Jesus Christ, Only Begotten Son of God (11)
Day: October 5, 2018
INTERVIEW WITH FR FRANZ GASSNER, SVD – “There is no future and gain in any form of schism”
– Marco Carvalho A respectful cooperation between China and the Vatican will benefit not only the Church and the Central Government, but mainly the Chinese faithful. Coordinator of the Department of Catholic Theology at the Faculty of Religious Studies at…
A PROPOSAL: TO MOVE THE HOMILY AT THE END OF THE MASS
– Marco Tosatti Forgive me an outburst, but I understand why people no longer go to Mass, and I also have the remedy. If someone can tell the person responsible, for example the reigning Pontiff, please do so and I…
BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (2) – What is Apologetics?
– Rev José Mario O Mandía “Always be prepared to make a defense to any one who calls you to account for the hope that is in you, yet do it with gentleness and reverence” (I Peter 3:15). “Defense” is…
INDISSOLUBILITY: A NECESSITY OF LOVE – 7 October 2018 – 27th Sunday In Ordinary Time (B)
GEN 2:18-24; HEB 2:9-11; MK 10:2-16 – Fernando Armellini SCJ Claretian Publications, Macau In no other field, as in that of sexual ethics, man is tempted to give his own morals, and so the salt of the gospel proposal is…
GREAT FIGURES OF THE MISSIONARY WORK – Bengal and the Kingdom of the Dragon (22)
– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro We arrived at Goalpara hoping to find traces of the so-called “firingis”. The white statue of one of the rajas (certainly of the Narayan caste) wielding sword and shield announces the small village, and soon…
INVITATION
The Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus are scheduled to hold a Mass on October 10 (Wednesday) at 7:30 PM in the St Joseph the Worker Church to celebrate their founder Saint Daniel Comboni. All our brothers and sisters…
CHURCH FATHERS (28) – Saint Ephrem the Syrian
– Anastasios Ephrem the Syrian (306-373) was an important writer, hymnographer and theologian in the IV century. We know very little about his early years and the information we have are somehow in contradiction. We know that the Bishop of…
A PILGRIM’S NOTES – The need for listening
– Fausto Gomez OP Some years ago, I was invited to reflect with the Australian Dominican Family on justice and peace in Dominican tradition and today. We closed our encounters with the celebration of the Holy Eucharist. At the offertory,…
MARIAN APPARITIONS (84) – Lipa, Philippines
Teresita Castillo was 21 years old when she fled her prominent home and followed her secret desire to become a Carmelite novice on July 4, 1948. Within one month of her arrival into the convent, on July 31, 1948, satan…