– Marco Carvalho The Diocese of Macau will decide this Friday how will the Easter Triduum be celebrated in the Special Administrative Region. Bishop Stephen Lee will discuss the matter with the local clergy today in a plenary session, the…
Year: 2020

UNIVERSITIES AUTHORIZED TO REOPEN ON APRIL 1ST – USJ. E-learning will be the norm until the end of the school year
– Marco Carvalho Macau universities were granted authorization by the Government so that students can return to classrooms as early as April 1st, but the campus of the University of Saint Joseph will probably remain almost empty until the end…

NEW USJ’S HELMSMAN WILL TAKE OFFICE IN JULY – Stephen Morgan appointed as the new Rector of the University of Saint Joseph
– Marco Carvalho Deacon Stephen Morgan, who has held the position of dean of the Faculty of Religious Studies at the University of Saint Joseph since September 2018, will succeed Father Peter Stilwell in the directorship of Macau’s Catholic university.…

POPE FRANCIS ON THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC – Do not forget the poor
– Tej Francis Email: tejfrancis@gmail.com (CNA) The suffering of the poor cannot be ignored during the coronavirus pandemic, Pope Francis said Thursday in his televised morning homily. “Worried about my things, we forget the hungry children,” Pope Francis said March…

FAITH ILLUSTRATED – You Shall Love Your Neighbour As Yourself (7)
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS: 5th Commandment – You Shall Not Kill

DOMINE, EXAUDI ORATIONEM MEAM – Music by Aurelio Porfiri
Liturgical Mass Sheet
THEOLOGY OF DOUBT
– Corrado Gnerre I am a very old man, a staunch and practicing Catholic. I remember that when I was a boy, my parish priest, in his frequent catecheses, insisted a lot on the rational knowledge of God. I was…

BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (71) – Who is the antichrist?
– Rev José Mario O Mandía Jesus stayed on for forty days – long enough for the disciples to prove to themselves that Jesus had really risen from the dead. Then it was time for Him to go back home.…

THE CHURCH CHRIST FOUNDED (10) – Christianity from 1500 to 1750 AD – The Catholic Reformation
One of the beautiful things about the Catholic Reformation was the rich variety of spiritualities that emerged and the rise of the different types of prayer and devotion. Many of these came from the work of particular people who were…

THERE’S WATER THAT’S PRICELESS – 15th March 2020, 3rd Sunday Of Lent (A)
JOHN 4:5-42 – Fr Fernando Armellini SCJ Claretian Publications, Macau It is noon when the woman comes to draw water, and Jesus asks her for a drink. She has no name. The only element that defines her is that she…