Liturgical Mass Sheet
Day: September 7, 2018
PREPARING FOR DEATH WITH ST ALFONSUS MARIA DE’ LIGUORI
– Aldo Maria Valli In the first day of August, the Church remembers St. Alphonsus Maria de’ Liguori (1696-1787), to whom I am attached for many reasons. He composed Tu scendi dalle stelle (You come down from heaven), the best…
BITE-SIZE PHILOSOPHY (78) – Can we demonstrate the existence of a First Cause?
PHOTO:By Free-Photos at Pixabay – Rev José Mario O Mandía Can we demonstrate the existence of a First Cause? But first, what do we mean by “demonstrate”? To demonstrate is to show that something which we cannot directly know (i.e.,…
EPHPHATHA: BE OPENED; BE BAPTIZED – 9th September 2018 – 23rd Sunday In Ordinary Time (B)
Is 35:4-7a; Jas 2:1-5; Mk 7:31-37 Fr Fernando Armellini SCJ Claretian Publications, Macau The sick to be healed is a “stuttering deaf” as in the original text. For Isaiah, the “stuttering deaf” was the people of Israel. However, the patient…
GREAT FIGURES OF THE MISSIONARY WORK – Bengal and the Kingdom of the Dragon (18)
– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro From Guwathi to Cooch Behar is a whole rural world that reveals itself, seen from the windshields and side windows of the rented van. There are small villages and fields of cultivation with straw ricks,…
CHANCERY NOTICE
CN/7/016/2018 In response to the pastoral needs of the Diocese, Bishop Stephen Lee Bun Sang makes public the following arrangements: 1. Fr. Francisco Xavier Chan Pou Chun ceases to be Assistant Parish Priest in St. Anthony Parish.
CHURCH FATHERS (26) – Eusebius of Caesarea
In the past century history has seen a strong rethinking about many assumptions coming from the Rankean tradition, that tradition established from the German historian Leopold von Ranke which demanda that history has to establish “what has really happened.”
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH PROF. FRANCO BATTAGLIA, SCIENTIST AND WRITER – On 1968 and today’s universities
– Aurelio Porfiri I think there is little doubt when we say that the year 1968 was a crucial year for the development of our societies. Maybe this was felt more in Europe, North America, but I think that the…
MARIAN APPARITIONS (80) – Kerala, India
The Basilica of Our Lady of Ransom is situated in Vallarpadam in the city of Cochin in the state of Kerala, India. It is a famous center of pilgrimage, people from all parts of Kerala and outside, irrespective of caste…
WORLD NEWS
– Tej Francis IRELAND POPE FRANCIS APOLOGIZES FOR ‘CRIMES’ OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN IRELAND (CBC News) Pope Francis issued a sweeping apology Sunday for the “crimes” of the Catholic Church in Ireland, saying church officials regularly didn’t respond with…