Imagine being blind throughout your life and then suddenly being healed. All of the sounds you had heard from childhood, all that you had touched, tasted, or smelled suddenly took on new form within your imagination as these images registered with sight for the first time. Colors suddenly made sense….
Symbolic actions are one of the ways God communicates His message through the prophets. The text begins: “The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: ‘Come, go down to the potter’s house, and there I will let you hear my words’” (Jer 18:1–2). At the potter’s shop….
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus invites his followers to perform the three habitual practices of penance of the Jews: prayer, fasting and almsgiving (cf. Mt 6:2-7, 16-18). From then on and up to now, the three penitential practices have become for Christians the traditional and classical practices, particularly, of the liturgical season of Lent….
A seminarian from St Joseph Seminary- Joseph Ip marked a significant milestone in his journey to the priesthood as he received the ministry of acolyte. The celebration was….
Most leprosy colonies in Vietnam were established between the beginning of the 20th century (such as Quy Hoa, in the city of Qui Nhon, in central Vietnam, in 1929) and the 1960s and 1970s (such as Bien Hoa, in southern Vietnam, in 1968) in remote and isolated areas, due to fear of the disease spreading to the community. Therefore…