MORAL VIRTUES & CONTRARY VICES
Month: July 2019
O SACRUM CONVIVIUM – Music by Aurelio Porfiri
Liturgical Mass Sheet
ASK THE LITURGIST (33) – Catechumenate and liturgical year
– Enrico Finotti Would not the Catechumenate be fuller and more complete if it were extended to the entire liturgical year and not only restricted to Lent? The Catechumenate was born in an ecclesial context prior to the formation of…
BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (42) – How do we use philosophy to understand the Blessed Trinity?
– Rev José Mario O Mandía God revealed Himself to creatures with intelligence. This is why He expects us to use our intellect to understand the things that He has told us about Himself, including the mystery of the Blessed…
CHURCH FATHERS (66) – John Moschus
– Anastasios Today we talk of a companion of Sophronius of Jerusalem, John Moschus (550-619). He was a Byzantine monk who traveled with Sophronius extensively, and who died in Rome. His most important work is The Spiritual Meadow. It begins…
PRAYER: A CONVERSION OF THE SELF – 28TH July 2019: 17Th Sunday In Ordinary Time (C)
LUKE 11:1-13 – Fernando Armellini SCJ Claretian Publications, Macau No evangelist insists so much on the subject of prayer as Luke. He remembers that Jesus prayed seven times. Luke also reports five prayers of Jesus including, “Father, forgive them, for…
SAINTS JOACHIM AND ANNE – Parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Saints Joachim and Anne are the parents of the Virgin Mary. There is no mention of them in the Bible or Gospels. Below is a short excerpt from “Mystical City of God” by Ven. Mary of Agreda. The Most High…
GIOVANNI PIERLUIGI DA PALESTRINA – The soul of the Sacred Word that became art
– Aurelio Porfiri We Catholics should be more aware of the great people who have honored our religion and continue to do so. Among these people is Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594), whose 425th death anniversary we commemorate. A composer…
IMAGINARY DIALOGUES (4) – Agatha & Frederic
– Carlos M. Frota In the following afternoon, after classes, Agatha & Frederic spent some time together, before going home to prepare the next day’s lessons. They were always happy to see each other, to exchange opinions about a variety…
GREAT FIGURES OF THE MISSIONARY WORK – Bengal and the Kingdom of the Dragon (63)
– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro Estevão Cacela reserves some of the pages of his account to give us a general description of the kingdom that had the privilege of witness. It tells us that Bhutan “is rather large and extended…