Resources

Here you can find various resources created or used by Columban missionaries around the world, which you are welcome to use.

Columban Way Pilgrimage

In May 2023, nine Columban pilgrims walked the Columban Way from Padstow to Fowey in Cornwall listening to and reflecting on 'the cry of the Earth and the cry of the poor'. Here you can download details of the prayers and reflections they used and the route they followed. We invite you to walk as we did "...united as brothers and sisters on a wonderful pilgrimage, woven together by the love God has for each of his creatures..." (Laudato Si' 92).

Annual Reports

Missionary Society of St Columban Annual Reports

Justice, Peace and Ecology

Laudato Si' Study and Action Guide

This guide is for people of faith and people of conscience who are interested in studying the words of Pope Francis and taking action. It may be used individually or in a group, one chapter at a time or as a whole.

Download guide
Front Cover of Laudato Si' Study Guide

Stations of the Forests

The Stations of the Forests is a Columban Education Programme which uses the 'Stations of the Cross' format to lament the gradual death of part of God's Creation, the rainforests. this uses the 'Stations of the Cross' format to lament the gradual death of part of God's Creation, the rainforests.

Watch the video on our YouTube channel

Interreligious Dialogue

The Birmingham Charter

The Birmingham Charter calls for reflection, repentance and prayer and encourages relationship-building whilst highlighting the need for a strategy to redress the racial imbalances within the Church and community.

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Donating

Liturgical Calendar

Mission Awareness and Appeals

General

Columban Policy Statements

Columban Laudato Si’ Message on Biodiversity

Columbans around the world celebrate the 5th anniversary and the Laudato Si’ message, especially in its call for integral ecology which is a holistic approach to care for our common home that draws on faith, science, education, advocacy, and lifestyle transformation.

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Columbans - Cross Globes

Columban Migration Statement

Since 2000 the Missionary Society of St. Columban committed itself in a special way to “continue accompanying and defending the rights of migrants,” and to address the underlying causes of the migration of peoples.

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Columbans - Cross Globes

Columban Peace Statement

We choose to promote a culture of peace and nonviolence that reflects an inner well-being, just social and economic structures, active non-violence in

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Columbans - Cross Globes

Columban Water Statement

As a result of insights gained from creation-centered theology, we realize that human behaviour must include our relationship with all creation, especially water.

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Columbans - Cross Globes

Society Creation Covenant

We believe that our missionary vocation contains within it an ecological vocation to be in solidarity with the poor and with the natural world which impels us to continually review and renew our option for a simple lifestyle and make choices that bring us in to right relationship with all of Creation.

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Columbans - Cross Globes

Presentations

Warmi Huasi Presentation 2020

The Warmi Huasi project in Carabayllo, Lima during the Covid 19 health emergency has implemented new strategies to empower children at risk through advocacy and active citizenship in Lima and Ayacucho, supported by government officials, mothers and adolescents.

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Synodality

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