Blessing a Ship Davao, Phillipines.
 When
the MV Sampaquita gained an important new contract, the
captain and crew invited Father Jack Walsh to join in their
celebrations.
The MV Sampaquita is a refrigerator cargo ship which
carries banana exports throughout Asia. The officers and
crew are all Filipino. The new contract means that the ship
will make regular visits to ports in Japan, Taiwan and Korea
returning to the port of Davao, in the Philippines, twice a
month.
 To
celebrate the new contract, Father Jack Walsh, AOS port
chaplain in Davao, said Mass onboard and blessed the ship.
Several of the seafarers' wives were also present.
Photographs: (1) Fr Jack blesses the engine room (2)
Captain Kim Cortes reads during Mass (3) Fr Jack with
seafarers' wives Mrs Nening Hizon and Mrs Yolly Capellianes
at the Stella Maris Center in Davao.
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