In Portugal, João de Brito was able to attract people and funds to his mission. While at court, he led the King of Portugal D. Pedro II to increase the income he sent annually to the Madurai mission and also received various donations.
Month: April 2022
IF HE IS NOT RISEN, OUR HOPE IS IN VAIN
Easter is the time to ponder the certitude of the Resurrection and reject the attribute of worldliness. For only in the truth of the Resurrection is our salvation to be found.
The Church and the pulse of the 2022 Philippines Presidential Election
Fr Jeff Manlapig, a parish priest of one of the parishes in the Diocese of Paranaque in the Philippines, provides O Clarim readers with a glimpse of his reflections on the local situation now in the Philippines, amidst the pandemic and the coming national election on May 9, 2022.
“Your brother was dead and has come to life again; he was lost and has been found!”
“Our society needs to be healed, to make peace with our world, to make peace with our neighbors and to make peace with each other in the way that the Risen Lord taught us,” writes the Bishop of Macau, Most Rev Stephen Lee Bun Sang, in his Easter Message for 2022.
Step-by-step with Jesus: From the Passion to the Resurrection
During the period of the Triduum that leads up to Easter Sunday, Catholics are invited to recall step- by-step the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, the fundamental moments that are at the heart of their experience of faith. The Triduum ceremonies were mainly concentrated in the Cathedral of the Nativity of Our Lady this year.
Surmounting the Sting of Death
Easter is that time of the year when every Catholic must remember that there is life beyond a physical death, and it is that life in Jesus that we must look toward.
From Flora to Guia, in the footsteps of Jesus
Catholics can fully live the Paschal mystery by embracing Christ’s suffering with conviction. To live the spirit of Easter season to its fullest is to walk together as humanity and to recognize the suffering of others, accepting that true joy is only found in the Risen Christ.
The courage to face emptiness: Confronting the empty tomb of our life
The Resurrection is a truth that is beyond the grasp of mere human understanding. It takes submission to grace that allows us to overcome the empty tomb of despair and pain to embrace the serenity and peace of Easter.
BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (172): Why does freedom need the law?
Very often we rely more on maps or signposts than on our own sense of direction, of whose unworthiness we have plenty of experience. When we follow the signposts we don’t have any sense of being imposed upon; rather do we welcome them as a great help, a fresh piece of information which we immediately proceed to make our own.
The barbaric crucifixion of our Lord Jesus Christ
Although we are inured by a violent world, it is the mystics and saints that draw out compunction and repentance for sin with their intimate revelations of the true depth of cruelty our Lord and Savior was subject to.