The People's Revolution

24 Stories from a Scarboro Missionary's Journal

By Charles Gervais, S.F.M.
May_Jun 2014

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During the launch of his book, The People’s Revolution, at Scarboro’s central house on April 24, 2014, Fr. Charlie Gervais, shown here with Sister Mary Gauthier, was given a Filipino shirt by Our Lady’s Missionaries who first joined Scarboro missioners in Southern Leyte, Philippines, in 1966. During the launch of his book, The People’s Revolution, at Scarboro’s central house on April 24, 2014, Fr. Charlie Gervais, shown here with Sister Mary Gauthier, was given a Filipino shirt by Our Lady’s Missionaries who first joined Scarboro missioners in Southern Leyte, Philippines, in 1966.

More than 50 years ago, Fr. Charles Gervais embarked on a journey to share the gospel and proclaim the faith to the people of the Philippines. He soon discovered it was the people who would proclaim the faith to him.

Through widely engaging stories, Fr. Gervais recounts his experience as a Scarboro Missionary living and working in the Philippines. Shaped and formed by a Canadian missionary community rooted in the gospel and committed to living in solidarity with the poor, he tells of the long journey to the Philippines, the impact of a Church transformed by the Second Vatican Council and a nation torn by violence and injustice that has left manyh of its peopel wounded. Yet it is in the women and men with whom he ministers and serves that Fr. Gervais experiences the stunning witness and joy of faith.

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