Corrado Gnerre I have heard of Saint Athanasius, who would have lived through a period of very serious crisis in the Church, comparable in a certain way to the current one. But who was Saint Athanasius really and why is…
Year: 2021
The Inner Propensity of the Word of God
Fr Jijo Kandamkulathy CMFClaretian Publications, Macau 13 June 2021 – 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time -Year BMark 4:26-34 Today’s gospel presents three parables of the Kingdom of God. Parables are used when a certain reality is not immediately perceivable to…
Latinorum Latinorum….
Aurelio Porfiri The news about restrictions on the Tridentine Mass is making the rounds these days and one of the problems stated is the Latin language. That is, the Mass should be restricted because people don’t understand Latin. Now, I…
MOTHER’S MEAL MACAU – Lending a hand to Ethiopian widows and single mothers
Mother’s Meal Macau recently extended financial help to a needy village in Ethiopia to help train widows and single mothers in animal husbandry. Fr Abiyot Desalegn, parish priest of Itang’s St Don Bosco Catholic Parish in the Apostolic Vicariate of…
Antonio Rosmini and priesthood between heart and mind
Aurelio Porfiri He was a great Catholic intellectual figure and a man of great spirituality. We are talking about the Italian Blessed Antonio Rosmini (1797-1855), a friend of the great Italian writer Alessandro Manzoni and a key figure in Catholicism…
Confirmation is not a “bye-bye sacrament”
Angela Chong In the few weeks prior to the day for my Sunday school students to receive the Sacrament of Confirmation, I got increasingly anxious. I doubted whether they were adequately prepared. Realizing that their learning retention was limited, I…
SOLEMNITY OF THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS – Open wound that gives life
The Church dedicates the month of June to the Sacred Heart of the Lord. Today, the Friday after the feast of Corpus Christi, is the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Ashes laid to rest
Father Antonio Tam Chi Cheng, SJ, former principal of Escola Estrela do Mar, Colégio Mateus Ricci, Escola do Santíssimo Rosário and spiritual director of the Federation of Catholic Schools of Macau (the current Macau Catholic Schools Association) and Serra Club…
MISSIONARIES FROM MACAU TO THE WORLD – Saint Lazarus Island (49)
Joaquim Magalhães de Castro In the courts of Tomar, in 1581, at the time of the official consecration of the Iberian Union, Philip I of Portugal and II of Spain, took care to safeguard the interests of the Portuguese settled …
MILITARY CHAPLAINS INSPIRED THIS SOLDIER, ABANDONED AS A TODDLER, TO ENTER SEMINARY
Tej Francis (Catholic News Service) Retired Army Col. Cameron Song Sellers served his country, and now, he’s serving God.