Marist Asia Pacific Center

Hello I am Fr. Simon Kewandi from Papua New Guinea, I was ordained in 2001. For the first three years, I worked in the diocesan vocation office as vocation director and at the same time as an assistant parish priest. I was mostly involved in both diocesan pastoral planning and parish pastoral activities. In June [...]

On the 7th of June we welcomed officially the first years in our fraternity. Write after they arrived from their tour in Manila we started the celebration. The Fraternity decided the welcoming right would be in Filipino way. Xyryx leaded the welcoming be using the corsage (green leaf with follower in the middle). This symbol [...]

“Community is a grace of the Holy Spirit. Brought together without having chosen our companions we welcome one another as gift of the Lord.” (Constitution Art. 63) Upon our arrival warm and jovial welcome was shown to us by the Chanel fraternity. The happiness in their faces was apparent. They prepared everything that we needed [...]

The Philippines celebrated its 110th Independence Day last June 12, 2008 and the Theme: was “Tribute to Filipino Excellence: Likas na Karunugan , Kakayahan at Kahusayan” The celebration of Independence day would be a great inspiration to the youth who hopefully would emulate the heroes of the revolution against Spain in their acts of [...]

United in spirit with the Marist family throughout the world, the Brothers of MAPAC joyfully and grandly celebrated the feast of St. Marcellin champagnat on Friday, 6th June 2008. The celebration began with special feast day prayers in fraternities and the Eucharist was celebrated in the evening at 5:30 pm with Fr. Roy as our [...]