– Ross Belle Santos-Balatbat “Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we…
Month: April 2020
DEVOTIONAL MUSIC FOR LENT – Haydn’s Seven Last Words from the Cross
– Maria Kwak* Haydn’s The Seven Last Words from the Cross is perhaps the most well-known music that reflects the spirit of Holy Week. The Seven Last Words from the Cross are seven expressions biblically attributed to Jesus during his…
DO NOT LOOK FOR THE LIVING AMONG THE DEAD – Easter Vigil / Holy Saturday – Year A
MATTHEW 28:1-10 – Fernando Armellini Claretian Publications, Macau The closed tomb stood for an apparent victory of the wicked. Faced with this tragedy, one wonders: will the darkness and the silence of the grave extinguish forever even the memory…
SAN LORENZO FUORI LE MURA – The memorial of martyrdom of Saint Lawrence
– Anastasios Even if San Lorenzo fuori le mura (“outside the walls”) is not really in the center of Rome, it is still to be considered one of the most important churches in the city. The church is very ancient,…
A SILENT EASTER
– Aurelio Porfiri The Lenten season of 2020 will certainly always remain in our minds because of the peculiar situation we are all in, and when I say all, I mean the whole world. I was reading that half of…
GREAT FIGURES OF THE MISSIONARY WORK – Bengal and the Kingdom of the Dragon (95)
– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro Last week we left Hugli’s survivors in a frantic flight down the river, losing several barges in the process to the Mughal enemy; preserving so many others. They had even gone beyond the pontoon and…
WORLD NEWS
– Tej Francis Email: tejfrancis@gmail.com PALESTINE PALESTINIANS SHOW THE WORLD HOW TO RESPOND TO COVID-19 CRISIS (Al-bushra) Palestinians have responded to COVID-19 with ingenuity and hospitality. They are using the resilience that has allowed them to thrive under the brutal…
CHANCERY NOTICE
CN/13/013/2020 Collection for the Holy Land 2020 The normal community celebration of Holy Week this year is being affected by preventive measures taken due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Christian communities in the Holy Land are also exposed to…
AFTER THE RESURRECTION – Jesus meets two women
– Roberto Ceolin After His Resurrection, Jesus met His disciples and friends, eating and drinking with them. Often, however, He was not immediately recognized, not until people had their ‘eyes opened’ and could understand that ‘it was the Lord.’ The…
PALM SUNDAY IN BATANES, PHILIPPINES
IVATAN priests and faithful are unfazed by Covid-19 and demonstrate that faith is imaginative. Photo from the northern Philippine province of Batanes. Photo by Dave Ablat in Manila Bulletin.