The Diocesan Family Day Preparatory Committee originally set up the Amoris Laetitia On Love in the Family – Diocesan Family Day Gathering on 23rd October 2021, but this has been postponed due to the pandemic.
Year: 2022
Father Urbano Fernandes, former missionary in Macau, dies aged 82
Marco Carvalho Father Urbano Fernandes, a Goan priest who exercised part of his priestly ministry in South China, died on December 23rd at his residence in Agonda, India, after a short illness. In Macau, where he lived for 16 years,…
BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (159) What deficiencies in knowledge and consent can affect the marriage?
Since free consent depends on an act of the intellect and the will (cf CCC 1731), we can say that anything that either diminishes (1) the knowledge required or (2) the exercise of the will negatively affects the consent.
Local schools prove themselves in Nativity scene contest
The Macau Cardinal Newman Center of Cultural and Performance Arts and the Macau Diocesan of Performance Arts and Culture Association organized, for the third year in a row, a contest where everyone had a chance to vote for the most beautiful Nativity scene set up by Macau’s Catholic schools. There was also a contest involving parish churches. Eleven educational institutions joined the competition. The contestants used different materials to recreate the narrative of the birth of Christ.
Family Advisory Council to hold flower arrangement workshops
The Macau Catholic Family Advisory Council will organize in the coming months four workshops on the symbolism of flowers and the way they can be used to decorate the local churches and other Catholic temples. The first event takes place on January 29th, focusing on the Lenten period.
An invitation to walk each day of the new year with the Blessed Mother
On the first day of the year, the universal Church in her Liturgy celebrates the Solemnity of Mary the Mother of God. For Catholics, there could not be a better way to enter the New Year, in according to the saints’ teaching: there is no safer way on the path to Jesus than through the hands of His Mother, Mary Most Holy.
Comedian: “I don’t want to do anything that doesn’t glorify God in every way”
Kevin James, a comic and TV and movie star, opened up to Catholic Spirit about how important his faith is and the challenge of acting versus using it to project his Catholicism.
Rosario Livatino – “a martyr of justice and faith”
Rosario Livatino, a mafia-assassinated judge was praised again by Pope Francis, last month, during a congregation of the Union of Italian Catholic Jurists at the Vatican’s Benediction Hall. Livatino who also became Blessed in May 2021 was singled out by the Pope.
How about heaven?
It is noteworthy to underline that the textbooks of classical moral theology start with the ultimate end, which is the first in intention and the last in execution. The ultimate end is the beatitude, heaven, eternal life: union with God. We all have been created by God to inhabit “the heavenly city.”
Being prepared or superficial?
The first two days of the Easter Triduum, Holy Friday and Holy Saturday, are truly singular from the point of view of the liturgical signs and their balance is rather delicate. It is expected that on these austere days, the candles will be completely extinguished and the altar will be bare. In its concrete realization, this indication undergoes difficulties that many have pointed out, which, however, must be overcome in order to give the two days a liturgical configuration that is truly consistent with the mystery celebrated and suitable for expressing it effectively.