Holy week is a time of many processions, a form of celebration and prayer beloved by Filipinos and myself. The first is Palm Sunday, when the Lord Jesus, seated upon a donkey, is led into Jerusalem by a joyous crowd, waving palm branches, chanting hosannas and acclaiming him as “Son of David” (Matt: 21:9). I […]
Colm Meaney writes on Holy Week in the Philippines
Yes, really.
Holy week is a time of many processions, a form of celebration and prayer beloved by Filipinos and myself. The first is Palm Sunday, when the Lord Jesus, seated upon a donkey, is led into Jerusalem by a joyous crowd, waving palm branches, chanting hosannas and acclaiming him as “Son of David” (Matt: 21:9). I […]
Colm Meaney continues his series on the Philippines
Colm Meaney continues on the Philippines and their people
Colm Meaney continues his series of the Philippines
I remember a colleague recounting an anecdote about an election in England. During the campaign period the Labour candidate accused his Conservative counterpart of going around the constituency “whipping up apathy”! Well there’s no need to whip up any apathy among a recent mission area of mine: it lies thick on the ground and the […]
Focusing on dialects in the Philippines
Being zealous for the Lord might sound like a good thing, but the line between being zealous and being a zealot is a thin one. Just a few verses before his pious profession of loyalty to the Lord, the prophet Elijah had been instrumental in the killing of some four hundred and fifty prophets of […]
Education in the Philippines, focusing on my visits to schools out in the hilly areas
Continuing his series on being a priest in the Philippines