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.
Fr Giovanni Scalese, the only priest in Afghanistan, so far, succeeded in escaping from the Taliban, bringing five nuns and 14 disabled children that they had been taking care of.
Are you happy? Am I happy? The journey of life goes forward only with steps of love: love of all neighbours, especially the poor and marginalized neighbours, love of creation, and radically and ultimately love of God – with the very love of God in our hearts: “Thou hast made us for Thyself and our hearts are restless till they rest in Thee” (St Augustine, Confessions).