Photo by AP. – Maria Kwak This year’s Holy week brought tears to millions who had to watch one of the most beautiful cathedrals in the world go up in flames. Not only is it an object of beauty, it…
Year: 2019
BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (29) – Can faith alone save us?
Martin Luther (Photo: Creative Commons) – Rev José Mario O Mandía Martin Luther (1483-1546) claimed that faith alone (sola fide) is enough for salvation. This doctrine asserts that one receives God’s pardon through faith alone, excluding all “works.” Luther argued…
HARD TO BELIEVE EVEN FOR THOSE WHO HAVE SEEN – 28th April 2019, 2nd Sunday of Easter
JOHN 20:19-31 – Fernando Armellini SCJ Claretian Publications, Macau The Gospel of Mark says that Jesus appeared to the eleven “and reproached them for their unbelief and stubbornness, in refusing to believe those who had seen him after he had…
DE CORPORE ET SANGUINE DOMINI – St Paschasius Radbertus
Born in 785 and died in 865 he was a Carolingian Theologian, and the Abbot of Corbie, a monastery in Picardy founded around 660 by the queen regent Bathilde with a founding community of monks from Luxeuil Abbey. His most…
WE ARE EASTER PEOPLE – Christ always wins!
A moment during the service of light during the Easter Vigil at the Macau Cathedral, 21 April 2019. – Photo by Ivan Leong. – Fausto Gomez, OP Through Easter, we Christians celebrate the Resurrection of Christ from the dead. Saint…
JOHN MARK, EVANGELIST – The lion’s roar
– Aurelio Porfiri Sometimes I come to think about how it is a privilege to be able to live in certain cities rich in history and spirituality. Although our times are extremely secularized, we cannot deny that some cities have…
THE DAZZLING NEGATIVE
– José Maria C.S. André A hundred and twenty-one years ago, the lawyer Secondo Pia photographed a long blanket, 4.5 by 1.5 meters, safeguarded in the cathedral of Turin as a relic. After many troubled historical events, the House of…
HOLY FACE OF MANOPPELLO – TRUE ICON – Signs from the Resurrected Lord
The image on the veil is not easily visible as shown in the photo by Paul Badde. Pope Benedict XVI himself venerated the image. When superimposed over the face in the Shroud of Turin, the the two images form a…
NEWS BRIEFS
– Tej Francis MANAGUA, NICARAGUA NICARAGUAN BISHOP TO GO TO ROME AMID SECURITY CONCERNS (CNA) Pope Francis has asked Auxiliary Bishop Silvio José Báez Ortega of Managua to serve the Church in Rome for a temporary period. Báez has faced…
THE ROAD OF EVERY CHRISTIAN – Encountering Jesus on the Road to Emmaus
– Fr Leonard E. Dollentas I have visited the Holy Land in Israel several times as chaplain of pilgrims. In 2016, together with three other Filipino diocesan priests, I came back to Israel for a half month visit. It was…