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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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 …
Tej Francis (Catholic News Service) Retired Army Col. Cameron Song Sellers served his country, and now, he’s serving God.
(Catholic News Service) The president of Malta said this week that he would rather resign than sign a bill decriminalizing abortion.