– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro In absolute contrast, and in a glazed shop window, to the visitor’s gaze is displayed a huge book of sixty-pounds, the equivalent in paper of a soccer field. Its pages contain a selection of color…
Month: February 2019
THE 115 YEARS OF SISTER ANDRÉ – “I hope God will take me this year”
– Aldo Maria Valli Today I want to talk to you about a nun. Her name is Sister André, she is French and on Monday 11 February, on the day of the Virgin of Lourdes, she turned into the beauty…
FATHER ARMINDO VAZ, PROFESSOR AT THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF PORTUGAL
– Marco Carvalho “What we find in the Bible is a deep dialogue between theology and anthropology” The Catholic Church dedicates the current liturgical year to the Gospel of Saint Luke and the Diocese of Macau has invited a very…
VATICAN MEETING ON PROTECTION OF MINORS – Facing an “urgent challenge of our time”
Pope Francis greets bishops during his weekly audience at St Peter’s Square on October 8, 2014 in Vatican City, Vatican. (Franco Origlia/Getty) (Vatican News) Pope Francis, following the recitation of the Angelus prayer on Sunday, 17 February, focused his…
FAITH ILLUSTRATED – Creed 09: God’s Church (1)
God’s Church
CHURCH FATHERS (43) – Palladius of Helenopolis
Anastasios Origen had a very strong influence on Christian thought in his time and after. Another example is the influence he had on Palladius of Helenopolis (368-431), author of the hagiographic collection called Historia Lausiaca (because it was addressed…
BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (19) – Who wrote the Bible?
Rev José Mario O Mandía jmom.honlam.org “God’s Letter to Men.” This is how St John Chrysostom (347-407) called the Sacred Scripture. And this is what we believe since the time of the Apostles: that the Bible came from God. The…
OUR LADY OF LOURDES – Comforter of the Afflicted, you know my wants, my troubles, my suffering
Maria Kwak Last Monday was the feast day of Our Lady of Lourdes who appeared in Lourdes, France in 1858. Our Lady of Lourdes is known for many miraculous cures. In many instances, those who are suffering from illness…
“Happy is a synonym for holy” – 6TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
Jer 17:5-8; 1 Cor 15:12, 16-20; Lk 6:17, 20-26 Pope Francis MOST ENLIGHTENING … Nothing is more enlightening than turning to Jesus’ words and seeing His way of teaching the truth. Jesus explained with great simplicity what it…
SAINT THEODORE, SOLDIER – Sanctity is heroism
Aurelio Porfiri News can be alarming sometimes. Like right now, it seems that white should be now called black and vice versa. There is much talk of virility as a possible object of discussion and not as a fundamental…