May  the beautify of our dance, and strength of the Holy Family also bless and protect you.   

It’s been 82 years now, since my Baptism. Over 50 a Redemptorist Catholic priest,- known as ‘the slum priest, or the Catholic slaughter house priest,’ an honorable life-time in the Buddhist Klong Toey River Slum of Bangkok. Walking carefully on rickety wooden walk-ways hopefully showing honor & dignity to all I meet, as I think Jesus & His Mother Mary would. Me, a stranger, not born here,  accepted, tolerated, by the Buddhist & Catholic  poor, where I have stumbled along those slum walk-ways & through the Slaughter House. A salvage place drenched in mercy where only the lowest level of Thai society lives and works. Where our Catholics butcher pigs & water buffalo.  

Mothers Day Letter 9 May, 2021

To my mom and your mom. Our moms. We humbly ask today.   Please mom, even though I have lost my way, even my  right so many times  to ask this of you, please don’t turn me away. , ….  Just this one more time, beloved mom, let me say that I love you.  Let me your child begin again.

Twenty-two slum quality individual Kitchens every one of them the heartbeat really of each of our Klong Toey Shack Kindergartens –all geared to cook delicious Thai food and feed and better teach our 2,000 slum kindergarten kids scattered throughout the slums of Bangkok and the Mogan Sea Gypsy kids in Mid-South Thailand. Here in the slums, all on rickety wooden walkways. Wherever there are children wanting to learn to read and write and eat a full meal. Learn their prayers.

t’s Christmas in the slums: I have said often Our Klong Toey is a Salvage Place Drenched in Mercy, but always home. And today in your own homes in the light of the star from the East that guided the Magi

It’s Songkran. New Years in Thailand. April 13 counting the months by the moon. It shall be an awesome day. Just thinking about it, it is already. Awesome. Over five hundred folks (of an age) Klong Toey originals usually with their grand childre