Rev José Mario O Mandíajmom.honlam.org Several things are needed for a person to be able to receive Holy Communion. (1) He must be a baptized Catholic. As we have seen, Holy Communion signifies that a person is in communion with…
Year: 2021
People’s piety and Liturgy
Aurelio Porfiri We must try to understand the relationship that has arisen between popular piety and liturgy from a different perspective than from which we are used to.
A miracle in the midst of darkness
José Maria C.S. André In last May 12’s audience, the Pope told of a miracle that he experienced close up when he was in Buenos Aires.
Divo Barsotti and the Life In The Spirit
Aurelio Porfiri We are very worried about what is happening around us, and we are certainly right. Work, family, responsibilities … all these things inevitably attract our attention, they instinctively hold us together because they are part of our external…
Yes to nonviolence (2)
Fausto Gomez OP Nonviolence literally means no to violence, or negation of violence as a path to social change, justice and peace. It does not mean passive resistance to social evil or withdrawal from the world, but active nonviolence as…
MISSIONARIES FROM MACAU TO THE WORLD – Saint Lazarus Island (48)
Joaquim Magalhães de Castro Much less would be known about the relations between Macau and the Philippines without the impressions registered by the travelers who passed through both these cities. On March 25, 1596 Francesco Carlleti and his father António,…
ANGEL OF PORTUGAL CELEBRATED ON JUNE 10 – God’s messengers in the life of the Church
Antonio dos Santos Devotion to the Guardian Angel is very old in Portugal. It gained a special place with the Apparitions of the Angel, in Fátima, to the Little Shepherds. Messengers of God, at decisive moments in the History of…
FRANCE TO MARK 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF ANTI-RELIGIOUS PARIS COMMUNE
Tej Francis (Catholic News Service) On Paris’ Rue Haxo, a white-brick church commemorates dozens of Catholic clergy who fell victim to one of modern Europe’s bloodiest uprisings. Its 150th anniversary will be marked in the last week of May with…
FOUR CATHOLICS KILLED IN MILITARY ATTACK ON MYANMAR CHURCH
(Vatican News) Myanmar’s military on Monday fired artillery shells at a Catholic Church in eastern Myanmar, killing four civilians sheltering there. Sacred Heart Church in Kayanthayar Parish near Loikaw, the capital city of Kayah state, a Catholic area was the…
Cardinal Newman Center presents screening of Souls
In celebration of 2021 World Day of Social Communications, the Associação Diocesana das Artes Performativas e Culturais de Macau (ADAPEC), the Centro Diocesano dos Meios de Comunicação Social (CDMCS) and the Centro de Cultura e Artes Performativas Cardeal Newman de…