The Universal Church celebrates the Nativity of Mary on September 8th. Tradition says that the Virgin was born in Jerusalem, near the pool of Bethesda, where a crypt under the church of St Anne is currently venerated as the birthplace of Our Lady. The Feast of the Nativity is celebrated nine months after the celebration of the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception (December 8th).
In the middle of the 18th century, during their territorial progression to the east, the Russians, upon reaching the strait that separates Siberia from Alaska, decided to go further and explore the northern region of the Pacific.
Unfazed by, or perhaps because of, the pandemic, participants are not lacking in local pilgrimages.
Following the spirit of “Laudato Si'” the Commission will hold a “Seminar on Environmental Protection and Recycling Action” to deepen our understanding of waste reduction at source and recycling, so that one can practice environmental protection more effectively.
We Catholics know we are sinners. We believe that the Catholic Church has the means to forgive our sins. A faithful Catholic seeks forgiveness and healing. A faithful Catholic goes to confession.
First in Taipa, then in Macau. The local Catholic communities are priming themselves for a new catechetical cycle. The new year begins a week apart in the two parishes. The Parish of Our Lady of Carmel, in Taipa, marks the beginning of the new catechetical year with the feast of the Holy Childhood. In the Cathedral of the Nativity of Our Lady, the new cycle will start a week later, with fewer catechists and something fresh: the rehabilitation of catechesis for preschool children.
How to survive more than a month of strict confinement periods in hotel rooms without losing your mind? Sister Bernadette Kim found her very own solution. The South Korean nun read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation during the 35 days she spent under quarantine earlier this year.
According to the Italian newspaper Il Tempo, Pope Francis has recently been “negotiating with the Taliban through Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to open humanitarian corridors that would allow the thousands of refugees in Afghanistan to flee safely.”
With a clean facade and a new ceiling, but without the pipe organ that a benefactor offered the Diocese of Macau. The Macau Cathedral will welcome the faithful once again starting Saturday, eleven months after it closed its doors to be submitted to renovation works. A Solemn Mass in Cantonese and Portuguese, this Saturday afternoon, will kick off the celebrations of the Solemnity of the Nativity of Our Lady, the Cathedral’s parish feast.