– Tej Francis ROME, ITALY POPE FRANCIS: ABUSE REVELATIONS ARE PURIFYING THE CHURCH (CNA) God is purifying his Church through the painful revelations of the abuse scandals, so do not be discouraged, Pope Francis said Thursday in a meeting with…
Year: 2019
EVANGELISATION BY LOCAL MISSIONARIES – Maximum Illud Lecture Series
One Hundred Years ago, Pope Benedict XV called for the missionary activity of the Church to be carried out in future by missionaries from the very countries and cultures being evangelised. This was welcomed by many and resisted by some,…
STEPHAN ROTHLIN SJ, DIRECTOR OF THE MACAU RICCI INSTITUTE – We aim to build up within ten years an even more comprehensive library
– Marco Carvalho It was one of the many consequences of the destruction unleashed by typhoon Hato in August 2017. Almost two years later, it still is one of the few that has never been addressed. Two years ago, the…
PROCESSION OF THE CROSS OF OUR LORD BOM JESUS DOS PASSOS – Grant us perfect sorrow for our sins
H.E. Bishop Stephen Lee blesses the people with the Relic of the Lignum Crucis (a piece from the Wooden Cross of our Lord). Photo by Ivan Leong. The Procession of Our Lord carrying the cross – Bom Jesus dos Passos…
LORD HAVE MERCY – Music by Aurelio Porfiri
Liturgical Mass Sheet
FAITH ILLUSTRATED – Creed 09: God’s Church (4)
Diversity of ministry, unity of mission
CHURCH FATHERS (46) – Theodoret of Cyrus
Theodoret of Cyrus (393-458) was from an illustrious family in Antioch. His teacher was Theodore of Mopsuestia and one of his classmates was the controversial Nestorius. He would study rhetoric with Saint John Chrysostom. As a young person he followed…
BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (22) – What is the historical-critical method?
– José Mario O Mandía On 30 September 1943, Pope Pius XII issued the Encyclical “Divino afflante Spiritu” (“Inspired by the Holy Spirit”) which welcomed the use of textual criticism to examine not only the contents of the Bible but…
WHO IS MY LORD? – 10th March 2019, 1st Sunday Of Lent
Deuteronomy 26:4-10; Romans 10:8-13; Luke 4:1-13 – Pope Benedict XVI Reflecting on the temptations to which Jesus was subjected in the wilderness invites each one of us to answer a fundamental question: What really counts in my life? In the…
ASK THE LITURGIST (23) – Announcements at the end of the Mass … and not from the ambo
– Enrico Finotti Parish advices are often excessive and boring. Do they have to be done? The rubrics allow that in the ending rites, before giving the blessing, brief announcements can be given (IGMR 90). The indication is of maximum…