Contents

Foreword--Preface--Chpt I. The redemptorists go East (1905-1911)--A church in need--Setting in Opon (Lapulapu City) Mactan--The Men sent--Chpt II. Uncertain Missionaries--Irishmen on strange ground--Redemptorists in Missiological dilemma--Faltering Apostolate: community living care of parishes, parish missions--Chpt III. To stay or not to stay--Leo Petitions close-down of Opon--Cassin hold firm--Apostolic delegate intervenes: a five-year reprieve won--Chpt IV. Two option--The Malate alternatives--Opon agrees to missionization of Filipinos--Chpt V. Spread of the Missions: questions of method--Selling the parish mission idea--Spread of the mission to 'Cebuanoland'--The mission method--Chpt VI. Pastoral orientations of the early missions--Salvation theology of the time--Emphasis on confessions--The regularization of marriage unions--Chpt VII. Missionizing against proselytizers--Chpt VIII. Hardships of travel and keep--Chpt IX. Regrouping for missions only--Pressure for change--Fr. Willie Byrne and the regrouping of mission in Iloilo, Cebu and Baclaran.