– Rev José Mario O Mandía “Do you also wish to go away?” (John 6:67), Jesus asked the twelve, after many of his listeners “drew back and no longer went about with him” (John 6:66). They had found his words…
Year: 2019
CHANCERY NOTICE
CN/11/012/2019 Monsignor Stephen Lee, Bishop of Macau, makes public the following arrangements in the Diocese:
AN IMAGINARY DIALOGUE (2) – Agatha & Frederic
– Carlos Frota Here I am again, friends, to continue my story. And I am very happy in this role I assigned myself to play. Do you know why?
WHAT’S AND WHY’S – Questions children ask priests (I)
– Fr Leonard E. Dollentas In 2007, Professor Michelle Chouinard an assistant professor of psychology at the University of California found that on average, children posed more than 100 questions every hour. Interacting with very young primary school students and…
SÉ CATHEDRAL WELCOMES PAULINE JUBILEE – Daughters of St Paul celebrate 50 years of mission in Macau
– Miguel Augusto The Daughters of St Paul, known as the Pauline Sisters, celebrate the 50th Anniversary of their mission in Macau this month. On the occasion of the Anniversary, they invite the community to join the celebration that will…
ASK THE LITURGIST (30) – Confusion in the liturgy
– Don Enrico Finotti Why so much confusion in the liturgy, despite so much clarity in the documents of the Magisterium? It is necessary first of all to recognize the immense good brought by the liturgical reform where it was…
HUMAN CLONING (2) – Reproductive Cloning
– Fausto Gomez OP Cloning of cells and tissues is a valued biomedical technique, particularly in regenerative medicine, and offers no major ethical problem as long as the general norms of research on human subjects are followed. In this context,…
CHURCH FATHERS (61) – Saint Maximus of Turin
– Anastasios Saint Maximus of Turin (Northern Italy) lived between the 4th and the 5th centuries. We don’t know much about his life, we have mostly information coming from his sermons. Gennadius, of whom we talked already, in his De…
GREAT FIGURES OF THE MISSIONARY WORK – Bengal and the Kingdom of the Dragon (58)
– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro In his Relation Estevão Cacela does not forget to emphasize the high intellectual capacity of the sovereign, “a man of great knowledge,” who was surrounded by the best monks: religious men from the region and…
WHY DON’T WE BRING 100 REFUGEES TO MACAU AND HELP THEM? – Paul Pun, president of the Association for Refugees’ Welfare
– Marco Carvalho The Government should, in conjunction with the United Nations, determine the minimum number of refugees to which it can extend a helping hand. The appeal was made by the president of the Association of Relief of Refugees,…