FAUSTO GOMEZ OP There is in Macau a chain of restaurants that provide, with just a minor order, free coffee for the elderly. One may see many of these elderly reading avidly the daily newspapers. Men and women reading…
Year: 2019
SAINT FAUSTINUS AND SAINT JOVITA – Patrons of Brescia
Faustinus and Jovita were brothers, nobly born, and were zealous professors of the Christian religion, which they preached without fear in their city of Brescia in Lombardy, during the persecution of Adrian. Their remarkable zeal excited the fury of the…
Ricci Institute promotes charity concert – A rare musical confluence at St Joseph’s Church
Marco Carvalho Pipa soloist Yang Jing and Hong Kong’s organist Ernesto Mauricio Corpus will give a new meaning to the idea of musical confluence between East and West, when they perform, next Friday, on the premises of St Joseph’s…
AROUND THE USE OF CHURCHES – Marco Tosatti – Giorgio Spallone
By now it has become a fashion. For Christmas throughout Italy churches and cathedrals have become places where people eat and drink. The spearhead of this use – certainly singular, for many improper, for some almost blasphemous – of the…
Great Figures of the Missionary Work – Bengal and the Kingdom of the Dragon (39)
Joaquim Magalhães de Castro Given the specificity of our visit, and after a breakfast of delicious and nutritious red rice, the option for this morning can only be the National Library, founded in 1967 with the aim of “preserving…
CATHOLIC CHURCH CELEBRATES ON 11 FEBRUARY THE APPARITIONS OF OUR LADY IN LOURDES – Grotto is Window to Heaven
Replica of the grotto of Lourdes next to the church in Penha Hill Miguel Augusto (*) Last Monday, February 11, the Catholic community around the world woke up with messages of the feast day of Our Lady of Lourdes…
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PORTLAND, OREGON LOVE GOD? LET YOUR MUSIC AIM HIGH, ARCHBISHOP SAMPLE SAYS (CNA/EWTN News) Sacred music has a special role in the Catholic liturgy, and Archbishop Alexander Sample of Portland in Oregon has written a pastoral letter reflecting on how…
FRANCIS IN THE ARABIAN PENINSULA A singular journey
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…
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…