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The Mission

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I was thinking of what to name this post and wanted to focus on the mission each one of us have in life. This question once again 'poped' into my head not because I was at a retreat or doing a reflection but because I spent 3 days living with the Marist Brothers in Pailin, Cambodia. Wonderful host, (from left) Marist Brothers, Bro. Bryan and Bro. Francis. Although it was a very short time in terms of a lifetime of a religious, it was a nice and pleasant break from the fast-paced Singapore, even if leaving the country to do work counts. The Brothers were so welcoming that it feel as if I knew them for months or even years. This is not my first time living with religious and some sort of a familiar feeling for me. However, it was different this time as the Brothers were quite new in Pailin and were still in their infancy stage of setting up a school, so everything even the infrastructure was very simple. Their main focus is to provide education for the rural poor, the poorest of