Gaul with 12 companion missionaries. They won wide respect for the rigor of their discipline, their preaching, and their commitment to charity and religious life in a time characterized by clerical laxity and civil strife. Columban established several monasteries in Europe which became centers of religion and culture. His writings include a treatise on penance and against Arianism, sermons, poetry, and his monastic rule. Like all saints, he met opposition. Ultimately he had to appeal to the pope against complaints of Frankish bishops, for vindication of his orthodoxy and approval of Irish customs. He reproved the king for his licentious life, insisting that he marry. Since this threatened the power of the queen mother, Columban was deported back to Ireland. His ship ran aground in a storm, and he continued his work in Europe, ultimately arriving in Italy, where he found favor with the king of the Lombards. In his last years he established the famous monastery of Bobbio, where he died. Saint Columban's liturgical feast is celebrated on November 23. Reflection Now that public sexual license is becoming extreme, we need the Church's memory of a young man as concerned about chastity as Columban. And now that the comfort-captured Western world stands in tragic contrast to starving millions, we need the challenge to austerity and discipline of a group of Irish monks. They were too strict, we say; they went too far. How far shall we go? Saint of the Day, Copyright Franciscan Media

Today's Topics: 1) Gospel – Lk 21:5-11 – There will not be left a stone upon another stone Bishop Sheen quote of the day Saints Clement I, Columban, and Blessed Miguel Agustin Pro, pray for us 2, 3, 4) Interview with Steve Weidenkopf on his new book Light from Darkness https://shop.catholic.com/light-from-darkness-nine-times-the-church-was-in-turmoil-and-came-out-stronger-than-before/ Press release: Darkness Has Not Overcome theChurch.  www.steveweidenkopf.com

Today's Topics: 1) Gospel - LK 21:12-19 - They will seize and persecute you, they will hand you over to the synagogues and to prisons, and they will have you led before kings and governors because of my name. Memorial of Saint Clement I, Pope and Martyr (4th Pope) Memorial of Saint Columban, Abbot Memorial of Blessed Miguel Agustín Pro, Priest and Martyr Saints Clement, Columban and Blessed Miguel, pray for us! Bishop Sheen quote of the day 2) Desperate pro-abortion mob harasses TFP volunteers at George Mason University https://tfpstudentaction.org/media/videos/pro-abortion-mob-harasses-tfp-volunteers-at-george-mason-university 3) “If the Eucharistic Revival doesn't address these…” https://wdtprs.com/2022/11/if-the-eucharistic-revival-doesnt-address-these/ 4) G20 marching orders https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/g20-marching-orders

November 23: Saint Columban, Abbotc.543–615Optional Memorial; Liturgical Color: WhitePatron Saint of motorcyclists and against floodsHe led the first wave of Irish monks who stormed EuropeThroughout the sixth and seventh centuries, the great gales of Ireland filled the sails of countless boats packed with hardy Irish monks steering toward France. Once on Europe's northern shores, these men scaled her sandy slopes and headed inland in a kind of recurring theological D-Day. A seemingly endless pilgrimage of Irish scholar-monks went into voluntary exile, left their rainy homeland, navigated the waters, and sunk their roots deep into the soil of post-Roman Europe. Up and down today's France, Switzerland, the Low Countries and Germany, Irish monks founded monasteries that plowed furrows, sang chant, grew vines, copied books, hewed wood, forged chalices, raised cattle, taught children, dug wells, consecrated altars, rendered tallow into candles, and preached the sweet love of Christ. The rough local populations were drawn to these monasteries like moths to a flame, creating some of the oldest towns in Europe. Saint Columban, the leader of the first wave of these great builders of Europe, is the avatar of the missionary Irish monk. His ceaseless labors and iron will bent the arc of European history toward Christ.A monk named Jonas, living one generation after our saint, authored Columban's Life based on the recollections of Columban's own brother monks. Columban (or Columbanus) was born in Ireland about the same year that Saint Benedict died in Italy. He was a clever boy who received an excellent education in secular and theological letters. When he left home as a youth to enter a monastery, it was not to a soaring gothic structure of a later, more glorious age. The Irish monks of late antiquity had more in common with the Egyptian ascetics who vanished into the desert than with medieval Benedictines. Irish monasteries were small Christian farms, communes of low-slung buildings formed in a circle around a humble stone chapel. After Columban distinguished himself for his learning and his severe penances, he received his abbot's permission to sail to the continent at about the age of forty. A legend of the era told of holy monks who set off from the Emerald Isle in a boat without oars, willing to land and serve wherever God so willed. The boat Columban and his twelve companion monks climbed into had oars and landed on the Brittany coast of France around 585.For the next thirty years, Columban founded monasteries, attracted countless vocations, introduced private confession to Europe, and impressed all with his self-punishing Irish asceticism. Yet Columban had conflicts with powerful French bishops over his communities' Celtic dating of Easter, which deviated from the Roman dating, and conflicts over the strange Irish tonsure, so different from the round cutting of the scalp practiced in the rest of the Church. Further tensions with French nobility caused Columban's arrest and forced exile to Ireland. But the boat transporting him back home met rough seas and returned to its French port. So Columban stayed in Europe and found his way to Northern Italy. His last years were active in refuting the Arianism still thriving among the Italian Goths and in founding the great monastery of Bobbio, where Columban died on November 23, 615. Columban's disciples founded over one hundred monasteries throughout Central Europe! Columban's strict monastic Rule was also widely used until it was eclipsed by the more balanced Rule of Saint Benedict.In around 600, Saint Columban wrote a letter to Pope Saint Gregory the Great professing his docile obedience: “We Irish, though dwelling at the far ends of the earth, are all disciples of Saint Peter and Saint Paul...we are bound to the Chair of Peter.” Columban, who may have been the first man to use the word “Europe” in its modern sense, was the prototype for a thousand unnamed missionaries whose austere resilience and fine minds built Europe one soul, one book, and one monastery, at a time.Saint Columban, you were an ascetic, a theologian, and a father of Europe. Help all who seek your intercession to be as dynamic as you in rooting the faith in the deepest and richest soil.

The Far East Magazine is published 8 times a year by St Columbans Mission Society. It features articles and photographs by Columban Missionaries from those countries where the missionaries work. The magazine was originally launched to promote mission interest in Catholic homes in Australia and New Zealand. The Far East Magazine is a major fundraiser for Columban Missionaries and was first published in Australia on 15th October, 1920. The Far East podcast is narrated by John Doherty. Subscribe to the Far East magazine at goo.gl/5ukmQX

Although she could not go in person, she went in spirit through her thoughts and prayers and a special interest in foreign missions and missionaries. The Far East podcast is narrated by John Doherty. Subscribe to the Far East magazine at goo.gl/5ukmQX

Columban seminarian, Verano Lee Jeong-Rak, from Korea, shares his vocation story. The Far East podcast is narrated by John Doherty. Subscribe to the Far East magazine at https://goo.gl/5ukmQX

This year marks the 70th anniversary of Columban presence in Fiji. The Far East podcast is narrated by John Doherty. Subscribe to the Far East magazine at https://goo.gl/5ukmQX

Read/Listen to The Far East - July 2022 for stories, articles and photos from those countries where the Columban missionaries work. #columban #mission #catholic #peace #justice #faith #ecology #covid19 The audio podcast is narrated by John Doherty. SUBSCRIBE TO 'THE FAR EAST' MAGAZINE: http://goo.gl/5ukmQK

Read/Listen to The Far East - July 2022 for stories, articles and photos from those countries where the Columban missionaries work. #columban #mission #catholic #peace #justice #faith #ecology #covid19 The audio podcast is narrated by John Doherty. SUBSCRIBE TO 'THE FAR EAST' MAGAZINE: http://goo.gl/5ukmQK

Read/Listen to The Far East - July 2022 for stories, articles and photos from those countries where the Columban missionaries work. #columban #mission #catholic #peace #justice #faith #ecology #covid19 The audio podcast is narrated by John Doherty. SUBSCRIBE TO 'THE FAR EAST' MAGAZINE: http://goo.gl/5ukmQK

Read/Listen to The Far East - July 2022 for stories, articles and photos from those countries where the Columban missionaries work. #columban #mission #catholic #peace #justice #faith #ecology #covid19 The audio podcast is narrated by John Doherty. SUBSCRIBE TO 'THE FAR EAST' MAGAZINE: http://goo.gl/5ukmQK

Read/Listen to The Far East - July 2022 for stories, articles and photos from those countries where the Columban missionaries work. #columban #mission #catholic #peace #justice #faith #ecology #covid19 The audio podcast is narrated by John Doherty. SUBSCRIBE TO 'THE FAR EAST' MAGAZINE: http://goo.gl/5ukmQK

A ‘barn church' built during the days of the Penal Laws in England provides a lesson in history Read/Listen to The Far East - July 2022 for stories, articles and photos from those countries where the Columban missionaries work. #columban #mission #catholic #peace #justice #faith #ecology #covid19 The audio podcast is narrated by John Doherty. SUBSCRIBE TO 'THE FAR EAST' MAGAZINE: http://goo.gl/5ukmQK

From the Director - God is the Creator Read/Listen to The Far East - July 2022 for stories, articles and photos from those countries where the Columban missionaries work. #columban #mission #catholic #peace #justice #faith #ecology #covid19 The audio podcast is narrated by John Doherty. SUBSCRIBE TO 'THE FAR EAST' MAGAZINE: http://goo.gl/5ukmQK

Laudato Si' Animator and Columban Sister Kate Midgley didn't use to be so passionate about working against the climate crisis. (She's now protesting in front of the UK parliament for an end to fossil fuels.) In this Laudato Si' Movement podcast, Sister Kate shares her ecological conversion story, why she calls the climate crisis the "moral issue of our time," and how you and others can join her in taking action by becoming a Laudato Si' Animator. Learn more about Sister Kate: https://laudatosimovement.org/news/laudato-si-animators-praying-creation-cop26-en-news/ Become a Laudato Si' Animator today: LaudatoSiAnimators.org

Thursday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time Hymn Antiphon: Look on us, Lord, and see how we are despised. Psalm 89 Antiphon: I am the root and stock of David; I am the morning star. Psalm 89 Antiphon: Our years wither away like grass, but you, Lord God, are eternal. Psalm 90 First reading: Eccl 6:12-7:28 Responsory: Prv. 20:9; Eccl. 7:21; 1 Jn 1:8,9 Second reading: From an instruction by St. Columban, abbot Responsory: Ps 36:6-7; Rom 11:33 Presentation of the Liturgy of the Hours (Divine Office) from The Liturgy of the Hours (Four Volumes) (c) 1975, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. The texts of Biblical Readings are reproduced from the New American Bible © 1975

What happened at COP26? Was it an incredible success or an abject failure? Laudato Si' Movement talks with four global experts on what happened and where we go from here. Guests Sister Marvie Misolas of the Maryknoll Office of Global Concerns is an NGO representative of the Maryknoll Sisters to the United Nations. She also serves on the Laudato Si' Movement Global Membership Council. Yeb Saño is the executive director of Greenpeace Southeast Asia and vice chair for the Laudato Si' Movement Board. He has been a delegate at past UN climate change conferences for the Philippines.  Sister Kate Midgley with the Missionary Sisters of St. Columban participated in COP26 and prayer vigils throughout Glasgow. Lindlyn Moma is the Advocacy Director for Laudato Si' Movement and also participated in COP26 in Glasgow. More about COP26: Catholics reflect on COP26 successes, disappointments

All the way from Myanmar we have Fr. Kurt of the Society of St. Columban. This is truly one for the books as we listen to the real-life experiences of an undercover missionary. From Fiji to Myanmar, from bloopers to scary encounters, Fr. Kurt debunks myths and edifies us with what life in the frontlines of faith is really like.

Born in Ireland around 540, he joined the great monastic movement that flowered in Ireland following the missionary work of St Patrick and his disciples. After spending some years in Irish monasteries, he made pilgrimage to Gaul with twelve other monks, planning to preach the Gospel wherever they were led. The king of Burgundy, learning of their holiness, gave them land, where in time three large monasteries were founded with St Columban as their spiritual Father. Here the Saint established the rule that became normal for many monasteries in the West: in addition to its severe penitential disciplines, it included provision for some monks to be in prayer at every hour of the day and night — laus perennis (unceasing praise), as it was called. (This practice was also adopted by the Monastery of the Unsleeping Ones (Akoimetoi) in Constantinople). Eventually, political strife in Gaul led to the expulsion of the Irish monks, and Columban made his way to Italy through Germany, proclaiming the Gospel, instructing his spiritual children by letter, and battling against Arianism, which flourished throughout the Germanic lands. He settled in a monastery in the Appenines, where he reposed in peace in 615.

Born in Ireland around 540, he joined the great monastic movement that flowered in Ireland following the missionary work of St Patrick and his disciples. After spending some years in Irish monasteries, he made pilgrimage to Gaul with twelve other monks, planning to preach the Gospel wherever they were led. The king of Burgundy, learning of their holiness, gave them land, where in time three large monasteries were founded with St Columban as their spiritual Father. Here the Saint established the rule that became normal for many monasteries in the West: in addition to its severe penitential disciplines, it included provision for some monks to be in prayer at every hour of the day and night — laus perennis (unceasing praise), as it was called. (This practice was also adopted by the Monastery of the Unsleeping Ones (Akoimetoi) in Constantinople). Eventually, political strife in Gaul led to the expulsion of the Irish monks, and Columban made his way to Italy through Germany, proclaiming the Gospel, instructing his spiritual children by letter, and battling against Arianism, which flourished throughout the Germanic lands. He settled in a monastery in the Appenines, where he reposed in peace in 615.

David Grubbs interviews Terrence Kardong about his recent book "Saint Columban: His Life, Rule, and Legacy."