– Tej Francis Email: tejfrancis@gmail.com Ouahigouya, Burkina Faso Burkina Faso bishop: As violence continues, ‘nobody is listening’ (CNA) Following the death of more than a dozen Christians in a church shooting over the weekend, a Burkina Faso bishop said Western…
Month: December 2019
LUSOPHONE SCOUTS IN CHIANG MAI FOR CULTURAL EXCHANGE PROGRAM – GELMac collects a ton of donations in annual food drive
– Marco Carvalho Eight hours and the generosity of a significant number of local consumers were enough for the Lusophone Scouts Group of Macau (GELMac) to collect a ton of food and basic need in the latest edition of the…
OUR LADY OF CARMEL CELEBRATES THE SOLEMNITY OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
The parish of Our Lady of Carmel in Taipa celebrated the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception with a procession of the image of our Lady of Carmel around the area. (Photo by Ivan Leong)
CHANCERY NOTICE – Pastoral Appointments
CN/27/030/2019 Bishop Stephen LEE has made the following appointments, effective 1 January 2020:
FILIPINOS IN MACAU OVERJOYED ON CARDINAL TAGLE’S APPOINTMENT
– Fr Leonard Dollentas Filipinos in Macau welcomed with excitement the recent appointment of Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle as the new prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples or Propaganda Fide.
REJOICE AND PRAY WITH POPE FRANCIS – Macau celebrates Holy Father’s birthday
The Diocese of Macau celebrated in advance the birthday of His Holiness, Pope Francis in a Mass at the Cathedral of the Nativity of Our Lady in Macau, presided by Bishop Stephen Lee Bun-sang at 3:30 PM on December 7,…
RUIJI IZUMI, JESUIT PRIEST AND DESCENDANT OF A BROTHER OF ST FRANCIS XAVIER – Christianity is not a private religion; it is a family religion for the whole mankind
– Marco Carvalho in Nagasaki He joined the Society of Jesus with the same dream as Pope Francis, to be a missionary in Japan. Over the past 62 years, Spaniard Luis Fontes has assumed the mission of bringing the Word…
THE TABERNACLE’S REMOVAL
– Corrado Gnerre Much has recently been said in the recent past about the statements of Monsignor (now Cardinal) Malcom Ranijth, the then secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship. Statements made on the occasion of the presentation of the…
BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (59) – Why did the Word become Flesh?
“Verbum caro hic factum est” – Here, the Word was made flesh. Altar inscription in Nazareth, house of our Lady. (Photo by José Mario O. Mandía) – Rev José Mario O. Mandía Number 85 of the Compendium of the Catechism…