This time Easter Sunday was quite different. Not only we celebrated Easter Feast in our new chapel first time, but also we witnessed the baptism of a child of one parishioner. The celebration was solemnly done thanks to remarkable preparation from...

The peak of Holy Week is the celebration  of Passover on Saturday night. We helped one another to prepare for the event. Some made a major clean-up of the church and surrounding area. Others, particularly some youth prepared the chapel and mass. M...

For the first time since its inauguration last year, our Catholic chapel welcomed our faithful for Holy Friday celebration.  Both the passion of Christ and the adoration of Cross took place in our new chapel. Holy Sacrament adoration followed afte...

As harvesting work was still going on and some of our Catholic were still in the field, we finally decided to celebrate the Palm Sunday in the field. It was an opportunity for us to thank God for this year harvest.  Corns leaves and cassava sticks...

We have not organized any outing for our teenagers since pandemic in 2019. As things get back to normal, we finally managed to make our 2023 outing and pilgrimage happen.  Our fist stop was Nakhonsawan diocese. We then continued the trip to St. Jo...

After almost one year, our cassavas were ready for harvest. All family members of our small community joined one week of harvest work. For three consecutive years, we have worked together in this agricultural cooperative initiative. The main goal ...

With the support of Signis, our oratory for the first time has organized a film making workhsop. It took place from 20th of December 2022 until 12th of January 2023 in Umphang. It has been designed to immerse the young Catholic students  in all as...

Finally on Saturday 17th December 2022 our first Catholic chapel has been inaugarated. The mass of inauguration was presided by Mgr. Joseph Pibul Visitnonthachai, bishop of Nakhonsawan diocese. A good number of Catholics coming from neighbouring p...

Church at her very essence is missionary. She came to existence since Jesus ordered his disciples to spread the love of the lord until to the ends of the world. The local church bears the same spirit in her mind everywhere she is called to serve. ...

On October 20th, Saint Nicholas Catholic school of Phitsanulok organized a workshop for all the teachers of English Department.  The workshop aimed at strengthen the teamwork and collaborative environment based on Catholic pedagogy. Father Rey, th...

The Xaverian community in Umphang, a new established mission of Thai Diocese Nakhonsawan bordering Myanmar, has recently suffered from a never-seen flood in the small town of Umphang, Tak Province, a district located on the top of a steep mountain...

Umphang is the largest district in Thailand though more than half surrounded by forest and wildlife sanctuaries. There are more or less 36 villages organized in 6 different sub-districts. For such a big area,  Umphang population is the lowest in ...

The presence of Chinese culture in Thailand is not only visible in the demographic figure of their population, where the Chinese-descent Thai has a significant number, but also in the culture where many Chinese festivities are celebrated, like Ch...

A group of 5 Catholic faithful from Indonesia took 10 days encounter trip in our Umphang mission. They were previously inspired by the stories about the missionary challenge in the area shared once by Father Tardelly in Indonesia. Mission is a du...

 With the arrival of Father Alessio in Umphang on January 2020, the Xaverians took new step in their missionary endeavor in the area. On the same month, he was honored to celebrate the baptismal mass for a Catholic kid in Suetha village. The kid w...

Christmas is a blessing for all. That's the message we were trying to convey to people of Mokhee village, one of Karen State villages in Myanmar. Having been torn by civil war for decades, this predominantly Buddhist village  hosted us and our gue...

Yamokhee village is only 12 km away from the downtown of Umphang district. It was the first Karen village properly speaking that Father Tardelly reached not long after his arrival in Umphang.  Kru Amphon, back then was still a trainee student, inv...

After two years of sole teaching adventure, the first Catholic person I discovered in Umphang District was a woman named Maria. She is married to an undevoted Baptist man. They had three children, one of whom was a student at Umphang Witthayakhom ...

We cannot separate the mission from an integral human development. One among many steps to take is the educative work. The teaching ministry aims at preparing people to welcome the seeds of the Good news in their heart.  At the heart of Umphang t...

Integrating sport and self-defense is one of challenge in martial arts. As one of extra-curricula activities, this year Nong Hluang School welcomed our initiative to train some students in Martial Art.  Khun Dion, an expert, invited from Indonesi...