THEOLOGICAL VIRTUES (2) – FAITH, HOPE, CHARITY
Day: August 9, 2019
ALLELUIA – Music by Aurelio Porfiri
Liturgical Mass Sheet
ASK THE LITURGIST (35) – Catechesis on Pentecost
– Don Enrico Finotti The extension of the supplements for catechesis and the abundant anthology do not facilitate the learning of a synthesis on the different questions of faith. Is it possible to have a short catechesis that gives the…
BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (44) – What makes the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit different from one another?
– Rev José Mario O Mandía TWO PROCESSIONS LEAD TO FOUR RELATIONS We have studied how the Son proceeds from the Father, and how the Holy Spirit proceeds from both the Father and the Son. We may ask: in what…
THROUGH THE EYES OF FAITH – 11th Sunday In Ordinary Time (C)
WIS 18:6-9; HEB 11:1-2, 8-19; LK 12:32-48 – Edmond Lo www.FLL.cc In this age of atheism and materialism, many people see faith as essentially an interior attitude that is subjective, imaginative, and psychological. It is, in a word, objectively unreal…
SAINT TERESA BENEDICTA OF THE CROSS (EDITH STEIN – 1891 – 1942) – Jew, Philosopher, Virgin, Martyr
Edith Stein, today’s saint’s given name, was a highly cultured European intellectual. She obtained a doctorate in philosophy summa cum laude from a German university after being accepted as a student by a renowned philosopher. She mastered numerous languages and…
CHURCH FATHERS (68) – Saint Maximus the Confessor
– Anastasios A great defender of Catholic orthodoxy was Saint Maximus the Confessor (579/80-662). He was born in Constantinople from a rich family. And even if he was very well regarded since his youth by the emperor himself, he was…
LUIGI ANTINORI (2) – The forgotten Italian master (2)
– Aurelio Porfiri We were able in the previous issue to identify Luigi Antinori from Nocera with the Luigi Antinori that was active in Macau. Do we have conclusive evidence for this? Not really, but the documents that we were…
GREAT FIGURES OF THE MISSIONARY WORK – Bengal and the Kingdom of the Dragon (65)
– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro Estêvão Cacela traces us a portrait of the Bhutanese, presenting them as white people, “although the little cleanliness with which they are treated makes them not look so much.” Their hair is long, covering the…
NEWS BRIEFS
– Tej Francis ROME POPE EMERITUS BENEDICT XVI VISITS PAPAL SUMMER RESIDENCE NEAR ROME (Vatican news) He passed many a summer evening in the quiet and relative cool of the gardens behind the papal residence at Castel Gandolfo during his…