On 24th of April 2018, the members of the Missionary Community of St. Paul the Apostle working in Paraíso, Xochimilco in Mexico City, were given 50 free entrance tickets for the cinema through ‘Tiempo para Mejorar’ Civil Association . We accompanied 36 children with 10 parents to the Cinépolis of Cuemanco. This was our second time to take them to the cinema… the most satisfying and impressive thing was seeing the lovely and smiling faces of each one of them especially the children.

Since one year ago every Saturday we have continued teaching them English and Spanish, human values through storytelling and crafts. They also take breakfast together and share little they have among themselves. Together with the children, we have created environment where they feel at home and they have managed to stay together and share everything without prejudices.

We pray and hope that what we have learned and lived together and what we will keep living, will grow and will give fruits in due time… I see these little ones like tiny seeds that have just started to grow!

We would like to thank all those people that have come to help us in Paraíso; the youths and people from different parishes, universities, people of goodwill and friends; and in a very special way the parents of the children in Paraíso for entrusting us their children.

Lots of thanks…

Lydia Imbala

MCSPA

On this vocation Sunday let us pray and encourage vocations to the priesthood and consecrated life.

Rheynell Kadusale is a 9-year-old boy from Parola (Tondo), one of the biggest slums of Metro Manila. We came to know him a few years ago while carrying out our teaching apostolate outreach for children in this marginalized area.

Rheynell does not go to school due to a problem he developed on his right leg just after birth. Rheynell’s mother says that this deformity in his right leg came about due to a failure in completing medical vaccination for polio.

Fr. Francis asked Zacchaeus and I to take charge of assisting this child. It has not been easy at all, knocking from door to door to seek medical advice on his case, one which most of the doctors termed as a rare case and declared that amputation would be the only way forward. We tried hard not to go for that option considering Rheynell’s age.

Through prayers and without stopping to find other solutions, we found, at the University of Santo Tomas Hospital, a good doctor who advised us to carry out proper physiotherapy which would last for 12 weeks, and a well-designed prosthetic fitting that would help in stretching his leg before surgery could be performed so as to join all the undeveloped bones.

So that was precisely what Zacchaeus and I have been doing with Rheynell. Accompanied by his mother, Marisa, we have been with him at intense physiotherapy sessions and meetings with the physicians.

Today, for the first time, Rheynell was fitted with the prosthetic … it was a moving moment to see the child try to walk on his own!

Ambrose Wanyonyi, Philosophy Student in Manila

Leviticus 26:4

“I will send you rain in its season, and the ground will yield its crops and trees their fruits”.

We have been blessed to receive plenty of rain this morning in Turkana. The photos are from Nariokotome Mission (MCSPA).

Lillian Omari, MCSPA

God bless!

In the Catholic Diocese of Tombura-Yambio we use Easter Monday to announce Peace and well-being through a diocesan bycicle-ride. The event was initiated four years ago and it has attracted thousands of followers.
Easter Monday is for announcing the good news which took place on Easter Sunday!

We ride bicycles for good health, peace, and holiness.

Be glad and stay blessed!

Bishop Eduardo Iboro

Catholic Diocese of Tombura-Yambio, South Sudan