Vatican News Carlos Frota For many years I feel that there are moments I must revisit time and again. “This is exceptional! This is unique!” – I hear myself saying, witnessing those special moments. The Papal visit to Abu…
Month: February 2019
FIVE-HUNDRED-YEAR-OLD DEVOTION CELEBRATED IN SAINT LAWRENCE’S CHURCH – Damanese community pays homage to the Virgin of Candelaria
Armindo Vaz Marco Carvalho The memory of a long forgotten battle, held more than four hundred years ago in far away India, was evoked in Saint Lawrence’s Church in the first weekend of the month, but hymns, prayers and…
Celebrating the first day of the Year of the Pig at Cathedral
To celebrate the first day of the Year of the Pig last Tuesday, February 5, the Catholic Diocese of Macau offered Masses in honor of Our Lady of China, praying for a prosperous year ahead. Bishop Stephen Lee celebrated Mass…
PASTORAL CARE FOR MIGRANTS 2ND FUN DAY – Joy that unites
Ross Belle Balatbat The Pastoral Care for Migrants, led by the SOLT Fathers, organized the second yearly thanksgiving involving all those who volunteer in the ministry, the parishioners and the different members of the the various Filipino religious and…
SEPTEMBER 2018 PROVISIONAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE HOLY SEE AND THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA – Duties of Chinese Bishops Received into Full Communion
(Zenit) The Vatican Press Office on February 2, 2019, released the following article, which appears in the February 3, 2019, edition of the Vatican newspaper, Osservatore Romano. On 22 September 2018 in Beijing, the Holy See and the People’s…
CHURCH FATHERS (42) – Saint John Climacus
– Anastasios When we talk of Saint John Climacus (525-605), we talk of a great protagonist of monasticism. He was a monk a the Mount Sinai Monastery, where he entered when he was 16. His monastic life at the beginning…
BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (18) – How about the Bible?
– Rev José Mario O Mandía The First Vatican Council defined the Bible in chapter 2 of its Dogmatic Constitution Dei Filius as the collection of books which, “written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, have God as their…
FEAT NOT, BE BOLD, FOR GOD IS WITH US! – 3rd February 2019, 4th Sunday In Ordinary Time
Jer 1:4-5, 17-19; 1 Cor 12:31 – 13:13; Luke 4:21-30 – Paul Yeung Luke puts this episode at the beginning of Jesus’ public ministry for a reason. The remarkable contrast between the initial acceptance and admiration and the subsequent rejection…
A MEETING IN HEAVEN
– Vittorio Messori If I will be granted mercy to access the Paradise – of course, after an adequate “fee” to pay for the inconsistency between what I believed and how I lived – I will ask the great Custos,…
CARMELITE SPIRITUAL RETREAT AT CHOC VAN CONFERENCE CENTER
St Joseph Conference Centre (Choc Van) will hold a retreat on Carmelite Spirituality from 15 to 17 February (Friday to Sunday).