On Tuesday, October 12th, the Church celebrates the feast of Our Lady of Aparecida, the Solemnity of the Queen and Patron of Brazil.
Year: 2021
Beyond Good Intentions
Lord, I love You, and I want to love You more. I want to love You with my whole being. Help me to realize that following You requires a radical and complete gift of myself to You. May I be ready and willing to let go of any attachment in life that keeps me from following You. Jesus, I trust in You.
Father Stephen Tong to head Chinese province of the Society of Jesus
Born in Macau, Father Stephen Tong will assume the role of Provincial of the Chinese Province of the Society of Jesus on November 1st, succeeding the Bishop-elect of Hong Kong, Stephen Chow. “A man of intelligence and good reasoning,” Tong Chak-long faces a delicate and challenging mission, fellow Jesuít Luís Sequeira told O Clarim.
Workshops explore John Paul II’s Theology of the Body
Starting on October 19th and until mid-April 2022, Father Andrzej Blazkiewicz wants to discuss the various meanings of human love in the Divine Plan with local Catholics. The Polish priest will promote a series of workshops – one per week – based on the book Male and Female He Created Them, a compendium of Pope John Paul II’s teachings on love and sexuality, in which the Polish pontiff discusses issues such as the human condition or human dignity.
Christian Life: A Spiritual and Moral Life (2)
For St Thomas Aquinas, theology and spiritual theology are “one and the same thing.” Similar is the stand of St Bonaventure. For both doctors of the Church and the traditions they represent, theology is one, not yet divided at their time between dogmatic and moral theology. Spiritual theology permeated the different theological treatises such as the Trinity, Creation, Christology, grace and the sacraments, prayer, etc. It was – and is – more closely connected with moral theology or Christian ethics.
BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (147) What are indulgences for?
“An indulgence is a remission before God of the temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven, which the faithful Christian who is duly disposed gains under certain prescribed conditions through the action of the Church which, as the minister of redemption, dispenses and applies with authority the treasury of the satisfactions of Christ and the saints.”
Discretion and strength in the service of God
Former secretary of Dom Arquimínio da Costa and Dom Domingos Lam, the Dominican Norma Maria da Rosa died one month ago. With a discreet presence in the ecclesiastical chamber, the Macanese nun ensured that balance was kept in the transition of the local Church to a Church with a more pronounced Chinese matrix. Father Luís Sequeira also recalls the work that Norma da Rosa developed with children at risk.
“Nurses saved me”
In a radio interview with Spanish COPE, Pope Francis told how nurses saved his life – twice, recently, and in 1957. The Pope talked too about his recovery from surgery, his home confinement, and revealed too what and who helped bring about Laudato Si’.
Cristiano Ronaldo’s talent: “God gave me the gift” (2)
“I was brought up with nothing, we were very poor. I had no toys and no Christmas presents. I shared a room with my brother and two sisters and my parents slept in the other.
MISSIONARIES FROM MACAU TO THE WORLD Saint Lazarus Island (64)
There would be new prohibitions on the sale of travel from Manila (14 March and 20 December 1632) at a time when Philip III of Portugal requested the support of the Count of Linhares from the governor of Manila in order to expel the Dutch from Ilha Formosa, insisting at the same time “in the total cut off of communication and trade between China and Manila, in order to avoid the great inconveniences that resulted in the States of the East and West Indies.”