For the second year in a row in the pandemic era, the International Bamboo Organ Festival will go online to provide a continuing stream to the country’s longest-running musical event. Now on its 47th edition, the festival is set inside the majestic St. Joseph Church in Las Piñas City featuring…
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Saint Joseph Parish in the Diocese of Galle, Sri Lanka serves the workers of a local tea plantation. Some of the population cannot travel to weekly worship due to distance. Instead, they worship at outstation chapels that are visited infrequently by a priest.
During my 2016 visit to the diocese, I attended Mass at Saint Joseph s. After touring the facilities supported by the Propagation of the Faith, we set off into the mountainous tea estate to a tiny village.
Our van stopped in an open field near a farmhouse. Father Bede, the pastor, assured me it was just a short walk to our destination. I ve learned on these trips that short is a relative term! After climbing down a steep, rocky path, we arrived at a clearing to find a one room school building where families had gathered. Father had sent word with the catechist that surprise visitors were coming!