Day: September 14, 2018
FAITH ILLUSTRATED – Creed 07
Jesus Christ, Only Begotten Son of God (8)
I WILL WALK – Music by Aurelio Porfiri
Liturgical Mass Sheet
APOLOGIA (26) – Did Jesus spend time in India?
– Anastasios Objection 1: We have a gap between the childhood of Jesus and his public ministry. This gap is of around 18 years, not a little time. Some scholars believe he traveled to India to learn from wise men…
BITE-SIZE PHILOSOPHY (79) – How does induction lead us to the Unmoved Mover?
PHOTO: soej24 at Pixabay – Rev José Mario O Mandía “It seems that God does not exist,” Saint Thomas writes (Summa Theologiae (S Th) I q2 a3 objection 1), “because if one of two contraries be infinite, the other would…
GREAT FIGURES OF THE MISSIONARY WORK – Bengal and the Kingdom of the Dragon (19)
– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro The presence of European mercenaries among the hosts of the Asian armies has a long history. Already at the time of Vasco da Gama’s historic voyage to India in 1498, the existence of Italian military…
PETER FOLLOWED JESUS BUT MISUNDERSTOOD THE GOAL – 16 September 2018, 24th Sunday In Ordinary Time (B)
Is 50:5-9a; Jas 2:14-18; Mk 827-35 – Fernando Armellini SCJ Claretian Publications, Macau “You are the Messiah.” Peter gave a precise definition but he continues to be convinced that the Master will soon begin an earthly kingdom. For Jesus the…
ASK THE LITURGIST (13) – The humeral veil
– Enrico Finotti Is the humeral veil optional? “The priest or the deacon should wear a white cope and humeral veil to give the blessing at the end of adoration, when the exposition takes place with the monstrance; in the…
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH BELGIAN PROFESSOR ANDRÉ WÉNIN – Violent psalms?
– Aurelio Porfiri Not long ago, I came across a book in French by Belgian Professor André Wénin. The book is called Psaumes censurés : Quand la prière a des accents violents (2017 Editions du Cerf, now available also in…
MARIAN APPARITIONS (81) – Arras, France
Our Lady of Ardents, or Eglise Notre-Dame des Ardents d’Arras in French, is a small, charming red brick church in the lower part of town in Arras, France. It was built in the beautiful style unique to the twelfth century…