<\/a>Scarboro lay missioner Donna Tai making papier m\u00e2ch\u00e9 pi\u00f1atas with students at the St. John Bosco Academy, a school for orphaned boys in Georgetown, Guyana. Donna\u2019s ministries include the orphanage, catechesis, and bringing music and friendship to the elderly and shut-ins. She hopes to begin working with victims of human trafficking, an initiative of the Sisters of Mercy.<\/p><\/div>\n
The loveliness
\n<\/span>of a single flower
\n<\/span>in radiant bloom
\n<\/span>can sing
\n<\/span>my drooping spirit
\n<\/span>into joy.
\n<\/span>The loveliness
\n<\/span>of a single person
\n<\/span>with a listening gaze
\n<\/span>can sing
\n<\/span>my heavy heart
\n<\/span>back into life.
\n<\/span>I\u2019ve come across
\n<\/span>both kinds
\n<\/span>in my time of need
\n<\/span>and both
\n<\/span>have brought me hope.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\nAnd hope, I believe, is essential for any rewarding and successful mission experience\u2014certainly for the missioner and perhaps even more so for the people being served.\u221e<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Rest your dreams on a twig By Donna Joy Tai January-February 2016 As part of my discernment journey prior to becoming a missioner, I participated in my first-ever silent retreat at Manresa Jesuit Spiritual Renewal Centre in Pickering, Ontario. My trepidation at the thought of not speaking for more than 36 hours quickly disappeared as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":843,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-magazine-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3231","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scarboromissions.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scarboromissions.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scarboromissions.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scarboromissions.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scarboromissions.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3231"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/www.scarboromissions.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3307,"href":"https:\/\/www.scarboromissions.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3231\/revisions\/3307"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scarboromissions.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scarboromissions.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}