'Look up to the Lord with gladness and smilel your face will never be ashamed' (Ps 33:6).

'Look up to the Lord with gladness and smile; your face will never be ashamed' (Ps 33:6). Communion antiphon for the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Blessed Mother Teresa

From 1 to 8 February I'll be giving a retreat to some junior professed sisters of the Missionaries of Charity. Please keep them and me in your prayers. I probably won't be doing much, if any, blogging.

Jao Resari, a Columban Lay Missionary from the Philippines in Taiwan

Columban Father Joseph Bradley who died in Manila 28 October 2008.

Photo taken after the stroke that led to his death.

Ana Kristina Macasaet Arce, Deaf Magna Cum Laude College Graduate

Columban pioneer in Mindanao

Fr Michael Sinnott and his sisters on his arrival in Dublin after being kidnapped in Mindanao, Philippines

A young friend who prayed her heart out for the release of Father Michael Sinnott

Dr Zilda Arns, a Brazilian, with a young friend. Dr Arns, who devoted her life to mothers and children, died in the earthquake in Haiti.