What is a synod? And why a synod?
Year: 2021
Order to evangelize
Catholics worldwide will celebrate World Mission Day on Sunday. In Macau, the alms collected at the local churches will fund the Church’s missionary activities. Formerly an advanced outpost of evangelization in the Far East, Macau is nowadays mission territory and an incubator of new vocations. O Clarim spoke with four Macau-based missionaries about the challenges of Evangelization at the beginning of the third millennium.
โEvery Catholic is important for witnessing the Good Newsโ
The first universal Synod happened around 50 A.D. in Jerusalem, and Saint Peter and Paul took part, but, even more importantly, the Holy Spirit was present to guide the Church in view of solutions to problems.ย
Jesus, have pity!
Lord, Jesus, Son of David, have pity on me.ย I do humbly beg You with all my heart for Your mercy and compassion.ย Though I am unworthy, I seek Your grace and trust in Your goodness.ย Jesus, I trust in You.
BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (149) How does one go about confessing his sins?
Note the emphasis on personal confession and absolution. Christ, the Good Shepherd, always tends his sheep one by one.
โHe adored the Blessed Sacrament about twenty times a dayโ
The Universal Church celebrates on 22 October the feast of Pope St John Paul II. The Holy Father lived for and in Christ, giving himself to his neighbor entirely through the hands of the Virgin Mary, for whom he had a deep devotion, having dedicated to her his papal motto: Totus Tuus (All yours). He left a vast legacy and travelled tirelessly around the world to carry the message of the Gospel, a message of Hope, of Love and of God’s Mercy. When told to slow down his work and travel, he used to reply with a smile: โI will rest in Eternal Life.โ St John Paul II was certainly one of the most outstanding figures of the 20th century.
MISSIONARIES FROM MACAU TO THE WORLD Saint Lazarus Island (66)
As a result of a long contact, it was not long before the Portuguese influence was felt in the city of Manila.ย
Beauty as Ideal
It is often said that our age is a time in which we suffer from a crisis of ideals, our young people no longer know what to believe. Why not offer them the ideal of beauty again? But not beauty only in an aesthetic sense, but as a profound value behind which they will always find God. The Church had understood this, promoting the most artistically valid sacred music, the sacred art of the highest level, literature at the highest levels: true beauty is the seed of holiness.
Rubricsโฆor Fidelity?
I am a priest from the diocese of โฆ I always follow you and read with great interest, trying to implement your precious indications in the parish entrusted to me. I would like to open my mind to tell you what the liturgical formation we have had since the seminary and then the refresher courses … We were told that the liturgical books should not be mandatory, but should be used as a general indication to guide our creativity. In short, the book was not to be read, but recreated with our own words according to the assembly for which it was celebrated. We were all afraid of being considered โrubricistsโ and we felt (in good faith) authorized to freely remake rites and texts. It seems that this was not the Churchโs thinking … Please clarify …
Chancery Notice
Bishop Stephen LEE announces that, with effect from Tuesday, 19th October 2021, all parish churches and chapels in the Diocese, with the exception of those in schools and homes for the elderly, will be open to the public as usual. For the latest information, please visit the diocesan website at www.catholic.org.mo.