Welcome back to the Mission for the Poor.org and some recent news.
In late April of this year a group of pilgrims from Brisbane visited the Labuan Bajo mission in Flores for around 10 days. The pilgrims were Continue reading “Group visit to the Flores mission, led by Louis Lamuri, and Fr Neville Yun of Holy Family Indooroopilly Parish, Brisbane, Australia”
This is the second part of the series of making a visit to the mission in Flores. The first post in this series looked at what travel and packing was required to travel into Labuan Bajo, and we finally arrived at the monastery. This current post highlights the monastery and Continue reading “Undertaking a trip to the mission in Flores, Part 2 (25 Feb 2017) – What happens at the monastery?”
The Christmas party this year was held at the brothers’ Corpus Christi Monastery with traditional costumes, performances and dancing. The brothers wanted to make it a special time for the 400+ local children Continue reading “Christmas party 2016 in Labuan Bajo, Flores: a memorable occasion for the local children”
Just this November we made a trip to the mission in Labuan Bajo. This time we thought we would provide a succinct summary of our preparation and travels, and the various ministries and activities that Continue reading “Undertaking a trip to the mission in Flores, the travel and what’s to do at the mission – Part 1 (3 Dec 2016)”
Welcome back to the Labuan Bajo mission. We were to provide you the next post on an overview of how you prepare and undertake a mission trip, but we have just received some clips of the Continue reading “Update from the Mission in Labuan Bajo, July 2016 – Published 14 August 2016”
Our last post focused on what a typical morning was like at the monastery at Labuan Bajo. Our visit in early March gave us a very well rounded understanding of Continue reading “A typical afternoon and evening at the monastery in Labuan Bajo, Flores”
Running a monastery, an apostolate and preparing aspirants for the novitiate is a big job for the brothers at the mission. Each morning they Continue reading “A typical morning at the monastery in Labuan Bajo, Flores”
Welcome back to another post for 2016. This time we are checking out how the Corpus Christi Monastery has progressed since Continue reading “Missionaries of the Poor, Corpus Christi Monastery, Labuan Bajo, Flores – a March 2016 update”
“This Christmas we had a very successful Christmas tree. The children were really happy and had plenty of fun and of course enough gifts. Our gifts this year were kindly supplied by Chris and MaryAnn Argall of Brisbane. You can imagine what joy these generous gifts contributed to these many kids. The celebration had its own problems. We had rain on that same day, the rain started at 9 am and went nonstop until 2 30pm. We had prepared a simple tent made of bamboo and tarpaulin. It all fell because of the heavy rain Continue reading “Christmas celebration with the children of Labuan Bajo (December 2013)”
Mission for the Poor: Serving the people of Flores and Timor Leste 