OLD LAW AND NEW LAW
Day: November 17, 2019
IERUSALEM, SURGE – Music by Aurelio Porfiri
Liturgical Mass Sheet
THERE IS NO LOVE WITHOUT TRUTH
– Corrado Gnerre In his last encyclical, Caritas in veritate, Benedict XVI insists that charity must always start from the truth and that even charity without truth cannot exist. What do you think about it? I agree, but someone has…
BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (56) – How can we profit from evil?
– Rev José Mario O. Mandía Evil is a reality that we need to learn to face, to accept, and to sanctify. Learning to do this is, in fact, a lifetime task. Many spend their lives complaining about evil, or…
COURAGE, LIFT UP YOUR HEAD! – 17th November 2019, 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, C
Luke 21:5-19 – Fr. Fernando Armellini SCJ Claretian Publications, Macau Luke wrote his Gospel around the year 85 AD. In the fifty years that passed since the death and resurrection of Jesus, there were wars, political revolutions, catastrophes and the…
FROM THE BOOK OF PSALMS TO THE RESPONSORIAL PSALM (1) – The Book Of Psalms: an introduction
– Aurelio Porfiri There is no Christian who is not familiar with the Book of Psalms: these 150 poems are the base for our way of praying. And for us Catholics, the liturgy is filled with texts taken from the…
GREAT FIGURES OF THE MISSIONARY WORK – Bengal and the Kingdom of the Dragon (77)
– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro As we have already said, the attempt to convert the Bhutanese was unsuccessful, and Fathers João Cabral and Estevao Cacela must have felt very frustrated, because they had labored a great deal. Only centuries later,…
SAINT PETER – The triumph of Catholic faith
PHOTO: Wikimedia – Anastasios As was said previously, we may regard Saint Peter’s Basilica as the most famous Catholic church in the world. It is one of the four so called “major Basilicas,” all of them in Rome. There is…
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH DANIEL DE WEYER, CEO AND FOUNDER OF CRYPTOWORLD LIMITED HONG KONG – My character was formed in childhood, along with the Ten Commandments
– ROBAIRD O’CEARBHAILL With decades of senior executive experience in international banking, now in fintech, crypto, investment and board governance, Daniel De Weyer, believes in reflection and positivity. His Catholic childhood largely made him what he is today, and what…
VATICAN CITY – Remember the final judgement, Pope Francis says at Mass for recently deceased bishops
– Tej Francis Email: tejfrancis@gmail.com (CNA) Pope Francis urged Catholics to meditate on the final judgement at a Mass offered Monday for the souls of cardinals and bishops who died within the past year. “Saint Ignatius suggests, before making an…